Genotoxic Jordanian Antismoking ««Waterpipe»»™ Experts!

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««Waterpipe»»™ antismoking imperialism is winning lands ! You’re dead, folks ! Wake up ! The Jordanian antismoking colleagues of US ««Waterpipe»»™ experts Thomas Eissenberg and Brian Primack (**) have authored a study showing sure that:

“In conclusion, [««Waterpipe»»™] smoking is genotoxic to lymphocytes and the magnitude of its genotoxicity is higher than that induced by regular cigarette smoking”.

Khabour OF, Alsatari ES, Azab M, Alzoubi KH, Sadiq MF. Assessment of genotoxicity of waterpipe and cigarette smoking in lymphocytes using the sister-chromatid exchange assay: A comparative study. Environ Mol Mutagen. 2010 Aug 25. [Epub ahead of print]

(**) Azab M, Khabour OF, Alkaraki AK, Eissenberg T, Alzoubi KH, Primack BA. Water pipe tobacco smoking among university students in Jordan. Nicotine Tob Res. 2010 Apr 23. [Epub ahead of print]

Note: Thomas Eissenberg is the main author of the WHO flawed report

Nicotine Tob Res is a non-independent antismoking journal.

Other important note: ««Waterpipe»»™ antismoking experts don”t like “light smokers” and are always interested in heavy smokers (in their comparison with cigarette smokers) even when their own prevalence surveys show that most of their teenagers (in the US, mainly) belong to the first category. They even don't pay attention to the previous career of the smokers (ex-cigarette smokers for instance)...

They once cited the first aetiological independent study on hookah smoking and cancer (on real hookah smokers who have never used other forms of tobacco before) to highlight the results about heavy smokers. They didn't say a word about the “light” and “medium” smokers.

Relevant, geographically and ideologically (antismoking activism) until we spare some time to provide a detailed critique of this new stuff :

Errors and Publication Bias in Jordanian Study on Narghile (Hookah, Shisha) Tobacco Smoking

Thomas Eissenberg & Brian Primack Promote Pseudo-Science Based US Prohibition to Middle East “Public Health” Puppets

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 !

Thomas Eissenberg & Brian Primack Promote Pseudo-Science Based US Prohibition to Middle East “Public Health” Puppets

Further to:

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)

The Syrian Ban on Smoking in Hospitality Venues (Cafes, etc.) :The Challenge of Scientific Integrity

And after Iraq is now deprived from smoking after it has been pacified by the force of US bloody occupation...

Thomas EISSENBERG, the anti ““waterpipe””™ millionaire expert, author of the WHO calamitously flawed report on ““waterpipe”” smoking, and with Brian PRIMACK, are now interested in Jordan.

Here's their new product : Mohammed AZAB, Omar F KHABOUR, Almuthanna K ALKARAKI, Thomas EISSENBERG, Karem H ALZOUBI, Brian A PRIMACK. Water pipe tobacco smoking among university students in Jordan. Nicotine Tob Res. 2010 Apr 23.

Nicotine and Tobacco [antismoking] Research is a Farmingtonian journal. Farmingtonian ? What’s this ?

QUESTION

Why are those US highly-paid people so interested in prohibiting smoking in the Middle East ? At least this would be understandable if they were only interested in protecting US “White Youth” as their colleagues of the University of Michigan do:

Hikmet Jamil & coll. Wish to Protect US-American “White Youth” from Hookah in Study Published in the Nicotine & Tobacco [Antismoking] Research Journal

However, why the heck are they interested in the so-called “public health” of populations whose countries are occupied by their own army ?

Certainly the methods and objective are the same (military and scientific imperialism) but the answer is very simple: they (Gregory Connolly, Thomas Eissenberg, Brian Primack, etc. and all the names you will see behind ““waterpipe””™ studies) all are members of Globalink, "the world antismoking network of about 6,000 researchers/organisations around the world, sponsored (that is receiving big $$$ MONEY) by the pharmaceutical industry (Pfizer laboratories among others). Note (for those who still haven't been tipped off): the pharmaceutical industry promotes and sells nicotine “replacement” tools such as nicotine inhalers, patches, gums, etc.

Also, let's mention Brian PRIMACK’ strong links with the RWJF (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) . More on the RWJF and its defense of Big Pharma interests.

Some of them may say they receive """independent""" funding from governmental sources (such as NIH and other agencies). The truth is that in the end, the people who decide on granting or not the funding are more or less (particularly thanks to the Globalink network) colleagues of the grantees and, most of the time, influenced by the pharmaceutical industry (Pfizer in particular). The loop is looped.

See how Gregory Connolly 2008’ speech at the US-American University of Beirut was sponsored (that is, MONEY $$$$) by Pfizer:

Tobacco control expert: Smoking will claim the lives of at least 150,000 young Lebanese. News Highlights (US-American University of Beirut ), 29 May 2008.

Let’s make it clear here that they have absolutely no data showing concrete risks so they resort to lies, suppositions, and junk statements to tout bans as soon as possible:

Going straight to the point and without listing again the classical series of huge errors:

"The lack of an observed difference across these variables suggests that water pipe tobacco smoking is deeply ingrained in Jordanian society and that effective public health efforts to reduce it will need to be robust and widespread."

Do'nt worry Tom, the boys (GIs) are next door !

About addiction, don’t laugh too loud because it is written by the official antismoking ““waterpipe””™ expert who prepared the WHO calamitously flawed report . He found that the blood nicotine level, further to a 45 min hookah smoking session, did not reach that induced by a single cigarette. And building upon this scaring finding, he has the cheek to write:

"The sense that water pipe is less harmful than cigarettes was associated with a higher prevalence of using a water pipe to smoke tobacco. Thus, highlighting the smoke toxicant content and user toxicant exposure associated with water pipe tobacco smoking may be one valuable method for intervention. Those perceiving low addictiveness of water pipe were also more likely than others to smoke tobacco using a water pipe, so this perception similarly may present a valuable opportunity for education. Adding to the growing body of evidence that water pipe tobacco smoking supports nicotine/tobacco dependence will be important."

CONCLUSION

Haram-Treif Science Award to the Nicotine and Tobacco [antismoking] Research and to the local Stooges of US Interventionism in Jordan in the name of “Public Health” !

“Haram” and “Treif” ? … What’s this ?

Seek [good, sound] science from the cradle to the grave !Not Bad science, pseudo-science, junk science which are an insult to Religion !

We Want Scientific Evidence, not Killing Embargos !

Jordanians, Free Thinkers, Independent Researchers, Anti-Fascists of the World, Stand Up and Resist ! No Pasaran !


RELEVANT READINGS

SHOCKING! PALESTINIANS Still Smoking in Cafes! Big Pharma Antismokers Want Palestinians Stop Smoking ! Retaliate ?

Long Live Iraqi Resistance to Imperialism, Terrorism, Torture & Prohibition of Smoking in the Name of the WHO Framework Convention for Tobacco Control

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)

The Syrian Ban on Smoking in Hospitality Venues (Cafes, etc.) :The Challenge of Scientific Integrity

Prohibition Through the Hookah Looking-Glass (historical speech with a call to States to withdraw from the FCTC)

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

Huge errors in a recent Jordanian study

Image: Courtesy of Hookah Culture

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The Pediatrics Journal Publishes ““Waterpipe””™ Millionaires' Renewed Libel & Lies about Their Own and Others' Comfits of Interests

Brian Primack, Michele Walsh, Cindy Bryce and Thomas Eissenberg have published a recent study in the Pediatrics journal (left). Not less than “Errors, Misrepresentations and Misquotations” were found in their so-called study on “Water-Pipe Tobacco Smoking in Arizona” (check out HERE ). Such a comment was welcome in a very scientific way by considering that it would be “not germane to the method, results, discussion, and implications of [their] manuscript”…

Primack, Walsh, Bryce and Eissenberg’s only argument (as is the case with most antismoking researchers of the (soon-to-be-freed-from-tobacco) world) is based on religiously repeated libel and ad hominem attacks. They always refer to past events often reported in anti-smoking journals and in which (this is easy to understand) the brave scientists who were one day accused of being "stooges of the Big Tobacco", were denied the right to respond, at least on a fifty-fifty basis. This phenomenon bears a scientific name. It is called McCarthysm, neo-MacCarthysm (see recent examples HERE).

More recently (and we are sorry to repeat this to returning visitors), two INNOVATIONS (!) were brought to the defense and attack system of antismoking researchers: PLAGIARISM and OPPROBRIUM. The latter is something different from defamation. It is believed to have a stronger impact on all social strata, not only in the science field. The point is to name independent tobacco researchers “DENIALISTS”. See how this whole thing works HERE

COMFITS OF INTERESTS...
The first author of the collective defamation is Brian Primack: «Dr Primack was supported in part by a physician faculty scholar award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation […]», the study says. This innocent organisation is, according to an independent observer “heavily underwritten by the pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson”… More scandals about this dodgy foundation helping Big Pharma to sell off its stuff can be found on the FORCES site.

What the Pediatrics study doesn’t say is that Brian Primack has been in charge (at the Fogarty International Center/National Institutes of Health) of managing the funding of the ““Waterpipe””™ US-Syrian Centre , author of dozens of prestigious publications (including the WHO calamitous report) which have proved to be useless (historical garbage). Certainly, this represents a potential serious comfit of interest, once again undeclared.

It’s indeed amazing to see these people behaving like religious uppish fanatics who consider that such connections (direct or indirect, with pharmaceutical companies) should not be declared.

As for Thomas Eissenberg, a world ""Waterpipe""™ expert, read about his undeclared competing interests swept under the carpet by Nicotine and Tobacco Research, the same journal known for having... Endorse[d] a Scientific Error as Big and Carcinogenic as a Yemeni Narghile Bowl !

We’ll try to give you more information about Michele Walsh and Cindy Bryce, the two female ""Waterpipe""™ experts and Defamation apprentices in a further article. Stay tuned.

THE LIES PUBLISHED BY THE PEDIATRICS JOURNAL
In their libellous E-Letter, Primack, Eissenberg and the two girls criminalize the use of E-Letters. Here is below the series of lies (to be found in the few lines they dropped there...). They cite a series of E-Letters which, for most of them, have no connection with the topic:

-Reference 2 was in Pediatrics and the authors of the study under critique (Knishkowy and Amitai [Ref 6]) had respectfully responded and acknowledged the value the critique. This is an intent to criminalize E-Letters.
-Reference 3 and 4 (Inhal Tox 2008; BJOG 2008) were NOT “E-Letters” but full Letters to the Editor that had nothing to do with what Primack et al purport. This is a double LIE.
-Bacha et al (Ref 5) praised several times the critique of the WHO flawed report in their study published in Inhalation Toxicology but only forgot to cite it properly. This is why a corrective full Letter to the Editor (and not a E-Letter) was published. This has nothing to do with what Primack et al purport. This is a another LIE.
-Tamim et al (no reference given: BJOG 2008) have respectfully responded to an official Letter to the Editor and acknowledged the value of the remarks. This is a another LIE on behalf of Primack et al.
-As for Reference 9, KC was not “banned from submitting to [that] academic journal” [they mean (don't laugh...) the antismoking "Tobacco Control" journal] but the E-Letter by Chapman there (to which he was not allowed to respond) clearly mentions E-Letters only, not any manuscript. Not only this was a fabricated « conflict of interest » (see below) but Primack et al, once again, LIE on purpose.
-As for Reference 10 (involving Pediatrics), Matthew Gelfand, played the role of a proxy (as a so-called "student"[full story here]) for Eissenberg and the other authors of the WHO flawed report.

CONCLUSION
All editorial ethics this kind of journal (Pediatrics) boasts of, just as all other nicotine and tobacco control journals, were actually trampled.

REMEMBER: COPE, the Committee on Publication Ethics, is “a code of conduct for editors of biomedical journals”, “a suggested code of conduct for editors to guide them towards being fair to authors, researchers, and readers”.

OUR FRIEND’S COMFITS OF INTEREST
He is always proud to say, when he is invited to do so by those angry and heinous mobs of defamers:I have never received direct or indirect funding neither from pharmaceutical companies (nicotine "replacement" therapies and products) nor from the tobacco industry. I was the first to publish results of (ambient and alveolar) Carbon Monoxide levels in hookah lounges and their patrons (Tobaccology thesis 1998; Alcoologie 1999; Doctoral thesis 2000) and subsequently issued public health recommendations in this respect. Out of this concern, I have participated by year 2004 in the design of a harm reduction hookah (cutting down CO by 95%) of which I am an official co- inventor (Patent 2005. "Narguile a allumage simplifie" [Narghile with simplified ignition]. Appl. EP20050291196. Filed 3 June. Published 14 Dec). My participation in the project was frozen by Autumn 2004. However, the official termination was formalised only by 15 June 2005, date by which I have signed away and ceded all my rights regarding the invention (legally certified by State Attorney in Paris).More details here (about this world famous E-Letter that SHOOK THEIR WORLD …) : HERE and THERE

It is astounding that, while our friend has published numerous pioneering studies and critiques (on cancer, radioactivity, hookah active and passive smoking, etc.) –not to mention his numerous E-Letters-, these angry mobs couldn’t find, after almost 5 years of a neo McCarthyst witch hunt on the Internet, but one fabricated comfit of interest in the form of a E-Letter (the first of his life !) sent to Tobacco Control (an antismoking journal: “scientific” arm of the openly PFIZER sponsored Globalink anti-smoking network, aiming at implementing the World Prohibition of Tobacco thanks to the to the so-called FCTC, the brain Formatting Convention on Tobacco Control).

RELEVANT:

Comfits of Interest, WHO TobReg, Globalink, Tobacco Control, etc. : Double Standard and/or Hypocrisy ?

«Post hoc Censorship» Editor-in-Chief & World ““Waterpipe””™ Millionaire Experts Scared by The Sacred Narghile’s "Undeclared" Comfits of Interests !

““Waterpipe””™: Time for Action on Scientific Integrity and Accountability, Sacking, and Paying Back Funding of Useless Biased ““Waterpipe””™ Research

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