Unethical German Gas Chamber Study Published in the Food and Chemical Toxicology Journal
The Food and Chemical Toxicology journal has published so far a series of strongly biased studies on a ““waterpipe””™ smoking machine (US-American University of Beirut). It has now published a paper based on an unrealistic and unethical experiment led by a team of German experts from the Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Bavarian Environment Agency, and the Federal Institute for Risk Asessment:
Hermann Fromme, Silvio Dietrich, Dieter Heitmann, Holger Dressel, Jürgen Diemer, Thomas Schulz, Rudolf A. Jörres, Knut Berlin, Wolfgang Völkel: Indoor air contamination during a waterpipe (narghile) smoking session. Food Chem Toxicol. 2009 Apr 23.
This experiment consisted in consecutive hookah smoking sessions FOR ABOUT 4 HOURS in a room of 20 m² (volume 57 m³) in which THE WINDOWS WERE KEPT CLOSED. The experts also used quick-lighting charcoal and a tiny amount of the smoking product to make things better.... By accepting to publish such a study (by the way full of other speculations about addiction, cancer and so on, not to mention the levels of toxic substances they have found), the Food and Chemical Toxicology journal has also endorsed the great hazards of the about 240 litres of smoke (*) to which the victims (called “volunteers” in the publication) have been exposed in the gas chamber: namely Christine MOSCH, Franziska NACHTMANN and Elcim SECKIN. According to an independent source, this constitutes a violation of the Helsinki Declaration on “Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects”.
(*) 240 litres: calculated according to the standardized US-American University of Beirut smoking machine which represents the unanimous and world best model for hookah smoking. Hookah smoke contains the same carcinogens as those found in cigarettes. For memory, cigarette smoke -and therefore hookah smoke which has no scientific reason to be different- contains almost 5000 chemicals. Therefore, and since a single cigarette hardly generates 0.5 litre of smoke, the inflicted torture was that of smoking the equivalent of 480 cigarettes (240 : 0.5), each containing 5000 chemicals. The same source adds that “these human guinea-pigs were only thanked for “for their substan[t]ial support and for smoking the waterpipe”.
However, they were not informed that their life would be endangered and were not told why ventilation would not be allowed as it happens in all hookah (narghile, shisha) lounges of the world”.
CONCLUSION
1. Pray for Christine MOSCH, Franziska NACHTMANN and Elcim SECKIN. Write to them and advise them to bring the German Agencies and their ““waterpipe”” researchers to court.
2. All this in the name of Hookah Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Hookah Third Hand Smoke (forced charcoal emissions…) !
3. Question: What is hazardous for health: ““Waterpipe””™ smoke or ““Waterpipe””™ experts ?
4. Other question: Lies, Fake Reports, Fake Posters and Images, Lies again, Plagiarism, Junk Studies by the Dozens, Gas Chambers…. Where Will Antismoking Extremists Stop ?
RELEVANT READINGS
New Conjuring Trick by US-American University of Beirut’s Illusionists. Tons of Aldehydes Found in Narghile (Hookah, Shisha) Smoke… You’re Dead!
"United Kingdom Ban on Smoking in General and on Hookah Smoking in Particular Should NOT Stay", Analysts Say
Tetralogy of Hookah World Premieres Now Complete with Pioneering Study on Hookah and Cigarette Passive Smoking (Environmental Tobacco Smoke)
YOU ARE NOT ON THE HOME PAGE of the OBSERVATORY on HOOKAH OR HEALTH (Narghile, "Waterpipe"™, Health, Risks, Dangers, Diseases, Tar, Nicotine, Cancer). CLICK HERE to go there !
Hermann Fromme, Silvio Dietrich, Dieter Heitmann, Holger Dressel, Jürgen Diemer, Thomas Schulz, Rudolf A. Jörres, Knut Berlin, Wolfgang Völkel: Indoor air contamination during a waterpipe (narghile) smoking session. Food Chem Toxicol. 2009 Apr 23.
This experiment consisted in consecutive hookah smoking sessions FOR ABOUT 4 HOURS in a room of 20 m² (volume 57 m³) in which THE WINDOWS WERE KEPT CLOSED. The experts also used quick-lighting charcoal and a tiny amount of the smoking product to make things better.... By accepting to publish such a study (by the way full of other speculations about addiction, cancer and so on, not to mention the levels of toxic substances they have found), the Food and Chemical Toxicology journal has also endorsed the great hazards of the about 240 litres of smoke (*) to which the victims (called “volunteers” in the publication) have been exposed in the gas chamber: namely Christine MOSCH, Franziska NACHTMANN and Elcim SECKIN. According to an independent source, this constitutes a violation of the Helsinki Declaration on “Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects”.
(*) 240 litres: calculated according to the standardized US-American University of Beirut smoking machine which represents the unanimous and world best model for hookah smoking. Hookah smoke contains the same carcinogens as those found in cigarettes. For memory, cigarette smoke -and therefore hookah smoke which has no scientific reason to be different- contains almost 5000 chemicals. Therefore, and since a single cigarette hardly generates 0.5 litre of smoke, the inflicted torture was that of smoking the equivalent of 480 cigarettes (240 : 0.5), each containing 5000 chemicals. The same source adds that “these human guinea-pigs were only thanked for “for their substan[t]ial support and for smoking the waterpipe”.
However, they were not informed that their life would be endangered and were not told why ventilation would not be allowed as it happens in all hookah (narghile, shisha) lounges of the world”.
CONCLUSION
1. Pray for Christine MOSCH, Franziska NACHTMANN and Elcim SECKIN. Write to them and advise them to bring the German Agencies and their ““waterpipe”” researchers to court.
2. All this in the name of Hookah Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Hookah Third Hand Smoke (forced charcoal emissions…) !
3. Question: What is hazardous for health: ““Waterpipe””™ smoke or ““Waterpipe””™ experts ?
4. Other question: Lies, Fake Reports, Fake Posters and Images, Lies again, Plagiarism, Junk Studies by the Dozens, Gas Chambers…. Where Will Antismoking Extremists Stop ?
[Material added Feb 24, 2010]
Kamal said his critique was finally published :
and that in their response, the authors saved their face by stating that during the 4-hour smoking session, there was actually “ventilation” as "fresh air could enter the room through the leaky [closed] windows”…
RELEVANT READINGS
New Conjuring Trick by US-American University of Beirut’s Illusionists. Tons of Aldehydes Found in Narghile (Hookah, Shisha) Smoke… You’re Dead!
"United Kingdom Ban on Smoking in General and on Hookah Smoking in Particular Should NOT Stay", Analysts Say
Tetralogy of Hookah World Premieres Now Complete with Pioneering Study on Hookah and Cigarette Passive Smoking (Environmental Tobacco Smoke)
YOU ARE NOT ON THE HOME PAGE of the OBSERVATORY on HOOKAH OR HEALTH (Narghile, "Waterpipe"™, Health, Risks, Dangers, Diseases, Tar, Nicotine, Cancer). CLICK HERE to go there !
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