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FEATURE: The Health Effects of Smoking: Misreading The Evidence

Peter Finch | 09 September 1990
Health promotion policies have popularised the view that smoking is a major cause of fatal disease. In the second of two POLICY articles on the anti-smoking campaign, Peter Finch, Foundation Professor of Statistics at Monash University, argues that evidence cited to show that smoking is harmful to health has been distorted by the anti-smoking lobby in a way that exaggerates the risks and costs associated with smoking.

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