Robert PROCTOR: Tobacco Control is NOT Tobacco Kontrol. Man Who Forgot “Forgotten” Study by “Forgotten Father of Experimental Tobacco Carcinogenesis"

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 “forgotten” historical studies (on tobacco and cancer) and their authors [2-3].

However, what many people ignore is that he himself strangely “forgot” to mention a not-politically-correct, though-historically-correct, study by one of them (Angel ROFFO) [4] apparently because that study deals with an official “public health” smoking epidemic (i.e. ““waterpipe””) for which the above mentioned journal, among others (and together with WHO TFI, WHO TobReg, etc) has mobilised many forces."

Here a question is asked: “Is this man entitled to give us a lecture when he violates ethics in a so-called "peer-reviewed" scientific «Review», simply because a cancerologist tackled a taboo issue ?” [1]

Also relevant and officially published elsewhere: "Did we call up Great Ethics because the author (a historian of science, by the way) of a review on "the forgotten father of experimental tobacco carcinogenesis", forgot, in his turn, to mention an important study on narghile (hookah) carried on by this "father" [3]? No, we just mentioned this fact. Full stop [...]"[5]

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References:

[1] Proctor R. On playing the Nazi card. Tobacco Control 2008;17:289-90

[2] Proctor RN. Commentary: Schairer and Schöniger's FORGOTTEN tobacco epidemiology and the Nazi quest for racial purity. Int J Epidemiol. 2001 Feb;30(1):31-4. No abstract available.

[3] Proctor RN. Angel H Roffo: the FORGOTTEN father of experimental tobacco carcinogenesis. Bull World Health Organ. 2006 Jun;84(6):494-496.

[4] Roffo AH. Sobre los filtros en el tabaquismo: el narguile y el algodon como filtro del alquitran de tabaco [Tobacco use and filters: narghile and cotton as filters of tobacco tar]. Boletin del instituto de medicina experimental para el estudio y tratamiento del cancer (Buenos Aires). 1939;16(51): 255-268.

[5] The Most Beautiful Girl in the World Cannot Give More than What She Has and the History of "Tobacco Control" Will Absolve Me (Jul 16, 2008)

Image: the Oct 2008 Tobacco Control issue.

[note1 : linguistically adapted and cross references rearranged by the Observatory on Hookah or Health]

[note2: backdated article]

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