['reduced', 'to', '2', '--', 'which', 'were', 'now', 'claimed', 'merely', 'to', 'show', '"microscopic"', 'signs', 'of', 'cancer.', 'And', 'an', 'eminent', 'pathologist,', 'reviewing', 'the', 'article,', 'stated', 'flatly', 'that', 'even', 'as', 'to', 'these,', '"The', 'photomicrographs', 'in', 'the', 'published', 'material', 'are', 'inconclusive', 'as', 'to', 'the', 'exiistence', 'of', 'any', 'cancer.”', 'But', 'millions', 'were', 'misled', 'by', 'the', 'original', 'story,', 'and', 'still', 'are.', 'r', 'Perhaps', 'the', 'most', 'durable', 'myth', 'is', 'that', "smokers'", 'lungs', 'get', 'black', 'from', '"tar."', 'They', "don't.", '"Tar"', 'is', 'an', 'artificially-produced', 'condensate', 'of', 'smoke.', 'It', 'can', 'be', 'produced', 'in', 'a', 'laboratory', '(not', 'in', 'a', 'human:', 'body):', 'only', 'by', 'cooling', 'the', 'smoke', 'far', 'below', 'human', 'temperatures.', '"I', 'know', 'of', 'no', 'way,"', 'the', 'president', 'of', 'the', 'Thoragic', 'Society', 'testified', 'before', 'congressional', 'hearings,', '"to', 'distinguish', 'the', 'lungs', 'of', 'a', 'smoker', 'from', 'those', 'of', 'a', 'nonsmoker."', 'But', 'millions', 'have', 'been', 'taken', 'in', 'by', 'the', 'myth,', 'and', 'many', 'still', 'are.', 'The', 'most', 'recent', 'myth', 'is', 'the', 'one', 'deliberately', 'propagated', 'by', 'the', 'more', 'extreme', 'anti-smoking', 'groups', 'that', '"Your', 'smoke', 'is', 'killing', 'me."', 'Jumping', 'from', 'one', 'Le', 'false', 'conclusion', '--', 'that', 'it', 'is', 'an', 'already', '"proved', 'fact"', 'and', 'a', '"closed', 'case"', 'that', 'smoking', 'causes.', 'disease', 'in', 'smokers', '~-', 'they', 'have', 'leaped', 'to', 'the', 'conclusion', 'that', 'smoke', 'in', 'the', 'air', 'causes', 'disease', 'in', 'nonsmokers.', 'There', 'is', 'honest', 'and', 'searching', 'debate', 'among', 'scientists', 'about', 'the', 'effects', 'of', 'smoking', 'on', 'smokers;', 'there', 'is', 'no', 'such', 'debate', 'about', 'its', 'lack', 'of', 'effect', 'on', 'nonsmokers:', '"As', 'a', 'scientist,', 'I', 'am', 'interested', 'in', 'actual', 'data', '...', '(it)', 'simply', 'does', 'not', 'support', 'the', 'theory', 'that', 'a', 'nonsmoker', 'absorbs', 'amounts', 'which', 'can', 'cause', '(1)', 'harm,"', '"The', 'medical', 'literature', 'to', 'date', 'does', 'not', 'indicate', 'any', 'significant', 'health', 'risk', 'to', 'the', 'nonsmoker', 'from', 'environmental', 'tobacco', 'smoke', 'normally', 'LLLLEOSOOT']