0% TAR ? How Censorship and Confusion Are Leading to Misregulation of Hookah Tobacco-Molasses Products
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 the Letter himself and endorsed his suggestions. The Observatory on Hookah or Health hails such a constructive scientific debate]
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2 comments:
I heard that smoking a hookah, like once session is = to smoking 5 packs of ciggs. is that true??
Where the hell have you been living ? With Martians on the Red Planet where there ain't yet hookahs ? Man, this site is all about these kinds of exaggerations and lies.
Browse it and read that: "The point is that the official literature is based on permanent unsubstantiated overstatements in tune with a clear prohibitionist agenda. For example, in its preparation of the United Kingdom Ban, the anti-tobacco pressure group ASH (Action on Smoking and Health) has published an interview with world ““waterpipe”” “top-experts” (one of them was Dr Maziak) under the heading: “Shisha 200 times worse than a cigarette””[10].
http://www.harmreductionjournal.com/content/5/1/19/comments#304579
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