Hookah Smoking Prophet. The “British Medical Journal” Turns Xenophobic in Article Inspired by Danish “Cartoons”

“An article of the British Medical Journal targets a certain religion for being permissive and even promoting smoking... The heinous metaphor is that of its prophet smoking the hookah...”

"Résumé en français: Le journal médical britannique de référence (British Medical Journal) s'en prend  d'une manière haineuse à une certaine religion qu'il juge trop permissive vis à vis du tabac. La métaphore utilisée est celle de son prophète fumant le narguilé (houka, chicha, shisha)"

Needless to add that no criticism was permitted (Search "totalitarianism" AND "hookah")... 

FULL STORY HERE (in English)

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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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Smoking Bans, Religion & Fatwas by Fax! How the World Health Organization (WHO) Actually Manipulates Religious Leaders and Populations of the World

[slightly updated 31 Dec: in green color]


The trick? 

Showing religious leaders only a part of the “evidence” (Globalink politically correct antismoking studies) on the harm caused by smoking and particularly “passive smoking” (“second-hand smoke”).

  

“Fatwas” ordered from abroad, gone over the counter and retuned by Fax ! You’re dead you smoker particularly if you are a Muslim!

Details of this Cabal there:  

The Mystique of Hookahs. Health and Religious Misconceptions

A Chrismas response to a recent study by the Resurrected US-Egyptian ««waterpipe»»™ antismoking centre (Pr Mostafa Mohamed), a sister organization of the US-Lebanese and US-Syrian ««waterpipe»»™ antismoking centres led by Wasim Maziak, Thomas Eissenberg and Alan Shihadeh).

The publication [by this US-Egyptian centre named "ESPRI" ("spirit" in French, without the "t": ain't no joke!] was authored by a pseudo-
Ecumenical line-up of authors:  

Pramil Singh, James Neergaard, Jayakaran Job, Maged El Setouhy, Ebenezer Israel, Mostafa Mohamed and Christopher Loffredo!

And what was the outcome? A  pseudo-scientific antismoking ««waterpipe»»™ publication mixing pseudo-religious and pseudo-scientific statements !

Differences in Health and Religious Beliefs About Tobacco Use Among Waterpipe Users in the Rural Male Population of Egypt (Journal of Religion and Health. 2010 Dec 2)

RELEVANT READINGS

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.  

The WHO EMRO Tobacco Free Initiative [behind the whole Cabal and where you will find the fatwas by fax!] 

William O. Beeman. Anthropology, military weapon [L'anthropologie, arme des militaires]. Le Monde Diplomatique 2008 (Mar).

Note: Funding of such things with taxpayers' money will be discussed later.

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Hamas, Don’t Be More Catholic Than the Popes of Shisha ««Waterpipe »»™ Smoking Prohibition!

A comment on : Beijing News. Woman arrested for smoking pipe in Gaza hotel restaurant. Beijing News.Net. 15th September, 2010

Hamas, what is your decision based on ? On what sort of “science” ? This kind of “science” can be termed “TREIF” (non-Kosher) science in Hebrew and “HARAM” (non-Halal) science in Arabic. Indeed, “there is a saying by the Prophet which reads: “Seek science [good sound science, of course](*) from the cradle to the grave”.

Image above: Palestinian Woman and her Narghile (40 km east of Gaza...)

(*) not Treif/Haram science which is always politicized and aims at justifying smoking bans in the name of so-called quite artificial institutions (such as the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC), Globalink, WHO (World Health Organization) Tobacco-Free Initiative, etc. and their unavoidable world “top” tobacco “experts”.

Read Prohibition through the Hookah Looking Glass and leave your wives in peace.

"While Judaism is the religion of commandments and laws, and Christianity that of compassion and love, Islam has put strong emphasis on reason and science. Quran is a permanent invitation to meditate upon the laws of nature. Furthermore, there is a saying by the Prophet himself which reads: “Seek science from the cradle to the grave” (in Arabic: Utlubu-l-ilm min al-mahd ila-l-lahd)".

Remember that if smoking is a certainly a hazardous behaviour, it also remains a personal choice. Muslim women and Palestinian women in particular have smoked the narghile for centuries. How come this became a problem since year 2002 ?

Don’t be the Lackeys of US Puritan Prohibitionist Leagues !

RELEVANT

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

HIGH TREASON in ISRAEL : 7 COMBAT TROOPS INCARCERATED for smoking Arab Peace Pipe

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LEBANON: New US Interference in Home Social & Cultural Affairs in the Name of the WHO FCTC (Framework Convention for Tobacco Control)

First 190 words tapped from the Knol Hotline

"Beirut: “A smoking ban in public places is expected to take effect within a year, George Saadeh, head of the National Tobacco Control Program announced at a debate on tobacco control held at American University Beirut (AUB) Tuesday”[1] .

It was a great show indeed, reminiscent of crowds acclaiming other assaults on liberties during World War II: “AUB students, gathered to hear the keynote speaker, greeted the announcement [i.e. the Prohibition of smoking (cigarettes and narghile) in cafes, restaurants, fines for whom break the law] with overriding support”.

The Daily Star article does not mention the existence of a study behind the show at the US-American University of Beirut. It was recently published in the antismoking Tobacco Control journal and its authors are Georges Saade, Andrew Seidenberg, Vaughan Rees, Zaher Otrock and Gregory N Connolly. Its is titled “Indoor secondhand tobacco smoke emission levels in six Lebanese cities” and obviously aims to be the main "scientific evidence" to justify tobacco smoking Prohibition in Lebanon, in a scenario very similar to neighbouring Syria (see related Knol on Smoking Prohibition in Syria). Interestingly, the latter, as a model, is cited by the authors...[2]."

References (as provided from the source of the wire):

[1] Simona Sikimic. Smoking ban in public spaces expected within a year. The Daily Star, Thursday, April 08, 2010)

[2] Saade G, Seidenberg AB, Rees VW, Otrock Z, Connolly GN. Indoor secondhand tobacco smoke emission levels in six Lebanese cities. Tob Control 2010;19: 138-142.

Globalink-affiliated US Pharmaceutical-Industry funded Prohibitionist Envoys (from Harvard University) hand in hand with Globalink-affiliated US-American University of Beirut ““Waterpipe”” Prohibitionist outpost in the Middle East, measure tobacco passive smoke (“second-hand smoke”) in 28 Lebanese hospitalities during the stuffy holy Ramadan month. Then, publish biased data in antismoking Tobacco Kontrol journal

This is not all. They had the cheek to issue serious warnings whose tone sounds like those directed to Iran to dismantle its traditional Mass Entertainment Weapons

Quotations tapped from the Knol Hotline :

“The study reads from the onset: "To date, Lebanon has failed to enact comprehensive clean indoor air laws despite ratification of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) […] Despite ratification of the FCTC in 2005, both cigarette and water-pipe smoking are commonly practised in enclosed public places throughout Lebanon, leading to unsafe levels of indoor particulate pollution. Smoke-free policies are needed in Lebanon […] "

CONCLUSION

To Prohibitionist Yankees:

One thing only: Go Home, Hands Off Lebanon and Leave Lebanon in Peace !

To Lebanese Patriots:

1) Demand the withdrawal of Lebanon from the imperialist anti-democratic WHO FCTC (Framework Convention for Tobacco Control) !

2) Disseminate the corresponding historic speech

3) Resist US interference in your social and cultural affairs !

4) Demand accountability and the reimbursement of the public money granted to experts for providing the pseudo-scientific "haram"/"treif" studies against the national interest and for the direct benefit of pharmaceutical companies !

Christians, Jews and Muslims of Lebanon, Unite against "Haram" "Treif" Science !

“Haram science” and “Treif science” ? … What’s this ?

Christian sisters and brothers say to all Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Communists, Hinduists, Taoists, etc. of the world : “Don’t Be Afraid” (our Lord Jesus) !

and remember:

Seek [good, sound] science from the cradle to the grave !

Not Bad science, pseudo-science, junk science which are an insult to Religion !

RELEVANT READINGS

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

Sex Maniacs in French Antismoking Organizations Abuse of Public Money

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

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

Hail Iranian President and his Anti-Prohibition Stance ! Support Iran’s Right to Maintain its Traditional Mass Entertainment Weapons !

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

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

[Update Apr 22: content unchanged. Only the previous image (cover of the antismoking "Tobacco Control" journal April issue) was replaced with that of a book (left) by Gilles Chatelet [translated title: "Living and Thinking like Pigs"] which was deemed most relevant. By the way, 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]"

The Daily Telegraph (March 30, 2010): Cigarettes may contain pigs blood. From AAP (Australia)

In this press item extensively quoting from him, Simon Chapman pathetically scares Muslims and Jews about the “undisclosed” presence of pig element in cigarettes…

Excellent ! That animal haemoglobin may have been used here or there in some cigarette filters (although it is apparently very rare and limited to some places in Greece) to trap carbon monoxide or other harmful chemicals is not the problem here.

Some commentators have decided that it would be an April Fool's Day joke…

This isn't our opinion. We think that the timing is likely more related to a historic speech in The Hague (March 15, 2010) in which an independent non-antismoking researcher found, “further to numerous in-depth peer-reviewed critiques of biomedical publications (notably the WHO 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 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. See last issue (not another April Fool’s Day joke !)

This April issue contains many interesting papers offering a foretaste of the so strongly desired Prohibition. It is heralded by an editorial on Electronic cigarettes written by Jack HENNINGFIELD (USA) and Ghazi ZAATARI (US-American University of Beirut), two prominent WHO TobReg experts who stress the necessity for procrastinating another 10 years or so because ENDDs (new speak for electronic cigarettes) might be very hazardous in their opinion… Therefore, they suggest in their WHO jargon an “emerging science foundation for policy” so you folks can be impressed by the scientific nature of the procrastination… Case made !

In view of his interests in US Big Big Pharma products, Jack HENNINGFIELD’s not very enthusiastic opinion about the Chinese gadget is understandable, isn’t it ?

However, why, would you ask, is Ghazi ZAATARI’s analysis likely to be biased ? Simply because the proportion of cigarette smokers in Lebanon is so huge (around 60% of the total population). This means that the great hazard for the pharmaceutical industry is that those Eastern folks adopt the Chinese gadget instead of the nicotine inhalers, patches and gums, and Chantix… Understood ? If not, browse this site to see the similar tactics in their “scientific” war against the ““waterpipe””…

Note: Last month, in the same “Tobacco Control” antismoking journal, the One Million E-cigarette users in the USA could find a rocket science study by Thomas Eissenberg whose title is everything but unclear: “Electronic nicotine delivery devices: ineffective nicotine delivery and craving suppression after acute administration”

Interestingly, the previously mentioned independent non-antismoking researcher who went Holland to deliver his speech against Prohibition said that E-cigarettes are now under the same fire (that is, the so-called “peer-reviewed” “studies”) led by the same people who have attacked the hookah for almost one decade now.

Not sure ? Let’s see:

Jack HENNINGFIELD and Ghazi ZAATARI are the WHO TobReg experts who have ““peer-reviewed”” the infamous WHO flawed report on ““waterpipe””™ smoking.

Ghazi ZAATARI has personally selected the experts to be appointed for the task of preparing that document (source: US-American University of Beirut Bulletin dated Feb 2006, Vol7, 45)

The first "objectively" “selected” expert was Alan SHIHADEH (who is affiliated with the same institution, the US-American University of Beirut…) and the second one was Thomas EISSENBERG… What a coincidence…

The more the merrier… D’you kow what ? All these people are members of Globalink !

This is not all. The “Tobacco Control” antismoking journal is also famous for having published a “reference” (certainly it has been one for the crowds of blind or parroting researchers who cited it) review on ““waterpipe””™ authored by Wasim Maziak and co-authored, among others, by Thomas Eissenberg. As expected, the “reference” review is a great fraud and contains tremendous scientific errors:

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.

See critique of main errors THERE

Most scientific journals would have retracted such a big stain in their editorial content. “Tobacco Control” did not because antismoking ideology is superior to science.

CONCLUSION

This Autralian story about pig blood in cigarette filters is rubbish and the Observatory on Hookah or Health has decided to grant the “Haram Science” and “Treif Science” Award to Simon Chapman !

“Haram” and “Treif” ? … What’s this ?

Bad science, pseudo-science, are illicit in Religion !

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

On Jack HENNINGFIELD and his so big connections with Big Pharma that (poor man), he “forgets” to mention them…, see that ARTICLE:

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

Read also: “E-Cigarettes, Hookah (Shisha, Narghile) and E-Hookah”. A comment on an article published in the British Medical Journal (Flouris AD, Oikonomou DN. Electronic cigarettes: miracle or menace ? BMJ. 2010 Jan 19;340:c311. doi: 10.1136/bmj.c311)

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