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ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

The WHO declared aspartame "possibly" causes cancer. Here’s what that means. | Vox

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The WHO declared aspartame "possibly" causes cancer. Here’s what that means. | Vox

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The WHO declared aspartame "possibly" causes cancer. Here’s what that means.
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Get ready for an earful about the health risks of Diet Coke, Trident gum, Equal, and other sugar-free items.
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      And that sounds a lot like a false equivalence based on pure speculation with zero evidence to back it up.

      And there was always a lot of evidence of the damage caused by second-hand smoke that tobacco industries simply paid politicians to ignore. Hell, all you had to do was look at the walls and curtains of a smoker to see the tar and smoke stains. It was clear as day.

      For decades studies from all sorts of institutions, both big and small and independently-funded have failed to find any evidence at all that aspartame is unsafe for human consumption as a food additive.

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          Lmao

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      lmao you can’t be serious. Smoking affects everyone around you

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          Body odor doesn’t increase the likelihood of cancer for the people around you.

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              Let’s trade sources. Here are mine.

              • Secondhand smoking may increase the overall risk of cancer for never smokers, particularly lung and breast cancer, and especially in women.

              • Does secondhand smoke cause cancer? Yes. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. National Toxicology Program, the U.S. Surgeon General, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer have all classified secondhand smoke as a known human carcinogen (a cancer-causing agent) (1, 3, 7, 9)

              • Twenty years after secondhand smoke was first classified as a cause of lung cancer in lifetime nonsmokers, the evidence supporting causation continues to mount (USDHHS 1986).

              • Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke among nonsmokers increases lung cancer risk by about 20 percent. Secondhand smoke is estimated to cause approximately 53,800 deaths annually in the United States. Exposure to tobacco smoke in the home is also a risk factor for asthma in children.

              Edit: I also did the work for you and checked some of the references in those sources. Here’s the 1986 landmark surgeon general report.

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                  All of these studies are extensively peer reviewed. What source do you have that proves they are unreliable? Let’s pretend that it’s true, what purpose is served by fabricating this data?

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