Study Probes Second-Hand Smoke. By Lindsey Tanner, AP - Chicago. Ex-Smokers May Have Irreversible Damage to Arteries, Wake Forest Study Shows. PR Newswire 1998 Jan 13, 1737. Scary evidence of smoking's danger.
Study finds damage to arteries never heals.
By Brigid Schulte, Knight-Ridder Newspapers. Wed Jan 14, p A2. Cigarette smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke both significantly hasten hardening of the arteries, and the damage may be permanent, a new study suggests. But this study is fraudulent , because the authors knowingly left out the risk factors that really cause excess heart disease in smokers and in passive smokers. The media, as usual, left it unchallenged.