Now you may be thinking this isn’t your problem its the problem of the misinformed! The soccer moms and the PTA parents! Regardless of what our opinions may be rules are rules and this is especially important during a time of mass misinformation in the media. Not to mention our elected officials wanting to tax high percentages (seriously more than 70%) on all vaping products. We don’t want our average Jane/Joe to hold a personal vendetta when you blow clouds in their and especially their children’s faces!

Although the survey approach described above would lead to "invalid" results, I would never argue that survey studies should be thrown out and that we should only be conducting RCTs. My point is that there are strengths and limitations of various study designs, and causal inference is enhanced by having research evidence from multiple study designs. On balance, the strengths and weaknesses balance each other out, leading to a much greater ability to draw valid conclusions.

Moreover, the study was a laboratory study involving mice. How could these reporters possibly extrapolate from a mouse study showing impairment of healing and liver damage in mice exposed to thirdhand smoke to the conclusion that thirdhand smoke is as harmful as active smoking?

This conclusion - that thirdhand smoke is deadly - was disseminated widely throughout the world. Headlines read like this:

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