EPA report and court ruling

["Skierkowski, Paul" <skie2928@msmailhub.oulan.ou.edu>]

thought since it deals with EPA extrapolated data conclusions, the
following might be of interest to RADSAFErs and epidemiologists.  

EPA Smoking Report Defended

 WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency is standing by its
finding that  secondhand tobacco smoke causes cancer despite a federal
judge's decision striking down  its 1993 report that made the link.
Although lawyers were still reviewing the  ruling handed down by U.S.
District Judge William Osteen in North Carolina, officials said  Sunday
an appeal is certain. Osteen acted on a  lawsuit that the tobacco
industry had filed.  He ruled the environmental agency based its  1993
report on inadequate science and failed to  demonstrate a statistically
significant relationship between secondhand smoke and lung cancer. The
agency's controversial 1993 report on  environmental tobacco smoke
concluded that  secondhand tobacco smoke was responsible for  more than
3,000 lung cancer deaths a year.



Paul Skierkowski
Univ. of Oklahoma