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Intro: The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made a �?~Risk Assessment�?(TM) of environmental tobacco smoke and declared in 1993 that ETS was a cause of lung cancer in non-smokers.
This finding was heavily criticised by the US Congressional Research Services. It was also challenged by Philip Morris and others in the US tobacco industry in a Federal court in North Carolina.
In 1998, the court rejected the EPA risk assessment and the judge declared the EPA�?(TM)s finding invalid. . . .
Although this Federal court’s judgement was later overturned on appeal on technical grounds, the judge’s analysis of the EPA’s approach remains an important commentary.
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