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	*Source: [http://cagecanada.blogspot.ca/2010/12/beliefs-manipulation-and-lies-in.html Beliefs, Manipulation and Lies in the Tobacco Issue ]		*Source: [http://cagecanada.blogspot.ca/2010/12/beliefs-manipulation-and-lies-in.html Beliefs, Manipulation and Lies in the Tobacco Issue ]
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		+	:The following quote from Pr. Molimard (English translation in progress) describes how the modern day Tobacco Control Industry is hurting smokers more than helping them.
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		+	<blockquote>- Et on en ajoute une couche, en les accusant d'être - à cause du tabagisme passif - les assassins de leurs voisins ou de leurs enfants : ceci est une indigne manipulation manigancée par les firmes pharmaceutiques au moment du lancement commercial du Champix®. J'en ai analysé le mécanisme dans un article publié dans une grande et courageuse revue scientifique [2], dont évidemment aucun média ne s'est fait le relais.
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		+	Par son omniprésence dans la vie du fumeur la cigarette finit par faire partie de son identité. Attaquer cette identité suscite une réaction de défense qui se traduit par un repli sur un tabagisme dit "retranché". Quoi d'étonnant que, depuis que la prohibition s'est répandue en Europe,
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		+	*la prévalence du tabagisme soit passée de 27 à 29% en Irlande,
		+	*les italiens comptent 2 millions de fumeurs de plus,
		+	*les jeunes redécouvrent le tabac (et le cannabis),
		+	*le nombre d'étudiants du Diplôme de Tabacologie que j'organisais encore cette année à Paris ait diminué des deux tiers,
		+	*les consultations de tabacologie se vident et que,
		+	*les ventes de médicaments dits "de sevrage" soient en chute libre ?
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		+	</blockquote>
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		+	*Source: [http://www.unairneuf.org/2010/02/interview-molimard-2.html Interview du Professeur Molimard (2ème partie)]

	===Ropohl, Günter ===		===Ropohl, Günter ===

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	Although there are many more scientists, beyond those listed here, who disagree with current Tobacco Control policies, few dare expose their dissent.		Although there are many more scientists, beyond those listed here, who disagree with current Tobacco Control policies, few dare expose their dissent.

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 :Assoc. Prof., economics dept., University of Illinois at Chicago; Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., North Aurora, Illinois.  Very heavily funded by RWJF and listed as media contact in RWJF guide for “Tobacco Prices, Restrictions, and Use Among Youth.” Chaloupka’ study, which was published by none other than the National Bureau of Economic Research, according to a 7/19/96 Tobacco-Free Kids press release for it, found that a 75-cent per pack increase in price would have cut overall youth smoking in half during the l992-l994 Monitoring the Future Youth Survey years.  Wherever there is talk of raising tobacco and alcohol taxes, there is Frank Chaloupka to generate the figures.
 :Chaloupka is a scientific core group member of  RWJF’s Research Network on the Etiology of Tobacco Dependence [TERN]. He also wrote Chp. 6 [“Economic Interventions”] for the l998 S.G.’s report, “The Context for Change:  The Efficacy of Interventions for Smoking Prevention and Control,” and  “Effect of Tobacco Taxation” for the l994 S.G.’s report. Chaloupka has received funding not only from RWJF, but also from the NCI (for the ASSIST program and other tobacco control projects), from NIDA, from SAMHA, from the CDC, from the ACS, and from the ALA. The Monitoring the Future Youth Survey (on tobacco, alcohol and drug use) is funded by RWJF.  He lists himself as a consultant to the World Bank’s Human Development Department (l997- ), the American Cancer Society’s Tobacco Tax Policy Project (l996 - ), the National Cancer Institute (1991- ), the RWJF (l993 - ), Audits & Surveys (l993 - ), the CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health (l993 - ) and the EPA, Indoor Air Division (l994-95).
-:With Kenneth Warner and others, he wrote “Criteria for Determining an Optimal Cigarette Tax,” published in Tobacco Control in l995 [Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 380-386]. He is also a
+:With Kenneth Warner and others, he wrote “Criteria for Determining an Optimal Cigarette Tax,” published in Tobacco Control in l995 [Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 380-386]. He is also a reviewer for and Associate Editor of (“Economics of tobacco use, tobacco related disease, and tobacco control”) ''Tobacco Control'', and he is a member of the Illinois Coalition Against Tobacco, (coalition of ACS, ALA, AHA and others) which received a RWJF grant of $1 million in l994.
 *'''Clayton, Richard'''*
 :Director, Center for Prevention Research, University of Kentucky.  Program Director for RWJF’s Research Network on the Etiology of Tobacco Dependence.  Network chair of RWJF’s TERN [Tobacco Etiology Research Network]. Clayton has suggested that schools go beyond health messages to “environmental strategies.”  “For instance, he says, principals could pretend the faculty restrooms are broken, and force teachers to share the students’ restrooms, which would mean fewer kids sneaking in there to smoke” [“The Rehooked Generation: How Do We Help Them Stop?”, by David Ansley, onhealth.com, 11/19/98]

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 :Prof. of psychology, smoking research group, University of Pittsburgh. Is a member of RWJF’s TERN [Tobacco Etiology Research Network] and the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco [SRNT].
 *'''Siegel, Michael'''
-:Research Associate, Social and Behavioral Sciences Department, Boston University School of Public Health. He spent two years at the CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health, and prior to that was Preventive Medicine resident at UC Berkeley. Member of the Board of Directors of American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation until he resigned early in 2000, possibly because of the public emergence of the news of ANR’s tax-funded “enemies” list, though his resignation came immediately after he was challenged over a false accusation against Robert Levy of the Cato Institute which appeared in an article (signed by Siegel) on ANR’s website.  The article itself proposed using smears to deflate scientific challenges to anti-tobacco junk science rather than debating on scientific grounds. A reviewer for Tobacco Control, Siegel has also worked with Lois Biener to do studies, which support Massachusetts’ heavily funded anti-tobacco program, which is headed by Greg Connolly.
+:Medical Doctor, Research Associate, Social and Behavioral Sciences Department, Boston University School of Public Health. He spent two years at the CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health, and prior to that was Preventive Medicine resident at UC Berkeley. Member of the Board of Directors of Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation until he resigned early in 2000, possibly because of the public emergence of the news of ANR’s tax-funded “enemies” list, though his resignation came immediately after he was challenged over a false accusation against Robert Levy of the Cato Institute which appeared in an article (signed by Siegel) on ANR’s website.  The article itself proposed using smears to deflate scientific challenges to anti-tobacco junk science rather than debating on scientific grounds. A reviewer for Tobacco Control, Siegel has also worked with Lois Biener on studies supporting Massachusetts’s heavily funded anti-tobacco program, which is headed by Greg Connolly.
-:He now runs a [http://www.tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com critical blog] in which he accuses TC going way too far.
+:Siegel now runs a [http://www.tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com critical blog] in which he accuses TC going too far. He thus has established some celebrity for his opposition to some Tobacco Control (TC) tactics, including some outdoor ban proposals and attempts to ban smoking in smokers' own homes; Siegel has said he believes these sorts of expanded bans could create a popular backlash which ultimately might reverse the smoker pogrom entirely.
 *'''Sitzer, Maxine'''
 :Prof. Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine.  Committee Chair, Society of Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (Scientific Liaison: Public Policy Council).

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 :Stanton Glantz is arguably the most influential anti-smoking activist of the last thirty years. To his friends, he is a pioneering hero; to his enemies, [http://forces.org/News_Portal/news_viewer.php?id=1605 a dangerous crank]. Whether under the guise of activist or researcher, Glantz has been involved in most of the major developments in the tobacco control enterprise since 1975. He was the main proponent of 'denormalisation' in the 1970s - long before the approach even had a name. In the 1980s, he founded Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights and led the fight for the first smoking bans in his home town of San Francisco. In the 1990s, he was the source for the claim that 50,000 Americans died every year as a result of secondhand smoke (a figure that was not accepted by the EPA). He was instrumental in bringing secret tobacco industry documents before the public and has written prolifically about almost every aspect of Tobacco Control.
 :In recent years, Glantz has been a key player in the efforts to persuade the public that secondhand smoke is not merely dangerous but is extraordinarily lethal. His written output in this decade has included such papers as [http://www.tobaccoscam.ucsf.edu/pdf/9.1-Glantz&Parmely-EvenALittleIsDangerous.pdf 'Even a little secondhand smoke is dangerous' [PDF]] - in which it was claimed that just 30 minutes of exposure to smoke could cause a heart attack. He also co-authored the infamous [http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/bmj.38055.715683.55v1 Helena heart attack study], which purported to demonstrate that exposure to smoke caused 40% of heart attacks in one Montanan town. He is also perhaps the only person on earth who believes that passive smoking causes [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WPG-4R8NB6D-5&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=7bbd2f2fe3a2f2e9a4197982feb8ae19 breast cancer] despite a mountain of [http://www.data-yard.net/science/ets_other/pirie_08_breast.pdf evidence] to the contrary and despite the fact that active smoking does not cause the disease.
 :Glantz has been accused of [http://cantiloper.tripod.com/canti11.html twisting data] and [http://www.illinoissmokersrights.com/stanton_glantz_doctor_of_what.html disregarding crucial facts] to promote his extreme anti-smoking agenda (he is unashamedly prohibitionist). It comes as a surprise, then, to find that one of his earliest published papers was an appeal for greater scientific rigour in epidemiological studies. [http://www.velvetgloveironfist.com/index.php?page_id=64 Click here] for full text by Christopher Snowdon. [http://www.olivernorvell.com/Glantz1980.pdf Click here] for Glantz's early (1980) article. [http://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/29/re-misleading-public-about-secondhand-smoke-again-0 Click here] regarding RWJF funding for Glantz.
 *'''Goldstein, Adam'''*
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 :Director, Dept. of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Mass, which has received many RWJF grants.  An executive officer of Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco [SRNT]. Sat on the federal Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health from its first official meetings in l986 through l988.
 *'''Opperhuizen, Antoon'''
-:Vice-Chair of the WHO Tobacco Laboratory Network (TobLabNet); Scientific Advisor, European Commission; Head, WHO Collaborating Centre for Tobacco Product Regulation and Control, since 2007; Special advisor to the WHO FCTC, COP Secretariat for articles 9 and 10, since 2008; Has published over 200 scientific articles, on topics associated with exposure, health effects and addiction, the variables that effect nicotine exposure/addiction/effects in cigarette smokers, and lung/respiratory health determinants; Scientific tobacco expert at RIVM (Dutch version of US EPA).
+:Vice-Chair of the WHO Tobacco Laboratory Network (TobLabNet); Scientific Advisor, European Commission; Head, WHO Collaborating Centre for Tobacco Product Regulation and Control, since 2007; Special advisor to the WHO FCTC, COP Secretariat for articles 9 and 10, since 2008; Has published over 200 scientific articles, on topics associated with exposure, health effects and addiction, the variables that effect nicotine exposure/addiction/effects in cigarette smokers, and lung/respiratory health determinants; Head of the Laboratory of Toxicology, Pathology, and Genetics, of the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM - NL).
 *'''Pope, Gregory'''*
 :Center for Health Economics Research, Inc., Waltham, MA.  Listed in RWJF media guide for “Study of the Adoption and Economic Effects of Smoke-free Restaurant Ordinances in Massachusetts.”  Results were expected in early l997.