The stock
pretension of the morally depraved anti-smoker spin-meisters (who
self-righteously spew unadulterated Nazi pseudo-science in our faces)
is to pretend that big-money investments by pension funds are a moral
issue of profiting from tobacco. In fact, their financial control gives
them voting control, and that is how the anti-smokers elect traitors
and appoint stooges who let the anti-smokers get away with their
scientific frauds to lie the public about the risks of tobacco, support
cowardly sell-out politicians, and throw lawsuits so that smokers will
be forced to pay outrageous and unjust "damages."
"At the same time Ottawa is trying to get Canadians to stop smoking
through ads, high taxes, age restrictions and dire health warnings on
every cigarette pack, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB),
the federal Crown corporation that manages the assets of the Canada
Pension Plan, is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into tobacco
stocks. As of March 31, 2008, its tobacco holdings had a market value
of more than $490-million. Virtually every salary-earner in Canada over
the age of 18 must pay into the Canada Pension Plan. It's the law. And
like it or not, part of your premiums have been used to buy huge stakes
in some of the world's biggest tobacco companies. These holdings
include $165-million stake in Philip Morris International and a
$72-million investment in Altria, which controls half the U. S.
cigarette market. Your CPP contributions have also been used to buy
$38-million worth of British American Tobacco, the world's #2 tobacco
firm (behind Altria Group) and a company that sells nearly 855 billion
cigarettes in more than 190 countries annually. Other sizable holdings
include Japan Tobacco ($42-million), Imperial Tobacco
($25-million),Carolina Group ($24-million), Korea Tobacco
($21-million), Reynolds American ($12-million) and Canada's largest
tobacco company, Rothman's ($57-million)." The CPP has increased its
tobacco holdings by over 390% in the last three years. Meanwhile, the
Canadian government is spending $180 million over three years to
persecute smokers. (The CPP should butt out. By Gordon Keast. National
Post, July 29, 2008.)
In fact, the anti-smoking conspiracy began over a century ago. Skull & Bones ring-led the creation of the
American Tobacco Trust, to gather all the
companies under anti-smoker control. But they knew that they couldn't
just take over the tobacco companies and shut them down, because others
would simply enter the field. So, they created and built up enemies to
persecute tobacco, particlarly the American Cancer
Society, the Harvard School of Public Health,
and the American Heart Association, and used
these as proxies to create and control the federal health establishment
(the National Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institute, et
al.) to manufacture fraudulent pseudo-science to deceive the public at
taxpayer expense. The anti-smoker-controlled tobacco companies merely
put up a phony pretense of fighting the anti-smoker-controlled "health"
lobbies, and purposely throw lawsuits (that is, those brought by the
"right" plaintiffs) in order to financially intimidate potential
entrants into the tobacco industry. And, Philip
Morris/Altria has been a particular flagrant example of
conspiratorial control. The anti-smokers used it to scoop up the
remaining companies that hadn't been sucked into the Tobacco Trust, and
they built it up to serve as the lead Judas Goat to betray the rest. J. Russell Forgan, who
later wrote the act creating the Central Intelligence Agency, began
investing Marshall Field 3d's
money in the tobacco industy in the late 1920s, and he led the
financing of Philip Morris's expansion from the 1940s to 1960s, when he
specifically recruited insitutional investors. From 1960 to 1981, the
stepson of the head of the American Cancer Society was on its board of
directors!
There is only ONE gang of criminals that has lied in the public's faces about the health risks of tobacco: That is the anti-smokers and their corrupt government puppets! Their crimes have had one purpose: to outlaw tobacco.
FDA REGULATION - The Hustle to Outlaw TobaccoThe blood-sucking, lie-spewing, rotten-to-the-core, subhuman filth
of the planet earth, the Nazi slime at the World Health Organization,
just got another $125 million dollars from Microsoft billionaire Bill
Gates. Like a snake in the grass, Bill Gates has been funding research
on [acute] infections in order to deceive people about his real
intentions. Now we know conclusively what side he's really on - the
side of lies, ignorance, and tyranny! He's on the side of filthy
criminals, who deliberately use defective studies based on nothing but
lifestyle questionnaires in order to falsely blame smoking for diseases
that are really caused by infection! "It will urge governments to
sharply raise tobacco taxes [to suck our blood while we are
disenfranchised by anti-smoker corruption!], prohibit smoking in public
places [based on naked Nazi pseudo-science that deliberately falsely
blames passive smoking for lung cancer caused by HPV], outlaw
advertising to children and cigarette giveaways [while they brainwash
children with lies!], start antismoking advertising campaigns
[Nazi-style campaigns of abuse and defamations!] and offer people
nicotine patches or other help quitting [a handout for Big Pharma, not
a favor to us!].
The sniveling, crawling little bootlickers at British American
Tobacco, who have never uttered so much as a peep of protest about the
anti-smokers' Nazi pseudo-science and Nazi bullying, simpered, "We have
no problem with government organizations educating people on the risks
of tobacco." Well, WE have a LOT of problems with filthy government
puke lying in our faces and waging a war of cultural genocide against
us, funded by our own stolen money! (Billionaires Back Antismoking
Effort. By Donald G. McNeil. New York Times, July 24, 2008 -
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/24/health/24tobacco.html ) And
remember - ALL of this has been facilitated by their lying
whores in the media, who censor all criticism of this Nazi
pseudo-science,
to deceive the public and shove THEIR totalitarian political agenda
down the world's throats.
These brain-dead, spineless pieces of human junk should be
holding hearings exposing the anti-smokers' deliberate, systematic, and
decades-long use of defective studies that ignore infection, to falsely
blame smoking and lifestyle for diseases that are really caused by
infection - not sniveling about slippery slopes like a bunch of stupid
little children.
They already let the anti-smokers get away with banning smoking. Now these rejects have let anti-smoker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) ban the sale of tobacco products altogether. And they're still incapable of responding in an intelligent manner! And how do these clueless and ineffectual chronic losers respond? "'The health nannies’ arbitrary ban on a legal and heavily taxed product bodes ill for the future marketing of Mountain Dew and Moon Pies,' said Rep. Thaddeus G. McCotter, an infuriated Republican, and smoker, from Michigan." [Only if you keep letting them get away with scientific fraud -cast] "'This is silly ‘feel good’ crap by a bunch of do-gooders,' barked a high-level Democratic staffer (also a smoker). “We should be worried about the housing crisis, the unemployment rate and the national debt instead of making staffers walk four blocks to buy a pack of smokes. We should have seen this coming." [As stupid as you are, you couldn't deal with these, either. Anyone who calls a bunch of criminals "do-gooders" is completely lost in space -cast] "'I was outraged,' said Richard Hudson, chief of staff to Rep. John R. Carter (R-Texas). 'It’s a legal product.'" [Thanks to morons like you, they'll probably change that soon, too -cast] "If we are really worried about people’s health, why are we still selling triple espressos, double bacon cheeseburgers and ice cream?' asked Hayden Rogers, chief of staff for Rep. Heath Shuler, a Democrat who hails from the tobacco state of North Carolina. 'We all make serious decisions every day with real consequences, yet adults on the Hill are not allowed to decide for themselves whether or not to buy tobacco.'" [You drooling imbecile, lifestyle questionnaire studies are fraud, not science! -cast] "'Apparently Dan Beard didn’t get the memo that the speaker is counting on more tobacco sales to ensure [the State Children’s Health Insurance Program] covers more adults and more illegal immigrants,' said Boehner spokesman Kevin Smith, tossing a little policy into the debate. 'Beard’s move is decidedly off-message for a Congress that purports to be ‘for the children.'" [Aren't you clever to try to change the subject - cast]. "'This is another thing to screw with staffers,' one anonymous aide grumbled about the tobacco ban. 'What’s next?'" [And what about how you incompetents have been letting the anti-smokers screw the American people all these years, you self-absorbed twit? -cast] (Lawmakers, staff pan smoke-free Congress. By Anne Schroeder Mullins. Politico.com, Jan 15, 2008, updated Jan. 16, 2008.)[filed in Politics.]
Now, why don't you get your sorry behinds in gear and organize an
inquisition as the anti-smokers deserve? Or don't you want to admit
that you've all been sitting there like a bunch of bobble-head dolls
for four decades, letting the health fascist filth get away with lie
after lie after lie after lie - and voting them more money, more money,
and more money, and then telling the voters you're supporting health?
You must all have been approved by the corporate interests because
you're nothing but unquestioning lackeys!
The financial arguments against funding government programs with a tax that is formulated to eradicate their revenue source only serve to demonstrate that the wellbeing of those programs is not the true goal. Therefore, to point out the obvious is to miss the point that the true purpose of those taxes is social oppression, not the good of children; furthermore, the tax supporters are pleased that it hits the poor more than the rich, because they're the demographic target. So much for the "caring" Democrat Party!
And isn't it touching how they fawn on the homosexual vote, while
ignoring ten times more smokers. See how they pretend that gays are
"oppressed," while pandering to them from a forum, LOGO, that the
corporate fascists created to serve the gays - while we smokers have
nothing of the kind. In addition, nobody ever got so much money, so
fast, as the gays did for AIDS research, and they don't have to
subsidize the eradication of their own lifestyle, either. Meanwhile,
the health fascists loot and plunder smokers' money and use it to
further persecute us (including buying off other people in the name of
"the children"), and no smoker has ever been allowed a voice in these
matters.
Then, see how the Dems nurture, encourage and reward the illegal
aliens, who theoretically aren't even allowed to vote. Look how they
pass smoking bans to eradicate smokers' culturally-friendly business
establishments, while Spanish-language signs, etc., proliferate. (There
are local radio stations dedicated to them, while all smokers get is
more forums for anti-smokers to spew their lies and bash smokers, with
no informed smokers' advocates allowed.) See the Dems encourage
self-righteous marches for the illegal aliens, while pouring abuse on
us!
Someone needs to point out the obvious to those deluded psychopaths:
That the real oppressed minority is the people who are being
systematically persecuted by THEMSELVES!
The American Cancer Society
has four hundred (400) lobbyists working for SCHIP!!!
And the putrid filth pretend it's all "for the children": "Daniel E.
Smith, vice president of the American Cancer Society, said: 'The choice
is simple: Are you for kids? Are you for tobacco companies? Mr.
President and Congress, we hope you side with the kids.'" (Congress Set
for Veto Fight on Child Health Care. By Robert Pear and Carl Hulse. New
York Times, Sep. 25, 2007.)
The scientific debate over ETS is not only NOT OVER; in fact, it has never been allowed to BEGIN, due to anti-smoker conspiracy, fraud and racketeering!
Terry Pechacek, Ph.D., associate director
for science with the
smoking and health office of the Centers for Disease Control, babbled:
“The overall preponderance is now in agreement that the scientific
debate is over,” said Dr. Pechacek. “There are always people who can
quibble with individual details or individual conclusions. Among
credible medical and public health scientists, there is no debate that
secondhand smoke causes a risk.” LIAR! Due to their corrupt actions,
Pechachek and his ilk at that office of the CDC, and their clones in
the Surgeon General's Office, are not are NOT "credible medical and
public health scientists." They are
politically-protected charlatans, who have deliberately and
systematically committed flagrant scientific fraud, by purposely using
defective studies that ignore infection, in order to falsely blame
secondhand smoke. They are criminals, more guilty than those in all the
trumped-up molehills over scientific integrity put together, who
rightfully belong in jail. E.g., human
papillomavirus, which is KNOWN to cause cervical cancer, is also
known to be involved in at least ten times as many lung cancers as
there are pretended ETS deaths. The odds ratios for HPV in cervical
cancer are almost infinite (over 300). Numbers like that in statistical
programs are easily capable of generating phony risks due to
confounding; and, because passive smokers are more likely to have
exposed to HPV, the anti-smokers exploit this to falsely blame tobacco
smoke. This is NOT a "quibble with individual details or individual
conclusions" - THIS IS AN INDICTMENT FOR
SYSTEMATIC FRAUD. Every single study the anti-smokers have ever
considered is defective for this reason - and they have systematically
ignored the evidence that their studies are defective, while deceiving
the public with bombastic and unjustified proclamations of certainty
such as this. (Experts: Science supports smoking bans
Hospitality workers exposed to chilling levels of toxins. By Chris
Birk. Scranton Times-Tribune, Jan. 14, 2007.)
ALL OF THEIR STUDIES ARE FRAUDS, NO MATTER HOW THEY REPACKAGE THEM!
"The days of smoke-filled rooms in the
United States Capitol are
over," Pelosi said. "Medical science has unquestionably established the
dangerous effects of secondhand smoke, including an increased risk of
cancer and respiratory diseases. I am a firm believer that Congress
should lead by example." "Medical science" - that's what this piece of
anti-smoker filth calls the politically-orchestrated scientific fraud
- with greasy politician fingerprints all over it - that cynically
exploits confounding by infection, and presumes that we're too stupid
to see through the trick! And the sniveling,
cringing, cowardly, gutless little pussy-wussy smokers in the House of
Representatives let the lying piece of anti-smoker filth get away with
this whopper without so much as a whimper of protest. (Pelosi
Bans Smoking Near House Floor. AP, Jan. 10, 2007.) See the worthless,
sniveling, despicable pussies of the Repuglican Party meekly ban
smoking at their own Capitol Hill Club, all to please the bloodsucking,
lie-spewing, corrupt health fascist vermin - may they be exterminated
from the face of the earth! (Club smoking ban a drag for Republicans,
not Democrats. By Emily Heil. The Hill, Jan. 11, 2007.)
"People who smoke with children present in
the confined space of a
car or truck might as well be deliberately trying to kill those
children, said City Councilor Patricia Blanchette, who is a smoker."
"An amendment that was added Monday to the original proposal makes the
violation a primary offense, rather than a secondary offense. That
means police can pull over vehicles if they see somebody smoking with
anybody under 18 in the vehicle; if it were a secondary offense, police
would have to stop the vehicle for some other reason, such as
speeding." Sniveling, cowardly, weenie "Aaron Prill of Bangor told the
council that the ordinance was a "feel-good option" that was not
intended to protect children but rather to "moralize" against smokers.
Most smokers have enough common sense not to smoke around children, he
said." (Bangor Makes It Illegal to Smoke in Cars. AP, Jan. 9, 2007.)
No, Patricia Blanchette is a dirty, brainless whore of the
anti-smokers! The filthy lie-spewing scum got their precious EPA ETS report written via illegal pass-through
contracts to handpicked anti-smoking activists - with a crony of George
W. Bush and a bigshot Democrap on the board of directors of the crooked
company! And it's flagrantly fraudulent because the dirty, lying
charlatans pretend that infections don't exist so that they can falsely
blame secondhand smoke! And ever since the dirty vermins' anti-smoking
campaign began, the death rates from asthma
more than doubled! AND THE
LIE-SPEWING FILTH IN THE MEDIA HAVE COVERED IT ALL UP IN ORDER THE RAPE
US!
This is what the filthy
anti-smoker-controlled US Government has
forced us
to subsidize: A public campaign of crude and vulger insults and
outright BLOOD LIBEL (that favorite Christian tactic of
falsely accusing the victims of their persecution of killing babies)!
The Advertising Council, which glorifies these purveyors of
defamations and fraud as a "public
health foundation," and deems the employment of such tactics to promote
the persecution of an
oppressed minority to be "humorous:" "'Daddy’s gas could kill us all!'
exclaims a young girl in a new public service advertisement (PSA) from
the American Legacy Foundation... Don’t Pass Gas, a public service
health campaign from Legacy and the Ad Council, is designed to educate
Americans -- especially parents -- about the dangers of secondhand
smoke and to motivate them to create smoke-free environments for their
families. Earlier this year, U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona
announced that no level of secondhand smoke is safe. Research indicates
that one in five children with a smoking parent is exposed to
secondhand smoke at home, and these children are at increased risk of
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, lung infections, ear infections and
severe asthma. The report points to the need to continue to educate
Americans about the serious health risks posed by secondhand smoke."
The foundation smears smokers as "addicts" and gibbers about
"protecting their families from the devastating effects of secondhand
smoke." These ads were created by Crispin Porter + Bogusky, of Miami,
Florida, who also created their youth smoking prevention campaign,
along with Arnold Worldwide of Boston. (Public Health Foundation Warns
Against “Passing Gas.” News Detail, November 28, 2006.) Funny, funny,
funny, ha, ha, ha - Isn't it just hilarious to subject innocent people
to piles of lies and crude insults, without any opportunity for
rebuttal? That's the
American Way, right - to be just like the Church during the
Inquisition! Let us work to wipe these depraved organizations off the
face of the earth!
Another supporter is the Air America outlet in Madison,
Wisconsin, which airs these defamatory PSAs during ritual sessions
of hypocritical hand-wringing about the government trespassing against
its citizens' rights - never including US, who have been the victims of
decades of government abuse, which these "Progressive" phonies
applauded instead of condemning!
The filthy parasites of the so-called "American Legacy Foundation"
feed upon the billions of dollars looted from smokers, by means of
phony show trials, acted out by corrupt state
attorneys-general and anti-smoker robber barons,
whose stooges took over the tobacco companies in order throw the
lawsuits without a fight. Literally, the same politically-connected
conspirators who dominated the cigarette advertising of the 1930s (that
the anti-smokers self-righteously denounce), a few years later took
over the federal health establishment and turned it into a
tax-subsidized
manufactory for their hate propaganda. Their deliberate and systematic
use of
defective studies, which are designed to falsely blame smoking and
passive smoking for diseases that are actually caused by infection,
are crimes against humanity - whose true object is to further their
crypto-religious political and
social agenda of health fascism, while suppressing legitimate
scientific research. The only so-called "American Legacy" that these
bloodsucking vermin
represent, are the crypto-religious beliefs of a little clique of
lying, cheating, stealing, hereditary elitists, who prey upon the
public
and force everyone to subsidize their demented beliefs. WHOLESALE CULTURAL RAPE IS WHAT THE
BLOODSUCKING SCUM STAND FOR.
Are We the Victims of Propaganda? - A 1929 debate between Everett Dean Martin and the satanic Edward L. Bernays - of whose clique the arch-conspirator, Mary Woodard Lasker, was a member.
This is not a little snivelly little issue of "freedom versus public health,"or "it's bad for business." This is about a rotten-to-the-core international cabal of lying, cheating, stealing, corrupting, CIA-connected VERMIN, whose media whores systematically deceive the public so their politician henchmen can stick it to us without protest!
The loathsome slime gloated that an
opinion poll supposedly
showing that 70% of the public supports them! EXCEPT THAT
EVERY SINGLE MEMBER OF
THE PUBLIC HAS BEEN SYSTEMATICALLY LIED TO — OVER AND OVER AND OVER
AGAIN! This is how the vermins'
phony "democracy" really works!
It's a complete fraud, and they have no more legitimacy those tinhorn
dictatorships they set up through the CIA. The "Rule of Law," is that
what those vermin pretend they represent!? Under a Rule of Law,
agreements made by means of fraud are NULL AND VOID - and that is
how we should treat their anti-smoking laws!
"'Today's vote is a landmark victory for
the public health of this
country, which will save the lives of many people across the U.K.,'
said Peter Hollins, director general of the British Heart Foundation, a
health charity backing the ban." (U.K. Lawmakers Vote to Extend Smoking
Ban to All Pubs (Update3). Bloomberg, Feb. 14, 2006.) And who holds
these slimy maggots accountable for their decades of suppression of
research on infection, so they could falsely blame smoking for heart
disease and other illnesses? NOBODY. Who holds the smarm-spouting pond
scum accountable when the death rates from asthma and preterm births
keep rising and rising? NOBODY. Who holds them accountable for the
people who died of ulcers and stomach cancer, while these quacks
peddled their worthless "lifestyle" hokum? NOBODY. Who holds them
accountable to not use defective studies to falsely blame smoking for
liver cancer? NOBODY. Who holds them accountable for fraudulent
bookkeeping in their phony "smoking cost" studies? NOBODY. It proves
that we are victims of a corrupt, fascist conspiracy to shove their
anti-rational RELIGIOUS beliefs down our throats - UNDER FALSE COLOR OF
SCIENCE.
The International Anti-Smoker Conspiracy is the epitome of everything that GOOD PEOPLE should be proud to go to war against!
And don't forget their willing
accomplices, either: THOSE
WORTHLESS EUNUCHS and their TRAITOR LEADERS, WHO WHINE ABOUT
THEIR BUSINESSES, BUT REFUSE TO EXPOSE THE BLOODSUCKERS' SCIENTIFIC
FRAUD AND CALL THEM ON THEIR CORRUPTION!
The DOJ's accusations are a travesty concocted by malice-ridden, subhuman baboons, who believe in magic and think it's science, and think they are entitled to persecute infidels and suppress science in its own name.
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NEW: Kenosha Smoking Ban
Anti-smokers in California, Massachusetts and Washington received millions of dollars in subsidies from the National Cancer Institute and from state government to force their agenda down the public's throat. (Memorandum. Samuel D. Chilcote to Thomas C. Griscom and Ellen Merlo. Nov. 30, 1992.)
Chilcote Memo, Nov. 30, 1992 / tobacco documentIn their latest vomit of lies and deceit, the bloodsucking filth pretend that children whose parents smoked have 3.63 times the risk of lung cancer. Even the EPA ETS report did not find any such thing. The difference is that these latter lie-spewing subhumans have included active smokers among their subjects, while the EPA did not; they are deliberately using confounding by active smoking, and purposely concealing this fact from the public. Their claim is doubly irrational and dishonest because it flies contrary to the vermins' own claim that former longterm smokers' risks fall to the level of non-smokers after ten years. And, on the subject of cold-blooded fraud and deceit, the bloodsucking filth have now been ignoring the evidence that infection is the cause for seventy years. Their bloodsuckers' attitude toward this kind of research is: 'We only want to prove that smoking causes lung cancer. So we will purposely ignore infection because it doesn't serve our political agenda. We don't want to find the true causes. We only want to self-righteously bash the victim, while we just stand there and watch them die!' (Parents Smoking Can Kill Children Years Later. By Ed Edelson. Health Day News, Jan. 28, 2005; Evidence is unfavourable for passive smoking. BMJ 2005 Feb. 5;330(7486):0. With links to the bloodsucker fraud studies.)
Edelson Jan. 28, 2005 / Health Day NewsThe Harvard School of Public Health was created by the grandson of a Cincinnati crony of Bones co-founder Alphonso Taft
The Harvard School of Public HealthThe American Heart Association's
Bones Connections
In the 1930s, there was scientific debate over the respective roles of infection versus lifestyle and chemical carcinogens in heart disease and cancer. The health fascist advocates of the latter proceeded to "settle" the debate by taking over the government, using our tax dollars to fund their propaganda machine while suppressing research on infection.
The Lasker Syndicate Roots of the Conspiracy Against Tobacco / CIA Connections: Samuel Rosenman, Clark Clifford, William J. Donovan; Lewis L. Strauss & SG Warburg; Koop Was Just a Pawn; Charles A. LeMaistre; Lester Breslow; David J. Mahoney; Frank Knox Pages; American Health Foundation; Partnership for Prevention; Public Health Institute; The Special Virus Cancer Program; The Pew Charitable Trusts; Microbiological Associates - Sidney R. Knafel; Anna Rosenberg Hoffman; Paul G. Hoffman & cronies Jean Monnet, Robert Maynard Hutchins, C. Scott Fletcher, William Benton, and son Hallock Hoffman; W. Clement Stone & Aon Corp.; LBJ's ties to Thomas G. "Tommy the Cork" Corcoran; Benno C. Schmidt Sr. and Jr.; William O. Baker; Frank Lautenberg; Peter G. Bourne Page; The Salk Institute; The American Council on Science and Health; Honeywell Inc.Big Drugs: FORCES's denunications of Philip Morris are just blowing smoke. FORCES collaborates with the anti-smokers by peddling their health fascist ideology of infection-denial, misdirecting blame away from the Lasker Syndicate onto the pharmaceutical companies, and helping them suppress dissent by applauding drivel. And all their "heroes" are nothing but relics from Philip Morris.
Blaming Big Drugs to Protect the Lasker SyndicateBig Drivel: Joseph L. Bast,
Michael DeBow, Michael Fumento, Pierre Lemieux,
Robert Levy, Jacob Sullum, and W. Kip Viscusi are the so-called
"experts" the media trot out to supposedly speak for us smokers! Their
job is to be patsies for the establishment, by helping them pretend
that their insubstantial opposition is the best that our side can
present. All of the above are affiliated with The Heartland Institute,
an operation with a $2 million budget and a board of directors that
includes representatives of General Motors and Philip Morris.
Christopher Taylor Buckley, Skull & Bones 1975, purveys the
Establishment's junk science and stereotypes about tobacco industry PR.
The RAND Corporation has had close ties to the Lasker Foundation since at least 1965, when Newton Minow joined its board of trustees. In 1966, they voted to expand into social engineering.
The RAND Gang / Frank C. Carlucci; Newton Minow; John S. Reed; Carla A. Hills PagesAccording to a blurb on their website attributed to the Wall Street Journal, "The driving force behind the huge 15% increase in the NIH budget was an umbrella organization called Research!America." Politicians hang around them like flies around a garbage dumpster because their media accomplices will look the other way while they dispense favors.
Research!America - J. Morton Davis; Paul G. Rogers; Charles A. Sanders; John Whitehead; Mary Woolley; James B. Wyngaarden Pages; Thomas Langfitt linkIn 1997, the American Health Foundation got $11 million from the NIH; The RAND Corporation got $11 million; Johns Hopkins University got $292 million; the University of California at San Francisco got $215 million; Harvard University got $180 million.
The NIH Fat Cat List; NIH Brown Books 1992-97"[I]t was the media that did the most to turn smokers into social
pariahs, now forced to stand like prostitutes shivering in doorways to
get their nicotine fix." New York Times Personal Health Columnist Jane
E. Brody.
Mary W. Lasker, Former FCC Commissioner Newton Minow, and cronies with ties to the Ford Foundation stacked the Federal Communications Commission. (And, if front group FORCES was a real smokers' rights group, they'd be eagerly exposing Banzhaf's mentors, instead of protecting them behind a wall of silence!)
The Fairy Tale of John Banzhaf and the "Fairness Doctrine"The Lasker Syndicate has a six-decade history of staging theatrical performances to manipulate Congress, with their media lackeys as publicists. The state tobacco lawsuits are their tour de force, a vast racketeering scheme, hatched in the Lasker Foundation, to loot smokers while making a mockery of justice.
The State Tobacco Lawsuits; former Texas AG Morales in Jail; The "Public Pretenders" and the Blair-Stevenson-Minow-Wirtz links to PM law firm Arnold & Porter; USDOJ Page; Securitizing the Tobacco Settlement; The CTR Was a Lasker Loot-A-Thon; Freddy Homburger; Jonathan M. Samet and Daniel C. Tosteson Pages; Anti-Trust Challenge to tobacco settlementThe vaunted battle of "David versus Goliath" was really an
anti-smoker Goliath pretending to fight a Philip Morris hand puppet.
The tobacco industry's so-called "fight" has been a sham. If they were
serious, they would have filed suit against the anti-smoking
organizations for conspiracy, fraud, and racketeering under the RICO
statutes. (And the same goes for the leaders of the hospitality
industry, who deliberately set themselves up to lose by arguing their
case as "Our profits versus public health" - and who trick ban
opponents into supporting more smoking bans under the pretext of a
"level playing field.")
Like in the tobacco lawsuits, the scheme is to put up a phony fight and then roll over and settle - to fill the pockets of the health fascists and their trial lawyer accomplices, at the expense of consumers. McDonald's Corporation's board of directors is infested with the McCormick Blair gang of Chicago. That's why they flopped on their bellies and shoveled $8.5 million into the pockets of the scientific fraud-perpetrating American Heart Association.
The Fast Food Lawsuits / The Illinois Interlock (McDonalds; William Blair & Co.; Aon Corp.)Here's the so-called "freedom" our soldiers are supposed to die for. The lie-spewing fascist media propagandize us to quit smoking, by using an ignorant, craven piece of crap, who licks the vermins' boots and thanks them for locking him up in a SMOKE-FREE JAIL! "Thank you, master, for relieving me of the burden of my freedom" is what Anti-Smoker Occupied Amerika really stands for. This is how the bloodsuckers convince themselves that the whole world is just longing to be invaded, looted, plundered, and raped by themselves. This is why the bloodsuckers are so astonished when the patriotic people of Iraq hate their guts and resist them! (How Prison Helped Me Kick My Smoking Habit. Diane Martin. Pacific News Service, Sep. 28, 2004.) Forget your "War on Terror," because Anti-Smoker Amerika is the fascist dictatorship that should be annihilated from the face of the earth!
Martin / Smokers' ClubThe American Cancer Society is a corrupt,
fascist, POLITICAL
organization, which deliberately uses defective studies to falsely
blame smoking (and other "lifestyle" targets) for diseases that are
actually caused by infection. Its
roots are in the World War II political machine that created the O.S.S.
and C.I.A.
M. David Low of the Lasker Syndicate's "Medicine and Public Health Initiative" is also a founding member of the Communitarian movement.
The M. David Low PageIn addition to the massive lobbying efforts of the Lasker Syndicate phalanges in every state legislature (e.g., the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, the American Lung Association, and the American Public Health Association, et al.), the health fascists coordinate their activities through the National Conference of State Legislatures. See how they parrot every one of the Syndicate's vicious lies about tobacco.
Tobacco / National Conference of State LegislaturesJeffrey Skilling's boss was a Trustee of the American Health Foundation
The Enron Page: Charles A. LeMaistre; John Mendelsohn; Herbert S. "Pug" Winokur; Robert A. BelferAnother tale of deceived investors and insider trading involving persons close to the Lasker Syndicate.
The John Mendelsohn PageFor over 50 years, the health establishment has suppressed research on infection in chronic diseases, and purposely used defective statistical analyses to falsely blame smoking for diseases actually caused by infection. The American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, and American Lung Association all deliberately commit this fraud. Do not donate money to these criminals!
PS: The health fascists' blow-off that healthy lifestyles prevent infection is automatically a lie, because in the absence of appropriate research (taking exposure into account, not merely lifestyle questionnaires!), such a claim cannot legitimately be made.
This misinformation from the supposed smokers' rights group NYC CLASH perpetrates the absolutely crucial frauds that our health fascist enemies need to trick their suckers. All the rest of its verbiage is just a smokescreen of distractions. It claims that "Infection itself is just a fraction of the game; its how you _handle_ that exposure." This is a dirty, stinking lie. For example, in the case of cervical cancer, WITHOUT EXPOSURE TO HPV, THERE IS NO "GAME!" Furthermore, without adequate quantification of exposure, confounding cannot be eliminated, and the role, if any, of other ostensible factors cannot be determined. And it is the specious results of confounded studies that are the main basis of these charlatans' claim that diseases are "multifactorial," and of their desire to pretend that it is all nothing but a "game of math" with speculation about causal pathways as a window-dressing. This is how the health fascist deceivers who have infiltrated our movement trick smokers into wasting their efforts with irrelevant criticisms and nit-picking over trivia, while letting the anti-smokers get away with their gigantic Orwellian lie of omission. And, the supposed example of confounding in this article is merely an example of the post hoc fallacy (after this, therefore because of this), not confounding at all. (How To Read A Study, by Linda Stewart. NYC CLASH, 2003.)
How to Read a Study / NYC CLASHThe mechanisms by which certain infections cause cancer are KNOWN --
in stark contrast to the health establishment's speculations about
chemical carcinogens, where a mechanism of tobacco carcinogenesis has
still not been definitively identified after more than 50 years. Yet
the anti-smokers simply ignore infection! This is deliberate and
eggregious scientific fraud.
The
Conspiracy of Silence About HPV and Lung Cancer - the
anti-smokers' defective studies
Jonathan Samet's
Global Empire of Anti-Smoking Lies, Persecution
and Corruption - Bloomberg's tool at JHU stacked the ASHRAE report
Cronies of Charles P. Taft,
S&B 1918, created the EPA, lobbied for it to proclaim that
secondhand smoke causes cancer, and lined up the main author of the
"EPA" report on passive smoking.
"'Powerful people in this field think that amyloid causes Alzheimer's and won't consider research that questions the amyloid hypiothesis,' says one of the Harvard scientists." (Is Alzheimer's field blocking R&D into other causes? By Sharon Begley, The Wall Street Journal. April 9, 2004.) A CONTINUING SERIES.
Begley, Wall Street Journal 2004 / SF GateA New Germ Theory. Judith Hooper. The Atlantic Monthly, February 1999; and Letters re: A New Germ Theory. The Atlantic Monthly, May 1999 (now by subscription only).
Hooper / The Atlantic Monthly 1999Do Germs Cause Cancer? Philip E. Ross, Forbes Global, 11-15-99. "The nagging question is why it took so long for doctors to accept Marshall's discovery. For years the medical establishment laughed off Marshall's theory, even after he demonstrated it by drinking H. pylori and giving himself ulcers and even after other labs replicated his experimental results. Although that had happened by 1986, 'They didn't start treating H. pylori for another nine years,' Marshall says, still amazed by it all. 'Hundreds, even thousands of people must have died from ulcers who wouldn't have.'"
Ross / Forbes Global 1999Are all diseases infectious? Another look. B Lorber. Annals of Internal Medicine 1999 Dec 21;131(12):989-990. "Three years ago, I pointed out that a quiet revolution was taking place in our understanding of disease. Emerging evidence suggested that transmissible agents caused or contributed to many illnesses that were previously thought to be degenerative, inflammatory, or neoplastic in origin, and I lamented the lack of attention to this important new model for disease, During the past three years, more illnesses have been linked to infections, and evolutionary biologists as well as the popular media are paying attention." The term "paradigm shift" is not too strong to describe this new way of thinking about disease etiology.
Lorber / Ann Intern Med 1999In this discussion between Paul Ewald and leading researchers, it has been discovered that antibiotic treatment of ulcers began as early as 1940, and they puzzle over how this knowledge came to be lost. But at the root of it all will be found the Lasker Syndicate takeover of the health establishment, and their control of government money to serve their ideological ends.
Discussion / Praxis 2000Consilience across evolving dysplasias affecting myeloid, cervical, esophageal, gastric and liver cells: common themes and emerging patterns. A Raza. Leuk Res 2000 Jan;24(1):63-72. "It appears that there is an initial transforming event which in all dysplasias except that affecting the marrow has been found to be infectious."
Raza - Leuk Res 2000 abstract / PubMedChronic sequelae of foodborne disease. JA Lindsay. Emerging Infectious Diseases 1997 Oct-Dec;3(4):443-452. "...except in rare circumstances, chronic complications are unlikely to be identified or epidemiologically linked to a foodborne cause because these data are not systematically collected."
Lindsay / EID 1997 full articleDetection and identification of previously unrecognized microbial pathogens. DA Relman. Emerging Infectious Diseases 1998 Jul-Sep;4(3).
Relman / EID 1998 full articleViral carcinogenesis: revelation of molecular mechanisms and etiology of human disease. JS Butel. Carcinogenesis 2000 Mar;21(3):405-426. Review.
Butel / Carcinogenesis 2000 full articleEmerging Infectious Determinants of Chronic Diseases. SM O'Connor,
CE Taylor, JM Hughes. Emerg Infect Dis [serial on the Internet] 2006
Jul;12(7):06-0037.htm.
'Unbiased high-throughput
sequencing' identifies new pathogens
"In our cluster, a new arenavirus was first detected through
unbiased high-throughput sequencing. Thereafter, the infection was
confirmed by means of culture, electron microscopy, and specific
immunohistochemical and serologic tests. As in the other two reported
clusters of transplant-associated transmission, we detected no viral
nucleic acids in the donor and found no history of acute infectious
disease; however, the presence of IgG and IgM antibodies confirmed
recent infection.... Although we have not fulfilled Koch's postulates,
evidence implicating this new virus in the outbreak of infection among
patients who received transplants is compelling. All three recipients
received organs from the same donor and died within days of one another
after febrile illness. Identical viral sequences were obtained from all
the recipients. The virus is new and was not detected in 100 organ
recipients who were not linked to this cluster. The results of
serologic analysis of specimens obtained from the donor were consistent
with recent infection, and seroconversion was observed in one
recipient... This technique may prove useful as a new tool in the
identification and surveillance of pathogens in chronic as well as
acute disease." (A New Arenavirus in a Cluster of Fatal
Transplant-Associated Diseases. G Palacios, J Druce, L Du, T Tran, C
Birch, T Briese, S Conlan, P-L Quan, J Hui, J Marshall, JF
Simons, M Egholm, CD Paddock, W-J Shieh, CS Goldsmith, SR Zaki, M
Catton, WI Lipkin. Published Feb. 6, 2008 in NEJM.) "Currently,
the majority of surveillance and discovery efforts use methods based on
sequences of known agents — namely, competitive polymerase chain
reaction (PCR) and microarrays. Such efforts fail, however, when the
agents in question are truly novel or sufficiently distant in sequence
from related agents that they confound hybridization. High-throughput
pyrosequencing has been used primarily to sequence large genomes; to my
knowledge, it has not previously been applied to pathogen discovery.
However, when Palacios et al. found that the classic application of
typical diagnostic assays, including viral culture, electron
microscopy, PCR, and panmicrobial microarrays, failed to identify an
infectious agent, they turned to pyrosequencing. Although derived
sequences at the nucleic acid level were not informative, bioinformatic
analyses at the protein level revealed footprints of a potential
causative agent. Using these sequences as a foundation for developing
specific molecular reagents, the investigators cloned the remainder of
the viral genome by means of PCR, propagated it in cell culture,
defined its morphologic characteristics by means of electron
microscopy, and created molecular and serologic assays for detection of
infection." (The New Age of Molecular Diagnostics for Microbial Agents.
[Editorial Re Palacios et al.] R Whitley. Published Feb. 6, 2008 in
NEJM.
Beginning in the 1940s, the Lasker gang systematically suppressed research on infection, and used our tax dollars to churn out their propaganda blaming lifestyle for cardiovascular disease.
How the Public Was Brainwashed About Heart DiseaseSimilarities in mortality patterns from influenza in the first half of the 20th century and the rise and fall of ischemic heart disease in the United States: a new hypothesis concerning the coronary heart disease epidemic. Maria Ines Reinert Azambuja and Bruce B. Duncan. Cadernos de Saude Publica 2002 May-Jun;18(3):557-566.
Azambuja / Cad Saude Publica 2002 full articleSpanish flu and early 20th-century expansion of a coronary heart
disease-prone subpopulation. MI Azambuja. Tex Heart Inst J
2004;31(1):14-21. "Age-related influenza and pneumonia mortality during
the 1918–1919 pandemic predicts the relative distribution of CHD deaths
across the correspondent birth cohorts, separately in men and women.
The burden of H1N1 influenza activity after 1930, measured by influenza
and pneumonia death rates, shows a strong association with delayed
declines in CHD mortality rates across geographic divisions." Fig. 1,
heart disease death rates 1900-1996, shows that rates have fallen below
the level of the year 1900; average serum cholesterol has been
declining since 1960, before dietary changes; while the prevalence
of overweight has steadily increased.
1918 Influenza: the Mother of All Pandemics. JK Taubenberger, DM
Morens. Special Issue: Influenza. Emerging Infectious Diseases 2006
Jan;12(1):05-0979.
NHLBI Director Claude Lenfant's budget request to the Senate Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Labor-HHS-Education, April 8, 2003. Lenfant fails to admit that infection causes heart disease. He also promotes the worthless DASH diet for blood presuure reduction, which lowered systolic bp by an average of a mere 4.3mm.
Lenfant, Apr. 8, 2003 / NHLBIInflammation modifies the effects of a reduced-fat low-cholesterol diet on lipids: results from the DASH-sodium trial. TP Erlinger, ER Miller 3rd, J Charleston, LJ Appel. Circulation 2003 Jul 15;108(2):150-154. "In this study, the presence of increased CRP was associated with less total and LDL cholesterol reduction and a greater increase in triglycerides from a reduced-fat/low cholesterol diet." In other words, there was less potential benefit among those at greatest risk.
Erlinger, Circulation 2003 abstract / PubMedLenfant was NHLBI director from 1982 until August 30, 2003. Thank goodness this troglodyte has finally retired! AND, LET THE NEXT ONE BE A SUPPORTER OF THE INFECTION HYPOTHESIS, WHO HAS THE INTELLIGENCE TO UNDERSTAND HOW CONFOUNDING OCCURS WITHOUT IT.
Chlamydia pneumoniae DNA in the arterial wall of patients with peripheral vascular disease. J Gutierrez, J Linares-Palomino, C Lopez-Espada, M Rodriguez, E Ros, G Piedrola, MC del Maroto. Infection 2001 Aug;29(4):196-200. 71 PAOD patients vs. 50 varicose controls, p< 0.0001.
Gutierrez - Infection 2001 abstract / PubMedAssociation between Sezary T cell-activating factor, Chlamydia pneumoniae, and cutaneous T cell lymphoma. JT Abrams, BJ Balin, EC Vonderheid. Ann NY Acad Sci 2001 Sep;941:69-85.
Abrams - Ann NY Acad Sci 2001 abstract / PubMedCharacterization of antiapoptotic activities of Chlamydia pneumoniae in human cells. SF Fischer, C Schwarz, J Vier, G Hacker. Infect Immun 2001 Nov;69(11):7121-7129.
Fischer - Infect Immun 2001 abstract / PubMedEpithelial cells infected with Chlamydophila pneumoniae (Chlamydia pneumoniae) are resistant to apoptosis. K Rajalingam, H Al-Younes, A Muller, TF Meyer, AJ Szczepek, T Rudel. Infect Immun 2001 Dec;69(12):7880-7888.
Rajalingam - Infect Immun 2001 abstract / PubMedChlamydia pneumoniae inhibits apoptosis in human epithelial and monocyte cell lines. S Airenne, HM Surcel, J Tuukkanen, M Leinonen, P Saikku. Scand J Immunol 2002 Apr;55(4):390-398.
Airenne - Scand J Immunol 2002 abstract / PubMedParachlamydiaceae: Potential emerging pathogens. G Greub, D Raoult. Emerg Infect Dis 2002 Jun;8(6):625-630. "Intra-amoebal gowth may increase the pathogenicity of some intracellular bacteria, prompting concern that other intracellular bacteria recovered from amoeba, such as the Parachlamydiaceae, could be pathogenic. Indeed, a bacterium able to survive exposure to the lytic enzymes of amoebal phagolysosomes would probably also survive the lytic activity of macrophages."
Greub / Emerg Infect Dis 2002EPA ETS Report author recants; Chlamydia trachomatis and asthma;
EPA's Sorry Status Report; Hyperventilation causes asthma symptoms
Chlamydia pneumoniae and Mycoplasma studies
Infections Cause AsthmaCMV and Leukemia; CMV and Immunity
NCI admits that "HPVs are now recognized as the major cause of cervical cancer." But they fudge that studies merely "suggest" that HPVs "may play a role" in "some cancers of the oropharynx." And they still try to blame smoking. (Human Papillomaviruses and Cancer: Questions and Answers. Cancer Information Service, National Cancer Institute. Old page - Date reviewed: 12/01/04; Editorial changes made: 5/17/2005; new page - Reviewed: 06/08/2006.)
Human Papillomaviruses and Cancer / National Cancer InstitutePapillomaviruses causing cancer: evasion from host-cell control in early events in carcinogenesis. H zur Hausen. J Natl Cancer Inst 2000 May 3;92(9):690-698. Review. "In addition to cancer of the cervix, a major proportion of anal, perianal, vulvar, and penile cancers appear to be linked to the same HPV infections. In addition, close to 20% of oropharyngeal cancers contain DNA from the same types of HPV. Recent evidence also points to a possible role of other HPV infections in squamous cell carcinomas of the skin."
zur Hausen - JNCI 2000 abstract / PubMed"A stronger inverse association was observed in analyses restricted to non-small cell lung cancer (adjusted odds ratio, 0.39, 95% confidence interval 0.16-0.96)." (Aspirin and lung cancer in women. A Akhmedkhanov, P Toniolo, A Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, KL Koenig, RE Shore. Br J Cancer 2002 Jul 1;87(1):49-53.) After the billions of dollars the health establishment has gotten from taxpayers, shouldn't they have more to show than just "take an aspirin?"
Akhmedkhanov - Br J Cancer 2002 abstract / PubMedFunctional analysis of Antigen 43 in uropathogenic Escherichia coli
reveals a role in long term persistence in the urinary tract.GC Ulett,
J Valle, C Beloin, O Sherlock, JM Ghigo, MA Schembri. Infection and
Immunity 2007 July;75(7):3233-3244. "The sequenced genome of prototype
UPEC strain CFT073 contains two variant Ag43-encoding genes located on
pathogenicity islands.... Ag43a produced a strong aggregation phenotype
and promoted significant biofilm growth."
The anti-smokers lie to children by obtaining pig lungs from meatpacking plants, soaking them in chemicals, and then claiming that this is what tobacco smoke does to them.
The Pig Lung Scam, Again and AgainInvestigation of adenovirus occurrence in pediatric tumor entities. K Kosulin, C Haberler, J Hainfellner, G Amann, S Lang, T Lion. Journal of Virology 2007 July;81(14):7629-7635. "Adenoviruses (AdVs) contain genes coding for proteins with transforming potential, and certain AdV serotypes have been shown to induce tumors in rodents. However, data on the possible oncogenicity of AdVs in humans are scarce. We have therefore employed a real-time quantitative PCR (RQ-PCR) assay permitting highly sensitive detection of all 51 currently known human AdV serotypes to screen more than 500 tumor specimens derived from 17 different childhood cancer entities including leukemias, lymphomas, and solid tumors. Most tumor entities analyzed showed no evidence for the presence of AdV sequences, but AdV DNA was detected by RQ-PCR in different brain tumors including 25/30 glioblastomas, 22/30 oligodendrogliomas, and 20/30 ependymomas. Nonmalignant counterparts of AdV-positive brain tumors, including specimens of ependymal cells, plexus choroideus, and periventricular white matter, were screened for control purposes and revealed the presence of AdV DNA in most specimens tested. Identification of the AdV types present in positive malignant and nonmalignant brain tissue specimens revealed predominantly representatives of species B and D and, less commonly, C. To exclude contamination as a possible cause of false-positive results, specimens with AdV sequences detectable by PCR were subsequently analyzed by in situ hybridization, which confirmed the PCR findings in all instances. The central nervous system appears to represent a common site of AdV infection with virus persistence, thus providing the first evidence for the possible contribution of AdVs to the multistep process of tumor pathogenesis in brain tissue."
Kosulin / J Virol 2007 full articleHerpes viruses and periodontopathic bacteria in early-onset periodontitis. JJ Kamma, A Contreras, J Slots. J Clin Periodontol 2001 Sep;28(9):879-885. "HCMV, EBV-1, HSV and herpesvirus co-infection, as well as P gingivalis, D pneumosintes and P gingivalis-D pneumosintes co-infection were statistically associated with active periodontitis. Herpesviruses are immunosuppressive and may set the stage for overgrowth of subgingival P gingivalis, D pneumosintes and other periodontopathic bacteria."
Kamma - J Clin Periodontol 2001 abstract / PubMedBecause of this vicious lie, an anti-smoker shot a pregnant woman. And the criminals in the media who incited this hate crimes should be forced to take responsibility for their actions as well. Meanwhile, despite the anti-smoking persecution, the percentage of babies born prematurely in the US has risen for two decades.
Chorioamnionitis Causes Perinatal Illnesses Blamed on Smoking - new links on Group B StreptococcusPneumocystis carinii (Pneumocystis jirovecii) and Escherichia coli
curlin protein have been implicated.
New Directions in the Management of IBD. The Evolving Role of Antibiotics. Panelists: MC Dubinsky, A Kornbluth, GR Lichtenstein, DT Rubin, EJ Scherl. Moderator: PL Salgo. CME Certified Activity. Medical Crossfire, 2005 Jul;6(13). "Although it was traditionally believed that IBD is an autoimmune disorder, current research and clinical evidence suggest that IBD may be caused by a reaction of the body to bacteria in the intestinal tract.... 'The first evidence came from clinical observations,' answered Dr. Scherl. She recalled her days as a resident at The Mount Sinai Medical Center where Daniel H. Present, MD, noted that patients being treated for bronchitis with antibiotics reported that their bowels had improved."
New Directions in the Management of IBD, 2005 / Medical Crossfire (pdf, 23 pp)Infectious causes of hearing loss beyond otitis media. B Estrada. Infect Med 1997;14(3):239-244. Abundant opportunities for the anti-smokers to exploit confounding by infection to falsely blame smoking.
Estrada / Medscape 1997Toll-like receptor 2-dependent NF{kappa}B activation is involved in
nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae-induced MCP-1 up-regulation in the
spiral ligament fibrocytes of the inner ear. SK Moon, JI Woo, HY Lee, R
Park, J Shimada, H Pan, R Gellibolian, DJ Lim. Infection and Immunity
2007 Jul;75(7):3361-3372.
Detection of JC virus DNA sequences and expression of viral T-antigen and agnoprotein in esophageal carcinoma. L Del Valle, MK White, S Enam, SP Oviedo, MQ Bromer, RM Thomas, HP Parkman, K Khalili. Cancer 2005 Feb 1;103(3):516-527. "JC viral DNA was isolated from 11 of 13 normal esophageal biopsy specimens (85%) and from 5 of 5 esophageal carcinomas." Viral proteins were expressed in carcinoma samples, but not in samples from normal tissue.
Del Valle - Cancer 2005 / PubMedIdentification of a novel polyomavirus from patients with acute
respiratory tract infections. AM Gaynor, MD Nissen, DM Whiley, IM
Mackay, SB Lambert, G Wu, DC Brennan, GA Storch, TP Sloots, D Wan. PLoS
Pathogens, epub May 4, 2007. The virus was found in 43 / 2,135
patients with acute respiratory disease, including pneumonia. 86% were
under 3 years old. "Much of the interest in polyomaviruses and SV40 in
particular derives from the transforming properties carried by the
early transcriptional region of the viral genome that encodes for the
small T antigen (STAg) and and large T antigen (LTAg). T antigen is
capable of binding both p53 and Rb proteins and interfering with their
tumor suppressor functions. The early region alone is sufficient to
transform established primary rodent cell lines and in concert with
telomerase and ras transforms primary human cells... Since the T
antigen of WU is predicted to have transforming properties by analogy
to other polyomavirus T antigens, one question currently under
investigation is whether a subset of human tumors may be associated
with WU."
Identification of a third human polyomavirus. T Allander, K
Andreasson, S Gupta, A Bjerkner, G Bogdanovic, MA Persson, T Dalianis,
T Ramqvist, B Andersson. J Virol 2007 Apr;81(8):4130-4136. " The virus
was found by PCR in 6 (1%) of 637 nasopharyngeal aspirates and in 1
(0.5%) of 192 fecal samples but was not detected in sets of urine and
blood samples. Since polyomaviruses have oncogenic potential and may
produce severe disease in immunosuppressed individuals, continued
searching for the virus in different medical contexts is important."
"There are putative binding sites for p53, as well as the Rb family of
tumor suppressor proteins, in the LT antigen of KIPyV, which indicates
that a role for this virus in tumorigenesis cannot be excluded."
AAV Infection During Pregancy Causes Spontaneous Abortions and Trophoblastic Disease
What diseases do adeno-associated viruses cause?News re Naser at American Society for Microbiology 101st Annual Meeting, Orlando FL. 1) "Shocker: 'Villain' nicotine slays TB. R Suriano. Orlando Sentinel 2001 May 22. With PC drivel. 2) Nicotine shows activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Medscape - Reuters Health 2001 May 22. "'We found that this compound not only inhibits Mycobacterium tuberculosis growth, it kills it completely', explained lead researcher Dr. Saleh Naser of the University of Central Florida in Orlando... he believes nicotine may be effective against other bacteria as well. 'TB is a very tough bacterium. If you kill that one,' Dr. Naser said, 'you are on the right track.'"
Tuberculosis can spread from jail to surrounding community. (News) Medscape - Reuters Health 2001 Oct 26; Medline 2001 Oct 29.
Schaffer / Medline Plus 2001"The History of the Conspiracy Against Tobacco" joined the Web on August 1, 2000.
Carol AS Thompson,
Madison, Wisconsin
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