>>Looks to me he has good credentials.
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>If you consider being funded by the Oil and Tobacco industries as 'good credentials'.

So how do you justify the pro-whatever groups/scientists having legit credentials because they are funded by those who are pushing the global-warming theories? Justification of discrediting someone on either side by who they are funding by is crap.

As for demonizing the tobacco industry, people have to be total morons to believe inhaling smoke is not dangerous. Just ask firefighters and those caught in a burning building.

If you smoke and die of lung cancer, emphaczema(sp?) or some other related disease because of your habit, it's YOUR OWN DAMN FAULT. And quit passing all these ridiculous ordinances against smoking in bars, etc. If you don't want to breathe second-hand smoke -- go somewhere else! Vote with your dollars. BTW, I have never smoked and never will. It's a nasty habit. I have better uses for my $$.