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Conclusion
Dr. John W. Gorrod


"Smoking is nasty, dirty, anti-social and dangerous if it is done with a high enough level of intake and often enough.

I’m not advocating smoking. What I am saying is that any statement we put out to the public should be based on fact.

The most likely toxic substances are likely to be the aromatic hydrocarbons and the nitrosomenes. These either working alone or in conjunction with any other chemical can cause cancer. For that reason we shouldn’t smoke. But to bring up these other substances is nonsense.

One wonders if these health experts whose salary is being paid to protect the public aren’t more interested in scaremongering than research for the truth.

You can stop people smoking by education, scaremongering isn’t the right way. The general public are intelligent and if you give them the truth they will heed the warnings.

Stop throwing silly names at them to scare them! It doesn’t work".