It's disgusting that so many have swallowed the Big Lies that secondhand smoke is a danger to children. Look what the demagogues are getting away with! "America's Children and the Environment. Measures of Contaminants, Body Burdens, and Illnesses," Second Edition, US EPA, Feb. 2003. EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman boasts that "This report marks the progress we have made as a nation to reduce environmental risks faced by childen," including "Reducing emissions of diesel pollutants from trucks and buses, which will help prevent hundreds of thousands of asthma attacks in children each year" and "Implementing the Smoke-Free Home Pledge campaign, designed to protect millions of children from the risks of tobacco smoke at home." But you have to go all the way down to pdf page 73 to learn that "Between 1980 and 1995, the percentage of children with asthma doubled, from 3.6 percent in 1980 to 7.5 percent in 1995." The graph on pdf page 65 boasts of declines in cotinine levels during this same period. http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eermfile.nsf/vwAN/EE-0438A-01.pdf/$file/EE-0438A-01.pdf

Janet, you state as a basic tenet of your dissertation that "the oxygen level is decreased" from breathing secondary smoke. Since that is the foundation that you are building your research around I would imagine you have actual figures for the amount of decrease. Could you share them with us here? Michael J. McFadden Author of "Dissecting Antismokers' Brains"