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• Daily Telegraph 21 st December 1994 Page 21 :waY= oF"-THF'woR LD. AUBERON WAUGH Remember to breathe deeply THE gre3t passive smok- ing lte, finally exposed by a comprehensive research programme based in Har- rohate, is essential to the purpose of those who wish to stop everti•one smoking No doubt tbe%• think their motives are the purest. Nobody denies that smok- ing can be bad for the health. If theY stop every- one doing it. they will have improved the health of the nation To that end. they have been prepared to lie and fiddle statistics even while claiming scientific objec- been killed by air pollution ti-ity. In tact. %.e learn that in a single %•eek of 1991. passive smokers inhale Professor Ross Anderson just about one ci:arette a conceded that the number week. The health risks are affected was very small non-e.istent. despite compared %vith the popula- assurances from the tion of London as a%.•hoie. Department of Health that and Mr Tom Crossett. about 300 smokers die director generai of the everv vear from passive National Society for Clean smol;tn;. We guessed that Air. said: "It is possible the r.;ure was pulled out of that peopie died %•ho %:ere the air. Not a sincle case of about to pop off an~-%•a% lung cancer from passi~•e While it is ~~er~~ sad to ttax•e smokin; has " ver bee.nn grannv pop off 3%. eel. establ:,hed. but an% respi- earl%. it is not r\jctl%- a ratory iilr:ess is used bv the national d>;aster." campai:::;-rs to "prove" The Society for Clean dama_e frc?m smohin_. Air. b_,- contrast to Ash. \o%% ;, rival pressure seems adiznifieda sen- group. ae3tnst air pollu- sible. admirable body. I tion. is anxious- to claim the hope it never deNcends to same deaths for its own pet the shoclk tactics of the hate It speaks in a milder. RSPCA. such as showing more reasonable voice us a huge pile of corpses than that of the anti-smok- and claiminz they all died ing fanatics. Presenttng a from impurities in the ciatm that 156 people had atmosphcre.