1967-2007: Aqui se Queda la Clara. A Tribute to Ernst WYNDER and Ernesto Che GUEVARA

On March 8, 2007, the Observatory on Hookah and Health paid a tribute to Ernst L. Wynder (and Dietrich Hoffmann) on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the release of their book “Tobacco and Tobacco Smoke. Studies in Experimental Carcinogenesis” (Academic Press, New York, London, 1967, pages 186, 329-330).

This book contains Satanic Verses censored for decades (and particularly these last years) by the religious clique of diehard fanatics which has also hijacked and brought into disrepute the tobacco control movement. Fortunately, the Observatory on Hookah and Health dug them out:

“Long-term studies with water pipe smoke have not been carried out. These studies are of epidemiological interest because of the apparent infrequency of lung cancer among Syrians and water pipe smoking Asiatic and African immigrants to Israel (…) Most remarkable, however, is the filter efficiency of the water in the Shish[a], the water-filled main part of the Narghile.”

As we’re waving Good Bye to year 2007, we wish to renew such a tribute, hoping many tobacco researchers will follow the path and methods of these great scientists.

As for Ernesto Che Guevara, he was also a “MD” (holder of a medicine diploma). Long before the “emergence” (that’s the modern term, no ?) of fashionable organizations like “Doctors Without Frontiers”, he carried on an early “humanitarian mission” (would we say with today's words). So, like James Dean, he mounted his motorbike and headed northwards...

He decided to leave everything behind to go and help the poor people of the South American continent and finally those of the whole world. The epidemic he set about to fight was much more deadly than tobacco and the Cuban cigars he smoke, he poor wheezing man... Two of its many facets were, and still are, unfortunately: oppression and poverty.

All peace’n’love hookah smoking hippies of the world, who marched against the war in Vietnam, will remember these heroic times. He would have to face the Empire, its violence and cruel embargos (from Vietnam and Cuba to Iraq)(1), for the sake of truth, freedom and independence. Everywhere he went, from America to Africa, he was so respectful of cultures and peoples. For all these reasons, he should be a model for scientists, particularly those working in the tobacco field. He died in 1967 in Bolivia where he was shot dead by the rapid fire of CIA bullets. And he left to the world la entranable trasparencia de su querida presencia...


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