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I just read this interesting article from 2009 about the anti-smoking lobby. It’s worth a read if you want a different perspective on where all of the anti-smoking hysteria is coming from. The article references the book “Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology” by epidemiologist Geoffrey C. Kabat which seems to receive high ratings on Amazon. We already know that evidence isn’t the anti-tobacco camp’s strong suit – just look at how the scientific evidence is that the health risk of smoking cigars is minimal – and yet the Australian government continues to throw cigars into the same category as cigarettes. Perhaps, as this 2009 article suggests, the entire anti-smoking lobby is manipulating data to meet their own ends?
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The Enstrom and Kabat article was compiled from information in the American Cancer Society database. The results were both widely touted by the tobacco industry and widely criticised by the ACS itself. The study failed to identify a control group within the findings, against which a reasonable comparison could be identified. Enstrom requested a grant from Philip Morris, to complete the study, with the express intention of competing with the mountain of evidence against industry. The report itself was later cited by the US District Court as an example of tobaccoo compaanies attempting to turn people away from the evidence before them.
As a regular cigar smoker myself, I’m not saying there is not a huge amount of hysteria against the industry, but if you are going to cite studies, choose ones that aren’t so biased – it is the same issue industry uses against it’s naysayers.
Matthew, thanks for the info on the E & K report. Do you have any links to studies which can’t be classified as biased one way or the other? Any thoughts on the cigar-specific report I link to here (http://perdomocigars.com.au/blog/cigars-and-your-health/)?
cheers
Cameron