Fourth-Hand Smoke

Since the junk scientists have released a ridiculous study on third-hand smoke that some people actually believe, I’d like to sidestep the issue of third-hand smoke, and move right on to fourth-hand smoke, which John Boston of the Santa Clarita Valley Signal describes as “someone sitting next to someone who is thinking about someone else smoking.”

Obviously, Mr. Boston’s comment was made tongue-in-cheek, but there’s no doubt that many people would believe it to be fact if the media were to broadcast it as fact. The third-hand smoke argument is so ridiculous, and clearly not based at all upon science, that I can’t understand why the media actually runs with it as the truth. What’s even more disturbing about it is that fact that people really do believe in the deadly phenomenon simply because the media reports it. Is our society so gullible to believe this nonsense? Apparently so. And I’m still in disbelief that anyone buys the argument that second-hand smoke is harmful.

To read more on the third-hand smoke fantasy, check out Sandy Szwarc’s article on “Junkfood Science”:

http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2009/01/third-hand-smoke-and-chemtrails.html