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Tobacco Industry Hack?

"[A recent EPA review] put the risk of lung cancer from second-hand tobacco smoke at a level well below the risk reported by other studies for many everyday items and activities.

“And below, in fact, the risk to health that one other study reported for eating one biscuit a day.”