Acronyms
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
The term for smoke inhaled involuntarily from tobacco being smoked by others.
What is secondhand smoke?
The statistical curve the EPA used in their report on second hand smoke that was challenged by the tobacco industry.
What is a linear dose-response curve?
The way in which the tobacco industry portrayed smoking in feature films to defend the industry.
What is associating smoking with power and strength?
ETS
What is Environmental Tobacco Smoke?
The term used to discredit the EPA and the scientific results it produced, as described by the tobacco industry.
What is "junk science"?
This is the type of statistical error that the tobacco industry said was more important to avoid.
What is a type I error?
The how-to handbook for science fact fighters to defend the tobacco industry.
What is Bad Science?
FOREST
What is Freedom Organization for the Right to Enjoy Smoking
The type of smoke the industry researchers found that contained more toxic chemicals than mainstream smoke.
What is sidestream smoke?
The group that was created to promote "sound science" and discredit science that did not align with the tobacco industry interests.
What is the TASSC?
The concept used to defend exposure to second hand smoke that was used for natural hazardous materials, like background radiation.
What is the threshold effect?