Comments on: Anti-smoking claims full of smoke and mirrors http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/12/02/anti-smoking-claims-full-of-smoke-and-mirrors/ Protect yourself from government gaffes, bureaucratic blunders and incumbent incompetence Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: harleyrider1978 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/12/02/anti-smoking-claims-full-of-smoke-and-mirrors/#comment-3497 harleyrider1978 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:57:59 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/2005/12/02/anti-smoking-claims-full-of-smoke-and-mirrors/#comment-3497 Surgeon General's Office Again Misrepresents and Distorts the Science in Report Press Release; Why the Need to Lie to the American Public? http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2010_12_01_archive.html Surgeon General’s Office Again Misrepresents and Distorts the Science in Report Press Release; Why the Need to Lie to the American Public?

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]]> By: harleyrider1978 http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/12/02/anti-smoking-claims-full-of-smoke-and-mirrors/#comment-3496 harleyrider1978 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:03:17 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/2005/12/02/anti-smoking-claims-full-of-smoke-and-mirrors/#comment-3496 May 2010 Le parisian They have created a fear that is based on nothing’’ World-renowned pulmonologist, president of the prestigious Research Institute Necker for the last decade, Professor Philippe Even, now retired, tells us that he’s convinced of the absence of harm from passive smoking. A shocking interview. What do the studies on passive smoking tell us? PHILIPPE EVEN. There are about a hundred studies on the issue. First surprise: 40% of them claim a total absence of harmful effects of passive smoking on health. The remaining 60% estimate that the cancer risk is multiplied by 0.02 for the most optimistic and by 0.15 for the more pessimistic … compared to a risk multiplied by 10 or 20 for active smoking! It is therefore negligible. Clearly, the harm is either nonexistent, or it is extremely low. It is an indisputable scientific fact. Anti-tobacco associations report 3 000-6 000 deaths per year in France ... I am curious to know their sources. No study has ever produced such a result. Many experts argue that passive smoking is also responsible for cardiovascular disease and other asthma attacks. Not you? They don’t base it on any solid scientific evidence. Take the case of cardiovascular diseases: the four main causes are obesity, high cholesterol, hypertension and diabetes. To determine whether passive smoking is an aggravating factor, there should be a study on people who have none of these four symptoms. But this was never done. Regarding chronic bronchitis, although the role of active smoking is undeniable, that of passive smoking is yet to be proven. For asthma, it is indeed a contributing factor ... but not greater than pollen! The purpose of the ban on smoking in public places, however, was to protect non-smokers. It was thus based on nothing? Absolutely nothing! The psychosis began with the publication of a report by the IARC, International Agency for Research on Cancer, which depends on the WHO (Editor's note: World Health Organization). The report released in 2002 says it is now proven that passive smoking carries serious health risks, but without showing the evidence. Where are the data? What was the methodology? It's everything but a scientific approach. It was creating fear that is not based on anything. Why would anti-tobacco organizations wave a threat that does not exist? The anti-smoking campaigns and higher cigarette prices having failed, they had to find a new way to lower the number of smokers. By waving the threat of passive smoking, they found a tool that really works: social pressure. In good faith, non-smokers felt in danger and started to stand up against smokers. As a result, passive smoking has become a public health problem, paving the way for the Evin Law and the decree banning smoking in public places. The cause may be good, but I do not think it is good to legislate on a lie. And the worst part is that it does not work: since the entry into force of the decree, cigarette sales are rising again. Why not speak up earlier? As a civil servant, dean of the largest medical faculty in France, I was held to confidentiality. If I had deviated from official positions, I would have had to pay the consequences. Today, I am a free man. Le Parisien May 2010 Le parisian

They have created a fear that is based on nothing’’
World-renowned pulmonologist, president of the prestigious Research Institute Necker for the last decade, Professor Philippe Even, now retired, tells us that he’s convinced of the absence of harm from passive smoking. A shocking interview.

What do the studies on passive smoking tell us?

PHILIPPE EVEN. There are about a hundred studies on the issue. First surprise: 40% of them claim a total absence of harmful effects of passive smoking on health. The remaining 60% estimate that the cancer risk is multiplied by 0.02 for the most optimistic and by 0.15 for the more pessimistic … compared to a risk multiplied by 10 or 20 for active smoking! It is therefore negligible. Clearly, the harm is either nonexistent, or it is extremely low.

It is an indisputable scientific fact. Anti-tobacco associations report 3 000-6 000 deaths per year in France …

I am curious to know their sources. No study has ever produced such a result.

Many experts argue that passive smoking is also responsible for cardiovascular disease and other asthma attacks. Not you?

They don’t base it on any solid scientific evidence. Take the case of cardiovascular diseases: the four main causes are obesity, high cholesterol, hypertension and diabetes. To determine whether passive smoking is an aggravating factor, there should be a study on people who have none of these four symptoms. But this was never done. Regarding chronic bronchitis, although the role of active smoking is undeniable, that of passive smoking is yet to be proven. For asthma, it is indeed a contributing factor … but not greater than pollen!

The purpose of the ban on smoking in public places, however, was to protect non-smokers. It was thus based on nothing?

Absolutely nothing! The psychosis began with the publication of a report by the IARC, International Agency for Research on Cancer, which depends on the WHO (Editor’s note: World Health Organization). The report released in 2002 says it is now proven that passive smoking carries serious health risks, but without showing the evidence. Where are the data? What was the methodology? It’s everything but a scientific approach. It was creating fear that is not based on anything.

Why would anti-tobacco organizations wave a threat that does not exist?

The anti-smoking campaigns and higher cigarette prices having failed, they had to find a new way to lower the number of smokers. By waving the threat of passive smoking, they found a tool that really works: social pressure. In good faith, non-smokers felt in danger and started to stand up against smokers. As a result, passive smoking has become a public health problem, paving the way for the Evin Law and the decree banning smoking in public places. The cause may be good, but I do not think it is good to legislate on a lie. And the worst part is that it does not work: since the entry into force of the decree, cigarette sales are rising again.

Why not speak up earlier?

As a civil servant, dean of the largest medical faculty in France, I was held to confidentiality. If I had deviated from official positions, I would have had to pay the consequences. Today, I am a free man.

Le Parisien

]]> By: Surgeon General clouds tobacco smoke issue - Homeland Stupidity http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/12/02/anti-smoking-claims-full-of-smoke-and-mirrors/#comment-3495 Surgeon General clouds tobacco smoke issue - Homeland Stupidity Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:44:38 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/2005/12/02/anti-smoking-claims-full-of-smoke-and-mirrors/#comment-3495 [...] Siegel doesn’t seem quite ready to come right out and say that the anti-tobacco groups are deliberately lying about it, but it’s pretty clear from the evidence that they have a long history of distorting the facts about smoking and secondhand smoke in order to achieve a very frightening agenda. [...] [...] Siegel doesn’t seem quite ready to come right out and say that the anti-tobacco groups are deliberately lying about it, but it’s pretty clear from the evidence that they have a long history of distorting the facts about smoking and secondhand smoke in order to achieve a very frightening agenda. [...]

]]> By: The news just keeps breaking - Homeland Stupidity http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/12/02/anti-smoking-claims-full-of-smoke-and-mirrors/#comment-3494 The news just keeps breaking - Homeland Stupidity Sat, 20 May 2006 08:40:11 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/2005/12/02/anti-smoking-claims-full-of-smoke-and-mirrors/#comment-3494 [...] And as previously reported, anti-tobacco groups will do anything possible to push through smoking bans, including misleading and outright lying about the science involved. They don’t truly care about non-smokers’ health, as it turns out; their true purpose is something more sinister. Michael Siegel has now exposed an American Cancer Society document which encouraged anti-tobacco groups to lie about the effects of secondhand smoke. (Hat tip: Hit and Run) Filed under: Politics, Homeland Security, Internet, Telecommunications, Terrorism, Law Enforcement, Military, Medicine [...] [...] And as previously reported, anti-tobacco groups will do anything possible to push through smoking bans, including misleading and outright lying about the science involved. They don’t truly care about non-smokers’ health, as it turns out; their true purpose is something more sinister. Michael Siegel has now exposed an American Cancer Society document which encouraged anti-tobacco groups to lie about the effects of secondhand smoke. (Hat tip: Hit and Run) Filed under: Politics, Homeland Security, Internet, Telecommunications, Terrorism, Law Enforcement, Military, Medicine [...]

]]> By: Bill Hannegan http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/12/02/anti-smoking-claims-full-of-smoke-and-mirrors/#comment-3493 Bill Hannegan Tue, 31 Jan 2006 07:21:05 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/2005/12/02/anti-smoking-claims-full-of-smoke-and-mirrors/#comment-3493 Stanton Glantz is up to his old tricks in California, getting the California Air Resources Board to declare ETS an air pollutant,in part by linking ETS to breast cancer. I am a newcomer to this controversy but I am amazed at how gullible educated people are. Read the rebuttal to Glantz on NYC C.L.A.S.H.'s website: www.nycclash.com Stanton Glantz is up to his old tricks in California, getting the California Air Resources Board to declare ETS an air pollutant,in part by linking ETS to breast cancer. I am a newcomer to this controversy but I am amazed at how gullible educated people are. Read the rebuttal to Glantz on NYC C.L.A.S.H.’s website: http://www.nycclash.com

]]> By: Chicago, Washington, D.C. ban smoking - Homeland Security or Homeland Stupidity http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/12/02/anti-smoking-claims-full-of-smoke-and-mirrors/#comment-3492 Chicago, Washington, D.C. ban smoking - Homeland Security or Homeland Stupidity Sun, 01 Jan 2006 06:58:17 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/2005/12/02/anti-smoking-claims-full-of-smoke-and-mirrors/#comment-3492 [...] Okay, this is stupid, as I’ve outlined previously: Government imposed smoking bans have nothing to do with public health, and they’re the wrong way to go about establishing non-smoking environments. Not to mention, the so-called “science” surrounding anti-smoking claims is almost always completely bogus. Filed under: Politics, Homeland Stupidity, Privacy [...] [...] Okay, this is stupid, as I’ve outlined previously: Government imposed smoking bans have nothing to do with public health, and they’re the wrong way to go about establishing non-smoking environments. Not to mention, the so-called “science” surrounding anti-smoking claims is almost always completely bogus. Filed under: Politics, Homeland Stupidity, Privacy [...]

]]> By: The Cigar Intelligence Agency http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2005/12/02/anti-smoking-claims-full-of-smoke-and-mirrors/#comment-3491 The Cigar Intelligence Agency Sun, 04 Dec 2005 15:11:02 +0000 http://www.ioerror.us/2005/12/02/anti-smoking-claims-full-of-smoke-and-mirrors/#comment-3491 <strong>Smoke and mirrors</strong> Homeland Stupidity takes a look at junk science and how the anti-smoking crowd juggles the "facts" to further their agenda. Hat tip to Cigar Jack.... Smoke and mirrors

Homeland Stupidity takes a look at junk science and how the anti-smoking crowd juggles the “facts” to further their agenda. Hat tip to Cigar Jack….

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