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More than 20,000 new cases of AIDS have been reported this year and those figures are expected to double by next year, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop told a capacity crowd of 700 people at the Kennedy School of Government last night...
...decided to focus on informing young people about the risks of AIDS. Their sexual activity will determine whether our society will survive this devastating disease," Koop said last night at the Institute of Politics (IOP) forum...
...clear that disease risk due to inhalation of tobacco smoke is not solely limited to the individual who is smoking," said Koop, who recently had a cervical disk removed and wore a massive neck brace as he announced the study. "The right of the smoker to smoke stops at the point where his or her smoking increases the disease risk of those occupying the same environment." While no hard estimate of the number of lung cancers or other diseases caused by involuntary smoking is yet available, the National Academy of Sciences suggests that it may be responsible...
...data in Koop's report, derived from dozens of studies that have appeared in scientific literature over the past several years, should fuel the campaign ; by doctors and antismoking advocates to impose more restrictions on smoking in the workplace and in public buildings and conveyances. Cigarette manufacturers are already taking issue with Koop's warning. Walker Merryman, vice president of the Tobacco Institute, a Washington-based lobbying group, says the evidence is incomplete and inconclusive. "It is clear that this is more of a political than a scientific report," he says, arguing that the link between passive smoking and disease...
...fact, no one knows exactly how smoking, passive or active, causes cancer; statistics merely show that it does. Koop compares the objection with ones made by the tobacco industry after the Surgeon General's landmark 1964 report that linked smoking to lung cancer. "The evidence is as strong against involuntary smoking as it was in 1964 against smoking itself," he says. "There is now a ground swell to move forward. If this evidence were available on another environmental pollutant, we would have acted long...