This is not to say that second hand smoke is healthy, it is just that they do not have the scientific grounds to determine it as a legitimate hazard. They have tried to tie second hand smoke to lung cancer, heart disease and every other know plague to man, and each and every time they produced studies that couldn't stand up to peer review. Once again, science is telling us what common sense taught us a long time ago. Smoking has been going on for centuries and the only people being harmed from it are the smokers themselves. Everyone is exposed to second hand smoke.
Tobacco companies have a lot of money.
280,000,000 possible jurors. There is a Federal lawsuit pending. You can make the connection from there. In a word, yes. Not evil in that they are killing people with their product evil, just normal big business evil.