Do you think this graph is a propaganda?

Question

http://stpeteforpeace.org/real.threat.html

Because for the category of "second hand smoke", no scientist on earth would deal with such a category as it does not represent science. I am sure that many people die from “second hand smoke” and from being fat but how do you prove what a fat person died from?

Answer 1

Actually, those numbers are based on science, but the science behind it will say it's a pretty rough estimate, based on scientific and statistical processes.

Propaganda? The point is more that in the hysteria and spastic reactions to the terrorist boogeyman, we're way out of proportion in our response and the fear-mongering we hear when one looks at actual risk.

As far as what WebFoot has to say, well, no one ever died from falling from a very high elevation, either. It's the stopping that kills when you're done falling.

Second-hand smoke does kill. It doesn't kill everyone, or instantly, like a lightning bolt, but it does kill, and it also greatly enhances the ability of other factors, alone or in combination, to speed one's demise.

Whether you think it's a shot at your cheeseburger-eating preferences or not, the main point is spot on.

Answer 2

not 1 recorded death from second hand smoke,
I smoke and ride 300-500 miles a week on bicycles. It is called freedom of choice
I never died from second hand smoke and both my parents smoked. In the house, car, movies, resturants.
Just more cnn scare tactics to keep Americans confused on the subject.
I have never met or heard of anyone who knows anyone that has died of second hand smoke.
I am more concerned with the crappy drivers than smoke from those big school busses that cover me at every light

Answer 3

Yes. Almost every person in this country over 55 grew up in a house where people smoked. If the "facts" about tobacco were as bad as claimed, none of us would be alive.

Answer 4

I understand that 1/5th of our nation is being discriminated against because of this .

Answer 5

if the numbers are right, it isn't propaganda, its the truth.