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WHERE IS THE TRICK?March 20, 1999 Recently, OnHealth Daily Brief has published this information:
Cigars Impair Blood VesselsResearchers from Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, Fla., measured blood vessel dilation in an artery in the forearm in 24 healthy, nonsmokers. Researchers then measured blood flow again after half of the group smoked a cigar. Those who smoked a cigar had only a 2 percent increase in blood vessel dilation compared with a 10 percent increase in people who did not smoke the cigars. Researchers say the cigar smoke affects the endothelium, a layer of cells that lines the arteries. Blood flow problems can lead to heart attack or stroke. In the past few years, a sharp rise in the popularity of cigars has led critics to charge that cigar smoking has been glamorized by the entertainment industry and the mass media. This study was presented this week at the American College of Cardiology's annual meeting in New Orleans."
Pipes and cigars, far more ancient than cigarettes, have made a big comeback during these times of hysteria. What can beat the delicious aroma of a pipe, or a good cigar? Recently, many smokers have switched to these two great forms of enjoyment. This, of course, does not fit the anti-tobacco cartel's agenda at all. Though the main target of the anti-tobacco cartel is cigarette smoking -- especially the deep pockets of the tobacco industry and its clientele -- these sick fanatics are determined to eliminate smoking altogether -- in any form. But how do we support the heart disease hypothesis from a form of smoking that precludes inhalation? This is a tough problem for any honest individual, but for the anti-tobacco cartel minions the solution is simple: with the one-fits-all anti-smoking wild card: junk science. "Studies" are necessary to defeat the obvious, commonsensical and true fact that pipe and cigar smokers "do not inhale" -- for real. How do we produce a study that can have some semblance of credibility? "No problem again," says the cartel. All it takes is a few "trade secrets" and -- Hoopla! -- the magician walks through the China Wall. Carol Thompson explains the magic:
"The trick in this is that they are using nonsmokers, not experienced cigar smokers. In that way, they can blame the general physical uproar that inexperienced smokers get, on the cigar.
It's the same fraud they committed years ago on cigarette smokers, to lie to the public about the supposed health risks of that. And remember that in all of those kind of studies, they make the subjects lie absolutely still, and without any kind of stimulation, for their supposed comparison, because in real life activities the supposed effects of smoking would be completely obliterated, especially with actual regular smokers." There you have it. Wasn't the great Houdini who said something like: "Reality doesn't really exist. What is real is the perception of it?"
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