Top Level Syrian & Canadian Experts “Firmly Believe that ““Waterpipe””™ Smoking Is an Important Risk Factor for Pancreatic Cancer. You''re Dead !

[note: video link right at the end]

Context of the Hookah Cancer War : The US-American University of Beirut (the teams who prepared the WHO report and on which the whole world relies : 1 hookah = 200 cigarettes, you know how the song goes, folks...) has been awarded $3 million by the US National Cancer Institute for more antismoking publications against shisha smoking. By chance, this took place immediately after the release of the dangerously popular study on hookah smoking and cancer byPakistani and French doctors...

In this context, a recent publication reveals that because "the longer duration of a WPS [““Waterpipe””™ Smoking] session leads to a much higher yield of tar, nicotine, carbon monoxide, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and heavy metals than cigarette smoking. The water pipe smoker may therefore inhale the equivalent of 100 or more cigarettes." Consequently, [the world top experts] firmly believe that WPS is an important risk factor in the development of several human cancers, especially pancreatic cancer according to Vrieling et al. study"

The "Vrielinget al." study Dr Fouad and his colleagues refers to is already a breakthrough in this field because it clearly shows that exposure to passive smoke from cigarettes causes pancreatic cancer:

Vrieling A, Bueno-de-Mesquita HB, Boshuizen HC, Michaud DS, Severinsen MT, Overvad K, Olsen A, Tjønneland A, Clavel-Chapelon F, Boutron-Ruault MC, Kaaks R, Rohrmann S et al. Cigarette smoking, environmental tobacco smoke exposure and pancreatic cancer risk in the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition.

and since the scientific inference that what is true for cigarettes is true for water pipes is also true...

Both pioneering studies have been published in the prestigious International Journal of Cancer (Sept 29 for the "Vrieling et al." study).

In other words, the evidence that people have been dying of these cancers over 4 centuries will be available soon. Don't believe ? See that, the greatest hypothesis of the century :

Fouad FM, Rastam S, Moustafa AE. Involvement of water pipe smoking in the development of human pancreatic cancer. Int J Cancer. 2009 Nov 23. [Epub ahead of print]

If you wish to protect the pancreases of your family or have friends who have pancreas but also smoke hookah, send your support to the international Focal Point: Dr Al-Moustafa at Department of Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Take care, not this one !

You can also lovingly voice your support over the phone by singing him the "Ya Mostafa Ya Mostafa, Ana Bahebek Ya Mostafa!" (Mostafa, Mostafa, I love your science and I love you so my Mostafa!).

Watch the video and Dance on YouTube . Enjoy oriental sublime sensuality (sorry for the hookah, they left it for after the dance show...) in this world fraught with vulgarity, hatred and violence)

FULL LYRICS (thanks to Allthelyrics)

"Cherie je t'aime chérie je t'adore

My Darling I Love you My Darling I Adore You

Como La Salsa Del Pomodoro

Like Tomato Sause(Salsa)

Tu M'as allumet Avec Une Allumette

You Had Burn Me With A Match

Et Tu Me Fais Perdre La Tete

And You Made Me Lose My Head

Tu M'as allumet Avec Une Allumette

You Had Burn Me With A Match

Et Tu Me Fais Perdre La Tete

And You Made Me Lose My Head

Cherie je t'aime cherie je t'adore

My Darling I Love you My Darling I Adore You

Como La Salsa Del Pomodoro

Like Tomato Sause(Salsa)

Cherie je t'aime cherie je t'adore

My Darling I Love you My Darling I Adore You

Como La Salsa Del Pomodoro

Like Tomato Sause(Salsa)

ya moustafa ya moustafa Ana Bahebak Ya Moustafa

Moustafa Moustafa I Love You Moustafa (ya Is An Arabic Calling Pronon)

Sabaa Senin Fel Attarine

seven years in Attarine (Attarine Is a neighborhood In Alexandria-Egypt)

Delwaty geina J'imagine

Now We're Back I Am Imagining

Taala Ya Moustafa

Come On Mostafa

Come on Mostafa You Son of Al Sarhan (Scatterbrained)

Di Ta'mira agami We Lef 'Al Giran (This is Agami, goza/hookah tobacco] And Go [and pass over] to The Neighbors

wamma yigi keifo keifo

And When He Gets the "Keyf" (the "high" from tobacco smoking)

Yeshrab 'Ala Keifo Keifo

He can smoke as he likes

Thanks..

Ahmed Zamzam (French & Arabic Translation)”

[MATERIAL ADDED Feb 24, 2010 ]

READ ALSO the articles below to get a picture of the whole story :

A critique of recent hypotheses on oral (and lung) cancer induced by water pipe (hookah, shisha, narghile) tobacco smoking

Cancer risks of hookah (shisha, narghile) tobacco use require further independent sound studies

and how the authors saved their face thanks to a BIG LIE :

Ethics of ““Waterpipe”” Antismoking Research and Suggested Guidelines:How researchers from the US-funded antismoking Syrian centre succeeded in slipping in a huge lie in the International Journal of Cancer

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International Team of Syrian, Chinese, Canadian Experts “Firmly Believe that ““Waterpipe””™ Smoking Can Provoke Lung Cancer as Well as Oral Cancer"

[note: video link right at the end]

Context of the Hookah Cancer War : The US-American University of Beirut (the teams who prepared the WHO report and on which the whole world relies : 1 hookah = 200 cigarettes, you know how the song goes, folks...) has been awarded $3 million by the US National Cancer Institute for more antismoking publications against shisha smoking. By chance, this took place immediately after the release of the dangerously popular study on hookah smoking and cancer byPakistani and French doctors...

In this context, a recent publication reveals that because “it is well known that water pipe smokers inhale the equivalent of 100 or more cigarettes which can affect the lungs and the oral cavity of the smokers, “therefore, [the top experts] firmly believe that WPS [““WaterPipe””™ Smoking] can provoke lung cancer as well as oral cancer”

In other words, the evidence that people have been dying of these cancers over 4 centuries will be available soon. Don't believe ? See that, the greatest hypothesis of the century :

Rastam S, Li FM, Fouad FM, Kamal HM, Akil N, Moustafa AE. Water pipe smoking and human oral cancers. 1. Med Hypotheses. Nov 3, 2009.

If you wish to protect your family or have friends who smoke hookah, send your support to the international Focal Point: Dr Al-Moustafa at Department of Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Take care, not this one !

You can also lovingly voice your support over the phone by singing him the "Ya Mostafa Ya Mostafa, Ana Bahebek Ya Mostafa!" (Mostafa, Mostafa, I love your science and I love you so my Mostafa!).

Watch the video and Dance on YouTube . Enjoy oriental sublime sensuality (sorry for the hookah, they left it for after the dance show...) in this world fraught with vulgarity, hatred and violence)

FULL LYRICS (thanks to Allthelyrics)

"Cherie je t'aime chérie je t'adore

My Darling I Love you My Darling I Adore You

Como La Salsa Del Pomodoro

Like Tomato Sause(Salsa)

Tu M'as allumet Avec Une Allumette

You Had Burn Me With A Match

Et Tu Me Fais Perdre La Tete

And You Made Me Lose My Head

Tu M'as allumet Avec Une Allumette

You Had Burn Me With A Match

Et Tu Me Fais Perdre La Tete

And You Made Me Lose My Head

Cherie je t'aime cherie je t'adore

My Darling I Love you My Darling I Adore You

Como La Salsa Del Pomodoro

Like Tomato Sause(Salsa)

Cherie je t'aime cherie je t'adore

My Darling I Love you My Darling I Adore You

Como La Salsa Del Pomodoro

Like Tomato Sause(Salsa)

ya moustafa ya moustafa Ana Bahebak Ya Moustafa

Moustafa Moustafa I Love You Moustafa (ya Is An Arabic Calling Pronon)

Sabaa Senin Fel Attarine

seven years in Attarine (Attarine Is a neighborhood In Alexandria-Egypt)

Delwaty geina J'imagine

Now We're Back I Am Imagining

Taala Ya Moustafa

Come On Mostafa

Come on Mostafa You Son of Al Sarhan (Scatterbrained)

Di Ta'mira agami We Lef 'Al Giran (This is Agami, goza/hookah tobacco] And Go [and pass over] to The Neighbors

wamma yigi keifo keifo

And When He Gets the "Keyf" (the "high" from tobacco smoking)

Yeshrab 'Ala Keifo Keifo

He can smoke as he likes

Thanks..

Ahmed Zamzam (French & Arabic Translation)”

[MATERIAL ADDED Feb 24, 2010 ]

READ ALSO the articles below to get a picture of the whole story :

A critique of recent hypotheses on oral (and lung) cancer induced by water pipe (hookah, shisha, narghile) tobacco smoking

Cancer risks of hookah (shisha, narghile) tobacco use require further independent sound studies

and how the authors saved their face thanks to a BIG LIE :

Ethics of ““Waterpipe”” Antismoking Research and Suggested Guidelines:How researchers from the US-funded antismoking Syrian centre succeeded in slipping in a huge lie in the International Journal of Cancer

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!

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

WARNING: Decide from the beginning if you wish to laugh or cry (particularly if you are Lebanese or an Angry Arab).

Image (left): Supposedly "evidence-based" photomontage (*) prepared by the Ministry of Health of Lebanon with the scientific support of the tobacco experts of the US-American University of Beirut.

(*) Has anybody ever seen such a short hose ?
(*) Then, a narghile hasn't got a male sex... It is a female object as any user knows. The most relevant comparison would be a feeding (baby's) bottle, not a sex organ ! These researchers from the US-American University of Beirut are apparently sex maniacs !

It is said that:

1. The US-AUB “is hard at work to promote effective and implementable non-smoking policies. Team members Alan Shihadeh and Najat Saliba, two professors from engineering and chemistry, respectively, have already identified the complex mechanism by which a water pipe delivers chemicals to smokers [please don't laugh!], while Associate Professors Rima Afifi and Monique Chaaya have been studying public perception and behavior with respect to smoking-related topics.”

2. “Most recently on March 7-12, six faculty members [US-American University of Beirut] participated in the 14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Mumbai, India, which was attended by about 2500 scientists, government officials, and health organizations from 130 countries [You're dead !]. There, they shared their latest findings with top researchers in the field”.

3. “Moreover, Research for International Tobacco Control, a secretariat of the Canadian-government-affiliated International Development Research Center, has granted about $37,000 to allow Nakkash and her colleagues, Afifi and Chaaya, to evaluate the implementation and enforcement of smoke-free policies in Lebanon"

SOURCE OF THIS GREAT PAPER: News Highlights : AUB team conduct research to help snuff out nargileh and cigarette smoking. The official organ of the US-American University of Beirut Office of Information and Public Relations, April 01, 2009. Posted by Maha Al-Azar, Media Relations officer.

COMMENTS OF THE OBSERVATORY

1. Ghazi Zaatari (the guy with the white shirt) is also cited for heading the department of pathology and laboratory medicine and being a member of the US-AUB tobacco group. What is not said is that he is also (and above all) the Chairman of WHO TobReg (WHO study group for the regulation of tobacco products) and that he personally selected a researcher from his own university (US-AUB) to draft the WHO report (“Advisory Note”) on ““waterpipe”” which proved to contain a long series of serious errors (critique here)... Very democratic, no ? Even More Democratic than the UN Insecurity Council...

2. Therefore, all these nice people went Bombay to attend the 14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health ? D’you know what, folks ? Two Big Pharma companies were official sponsors of the event ! An “event” about whihc one independent researcher pointed out:

"To prostitute oneself is defined as 'selling one's abilities, talent, or name for an unworthy purpose". "By accepting Big Pharma money in order to fund its symposium, the World Conference on Tobacco OR Health, in my opinion, is selling its name for what I consider to be an unworthy purpose. The Conference is allowing itself to be used as a pharmaceutical marketing agent, simply to make money, when the over-reliance on pharmaceutical agents is in my opinion one of the main reasons why smoking cessation efforts and policies have been so ineffective."

Source: Why Quit News: World Tobacco Conference Accused of Prostitution March 13, 2008

3. The US-AUB Tobacco Control teams are therefore not only sponsored by their own US university but also receive extra funding from Canada. The RITC is known for having among its strategic partners two Big Pharma companies: Glaxo-Wellcome Smith Kline Beecham and Merrck-Frost (details here). As for Health Canada, it wisely advises Canadians not to use electronic cigarettes because as long as they are not “tested”, they would represent a great danger…

CONCLUSION

Big Pharma, through its big funding of ““waterpipe”” research, has been trying in vain to sell nicotine patches, gums, Zyban and Chantix (Champix) to “hookah addicts”. Remember the song:

All Hookah Addicts of the World, Let's All Chant...ix !

Perhaps Big Pharma may now help “impotent” narghile smokers thanks to its Viagra ? Or should this medicine be administered to ““waterpipe”” research in the aftermath of its ideological and scientific collapse ?

By the way, if you meet these tobacco control researchers one day, please ask them to show you the concrete scientific evidence that “narghile smoking causes impotence”... and warn them in your turn that gambling with public money is a crime that will not remain unpunished indefinitely. The fees (dozens of thousand dollars) paid by WHO (World Health Organization) to experts are, in the end, public money, that of tax payers.

This "public health" parade of pseudo-science is just pornographic science. Independent Lebanese and all free-thinkers of the world will judge by themselves.

RELEVANT READINGS

Rocket sociology : Rima Nakkash and Joanna Khalil Went to the USA (November 2009) to reveal to the world why "“waterpipe”™ "" tobacco smoking" is ""so sexy""(sic !)
After being highly carcinogenous, it is now "so sexy". That's interesting...

Antismoking SEX MANIACS Strike Again in EGYPT : Fatimah El-Awa & WHO “Framework Convention for Tobacco Control”

New Conjuring Trick by US-American University of Beirut’s Illusionists. Tons of Aldehydes Found in Narghile (Hookah, Shisha) Smoke… You’re Dead !

[updated April 27]

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Jeremy ROSKIN & Paul AVEYARD Bashed Again for the Poor Quality of a Second «Qualitative» Study, on English and Canadian Students

My God, not less than “Publication Bias”, “Misrepresentations” and “Serious Errors” were found in Jeremy ROSKIN and Paul AVEYARD’ study on Canadian and English students' Beliefs about "Waterpipe" Smoking: BMC Public Health 2009 Jan 10;9(1):10.

QUOTEWORTHY (for the boys and girls who haven't got the time to cast a glance at the FULL CRITIQUE THERE) :

« Noteworthy, in ROSKIN and AVEYARD's paper, is the fact that 11 studies, out of the 13 ones cited and having a direct connection with the issue at stake, are from the US-Syrian Centre for Tobacco Studies. Strikingly, they all use the ""waterpipe"" (in one word) neologism which has proved to be not only a scientific nominalism but also what I named a sociological code ».

« ROSKIN and AVEYARD quote from a student having "a background in scientific education [whose] beliefs were based upon the opinion of a toxicology teacher" that "in shisha... the way it's prepared with sugar in tobacco and charcoal, glycerine burns in the head producing free radicals. These are very harmful and causing cancers"". In fact, the interviewed student is not less ignorant (regarding health effects) than the others described as unaware of the corresponding risks […] ».

« The authors wished to draw the attention of their interviewees on the "misleading" figures printed on the moassel (the hookah smoking mixture) packs: namely "0% tar, 0.5% nicotine". The authors speculate that the latter are supposed to induce and reflect the ignorance of hookah users. In fact, these figures are not less unrealistic than those advertised in ""waterpipe"" studies ».

« The authors conclude that "the current lack of health information is currently viewed as tacit official acceptance of waterpipe smoking". The misrepresentation here is that that users have seen by themselves how public health interventions have lost their credibility because of repeated publication bias and fatal errors in studies supposed to be of a high-standard […] »

This kills me !

HIGHLY RELEVANT READING: Pire-Review: Head of US-Syrian Centre Gives English Lessons to Native English ““waterpipe””™ Researchers… Watch Online the Birth of a New "Study"

Let's have a look at the end of the publication....

« Acknowledgements [:] University of Birmingham (the Arthur Thomson Travel Scholarship), London Jewish Medical Association. PA [Paul AVEYARD] is funded by the National Institute for Health Research [...] ».

Excellent, Guys ! You seem to be nice boys. Let’s see now your potential comfits of interest…

«Competing interests [:] Paul AVEYARD had served as a consultant to and received funding from McNeill AB, Xenova Biotechnology, and Pfizer for work on smoking cessation».

Humm… Humm… Humm… Humm… Humm… Humm… Humm… Humm… Humm….. STOP ! Why not be sincere and put things right: Your "smoking cessation" here is PHARMACEUTICAL cessation, based on drugs and more drugs to treat smokers as if they were sick people...

All Hookah Addicts of the World, Let’s All Chant…ix !

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