4) Harmfulness of TSGs was measured by "in your professional judgement, how harmful are TSGs?" The harmfulness item was also scored on a 0 to 10 scale, this scale being reversed so that 10 represented 'not at all harmful".
The global pattern of drinking score (a score from 1 to 5 that measures the harmfulness of alcohol drinking patterns, with 1 being the least harmful and 5 being the most harmful [ Rehm et al. 2003 b ]) was 2.6 in 2005 and ranged from 4.9 for Eastern Europe to 1.5 for Western Europe.
The harmfulness is a 'designed-in' feature".
My question is: How much proof do we need about the harmfulness of something before we act?
It is that the "experts" feel they have the authority to label parents of autistic children as lacking credibility just because there is no scientific evidence, they say, of the harmfulness of thimerosal in vaccines.
The tobacco industry is particularly problematic as we know it lied over the harmfulness and addictiveness of tobacco, so why wouldn't they continue to lie about these new products?
This worked well until 1964, when a devastating report from the surgeon-general's advisory committee in effect ended medical uncertainty about the harmfulness of smoking.But Big Tobacco rode the punches.
Xinhua quoted an unnamed spokesman as saying: "The [Chinese] delegation has already severely criticised and educated the responsible badminton leaders, team and relevant players and demanded they profoundly recognise the seriousness and the harmfulness of this matter, reflect deeply on it, publicly apologise and resolutely prevent such incidents from happening again".
However obdurate their leaders have been in public in denying the harmfulness of cigarette smoking, and however determined they are to continue promoting cigarettes by every means at their disposal, the tobacco companies have been steadily diversifying their activities over the past two or three years.
"The delegation has already severely criticised and educated the responsible badminton leaders, team and relevant players and demanded they profoundly recognise the seriousness and the harmfulness of this matter, reflect deeply on it, publicly apologise and resolutely prevent such incidents from happening again," Xinhua quoted an unnamed spokesman as saying.
Uncertainty about the harmfulness of bodily sensations typically influences the individually perceived symptom burden [22].
