Why you must read Booker's new book
Monday, November 12, 2007 
There's a must read article in the Daily Mail today. It's by journalist Christopher Booker and it coincides with the publication of his new book, written with Richard North, called Scared To Death: From BSE to Global Warming - Why Scares Are Costing Us The Earth.
One chapter is dedicated to passive smoking. In today's article, Christopher writes:
For years, despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars on trying to prove that smokers not only harmed themselves but also the health of those around them, the anti-smoking campaigners found the evidence they wanted frustratingly elusive.
So when the two most comprehensive studies of passive smoking ever carried out each came up with findings that non-smokers living with smokers faced no significantly increased risk of cancer, their antismoking sponsors did all they could to get the reports suppressed.
In a pattern familiar from other scares, the researchers were subjected to a torrent of personal vilification. By the time a wave of smoking bans swept through Europe and America in the early 21st century, the official statistics used to justify them had become not just exaggerated but wholly fictitious.
Full article HERE. Scared To Death is published by Continuum and is available from all good bookshops, price £16.99. Check back later and I will reveal how you can get a copy, personally signed by the authors, with a 20 per cent discount.
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Reader Comments (4)
I ordered my copy online last week - was a little cheaper, although delivery quoted was 2 - 5 weeks!
Delighted to find this post tonight; logged in to ask if people had seen it in the Mail today; and of course Simon had already it sussed entirely. Great stuff, but sorry I didn't know about the meeting with the author tonight. Best bit of news in a long time though.
I would love this book, Could I bring a friend Simon to London
Mandy, me and Frederique DuPont are going, I look forward to meeting you again.