Think of Pigs, Think Like Pigs ! As if Jews & Muslims Hadn't Other Concerns Than That Framed Totalitarian Prohibitionist Artefact-Based Hatred Media Campaign Launched by Chief Imam & Rabbi Simon CHAPMAN !

Image (left): book by Gilles Chatelet [translated title: "Living and Thinking like Pigs"]. First off, this philosopher has nothing against those nice animals... Here's a presention of his work for the happy ones who can read French: "une réflexion sur la "Contre-Réforme néo-libérale", une démystification, l’analyse des présupposés scientistes (et ô combien " réalistes ") d’une idéologie dont la pensée n’est pas le point fort. Comment en est-on arrivé là? [...] Châtelet propose aujourd’hui une philosophie de combat qui fasse "plus de vagues et moins de vogue". [more with Fluctuat]"

In an article published in His antismoking journal, Simon CHAPMAN, the prolific antismoking militant, Big Boss of the world antismoking Big Pharma-funded Globalink Organization) relishes the artefacts of his pathetic  -Treif (non-kosher) science, Haram (non-halal) science - press release about pig blood in cigarette filters.

He actually raves about the “global reaction to a press release highlighting evidence that porcine haemoglobin (“pig's blood”) was sometimes used in cigarette manufacturing while never being disclosed to smokers. The case study illustrates the power of press releases to ignite major interest in tobacco control issues.”

Source: Ross MacKenzie, Simon Chapman: “Pig's blood in cigarette filters: how a single news release highlighted tobacco industry concealment of cigarette ingredients”. Tobacco Control 2011;20:169-72

Note: Globalink is “the world antismoking network of about 6,000 activists around the world, sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry (Pfizer laboratories among others)”. The pharmaceutical industry huge market lucratively covers (as far as smokers are concerned) the expensive though poorly efficient nicotine gums, inhalers, patches, etc.

Norbert HIRSCHHORN, one of Chapman’s Globalink colleagues, has posted there a falsely naive E-Letter asking: “Did Muslim and Jewish smokers quit after hearing the story?”

The Observatory on Hookah or Health had already reacted to the pathetic above mentioned initial “press-release”:

Simon Chapman’s Lost Battle of “Tobacco Control”. Wretched Intent to Mobilize Muslims & Jews Against the Tobacco Industry (Australian Pig Blood Story) 

The so-called “press-release” (These people actually do ”science”-by-press release) was in fact a reaction to an historic speech in The Hague (March 15, 2010) in which an independent non-prohibitionist researcher found, “further to numerous in-depth peer-reviewed critiques of biomedical publications (notably the WHO flawed expert report)”, […] that “Prohibition based on shoddy science also collides with the holy teachings of a great religion of the world. The latter commands that good sound science should be sought from the cradle to the grave.

Consequently, he invites States, particularly those for which this religion is central, to collectively withdraw from the WHO FCTC (Framework Convention for Tobacco Control) and demand accountability (International Court of Justice)”.

Of course, that shoddy “Treif”(non-kosher) Haram (non-halal) science is, to a great extent, that published in “Tobacco Control”, the main world antismoking journal whose Editor-in-Chief for one decade or so has been Simon Chapman himself. The loop is looped!

WHEN THE ANTISMOKING POPE GOES INTO ECSTASIES

Quotes:  

"The potential news interest of pig-sourced products in cigarette manufacturing was immediately apparent, particularly for Islamic, Jewish and vegetarian smokers."

"Following the release, author SC gave one interview to Israeli television, but was not interviewed by any other media until a visit to Indonesia in late June when about 15 journalists resurrected the story for local coverage."

"The gravity with which some organisations treated these media reports is suggested by the South African National Halaal Association, which issued a leaflet (figure 1), which was posted on its website and distributed to mosques across the country."

"In late July 2010, the story took a new turn when Iran’s semi-official news agency Mehr quoted Mohammad Reza Madani of the country’s Society for Fighting Smoking who claimed that: contraband Marlboros have been contaminated with pig haemoglobin and unspecified nuclear [CAUTION: no relation with NUKES, folks !] material. Madani claimed Philip Morris International, which sells Marlboro outside the U.S., is ‘led by Zionists’ and deliberately exports tainted cigarettes."

Finally, the antismoking Pope plays God when concluding, as Chief Imam or Rabbi ""Regulator"":

"By widely publicising an ingredient that would raise great concern in many smokers, our release could have contributed to raising awareness that tobacco products are unregulated." !

WARNING TO PROHIBITIONIST TOTALITARIANS: Mull over well the last popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, you ugly “tobacco control” dictators using “public health” as a fig leaf the same way Georges Bush pretended exporting his model “democracy” to the whole world. Peoples showed they are not so stupid and won't be deceived anymore.

Jews, Muslims, Believers of all other Creeds and Atheists of the World, Unite Against “Tobacco Control” Treif Haram Science (Pseudo-Science, Totalitarian Pseudo-Science)!

In his book titled “Thinking Like Pigs”, Gilles CHÂTELET showed how “political correctness” (one of the ugly aspects of Totalitarianism in modern “democracies”) had even made the word “imperialism” hard to utter. But the times are changing thanks to mass popular uprisings across the world. “Tobacco Control” is an imperialist totalitarian journal doomed to disappear when peoples (particularly those of Asia and Africa) demand accountability and stand up against its propaganda. 

RELEVANT READINGS

On Simon CHAPMAN and the world antismoking Globalink octopus (WHO, WHO TFI, WHO TobReg, Prohibition, etc.): see "A Global Prison ?" (interview with historian of antismoking)

On his antismoking “Tobacco Control” journal : Comfits of Interest, WHO TobReg, Globalink, Tobacco Control, etc. : Double Standard and/or Hypocrisy ?

Swine Flu Epidemic : Hookah Smoking Huge Aggravating Factor !

Simon Chapman’s Lost Battle of “Tobacco Control”. Wretched Intent to Mobilize Muslims & Jews Against the Tobacco Industry (Australian Pig Blood Story)

Dégage ! (Hands Off Egypt !), Say Egyptian People & Shisha Pharaohs to Totalitarian FCTC Prohibitionists!

Tunisian Graffiti. Pushing the Revolt Further, Against that Totalitarian Antismoking Ideology So Alien to Tunisian Culture !

JC Schroeder: “Communicating Science: Press Releases at EHP”. Environ Health Perspect 2010; 118:a58-a58. doi:10.1289/ehp.1001913

The Mystique of Hookahs. Health and Religious Misconceptions. SciTopics [research summaries by experts]. 2010 (25 Dec).  

 

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Dégage ! (Hands Off Egypt !), Say Egyptian People & Shisha Pharaohs to Totalitarian FCTC Prohibitionists!

[see comment below]

You heroic angry folks of Egypt will certainly win this battle for dignity. As Michel CHOSSUDOVSKY points out, "Dictators" do not Dictate, They Obey Orders”:

"In Egypt, a devastating IMF [International Monetary Fund] program was imposed in 1991 at the height of the Gulf War. It was negotiated in exchange for the annulment of Egypt's multibillion dollar military debt to the US as well as its participation in the war. The resulting deregulation of food prices, sweeping privatisation and massive austerity measures led to the impoverishment of the Egyptian population and the destabilization of its economy. The Mubarak government was praised as a model "IMF pupil".

The role of Ben Ali's government in Tunisia was to enforce the IMF's deadly economic medicine, which over a period of more than twenty years served to destabilize the national economy and impoverish the Tunisian population. Over the last 23 years, economic and social policy in Tunisia has been dictated by the Washington Consensus.

Both Hosni Mubarak and Ben Ali stayed in power because their governments obeyed and effectively enforced the diktats of the IMF."

However, as almost all other peoples of the world, you don’t know that international research on tobacco smoking is much more censored than in Stalin's times. This is important because you Egyptians are also world famous for being the top shisha smoking people (millions, women and men alike, aren’t you ?). More, Egypt is the source of the world shisha “global epidemic”

[added Feb 27]  CAUTION: although a neigbouring country sharing common traits, the case of Libya is completely different from Egypt and Tunisia. The reasons can be found here (Libya & Imperialism) and there (A Masterminded Uprising)

[Added Feb 1 (comment on photo on top)] REVOLUTION: photo of a Syrian smoker (from Al Jazeera English):  "Syrians are closely following the events unfolding in Egypt (credit: Hugh Macleod)".  Do note that in Syria there's a fresh ban on indoor smoking so this man could be fined! The ban was based on pseudo-science (passive smoking would be lethal to non-smokers)(we're not talking of active smoking which is hazardous, OK) and actually prepared by US prohibitionists.  A so-called Syrian centre for Tobacco Studies (based in Aleppo, north Syria) has actually been $ million funded by the US since 2002, that is in the wake of 09/11. This entity, whose heads are based in the US, has produced more than half a hundred anti-narghile "studies".  The tacit reason is that the pipe the man on the photo is smoking is a politically and culturally incorrect defying gesture in the US. Arabs will immediately understand why.  This photo is very interesting because the man is reading a newspaper named "Ath-Thawra" (in English: "The Revolution")!]

Certainly Tunisians did “infect” you with their Red Jasmine Revolution. However, for two decades now, you have in your turn actually infected the whole world with shisha smoking, including the US Empire ! For this reason, you are targetted in particular.

You were also not probably informed that Egypt (as many other States, Tunisia in particular) is a signatory member of an international totalitarian convention: WHO FCTC (“Framework Convention for Totalitarian Control”)(Arabic,  English, French). 

In its name (FCTC is the top of the tobacco pseudo-science pyramid), imperialist powers have already begun to interfere in your daily lives and home affairs of your cherished country, as this happened in Lebanon recently. Here are a few examples of what FCTC “provisions” entail: Sex Warnings in Egypt and Sex Warnings in Lebanon

You people of heroes and pharaohs, would you call this “science” or  even “prevention”? Is this what you want for your country? More civil servants to be paid with your money for this?

CONCLUSION

MOTTO: Totalitarian FCTC, Dégage ! (“Hands Off Egypt” !)

RESIST TO THE END ! Once social peace is back in your lovely country and a decent life granted to every one of you, don't forget to demand from your new revolutionary government that it withdraw from the infamous FCTC anti-democratic “treaty”!

REJECT any form of US prohibitionist interventionism (as this happened in Lebanon) in the name of pseudo-science made.

RELEVANT READINGS

Michel Chossudovsky: “The Protest Movement in Egypt: "Dictators" do not Dictate, They Obey Orders”

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22993

Andrew Gavin Marshall. Are We Witnessing the Start of a Global Revolution?

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22963

The multimillion dollar US-Egyptian ““waterpipe”” antismoking centre (Pr Mostafa Mohamed, Christopher Loffredo: Cairo, Georgetown)

http://www.nosmokingegypt.net/index.htm

One of its last “products” (a so-called “study” about Egypt, Egyptians, their religion and favourite “hobby”):

Singh PN, Neergaard J, Job JS, Setouhy ME, Israel E, Mohammed MK, Loffredo CA. Differences in Health and Religious Beliefs About Tobacco Use Among Waterpipe Users in the Rural Male Population of Egypt. J Relig Health. 2010 Dec 2.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/b3754111060rg3mh/

And its definitive critique by independent researcher:

The Mystique of Hookahs. Health and Religious Misconceptions

http://scitopics.com/The_Mystique_of_Hookahs_Health_and_Religious_Misconceptions.html

Linda S. Heard. Shisha ban risks diluting Alexandria’s flavor. Online Journal (Established 1998 to provide uncensored and accurate news, analysis and commentary). Oct 6, 2010.

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_6415.shtml

TUNISIAN GRAFFITI. Pushing the Revolt Forward, Against that Totalitarian Antismoking Ideology So Alien to Tunisian Culture !

http://narghile.blogspot.com/2011/01/tunisian-graffiti-pushing-revolt.html

US-led FCTC ““waterpipe”” smoking pseudo-science in pre-revolutionary Tunisia:

Cross-Eyed ««Waterpipe»»™ Antismoking Millionaire Casts Longing Glances at Tunisia!

As you know, the opposition to pseudo-science is universal:

** FCTC critique from the UK (1)

http://frank-davis.livejournal.com/133676.html 

** FCTC critique from the UK (2)

http://f2cscotland.blogspot.com/2011/01/learning-about-framework-convention-on.html 

** FCTC critique from the USA (1)

http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/06/fctc-commentary-1-implementation.html

** FCTC critique from the USA (2)

http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/05/fctc-commentary-2-proposed-tobacco.html

** FCTC critique from the USA (3)

http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/06/international-tobacco-control-gone-awry.html

Photo: courtesy of Al Jazeera English and Centre for Research on Globalization

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