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Article: 'Mayor Bloomberg and the Residents of New York City Were Misinformed About the Effects of Second Hand Smoke', Says, the New York Coalition of Social Smokers.
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- November 2, 2005
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NEW YORK, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- In the December 2003 issue of Vanity Fair magazine the Mayor was quoted as saying:
"Think about all the press attention to 9/11," "That number of people die every year in the city from secondhand smoke."
While the official count records 2,986 deaths in the attacks of 9/11, no official count has been recorded for the number of people who supposedly die from second hand smoke each year.
Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, M.D. M.P.H. the Mayor's Commissioner of Health for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene stated in testimony, on October 10, 2002, before the New York City Council Committee on Health ...