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In a so-called Comparison of Cigarette and ««Waterpipe»»™ smoking among pupils in the urban area of Sousse, Tunisia, Imed Harrabi, his colleagues and Wasim Maziak (world ««Waterpipe»»™ antismoking millionaire and, among others, undeclared author of the WHO flawed report), state, among a long series of serious scientific errors (as usual) that
“This is a critique of Elie Akl et al (University of New York at Buffalo) “Systematic Review” of the Cochrane type on the “Effects of Waterpipe Tobacco Smoking on Health Outcomes” recently published in the International Journal of Epidemiology (IJE).
The paper hypes the HAZARDS OF CANCER and the authors managed to select only the studies they saw relevant for their “assessment” of “health outcomes”, cancer in particular. As expected from antismoking researchers, they dismissed (details given in their “eligibility criteria”) the most relevant studies when they did not find a sufficient cancer risk.
Amazingly, they mostly relied on studies led in China based on water pipes workin with NO charcoal and in which tobacco is BURNT as in cigarettes, contrary to what the authors believed… This point is certainly not a detail because the chemistry of smoke is completely different…
As we pointed out elsewhere, the right place to discuss a controversial paper containing serious errors and biases is the journal in which it was published. Unfortunately, for political (and not scientific) reasons, this is not always possible.
When confronted with this problem, the IJE, a journal which has apparently adopted a clear antismoking line, rejected a critique of the flawed paper. Interestingly, they accepted a Letter [Comment from the Observatory: really vapid, man !] by Wasim Maziak, the [undeclared for 2 years] author of the WHO flawed report on ““waterpipe””™ smoking and renown ““waterpipe”” antismoking researcher...[cont. here]”
The full references (as provided from the source) of the article are :
Akl E, Gaddam S, Gunukula SK, Honeine R, Abou Jaoude P, Irani J. The effects of waterpipe tobacco smoking on health outcomes: a systematic review. International Journal of Epidemiology. Advance Access published online on March 4, 2010.
The authors have “conducted a systematic review using the Cochrane Collaboration methodology for conducting systematic reviews”. And d’you know what happened, folks ? Nothing but systematic errors and biases because of an antismoking agenda and an intent to save the face of the experts who prepared the WHO calamitous report !
Have you ever heard of the Farmington Consensus ? of Robert West’s patent on an “electronic nicotine gadget” ? So, rush to that knol right now !
CONCLUSION
As in the case of the rubbish Autralian story about pig blood in cigarette filters recently raised by antismoking activist Simon Chapman, the Observatory on Hookah or Health has decided to also grant similarly the “Haram Science” and “Treif Science” Award to the so-called “International Journal of Epidemiology”.
“Haram” and “Treif” ? … What’s this ?
RELEVANT READINGS
On similar corrupt journals boasting of being independently “peer-reviewed”:
(note: a dangerous religious sect…)
(note: Robert West’s “Addiction” journal, in which he organized a “debate” on ““waterpipe””™ between Maziak and Maziak…)
For a Handful of Dollars… WHO Group Funds Biased and Erroneous Shisha Study in Pakistan
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2009-08-25 22:56:52 – “One of the world's leading scientific experts on shisha smoking has criticised the BBC and the Tobacco Control Collaborating Centre for "misrepresentation" and "gross exaggeration" in a news story that claimed that hookah smoking can be "450 times more dangerous" than cigarette smoking […]”
Full story HERE or THERE ("Shisha Madness" article, by Chris S.)
Note: this is a comment on a previous article:
BBC NEWS: Shisha 450 Times Worse than Cigarettes, New Research Reveals. Swine Flu Link Now Established
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Mind-Boggling Epidemiology and Geopolitics ! New US-Syrian ““Waterpipe””™ Study in “Peer-Reviewed” International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease Regards Israel as Part of the Arab World and Narghile Would be a New Thing in the Latter !
NEW STUDY: Almerie MQ, Matar HE, Salam M, Morad A, Abdulaal M, Koudsi A, Maziak W. Cigarettes and waterpipe smoking among medical students in Syria: a cross-sectional study. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2008 Sep;12(9):1085-91.
QUOTES
“The recent emergence of waterpipe use in Syria and other Arab countries, and its associated claims of reduced harm, represent a new threat for tobacco control efforts in this region. Today young men and women in the Arab world are increasingly using waterpipes, a habit that they view as fashionable.10-12”
Apart from the blunder by so-called Syrians that ““waterpipe””™ would be a new thing in the region (Laugh or Cry !), d’you know what, folks ? One of the cited references (number 11) is a study by Varsano S, Ganz I, Eldor N, Garenkin M. published in Hebrew in the Harefuah journal (2003 Nov;142(11):736-41, 807). The translated title is “Water-pipe tobacco smoking among school children in Israel: frequencies, habits, and attitudes”. The authors of the cited study are actually from Israel and the study was carried out there (Meir General Hospital, Sapir Medical Center, Kfar Saba)…. Now, and very amazingly, for these Syrian researchers, Israel is a part of the Arab world....
And since we are discussing this point, let’s take the opportunity to pay a renewed tribute to two professors from Tel Aviv who have debunked the huge “Nicotine Addiction” fraud published in 1988 by the Surgeon General (USA): Pr Hanan F. & Pr Reuven D. (Tel Aviv)
WHAT ELSE ?
This US-Syrian survey is biased (no news so far, Humm…):
1. They say they have used a “standardized” ““waterpipe””™ questionnaire. By the way, how d’you say ““waterpipe””™ in Arabic ? Genevieve’s French/English/Arabic dictionary has only got one 3 entries: “narghile”, “hookah” and “shisha”. No such word as ““waterpipe””™ can be found in her guide. Perhaps obsolete... God, how did they manage with their survey there among people ?
2. They say they asked medical students about their use of cigarettes and narghile. Can’t you see where the bias lies ? If a medical student may smoke cigarettes in classrooms (if permitted), corridors or lecture halls, has anybody ever seen Middle East students puffing at the hookah in such places ? Ask any Syrian citizen and (s)he will tell you that they patronise traditional coffee houses there (outside the campus, of course). So, where is the problem ? Even when they become fully-fledged physicians, who believes that they will be smoking the narghile in their practice ?
3. They say that “about three quarters of the respondents considered the water-pipe to be more harmful than cigarettes, with no significant difference between smokers and non-smokers of either type”. And, relish also this: “[…] as more students in our study said that they thought that waterpipe smoking was more harmful than cigarettes, and their belief was not affected by their waterpipe or cigarette smoking behaviour.”
Obviously, the local health propaganda cooked by the US-Syrian Center for ““Waterpipe””™ Tobacco Studies is effective there and is performed in the Arabic language. Unfortunately, for the time being, our Observatory on Hookah or Health cannot be understood by most Syrians because it is not in Arabic ! When it is, wager that this situation gonna change !
The article concludes: “The widespread waterpipe use among students, despite their awareness of its detrimental aspects, should be a clarion call to health authorities in Syria and the Arab world to act rapidly to deal with this eminent epidemic.”
Note: Yes, “eminent” with a “e” (published this way in the study itself !). Therefore, it is an Eminent epidemic soundly analysed by Eminent ““waterpipe””™ experts…
Oh, we also have to inform you that we've been tipped off by independent Syrian doctors that there would be other bias in this survey. You will soon know about it.
CONCLUSIONS
1. A survey based on a “standardized” (sic) questionnaire, just as “standardized” as the US-American University of Beirut’s highly realistic ““waterpipe””™ smoking machine which draws one puff every 17 seconds for a full hour (with the charcoal in the same position).
New Conjuring Trick by US-American University of Beirut’s Illusionists. Tons of Aldehydes Found in Narghile (Hookah, Shisha) Smoke… You’re Dead !
May they be happy since the WHO (World Health Organization) “experts” have blessed them…
2. This publication contains a renewed attack on Middle Eastern women because they have chosen to smoke narghile and not cigarettes. See recent fear-arousing episode by Wasim MAZIAK in his Call for action:
““Waterpipe””™: Time for Action on Scientific Integrity and Accountability, Sacking, and Paying Back Funding of Useless Biased ““Waterpipe””™ Research
3. What’s all that ? Health Fascism imported in Syria ? Please help us us, Pr PROCTOR:
Robert PROCTOR: Tobacco Control is NOT Tobacco Kontrol. Man Who Forgot “Forgotten” Study by “Forgotten Father of Experimental Tobacco Carcinogenesis"
MOTTOS
!> Syrians of Syria and the World, Stand up and Resist Foreign Interventions in the Name of Public Health!
[added Oct 23] -Prohibitionism of Tobacco is Antithetic to the Cultural (incl. Religious) Values of Your Societies ! Don't Be Ashamd of this Fact but Rather Be Proud of it !
!> Write to your Leaders ! Just Say No to Prohibition and Pseudo-Science !
!> Help your Lebanese sisters and brothers to get rid of health policies based on flawed studies cooked inside the US-American University of Beirut.
!> Syrians and Lebanese, call a spade a spade and a narghile a narghile as you have always done: never a ““waterpipe””™ !
!> Reject Big Pharma interventionism through funding of ““waterpipe””™ multiplying flawed and erroneous studies !
RELEVANT READINGS
The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease has recently published a study (*) in which the authors, apart from many serious errors, cite plagiarized material (reference number 5, that is Bertrand DAUTZENBERG and Jean-Yves NAU’ “book”):
(*) Prignot JJ, Sasco AJ, Poulet E, Gupta PC, Aditama TY. Alternative forms of tobacco use. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2008 Jul;12(7):718-27.
>> The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease Publishes a Junk Pakistani ““Waterpipe””™ Study and another one Citing a Junk Reference
>> Plagiarism and Flavors. Bertrand DAUTZENBERG, President OFT, Comes Back with a New Definition for Shisha: a ““War to Tobacco” Tobacco Product" !
>> International Journal of Public Health Endorses Multiple Errors by US-American University of Beirut Team. Violation of Biomedical Publication Ethics
The just above mentioned study was:
> Yunis K, Beydoun H, Nakad P, Khogali M, Shatila F, Tamim H (2007). Patterns and predictors of tobacco smoking cessation: a hospital-based study of pregnant women in Lebanon. Int J Public Health 52(4):223-32.
Most of these “prestigious” researchers are from the “prestigious” US-American University of Beirut. They state, among many other errors (no critique allowed, in violation with ethics of biomedical journals) that Tunisia is a country of the Middle East !
Therefore, the ““waterpipe””™ experts, who could not distinguish between a heating and a burning process (WHO report and others), between hookah smoke and cigarette smoke, between smoking products, now show to the world, despite their numerous international contacts and huge networking facilities, that they are dead losses at geography: for Wasim MAZIAK and his colleagues, Israel is part of the Arab world and for Hala TAMIM and her fellow researchers, Tunisia is to be found in the Middle East… Published in pire-reviewed journals...
Image: courtesy of Welovepolo Welovepolo
[note: posted Oct 22, backdated 10 Oct; minor changes on Oct 23]
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[article posted Sep 17, 2008 although updated several times until Sep 22]
Wasim MAZIAK, the Head of the US-funded (2002-2007; 2007-201c2) US-Syrian Center for ““Waterpipe””™ Tobacco Studies, is calling this month for action against ““waterpipe””™:
Maziak W. The waterpipe: time for action. Addiction 2008 (Sep 4)
-Recently, some researchers (yet from the ““waterpipe””™ camp) have revealed how the “primary objective” of the US-Syrian center for ““waterpipe””™ studies has always been ““waterpipe”” -despite shameful denegations by Maziak. REFERENCE: Neergaard J et al. Waterpipe smoking and nicotine exposure: a review of the current evidence. Nicotine Tob Res. 2007 Oct;9(10):987-94)(as reported by trustful official source).
Therefore, such a focus has made this US-Syrian organization suspect from the inception of its activities (2002). Some people will say that its public graphic logo is striking by itself.
-This organization has produced numerous biased and erroneous publications on ““waterpipe””™ smoking which allowed its director to win the job he was probably dreaming of at the University of Memphis where his colleague Kenneth Ward (US channel for the funding of the center) works. Therefore, the heavy focus on ““waterpipe””™ was apparently, from the onset, also driven by personal purposes, not mere public health concerns.
-The author of the “call for action” is the (on purpose) un-declared author of the erroneous World Health Organisation report (declared only 2 years after the epublication and further to our critiques) and of the laundered recycled version of the latter, the erroneous Cochrane Review . Both were supposed to be “peer-reviewed” and “gold standard” (sic) publications... Come on, babe.
The ““Waterpipe””™ Fallacy
-The abstract of Wasim Maziak’s “call for action” reads (beginning): “The waterpipe, known in many cultures under different shapes and names (e.g. hookah, shisha, narghile)”… Further to 6 years of world confusion, the author obviously tries to justify a posteriori and further to our critique, his use of “a nominalist, reductionist and functionalist neologism: ““waterpipe”” that works as a sociological code among tobacco activists and journals”
(See official source: please read carefully the introduction of a recent comment on this worldwide fallacy . You will see that it is not a question of vocabulary preference but that this word has fuelled a huge confusion in the methodology underpinning 95% of studies on this issue. This is blatant scientific misconduct that only pire-reviewers/accomplices in the journals in which these documents were published can gloss over.
-With his two colleagues (Thomas Eissenberg and Kenneth Ward), Wasim Maziak is also one of the inventors of hookah “passive smoking”
- In brief, they have stained for ever the scientific credibility of “prestigious” international organisations as far as tobacco research is concerned. The ““waterpipe””™ expert mentions "addiction" and he actually doesn’t know what he is talking about:
“Dr MAZIAK shows that he is unaware of the difference between “nicotine addiction” and “the role of nicotine in dependence”. The former is a nothing but a dogma imposed to the world thanks to a publication of the Surgeon General (1988)[11]. By contrast, the latter is a right and highly relevant working hypothesis. These are two different things. Such a confusion raises serious concerns because Dr MAZIAK and his team actually work on ““waterpipe”” “nicotine addiction”. Hookah smoking is certainly a tobacco “outsider” (official source: part 8, about another fraud: “Nicotine Addiction”).
[11] Surgeon General. The Health Consequences of Smoking: Nicotine Addiction. US Dept of health and human services 1988; 639 pages.
ACCOUNTABLE for Fuelling Hatred, Xenophobia, Violence and War among Peoples
Thanks to their “high-standard” “peer-reviewed” "good science" sweep-it-under-the-carpet publications, Maziak and his colleagues have contributed to creating conflicts and fuelling hatred in the world. Browse this site and see the kind of biased debate this pseudo-scientific stuff has induced. Come on, have a look at recent horrendous comments on the below popular press article:
“Hookah smokers told to butt out, too. Muslims view ban as 'taking away our right as a multicultural society'” (Maria Cootauco, The Province, August 31, 2008)
Not sick yet ?
Read also this:
Study on US “Waterpipe”™ Users by US-Syrian Center: from Serious Errors to ““Waterpipe”” Fixation, Fallacies, Fallacism and Religious Obsession, etc.
COMMUNIQUE: La rage et l’orgueil contre... le narguilé (in French) (automatic) ENGLISH: press HERE
A critique of “Narguilé : attention, danger!» (accessed June 29, 2007), a story (*) written by Pascal DIETHELM, a member of the Governing Board of the French CNCT (Comité National Contre le Tabagisme). The Sacred Narghile awarded him the Golden Stupidity Palm for his dangerous following statement: «Pire encore, de nombreux parents, en toute innocence, permettent à leurs enfants, parfois de très jeunes adolescents de 12 ans ou moins, de se réunir en groupe avec des amis dans le logement familial pour fumer le narguilé, alors qu'ils n'accepteraient pas que ceux-ci fument des cigarettes.»
The same strategy was followed during the wars waged against Afghanistan and Iraq. They failed and the pseudo-science based war on hookah is doomed to fail.
NEO-ORIENTALIST MALE CHAUVINIST ATTACK AGAINST MIDDLE EAST WOMEN AND THE "CAFE CULTURE"(sic)
Beside the orientalist and neo-orientalist cliches (renewed attack against the use of hookah (narghile, shisha) by Arab and Middle East women (*); not to mention an assault against the "café culture "(sic)(?!))(**), Maziak’s article contains many serious errors (as usual…) and lies.
(*) "The socio-cultural acceptability of waterpipe use is threatening the long-held immunity of Middle Eastern girls/women to smoking" (sic) = The summum of neo-orientalist "public health" junk science.
A mediocre Pakistani study was recently published by Ali JAWAID and colleagues : Knowledge, attitudes and practice of university students regarding waterpipe smoking in Pakistan
It uses the functionalist reductionist anti-scientific ““waterpipe””™ nominalist code so anybody can know what kind of publication it is from the beginning.
It is based on a biased wrong and confusing questionnaire in English ! (a result of linguistic imperialism in ““waterpipe””™ research). It is said that it was elaborated with the help of Wasim MAZIAK, the head of the US-Syrian ““waterpipe””™ centre:
"Acknowledgements [:] The authors are grateful for the helpful suggestions of Dr W Mazziak, Syrian Centre for Tobacco Studies, Aleppo, Syria, for the development of the questionnair [...]"
This is blatant scientific misconduct (ignored by the so-called "peer-reviewers" of the journal) as there are actually tools in local languages (Urdu, Punjabi, among others) adapted to this kind of study. No need to go into the biased bibliographical details of this stuff obviously backed by the "expertise" of the anti-tobacco GLOBALINK network.
CONCLUSION: SEND THIS PUBLICATION TO THE BIN OF HISTORICAL GARBAGE. THIS IS THE REWARD OF CENSORSHIP AND PUBLICATION BIAS BY PUPPETS AND PARROTS
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IN THE SAME JOURNAL (International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease), another study (1) cites a bibliographical reference (number 5)(Bertrand DAUTZENBERG, president French OFT and Jean-Yves NAU, journalist with Le Monde newspaper) which is actually PLAGIARIZED MATERIAL (2) !
Too much.
(1) Prignot JJ, Sasco AJ, Poulet E, Gupta PC, Aditama TY. Alternative forms of tobacco use. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2008 Jul;12(7):718-27.
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STOP COMMUNIQUE OCT 7, 2008 (rewritten excerpts):
The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease journal (Editor Dr Chan-Yeung) has endorsed serious misquotations and other not less serious errors in the above paper.
VIOLATION OF EDITORIAL ETHICS. [Sweeping] serious errors under the carpet of the research community and the public opinion [is certainly...] not a good response nor is it very ethical. Indeed, it breaches the basic editorial ethics of most biomedical journals of the world, particularly the principles established by COPE and ICMJE, [... that] have been informed of this behaviour [1][2].
ENCOURAGING PLAGIARISM. [How... ]come can a journal ethically approve that one of its articles cite a book (reference number 5) which is actually plagiarized material [3]? And [the authors, particularly the French ones] were perfectly aware of this national scientific scandal in France, indeed…
The authors of this intellectual and scientific piracy have been, recently, severely and publicly criticised by the Ombuds(wo)man of the French national newspaper Le Monde [4]. The Lancet states: “Plagiarism is globally recognised as a serious academic offence”. […] Beyond editorial ethics, lies the horizon of scientific integrity and accountability, particularly against the backdrop of a global epidemic.
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References:
[1] 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”: http://www.publicationethics.org.uk/guidelines/code
[2] ICMJE. Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals: Writing and Editing for Biomedical Publication. Updated Oct. 2007: http://www.icmje.org/index.html#correct
[3] Communiqué : Tout ce que vous ne pouviez pas savoir sur le livre de Bertrand DAUTZENBERG et Jean-Yves NAU : « Tout ce que vous ne savez pas sur la chicha » (8 June 2007)
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgbz283m_78gkhthv
[4] Véronique Maurus. Le fléau du tabac. Le Monde 2008 (27 Sept)
http://www.lemonde.fr/opinions/article/2008/09/27/le-fleau-du-tabac-par-veronique-maurus_1100352_3232.html
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QUOTEWORTHY from the study by Prignot JJ, Sasco AJ, Poulet E, Gupta PC, Aditama TY: :
“Second-hand smoke from waterpipes […] poses a serious risk for non-smokers”
> The authors, pathetically parroting the WHO Erroneous report on ““waterpipe”” tobacco smoking” (itself cited the following erroneous and biased pseudo-scientific "review" :
Maziak W, Ward KD, Afifi Soweid RA, Eissenberg T. Tobacco smoking using a waterpipe: a re-emerging strain in a global epidemic. Tobacco Control 2004; 13: 327-333])
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PASSING NOTE: Another junk study comes from the College of Nursing (Wayne State University, Detroit, USA):
Linda WEGLICKI, Thomas TEMPLIN, Virginia Hill RICE, Hikmet JAMIL and Adnan HAMMAD. Comparison of Cigarette and Water-Pipe Smoking by Arab and Non-Arab-American Youth. Am J Prev Med. 2008 Aug 1.
Absolutely incredible (errors, bias, clichés, etc.)! However, don’t forget: the Mother of the long series of pseudo-scientific and often junk studies in ““waterpipe””™ research is the one which gave birth to the erroneous World Health Organisation report :
Maziak W, Ward KD, Afifi Soweid RA, Eissenberg T. Tobacco smoking using a waterpipe: a re-emerging strain in a global epidemic. Tobacco Control 2004; 13: 327-333.
[note: republished Oct 10, 2008. Backdate kept]
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Our friend and personal consultant has written an open letter to the Swiss OFSP (Office Fédéral de Santé Publique)[Federal Public Health Office]. He invites its director to urgently update all the documentation related to the communication of tar yields by importers and retailers of hookah/narghile/shisha tobacco-based products.
[Note (added Sept 1, 2008): OFSP has now contacted the author of the Letter himself and endorsed his suggestions. The Observatory on Hookah or Health hails such a constructive scientific debate]
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Original post in French (French side of the Observatory on Hookah and Health):
“Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité” sur le tabac et le «tabagisme passif». Le courage multidisciplinaire et indiscipliné d’un savant hors du commun
>> (automatic) English translation: PRESS HERE
This scholar is also behind a recent public call (advertized in our columns): Two Prominent Public Health Scholars on Alcohol & Tobacco Policies Warn: Moral Hygienism, State Puritanism or Industrial Lobbies ?
Notably, this scientist is also the founder of the first learned society for the scientific study of tobacco and addiction (“tobaccology”) (President 1982-2004).
Bravely, he has published a critique of the European expert report on environmental tobacco smoke titled « Lifting the smokescreen, 10 reasons for a smokefree Europe », noting, in particular, that out of the 5863 deaths "caused" by «second-hand smoke » (according to the report), 1114 are related to non-smokers…"
His motto: "1000 morts sont 1000 de trop." “La vérité sur le sur le tabagisme passif devrait suffire”.
French original : check out copy on Pénombre (how figures shape society)
>> (automatic) English translation: PRESS HERE
Verbatim transcription of the original (French) interview
English Human translation of the verbatim transcription (English)
performed free of charge, "for the cause", by Iro CYR at http://www.cagecanada.ca
Oh la la, la France encore ! Exhale now...
Image (left, top): Fairy Nicotine, by Louis-Philippe Hébert, 1902. Laiton patiné, 47 × 21 × 13 cm. Collection : Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, 99.352. Photograph: Patrick Altman. Also on cover of book: Catherine FERLAND (Ed.): Tabac & Fumées. Regards multidisciplinaires et indisciplinés sur l’histoire du tabagisme, XVe-XXe siècle, Québec, Presses de l’Université de Laval (coll. Intercultures), 2007.
Image (left, bottom) : The Truth climbing out of the well with a whip in her hand to castigate mankind (Jean-Léon Gérôme, XIXth Century). Courtesy of: Dompteur de fauves
Image (right): The "Nicotine Addiction" (Surgeon General, 1988) dogma which has paralysed tobacco research for two decades now.
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