With Big Tobacco burning millions to block states' smoke-free restaurant referenda, a band of scientists from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) countered with a new report.

"Contrary to what Big Tobacco is telling us, there is no ventilation system that can reduce secondhand smoke exposure to safe levels," says Jack Henningfield, director of the RWJF Innovators Awards Program at Johns Hopkins University's School of Medicine. As 2006 elections approached, Henningfield sought to publicize findings of a scientific paper by researcher ...