In Rare Historic Video Interview, Prominent Public Health Scholar in France Smokes Out Truth and Nothing But Truth about Tobacco & “Second-hand Smoke"

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

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This scholar is also behind a recent public call (advertized in our columns): Two Prominent Public Health Scholars on Alcohol & Tobacco Policies Warn: Moral Hygienism, State Puritanism or Industrial Lobbies ?

Notably, this scientist is also the founder of the first learned society for the scientific study of tobacco and addiction (“tobaccology”) (President 1982-2004).

Bravely, he has published a critique of the European expert report on environmental tobacco smoke titled « Lifting the smokescreen, 10 reasons for a smokefree Europe », noting, in particular, that out of the 5863 deaths "caused" by «second-hand smoke » (according to the report), 1114 are related to non-smokers…"

His motto: "1000 morts sont 1000 de trop." “La vérité sur le sur le tabagisme passif devrait suffire”.

French original : check out copy on Pénombre (how figures shape society)
>> (automatic) English translation: PRESS HERE


Verbatim transcription of the original (French) interview

English Human translation of the verbatim transcription (English)

performed free of charge, "for the cause", by Iro CYR at http://www.cagecanada.ca


Oh la la, la France encore ! Exhale now...

Image (left, top): Fairy Nicotine, by Louis-Philippe Hébert, 1902. Laiton patiné, 47 × 21 × 13 cm. Collection : Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, 99.352. Photograph: Patrick Altman. Also on cover of book: Catherine FERLAND (Ed.): Tabac & Fumées. Regards multidisciplinaires et indisciplinés sur l’histoire du tabagisme, XVe-XXe siècle, Québec, Presses de l’Université de Laval (coll. Intercultures), 2007.

Image (left, bottom) : The Truth climbing out of the well with a whip in her hand to castigate mankind (Jean-Léon Gérôme, XIXth Century). Courtesy of: Dompteur de fauves

Image (right): The "Nicotine Addiction" (Surgeon General, 1988) dogma which has paralysed tobacco research for two decades now.


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