Lebanese Narghile Tobacco Kontrol Sex Maniacs Strike Again !

In a new article published in antismoking journal Tobacco Kontrol, sex maniacs of the $ 3 million funded US American University of Beirut suggest (this is not the first time) to use that image (left) as a prevention tool...

Nakkash R, Khalil Joanna. Health warning labelling practices on narghile (shisha, hookah) waterpipe tobacco products and related accessories. Tob Control 2010 19: 235-239.

Yet, there is absolutely no scientific evidence of an effect of ««waterpipe»»™ smoking on fertility. A sterile argument indeed ! The Egyptian study (Inhorn et al.) the sex maniacs usually cite in the dark corners of their antismoking literature doesn't establish, in a way or another, the claimed effects.

RELEVANT READINGS (tightly connected)

Khalil J, Heath RL, Nakkash RT, Afifi RA. The tobacco health nexus? Health messages in narghile advertisements. Tob Control. 2009 Oct;18(5):420-1.

Narghile, Sex and the US-American Univer-City of Beirut... Tobacco Control, Prostitution and the City of Bombay...

Rima Nakkash & Joanna Khalil. Waterpipe tobacco smoking : what''s so sexy ? 137th American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting and Expo " Water and Public Health ", Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 7-11 November 2009,

Dr Rima Nakkash, US-AUB Ambassador of Shisha Prohibition in the Arab World

Joanna in Wonderland. Anti-Fruit Smoking Activism at the US-American University of Beirut

Shrewd KNOL: The Lebanese Ban on Smoking in Hospitality Venues (Cafes, etc.):US Interventionism and Prohibition in the Name of the FCTC (Framework Convention on Tobacco Control). Knol. 2010 (Apr 14).

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