tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97413402012-02-09T10:46:53.935-08:00HOOKAH HEALTH FACTS (Narghile, Shisha, "Waterpipe",™ Water-pipe). HAZARDS, DANGERS, DISEASES, CANCER, TAR, NICOTINE. ACCOUNTABILITY & SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY (BIAS, FRAUD, CENSORSHIP, PLAGIARISM, WITCH-HUNT, TOTALITARIANISM, FINANCIAL PRESSURES). DON'T BE AFRAID"!(Christ). Avoid PARROTING! DARE DOUBT & CRITICIZE!Genevievehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16476536137125330553noreply@blogger.comBlogger1771100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9741340.post-13459992887194479752011-04-04T05:18:00.000-07:002012-01-05T12:08:32.418-08:00

On the occasion of the criminal aggression against Libya, we offer a founding text of The Sacred Narghile site, launched 1999. The source is: Cafes, Hookahs and Conversation.  Rive, Universita del Mediterraneo (Rome), n°5, 1997 : pp. 47-53 (note: English version by Italian translator, not by the author). Many readers will remember its universally famous beginning: “Although it is a familiar

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The Arab revolts and their AMAZING REVEALATIONS (RITC Hotel Scandal)!  After Qaddafi (Legal President of Libya)’s “Big Secret” about Sarkozy (French President), we reveal ours: Big Tobacco (cigarettes) in Bed (funding !) with Big Pharma Against Shisha Bubbling Rival & Outsider Knol wire: "This article shows that biomedical ethics is not universal as so-called “prestigious” biomedical journals

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“An article of the British Medical Journal targets a certain religion for being permissive and even promoting smoking... The heinous metaphor is that of its prophet smoking the hookah...” "Résumé en français: Le journal médical britannique de référence (British Medical Journal) s'en prend  d'une manière haineuse à une certaine religion qu'il juge trop permissive vis à vis du tabac. La

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Image (left): book by Gilles Chatelet [translated title: "Living and Thinking like Pigs"]. First off, this philosopher has nothing against those nice animals... Here's a presention of his work for the happy ones who can read French: "une réflexion sur la "Contre-Réforme néo-libérale", une démystification, l’analyse des présupposés scientistes (et ô combien " réalistes ") d’une idéologie dont la

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Pick a title below or from Labels (left-hand column) ---- That Libyan Metaphor on my Mind. Smoking the Peace Pipe in Tripoli, 1996 2011 REVELATION. Big Tobacco (cigarettes) in Bed (Funding) with Big Pharma Against Shisha Bubbling Rival & Outsider ! Hookah Smoking Prophet. The “British Medical Journal” Turns Xenophobic in Article Inspired by Danish “Cartoons” Hookah, Health

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 English summary from the Knol wire: “Bertrand Dautzenberg, president OFT (Office Français du Tabagisme, French national antismoking authority) and Jean-Yves Nau (journalist with French daily newspaper Le Monde) are known for having plagiarised, among others, a comprehensive academic book on hookah (narghile, shisha) smoking. Interestingly, their « masterpiece » also happened to be the most

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Watch VIDEO "ROUGE JASMIN" on "Le journal de Personne" "Le Jasmin c’est désormais le nouveau parfum, de ces jeunes tunisiens qui ont donné leur sang pour mettre fin à la corruption, l’abolition des privilèges… quel sublime sacrilège ! Qui indique, qu’il n’y a pas, qu’il ne peut y avoir d’autre souverain que le Peuple. Pas d’autre destin que celui qu’il se choisit : le sien. La

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[slightly updated 31 Dec: in green color] The trick?  Showing religious leaders only a part of the “evidence” (Globalink politically correct antismoking studies) on the harm caused by smoking and particularly “passive smoking” (“second-hand smoke”).   “Fatwas” ordered from abroad, gone over the counter and retuned by Fax ! You’re dead you smoker particularly if you are a Muslim! Details of

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[IMPORTANT UPDATE (March 31, 2011. And the last straw of this incredible story of sordid customs is that the study has been funded by the Tobacco Industry (cigarettes) itself! Evidence: Big Tobacco & Big Pharma Against "Oriental" Hookah Outsider ] Background:The Inhalation Toxicology journal has recently published a paper by the 3 $ million funded US-American University of Beirut ““

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__Don't miss on the French side of this site :Le narghilé et les promesses de la liberté... Hookah and its Freedom Promises. How, beyond today's obscurantist "globalization", hookah is doomed to shape our future. The post is based on comments on a seminal article by Roger Lesgards: Résister par la création culturelle [Resisting through Cultural Creation]. Le Monde Diplomatique, Dec. 2001, page

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A new published "Knol" gives a not uninteresting account of a salvo of new studies. You're dead !QUOTATIONS: "Last summer, we have been on a sabbatical leave in the Middle East and while the neighbouring country, Pakistan was, once again, struck by natural catastrophes (water floods), US drones (radio-controled aricrafts) have been shelling civilian populations in an endless war against

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A comment on : Beijing News. Woman arrested for smoking pipe in Gaza hotel restaurant. Beijing News.Net. 15th September, 2010 Hamas, what is your decision based on ? On what sort of “science” ? This kind of “science” can be termed “TREIF” (non-Kosher) science in Hebrew and “HARAM” (non-Halal) science in Arabic. Indeed, “there is a saying by the Prophet which reads: “Seek science [good sound

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The ««waterpipe»»™ Experts of the US-American University of Beirut have begun to spend their « pocket money » (the trifling sum of ca. 3 million dollars of public (taxpayer) money « donated » by the US antismoking prohibitionist Establishment for more biased politicized studies against what they have stratgically termed (in a voluntarily reductionist functionalist nominalist way): ««

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-- ««Waterpipe»»™ antismoking imperialism is winning lands ! You’re dead, folks ! Wake up ! The Jordanian antismoking colleagues of US ««Waterpipe»»™ experts Thomas Eissenberg and Brian Primack (**) have authored a study showing sure that: “In conclusion, [««Waterpipe»»™] smoking is genotoxic to lymphocytes and the magnitude of its genotoxicity is higher than that induced by regular

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It is well known that antismoking researchers do not hesitate to rely on gross exaggerations, lies and manipulations of statistical data (numerous examples in Table of Contents) with the objective of touting or speeding up bans on smoking (Prohibition) In the United Kingdom, many will remember that the best example is given by ASH (Action on Smoking and Health) who, a few weeks before the

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In a new article published in antismoking journal Tobacco Kontrol, sex maniacs of the $ 3 million funded US American University of Beirut suggest (this is not the first time) to use that image (left) as a prevention tool...Nakkash R, Khalil Joanna. Health warning labelling practices on narghile (shisha, hookah) waterpipe tobacco products and related accessories. Tob Control 2010 19: 235-239.Yet,

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Los Angeles Times : Babylon & Beyond. IRAQ: Smokers dismayed by tough anti-smoking legislation "Persuading people to give up their nicotine habits may be a different matter, however. The militant group Al Qaeda in Iraq tried to ban smoking in areas under its control a few years ago, and it's one reason Sunnis turned against the insurgency." ""I don't think people will obey the law," said Mutlaq

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Further to: The Lebanese Ban on Smoking in Hospitality Venues (Cafes, etc.):US Interventionism and Prohibition in the Name of the FCTC (Framework Convention on Tobacco Control) The Syrian Ban on Smoking in Hospitality Venues (Cafes, etc.) :The Challenge of Scientific Integrity And after Iraq is now deprived from smoking after it has been pacified by the force of US bloody occupation... Thomas

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Hikmet Jamil, Dalia Elsouhag, Spencer Hiller, Judith E. Arnetz, and Bengt B. Arnetz. Sociodemographic risk indicators of hookah smoking among White Americans: A pilot study. Nicotine Tob Res. 2010; 12:525-529. Going straight to the point and without listing again the classical series of huge errors, let’s say that apparently in order to justify the smoking ban in Michigan (USA), Hikmet Jamil and

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(*) “How are you” (in Arabic) ?“TripleHalo Ltd has launched the Halooka™, The World’s first electronic Shisha in February 2010. The Halooka™ is an innovative healthier redefinition of the traditional shisha (sometimes knows as a hookah or water pipe). The Halooka™ uses an electronic atomisation process and mechanism to produce water based vapour as opposed to harmful ‘burn’ smoke associated with

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First 200 words tapped from the Knol Hotline : “This is a critique of Elie Akl et al (University of New York at Buffalo) “Systematic Review” of the Cochrane type on the “Effects of Waterpipe Tobacco Smoking on Health Outcomes” recently published in the International Journal of Epidemiology (IJE). The paper hypes the HAZARDS OF CANCER and the authors managed to select only the studies they saw

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First 190 words tapped from the Knol Hotline"Beirut: “A smoking ban in public places is expected to take effect within a year, George Saadeh, head of the National Tobacco Control Program announced at a debate on tobacco control held at American University Beirut (AUB) Tuesday”[1] .It was a great show indeed, reminiscent of crowds acclaiming other assaults on liberties during World War II: “AUB

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[Update Apr 22: content unchanged. Only the previous image (cover of the antismoking "Tobacco Control" journal April issue) was replaced with that of a book (left) by Gilles Chatelet [translated title: "Living and Thinking like Pigs"] which was deemed most relevant. By the way, this philosopher has nothing against those nice animals... Here's a presention of his work for the happy ones who can

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This is a comment on a South African Story by Kate Barry (producer) & Devi Sankaree Govender (presenter) titled Hubbly Bubbly, recently broadcasted by the “Carte Blanche Medical Show (South Africa Channel), dated Apri l 4, 2010:Featuring are two great antismoking scholars: Pr Angela Mathee (Medical Research Council, South Africa) and Pr Yussuf Saloojee (National Council Against Smoking, South

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First 150 words (foreword) tapped from the Knol Hotline“This is a critique of Nancy Daher et al (US-American University of Beirut)’s unethical and highly politicised paper on ““waterpipe”” side-stream smoke, based on the smoking machine operated by Alan Shihadeh (id.)[1] . The right place to discuss a controversial paper containing serious errors and biases is the journal in which it was

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We already had prestigious Lebanese Narghile Super Women (Doctors Pascale, Zeina and Myrna) who have been leading independent research on the hazards of nicotine and Carbon Monoxide intake among narghile smokers in natural environments (cafes...). Far from the herds of antismoking barking dogs and without suspect funding from the pharmaceutical industry (nicotine patches, gums, Chantix, etc.),

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Wire from Paris: “A new French antismoking advertisement [by Droits des Non-fumeurs, president Gérard Audureau] aimed at the young that plays off a pornographic stereotype […]Florence MONTREYNAUD, the president of La Meute des Chiennes de Garde, or the Pack of Female Watchdogs, which opposes symbols of sexual violence in films and advertising, called the ads “unbearable” and said “what is most

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FIRST PETITIONThe “Stop the Hookah” Lobby warns that the village of New Paltz (NY) is in jeopardy further to hookah lounge activity in the area: Please sign the petition. The pressing issues at stake are (abridged quotations): « SMOKING KILLS - and smoking a Hookah is just as deadly […]” “NICOTINE IS POWERFULLY ADDICTIVE - in fact it's one of the most addictive substances on earth […]” “A

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SUBJECT: prohibition smelling blueprint paper published by Caroline Cobb (figurehead) and the four world ““waterpipe””™ experts: Kenneth Ward,Wasim Maziak,Alan ShihadehThomas Eissenbergaffiliated to the US-Syrian Centre for Tobacco Studies and US-American University of Beirut.CITATION: Cobb C, Ward KD, Maziak W, Shihadeh AL, Eissenberg T. Waterpipe tobacco smoking: an emerging health crisis in

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Jan 5, 2010 (Tobacco Reporter) — Patrons at the Juggling Gypsy Café and Hookah Bar in Wilmington, North Carolina, are continuing to smoke despite a public places tobacco smoking ban that was imposed on the state at the beginning of this year. And, according to a story by Kristy Ondo for WTOC-TV (Part I , Part II), bar manager, Denny Best, believes that the law isn’t being broken. At

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__Chapel Hill, NC (ABC): "Adam Bliss, the owner of Hookah Bliss, says the law is unfair, and is threatening his business of two-and-a-half years." […] "Bliss says he will fight the ban all the way to court."Full Story (plus video) HERERELEVANT READINGSHookah Bliss 'to stay open' (Herald Sun)Hookah Bars in Paris Fight Smoking ban. Abdelkader El-Ahmer, Owner of Houara Lounge, Is a World Hero in

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[note: video link right at the end]Context of the Hookah Cancer War : The US-American University of Beirut (the teams who prepared the WHO report and on which the whole world relies : 1 hookah = 200 cigarettes, you know how the song goes, folks...) has been awarded $3 million by the US National Cancer Institute for more antismoking publications against shisha smoking. By chance, this took place

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Watch this video HERE

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[note: video link right at the end]Context of the Hookah Cancer War : The US-American University of Beirut (the teams who prepared the WHO report and on which the whole world relies : 1 hookah = 200 cigarettes, you know how the song goes, folks...) has been awarded $3 million by the US National Cancer Institute for more antismoking publications against shisha smoking. By chance, this took place

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Unbelievable : a KNOL on Prohibition ! Prohibition is here, says the author !(*)."Tobacco is injurious for health and the Syrian government is right to ban smoking in certain public places. However, the recently enacted decree does not distinguish between non-ventilated, poorly and well-ventilated public areas [1]. The case of Syrian coffee houses is striking for the inconsistency and poses the

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Apart from many stories about rape in the Arab World (most of them as a result of the happy globalization and its wars in Iraq and Palestine), this sexy report from the United Nations Development Programme (page 154) sees narghile (shisha, hookah) smoking as a challenge to human security in Arab States:“In addition to cigarettes, many Arab countries suffer from an epidemic of water-pipe smoking.

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Just published in the anti smoking "Tobacco Control" journal : The tobacco health nexus ? Health messages in narghile advertisementsby Joanna KHALIL (JK) and her friends (Robin L HEATH, Rima T NAKKASH, Rema A AFIFI) from the US-American University of Beirut COUNTERPUNCHJ.K. and friends said: "Research on the narghile smoke constituents suggest it is as harmful—if not more harmful—than

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While the members of the United Nations Insecurity Council were endlessly talking about sanctions against Iran, here came an “innocent” story featured by CNN :Booming hookah biz links China, Iran, Egypt - and Texas by Justin Martin, Aug 26, 2009QUESTION: Ain't this open advertising and promotion of an unhealthy tobacco product targeting and killing US teenagers ? How can the Federal Authorities

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Quit Hookah Now ! Because medical reports from many countries are multiplying:India : Contagious Hookah Lounges Can Easily Spread Swine Flu Bahrain : Swine Flu : Sheesha Smokers at High Riskand closer to our free democratic civilized world and cherished England : where the BBC recently reported: " Shisha 450 Times Worse than Cigarettes, New Research Reveals. Swine Flu Link Now

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Two weeks ago or so, the BBC presented a “debate” over shisha smoking between two antismoking experts: guess whom ? Paul Hooper, regional manager at the Department of Health (UK) vs. Hilary Wareing, director of the Centre for Tobacco Control Research (UK).BBC NEWS: Shisha 450 Times Worse than Cigarettes, New Research Reveals. Swine Flu Link Now EstablishedBBC. UK Shisha Experts 450 More

Genevievehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16476536137125330553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9741340.post-76370012499276365592009-09-07T03:50:00.000-07:002009-09-09T14:03:52.373-07:00

(updated Sep 7, 2009 and Sep 9 due to technical problems)“No research into hookah use existed before 2002”, according to Wasim Maziak, director of the [US funded] Syrian Center for Tobacco Studies in the Middle East. But his center alone has been involved in 50 scientific reports about argileh, the fruity, fragrant tobacco used in hookah pipes”“studies have shown that hookah smoking increases the

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2009-08-25 22:56:52 – “One of the world's leading scientific experts on shisha smoking has criticised the BBC and the Tobacco Control Collaborating Centre for "misrepresentation" and "gross exaggeration" in a news story that claimed that hookah smoking can be "450 times more dangerous" than cigarette smoking […]”Full story HERE or THERE ("Shisha Madness" article, by Chris S.)Note: this is a

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"High levels of carbon monoxide can lead to brain damage and unconsciousness”. This is true: see our previous article: New Study Finds Hookah Carbon Monoxide Most Hazardous Type of All Existing Carbon Monoxides in the WorldQUOTATIONS “Dr Hilary Wareing, director of the Centre for Tobacco Control Research, told the BBC's Asian Network she was shocked by the results of the research. "Our

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Burqa (the woman’s veil in South-East Asia) is an efficient means to circle totalitarian laws prohibiting tobacco use, enacted “in agreement with” the pseudo-scientific Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC).In an ethnological study, CJ Charpentier (Anthropos, 1974) reports what he has personnally witnessed in Kabul, Afghanistan, by March 1972:« I once observed in Kabul a veiled lady

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The Food and Chemical Toxicology journal has published so far a series of strongly biased studies on a ““waterpipe””™ smoking machine (US-American University of Beirut). It has now published a paper based on an unrealistic and unethical experiment led by a team of German experts from the Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Bavarian Environment Agency, and the Federal Institute for Risk

Genevievehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16476536137125330553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9741340.post-46994389705467755452009-04-25T15:38:00.000-07:002010-04-06T08:59:24.653-07:00

WARNING: Decide from the beginning if you wish to laugh or cry (particularly if you are Lebanese or an Angry Arab).Image (left): Supposedly "evidence-based" photomontage (*) prepared by the Ministry of Health of Lebanon with the scientific support of the tobacco experts of the US-American University of Beirut.(*) Has anybody ever seen such a short hose ?(*) Then, a narghile hasn't got a male sex.

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The Observatory on Hookah or Health is happy to announce a powerful collaboration with the California’s Clean Air Project. Here are the mainlines of the project titled "Hookah in Your Community: Ideas for Action", originally designed by ETR Associates.EXCERPTS:“Currently, there are over 90 hookah venues in California [Now, there are hundreds]. Their growth has tripled in the past three years. The

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A new Study, not yet published in a peer-reviewed journal, reveals that hookah carbon monoxide (CO) is actually the most hazardous type of all existing carbon monoxides in the world. The preliminary results have been released and forwarded to public health decision-making bodies.The greater toxicity of hookah CO has been tested in a laboratory. Main symptoms are: acute dizziness, collapse, loss

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A new study on ETS (Environmental Tobacco Smoke, also called second-hand smoke)("passive smoking"), “reveals”… that what you don’t know can kill you !Title: “Is Medical Concern about Hookah Environmental Tobacco Smoke Hazards Warranted ?”, published in The Open General & Internal Medicine Journal (select “Volume 3” 2009)(or through mirror site).“Abstract: This paper reviews the present knowledge

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A study (Tobacco Use and Cessation Among Somalis in Minnesota) published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine recently “revealed”:“the small, but increasing, body of literature on water-pipe smoking demonstrates similar and, in some cases, greater detrimental health effects than cigarette smoking”.This tough statement is supported by references to four studies: among them (because the

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Remember July 6, 2007:Ban On Hookah Smoking Should Stay, Argue Doctors, England :"When used for smoking tobacco, the hookah is included in the legislation that came into force in England on 1 July 2007 banning smoking in public places. The authors believe that including the hookah in the legislation is appropriate since the exposure of non-smokers to tobacco fumes is considerably higher than for

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Completing the 3 first elements (Critique of the Flawed WHO Report, Study on Cancer Aetiology and Study on Radioactivity), the last component of the Tetralogy of Hookah World Premieres is now published in English and Open Access (full text free):Hookah (Shisha, Narghile) Smoking and Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS). A Critical Review of the Relevant Literature and the Public Health Consequences

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QUESTION: What do anti-smoking researchers and organizations mean with their permanent psychological war on so-called comfits of interests that would “invalidate” so many studies on tobacco ?Our conclusion is that they would like every author who disagrees with the “overwhelming” “cumulating” “evidence” on the deadly hazards of “passive smoking” to declare (in the Comfits of interest section): “

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Brian Primack, Michele Walsh, Cindy Bryce and Thomas Eissenberg have published a recent study in the Pediatrics journal (left). Not less than “Errors, Misrepresentations and Misquotations” were found in their so-called study on “Water-Pipe Tobacco Smoking in Arizona” (check out HERE ). Such a comment was welcome in a very scientific way by considering that it would be “not germane to the method,

Genevievehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16476536137125330553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9741340.post-44585147242564280782009-02-22T08:03:00.000-08:002009-02-28T06:10:58.916-08:00

TOPIC: Wasim MAZIAK' call for action published in the Addiction journal (Sep 4, 2008) with a "For Debate" label. Here we go !Returning readers will remember that the above libelous paper (which also sealed the calamitous bankruptcy of the almost one-decade old world ““waterpipe””™ “peer-reviewed” “good science”) was commented upon by the Observatory on Hookah or Health in a previous

Genevievehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16476536137125330553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9741340.post-37844895415881072542009-02-08T07:37:00.000-08:002009-02-28T06:12:37.542-08:00

We realised, three years later…, that in his E-Letter dated 9 September 2005, PN LEE did NOT declare (for some reason and perhaps because he felt he had no reason to do it, or simply he did not pay attention to the small “Competing Interest” box to be ticked) that he was "a long term consultant to the Tobacco Industry"[1].Amazingly, Simon CHAPMAN, Editor-in-chief (by that time) of the Tobacco

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My God, not less than “Publication Bias”, “Misrepresentations” and “Serious Errors” were found in Jeremy ROSKIN and Paul AVEYARD’ study on Canadian and English students' Beliefs about "Waterpipe" Smoking: BMC Public Health 2009 Jan 10;9(1):10.QUOTEWORTHY (for the boys and girls who haven't got the time to cast a glance at the FULL CRITIQUE THERE) :« Noteworthy, in ROSKIN and AVEYARD's paper, is

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Union Juive Française pour la PaixRichard Wagman, anti-zionist president of Union Française Juive pour la Paix (Jewish French Union for Peace): "We defend Jewish values from which Israel turned away"(interview)[Added 14 Feb 2009. APOLOGY. This article has actually a VERY RELEVANT connection with the scientific issues usually reviewed here. This is because Dr Pascal DIETHELM and Dr Martin McKEE

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Muntazer, the Iraqi Living Spirit of French May 68 PROJECT: A letter to French President Nicolas SARKOZY to ask him to award Muntazer Al-Zaidi the Legion of Honor and appoint him Minister of National Identity. “A journalist hurled two shoes at President George W. Bush on his farewell visit to Iraq on Sunday, highlighting hostility still felt toward the outgoing US leader who acknowledged that

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What’s Cooking? This: Iran's Cafe Owners Demand Hookah Rights: "Dozens of cafe owners have staged a demonstration in front of the Iranian parliament (Majlis) to protest against a ban on their activities" to sell hookah to their customers, the report said. The demonstrators, who were from the Iran's central city of Isfahan [OBSERVATORY: Best world tobacco there !], said that their cafes had

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Read flabbergasting story (based on a mysterious un-published and not-public mysterious study by Bertrand DAUTZENBERG, president of French OFT [Office Français du Tabagisme]) on French side of Observatory :Original: "L’«agence de presse» Destinationsante.com : presse-citron de l’intégrité scientifique". Automatic English version: HEREImage : courtesy of Kidslink, la scuola in rete a Bologna dal

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NEW PUBLICATION: by Qudsia ANJUM, Farah AHMED, Tabinda ASHFAQ: Knowledge, attitude and perception of water pipe smoking (Shisha) among adolescents aged 14-19 years. J Pak Med Assoc. 2008 Jun;58(6):312-7. “This project was funded by the World Health Organization, Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (WHO-EMRO) as part of their special grant for research in priority areas of public health during

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In a touching and almost heartbreaking personal account published in NewsObserver Nov 10, Anna PURDY first considers herself “a generally healthy person”. She says she tries “to eat well and exercise” and informs us that she’s not a cigarette smoker.“But throughout college and until recently, I would enjoy getting together with friends and splitting an apple- or mint-flavored hookah on the

Genevievehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16476536137125330553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9741340.post-44441269173564897402008-10-13T15:59:00.000-07:002009-04-26T04:02:13.871-07:00

A new caricature of narghile smoking toxicology by the US-American University of Beirut has been published :Al Rashidi M, Shihadeh A, Saliba NA. Volatile aldehydes in the mainstream smoke of the narghile waterpipe. Food Chem Toxicol. 2008 Sep 11. Print version will come later.Funding: US and Canadian sources (RITC, nothing to do with Ritz Hotels ! Stands for "la recherche pour la lutte mondiale

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Mind-Boggling Epidemiology and Geopolitics ! New US-Syrian ““Waterpipe””™ Study in “Peer-Reviewed” International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease Regards Israel as Part of the Arab World and Narghile Would be a New Thing in the Latter !NEW STUDY: Almerie MQ, Matar HE, Salam M, Morad A, Abdulaal M, Koudsi A, Maziak W. Cigarettes and waterpipe smoking among medical students in Syria: a

Genevievehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16476536137125330553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9741340.post-91695948273569379552008-09-19T11:55:00.000-07:002008-09-22T03:06:13.869-07:00

IN MEMORY of the hundreds of thousands of people (200 000) and animals who died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki (*) under the nuclear fire of cowards and criminals in the US Army roaming these days in other parts of the world.(*) Entire living cities with their children, women, men, cats and dogs, .... gardens, cafes and tea houses... have disappeared within a very short span of time…Wasim MAZIAK,

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[article posted Sep 17, 2008 although updated several times until Sep 22]Wasim MAZIAK, the Head of the US-funded (2002-2007; 2007-201c2) US-Syrian Center for ““Waterpipe””™ Tobacco Studies, is calling this month for action against ““waterpipe””™:Maziak W. The waterpipe: time for action. Addiction 2008 (Sep 4)-Recently, some researchers (yet from the ““waterpipe””™ camp) have revealed how the “

Genevievehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16476536137125330553noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9741340.post-24598338492684554702008-09-16T01:37:00.000-07:002009-02-22T03:25:18.619-08:00

Title of the study:The European Report "Lifting the SmokeScreen": Epidemiological study or manipulation ?Published in the Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique (August 12, 2008)>> Available in English HERE, FREE FULL TEXT OFFICIAL ABSTRACT:Backround: This report ends up with a large increase of the number of estimated deaths from passive smoking in Europe. Its conclusions have been decisive to passing

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A mediocre Pakistani study was recently published by Ali JAWAID and colleagues : Knowledge, attitudes and practice of university students regarding waterpipe smoking in PakistanIt uses the functionalist reductionist anti-scientific ““waterpipe””™ nominalist code so anybody can know what kind of publication it is from the beginning.It is based on a biased wrong and confusing questionnaire in

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From our correspondent attending the Berlin 2008 Congress of the European Respiratory Society:Bertrand DAUTZENBERG and his team (Candice PENFORMIS, Pierre BIRKUI, Jacqueline RUBAL, and Marie-Dominique DAUTZENBERG, affiliated to ACTIF (Alliance Contre le Tabac en Ile de France) and/or PST (Paris Sans Tabac), will be presenting, on October 7, 2008, an abstract or poster titled :“Water pipe and

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From a dispatch received this morning from our friend:"[...] which is why the front group FOREST (Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco) once offered my 1988 book, Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis, for sale as "vital" " (Robert PROCTOR)[1]"Robert PROCTOR is the author of this month’s “Tobacco Control” Editorial [1]. He wrote in the past about what he called “

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Our friend and personal consultant has written an open letter to the Swiss OFSP (Office Fédéral de Santé Publique)[Federal Public Health Office]. He invites its director to urgently update all the documentation related to the communication of tar yields by importers and retailers of hookah/narghile/shisha tobacco-based products.[Note (added Sept 1, 2008): OFSP has now contacted the author of

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Interviewed over the phone, one of the authors -who is by chance our consultant for international and scientific affairs- said he had no comment. However, we have received later this morning the following cryptical communiqué from his secretariat:What may happen to exclusive/ever users who, for decades, have been smoking: “only hookah (no cigarettes, bidis, etc.), prepared between 1 and 4 times a

Genevievehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16476536137125330553noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9741340.post-74031427134008970422008-05-30T03:08:00.000-07:002008-07-19T10:20:10.312-07:00

«Environmental Tobacco Smoke»: Prominent Top Tobacco Specialist in France Publishes Critical Analysis in Réalités Cardiologiques (June 2008) [“Tabagisme Passif". «Réalités Cardiologiques» publie (juin 2008) une mise au point par un savant hors du commun]Two online think tanks in charge of analysing public health policies pay a tribute to this brave scholar. The Observatory on Hookah and Health,

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Watch Online How Publications on ““Waterpipe””™ are Cooked and Formatted in Spite of Openly Claimed Pire-Review Policies.What is Pire-Review” ? Pire-review is a pun. “Pire” is a French homonym of “peer” and means “worst” or, here: “very badly” (Read this article for instance)...Image (left): The power of Big Pharma according to FORCES RELEVANT QUOTATIONS BY WORLD FAMOUS INDEPENDENT TOBACCO

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The members of the US-SCTS (joint US-Syrian Center for Tobacco Studies) “are pleased to announce their first International Summer Program for Tobacco Control Research” in Aleppo (Syria) from the 13th to the 17th of July 2008 (announcement: HERE). This is an invitation open to moneyless tobacco researchers from the poor countries of the region.First off, let’s recall the mission and role of this

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A French sort-of Hookah Lovers' site faces penal charge despite the participation of some of its members as “guinea-pigs” in "pioneering" experiment on narghile hazards.FULL STORY In English: HERE[English version foredated]Original in French: Narguile.info et la moralité de certaines organisations "anti-tabac" françaises (May 20, 2008)Oh la la, la France encore ! Exhale now ! (last puffs, Joe…)

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A short critique of the Expert Report on Smokeless Tobacco Prepared for the French Surgeon General: DGS (Direction Générale à la Santé) de FranceThe corresponding communiqué highlights risky liaisons between hookah and smokeless tobacco (SNUS).Communiqué (original in French with English version): HEREImage : courtesy of Swedish SNUSNote: article foredated on purposeYOU ARE NOT ON THE HOME PAGE of

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Comment on Hookah Bars in Paris Fight Smoking banBy Felix BRIAUD for I.H.T. (International Herald Tribune); April 24, 2008.> I.H.T. : “In the new nonsmoking France, where café-goers and restaurateurs have made a remarkably quiet transition to the regime of not lighting up indoors, there remains an unexpected pocket of resistance: hookah bars”> OBSERVATORY COMMENTS: Humm... Not so “unexpected”,

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Iranis are sensible people. The ban was once again lifted:“Iran has allowed water pipes to reappear in tea houses, whose owners complained a recent ban on health grounds was putting them out of business, press reports said on Tuesday.“Tea houses with a business permit can offer water pipes to their customers," the interior ministry said in directive to police published in the Tehran Emrouz

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The International Journal of Public Health , a supposedly peer-reviewed journal, has endorsed multiple errors in 2 of its recent articles:> Yunis K, Beydoun H, Nakad P, Khogali M, Shatila F, Tamim H (2007). Patterns and predictors of tobacco smoking cessation: a hospital-based study of pregnant women in Lebanon. Int J Public Health 52(4):223-32.> Mokdad AH, Warren CW (2007). As if cigarettes

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Communiqué in the form of a Tale (!):Little Red Riding Hood’s Narghile (2 April 2008)Subtitle: A Pleasure Among Friends: How Narghile (““waterpipe””) Smoking… Keeps Researchers in Wonderland, Obsessing all Prohibitionists of the World and Has Come to Be Their Bête Noire…[Le narguilé du Petit Chaperon Rouge : French][Caperucita Roja y Su Narguile : Spanish] SUBJECT: A critical analysis of a story

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Communiqué (Mar 26, 2008):The Invention of Hookah (Shisha, Narghile) « Passive Smoking » through Repeated Scientific Misconduct and Fraud (A Necessary Step for the Tobacco-Free Earth Geo-Political Agenda)SUBJECT: comment on a "study" by the joint US-Syrian Center for Tobacco Studies (chief investigators: Wasim MAZIAK, Kenneth WARD and Thomas EISSENBERG) published in Nicotine and Tobacco Research

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A martyr of Big Pharma (*) and its stooges in the most influent media whose clear role is to nip in the bud any scientific debate on a huge mystification: Hookah "Passive Smoking". As for cigarette "passive smoking", the huge exaggeration (3000 times) was already smoked out by world prominent experts ( here )The Invention of Hookah (Shisha, Narghile) «Passive Smoking» through Repeated Scientific

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COMMUNIQUE IN ENGLISH March 26, 2008 [added material]:The Invention of Hookah (Shisha, Narghile) «Passive Smoking» through Repeated Scientific Misconduct and Fraud (A Necessary Step for the Tobacco-Free Earth Geo-Political Agenda)]Image: World Health Organisation WHO World No-Tobacco Day 2007: Towards a tobacco-free Earth… After cafes, next target will be: homes, cars, gardens, cities, counties,

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On the eve of the 40th Anniversary of May 1968 Events in Paris, local health officials, in a neo-McCartyst move, are pushing police to enforce a pseudo-science based ordinance against hookah lounges. In this context, we invite free-thinkers to contemplate a few censored satanic verses about hookah smoking and environmental tobacco smoke ("passive smoking"):"When passed through water (50 cm3),

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Original in French: Paris, 40 Ans après Mai 68, la police (de la pensée, pseudo-scientifique, et la police tout court) est toujours là et en nombreEnglish (autom) : HEREREAD ALSO: Le Narguilé, l’Anthropologie et la Loi [Hookah (shisha, narghile), Anthropology and The Law]Image : courtesy of Health Care FraudYOU ARE NOT ON THE HOME PAGE of the OBSERVATORY on HOOKAH and HEALTH (Narghile, "Waterpipe

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Original post in French (French side of the Observatory on Hookah and Health):“Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité” sur le tabac et le «tabagisme passif». Le courage multidisciplinaire et indiscipliné d’un savant hors du commun>> (automatic) English translation: PRESS HEREThis scholar is also behind a recent public call (advertized in our columns): Two Prominent Public Health Scholars on Alcohol

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"The first and foremost fact concerning the beneficial effects of the Pfizer manufactured quit smoking drug Chantix is that the medicine which has been approved by the FDA as a successful treatment for smoking addiction in adults is a worthy solution for all types of smoking addiction. The smoking addictions where Chantix can prove to be a viable treatment are namely hookah smoking, cigarette

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QUOTATIONS FROM THE COMMUNIQUE (Jan 21, 2008):"Drs Pascale, Myrna and Zeina from Lebanon have just published a study on ““Waterpipe”” Dependence [1] in NTR (Nicotine and Tobacco Research), a journal which has recently published a huge scientific error in relation to narghile smoking and lung cancer. Despite its disclosure, the Editors refused to correct it, whereby violating the editorial

Genevievehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16476536137125330553noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9741340.post-51983307431365934852008-01-19T08:28:00.000-08:002008-01-21T11:30:41.305-08:00

In a paper published in the Nicotine and Tobacco Research journal, the organ of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco , Kenneth WARD, Thomas EISSENBERG (US-Syrian Center for Tobacco Studies), Jennifer N GRAY JN, Vidya SRINIVAS, Nancy WILSON, and Wasim MAZIAK (idem), make a study on hookah smoking and cancer say “black” when it actually says “white”.This very serious error has remained

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>> Young women and men Protest against ban on shisha smoking“If the government wants to have healthy people, it should stop selling cigarettes — and alcohol” said Mr. Hamri [owner of Dar Diaffa (House of Hospitality), who] belongs to the Union of Hookah-Pipe Professionals (Full article in The New York Times :January 3, 2008)This happened in that country (and not in the United Kingdom) because a

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Just Published on the French side of the Observatory on Hookah and Health:De la Perse, de l’Iran, DelaCroix et du croissant de lune… Comment la République assassine ici et maintenant le rêve du poète>> Can't read French ? Go there: (automatic) ENGLISH versionRelevant Reading: The Power of Cuture and its Lancet : Ethnology. Hookah as a Globe-Trotter (La puissance de la culture et son bistouri: l’

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