Hookah ETS (Environmental Tobacco Smoke) for Beginners

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 about the nature of hookah (narghile, shisha) ETS and, in the light of the controversy over the actual health effects of cigarette ETS, concludes that the former should not be hyperbolised in an unscientific way as, unfortunately, a WHO report suggests.”

The article also pays a tribute to a Forces officer who has passed away recently. He has been an important figure in the global fight against pseudo-science (related to tobacco, of course), lies and propaganda that he and his organization have widely contributed to expose.

FORCES International (“Powered by reason, driven by passion”) is "a fascinating site we got to know accidentally and only recently although these people are drawing, in the field of research on cigarette smoking, very similar conclusions (about WHO reports, its lack of independence, etc.) to ours in the field of hookah smoking. The diametrical point of view defended by the Globalink site" (source: The Sacred Narghile).

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IMAGE: Official poster based on a fake image (photomontage) originally from WHO (World No Tobacco Day campaign, 2005). It was designed by the tobacco experts of INPES (Institut National pour la Prevention et l'Education a la Sante), a French official governmental agency.

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