This is great to see, it is about time that someone took the tobacco companies to task. AMD is a severe disease that has dramatic effects on people's lives.

Barry Wheeler
http://www.amdsuppor
t.ca

When you consider passive smoking has negligable or no effects on health this comes as a surprise. (Look up Entrom/Kabat 40 year report, peer reviewed and published by the BMJ). I have read an article on this and it seems a very low numbers involved, 280 people. I also understand from The Guardian it is unpublished. Has it been peer reviewed, probably not? Were confounding factors taken into account, for example more poor people smoke than middle class people. Could it be poorer living condtions, poorer diet etc. Also Mr Titley I do not need any different or more neurotic from health fascists. My chances as a smoker to contract lung cancer is: 30/10,000 x8 = 2.4% If you are a non smoker it is 0.3%.

http://www.guardian.
co.uk/uk/2006/may/21
/smoking.jorevill

The BBC news said:
It's unclear what causes AMD. It becomes more likely as a person ages because, over time, the cells in the macula become damaged and worn out.
The main cause is AGING.

At least most UKIP MEP's are more informed than this one. Passive Smoking is an illusion created by Big D and exploited by anti smoking organisations because they have consistently campaigned for people to stop smoking which in the main has failed miserable, so they turned their attention to non smokers creating the fear factor, the AMD issue is simply and extension of that. I have been visiting an eye clinic for nearly 15 months on a regular basis and the consultants there simply do not accept there is any greater risk, irrespective of live style. It as has been stated poorly another part of the body giving in to old age. I am a never smoker, before anyone tries to say otherwise, science and the scientists involved in this global campaign of miss- information are now alienating their own Peers and bringing science into ill repute.

Ah.... the Monster Raving Looney Party rides again !