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Tobacco companies have heavier artillery when it comes to challenging the EPA's 1993 report that labeled environmental tobacco smoke, or ETS, a carcinogen. They charge that the report -- a review of 30 epidemiological, animal and laboratory studies conducted during the past two decades -- is fundamentally flawed. The Congressional Research Service and some independent scientists have also criticized the report...
...nothing has galvanized today's antismoking activists as much as the / Environmental Protection Agency report released a year ago that classified environmental tobacco smoke as a class-A carcinogen and estimated that 3,000 nonsmokers die each year from lung cancer as a result of other people's smoke. The tobacco industry is currently challenging the findings in court, but the report dealt a serious blow to so-called smokers' rights that's still being felt...
What can be done? Predictably, the two sides in the debate mostly talk past each other, with environmentalists stressing the dangers and water providers focusing on costs and the inflexibility of the laws. For example, the EPA requires testing for dioxin, a possible human carcinogen, but, argues Wayne Kern of the North Dakota department of health, "the industries that are common sources of dioxin just do not exist in North Dakota...
Asbestos was removed from the police station at the same time officers and others worked in the building. Officers have said they were never told about the widespread presence of the suspected carcinogen at 29 Garden...
...commission's recommendations come after a study released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this past January 1993 which designated second-hand smoke as a Group A carcinogen, placing it among the most serious of all cancer-causing agents, and the cause of 3,000 lung cancer deaths in non-smokers per year...