The
anti-smokers lie that their various reports on secondhand smoke are
"independent." But they were all produced by Jonathan M. Samet and a
little clique of his close cronies! And every one of them is based on
the scientific fraud of deliberately ignoring, or failing to adequately
account for, the role of infection in diseases blamed on smoking.
Jon Samet has been an anti-smoking activist since the Fifth World
Conference on Smoking and Health in 1983. He was one of three
"consulting scientific editors" and "prepared draft chapters or
portions" of the 1986 Surgeon General Report, "The Health Consequences
of Involuntary Smoking," and was also involved in the 1984, 1985, 1989,
1990, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2001 and 2004 SG Reports, and was Senior
Scientific Editor of the 2006 Surgeon General Report, "The Health
Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke." He was also a
member of the Science Advisory Board of the so-called "EPA" Report on
ETS, the key chapters of which were actually secretly written by an
anti-smoking activist crony of Samet's, using illegal pass-through
contracts to conceal his role. Samet was Chairman of the IARC
(International Agency for Research on Cancer) committee which produced
the fraudulent Monograph on Smoking and Involuntary Smoking in 2003. In
2005, Samet and three anti-smoking activist cronies formed a majority
of the voting board of the ASHRAE Position Document on ETS. In
addition, he committed perjury in 1998 in the State of Minnesota
lawsuit against the cigarette companies, and testified in the US
Department
of Justice lawsuit against them as well.
Jonathan Michael Samet was born in 1946 in Virginia. Education: AB,
Harvard Coll., 1966; MD, U. Rochester, 1970; MS, Harvard Sch. Pub
Health, 1977 [epidemiology]. He was an intern in medicine at the
University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, from 1970-71, and was
with the U.S. Army from 1971 to 1973. He was a research fellow in
clinical epidemiology at Channing laboratory at Harvard Medical School,
Boston, from 1975-78, and a research associate in medicine at Harvard
Medical School from 1978 to 1983. He was Secretary-Treasurer 1982-83,
Vice President 1983-84, and President 1984-85 of the New Mexico
Thoracic Society. He was a member of the Science Advisory Board of the
EPA committee on indoor air quality and total human exposure [the
"EPA" ETS report] from 1987 to 1995. He has been professor and chairman
of the Department of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University since
1994. (Marquis Who's Who TM. Marquis Who's Who, 2007.) From 1978
to 1994, he was Assistant Professor to
Professor, Department of Medicine, University of New Mexico School of
Medicine at Albuquerque. At JHU, he is Director of the
Institute for Global Tobacco Control and Co-Director of the Risk
Sciences and Public Policy Institute. He is a past president of the
American College of Epidemiology. Martha S. Linet of the NCI is on the
Board of Directors, and ETS study author Elizabeth T.H. Fontham is
Treasurer.
Samet has been a ringleader of anti-smoking activism since the 1980s, including Surgeon General Reports (including the latest, in 2004, as Senior Scientific Editor), the National Academy of Science report, the "EPA" ETS report (which was secretly written by Samet's personal cronies), the WHO report (as Chairman), and the "ASHRAE" report, as well as testifying in the Minnesota tobacco lawsuit, the federal lawsuit, and other anti-smoking travesties of the law. In other words, contrary to the anti-smokers' false representations, these were not "independent" evaluations at all!
Samet is conducting a study of "Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Women and Children," whose goal is "To generate a global profile of SHS exposure among women and children and estimate the associated health risks." In other words, Samet intends to use exposure measurements to concoct phony estimates of pretended ETS deaths. He deceives the public by pretending that these are "scientific" estimates merely because they use hair and airborne nicotine samples, rather than lifestyle questionnaires only, to determine exposure. But those supposed "health risks" are still nothing but lies, because those pretended "risks" are all based upon the scientific fraud of deliberately using defective studies that ignore the role of infection. The human papillomavirus, a known carcinogenic virus, is known to be involved in over ten times more lung cancers than the anti-smoking charlatans pretend are caused by secondhand smoke - and they are automatically guilty of scientific fraud for ignoring this fact! And the charlatans will be using the data to generate fraudulent "health risks" for other illnesses as well.
Argentina - Buenos Aires: Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in
Women and Children.
Armenia - Yerevan: Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Women and
Children; Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Bar and Nightclub
Employees.
Cambodia - Mapping Tobacco Industry Activities in Southeast Asia;
Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Women and Children; Tracking
Tobacco Control Measures in Southeast Asia.
China - Beijing: Active Smoking: Multi-country Cotinine Study; Centers of Excellence for Education and Training in Tobacco Control; China National Plan for Tobacco Control; Epidemiology and Intervention Research; Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Women and Children.
Dominican Republic - Hato Del Yaque: Second Hand Tobacco Smoke
Exposure in Women and Children.
Egypt - Alexandria: Egypt Communication for Healthy Living (CHL)
["healthy lifestyles]; Cairo: Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Bar
and Nightclub Employees. Qalyub: Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in
Women and Children.
Georgia - Tbilisi: Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Women and
Children; Epidemiology, molecular characteristics and clinical course
of HCV infections in the Republic of Georgia [Samet has personally
committed scientific fraud in hepatitis studies by using studies which
look at only one virus at a time].
Guatemala - Guatemala: Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Women
and Children.
Hong Kong - Kowloon: Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Women and
Children.
India - Ahmedabad: Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Women and
Children; Vellore: Smoking and Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Case
Control Study.
Indonesia - Depok: Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Women and
Children.
Laos - Vientiane: Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Women and
Children.
Latvia - Riga: Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Women and
Children.
Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur: Mapping Tobacco Industry Activities in
Southeast Asia; Tracking Tobacco Control Measures in Southeast Asia;
Penang: Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Women and Children.
Mexico - Cuernavaca: Active Smoking: Multi-country Cotinine Study;
Centers of Excellence for Education and Training in Tobacco Control;
Epidemiology and Intervention Research; Second Hand Tobacco Smoke
Exposure in Women and Children; Tobacco Control Course in Mexico.
Nepal - Kathmandu: Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Women and
Children; Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Bar and Nightclub
Employees.
Panama - Panama City: Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Women and Children.
Peru - Lima: Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Women and
Children. The undisclosed fruits of Samet's subversion: "Peru Launches
Anti-tobacco Program. Written by ioman01 on Aug-10-07, From
www.temasactuales.com. Synopsis in English: "With much fanfare but few
concrete details, Peru's Health Ministry (MINSA) recently launched a
five-year 'National Plan to Combat Tobacco Addiction.' According
to Health Minister Dr. Carlos Vallejos Sologuren, currently in Peru
[blah blah blah] Under the banner "Stop Smoking…For the Good of All," a
new combined campaign of education, public service messages, and
smoking cessation services (including new cessation centers offering
psychological counseling and medicines) starts this month (August) in
the Lima South health district, home to a target population of 380,000
smokers. Over the course of the next five years MINSA will expand
it to the rest of the country, aiming at getting at least 10% of
current smokers to quit permanently. Zimbio.com."
Philippines - Manila: Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Bar and
Nightclub Employees; Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Women and
Children.
Romania - Bucharest: Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Women and Children.
Poland - Ciechanow: Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Women and
Children. Warsaw: Active Smoking: Multi-country Cotinine Study;
Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Bar and Nightclub Employees.
Russia - Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Orenburg, Saratov: Healthy Russia 2020
["US/Russia health partnerships," its title imitates US health fascist
"Healthy People"]; Moscow: Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Women
and Children.
Syria - Aleppo: Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Women and
Children.
Taiwan - Taiwan: Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Women and
Children.
Thailand - Bangkok: Mapping Tobacco Industry Activities in
Southeast Asia; Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Women and
Children; The Epidemiology Of Hepatitis C Infection In Thailand [Samet
has personally committed scientific fraud in hepatitis studies by using
studies which look at only one virus at a time]; Tracking Tobacco
Control Measures in Southeast Asia.
Turkey - Istanbul: Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Women and
Children.
Ukraine - Kiev: Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Women and
Children.
Uruguay - Montevideo: Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Women
and Children; WHO Report on Secondhand Smoke. The fruits of Samet's
subversion - the Uruguay smoking ban. As usual, the lying, subhuman
filth crank out phony opinion polls trumpeting that nearly everybody
agrees with their pile of lies and fraud. (Support for Uruguay’s Tough
Tobacco Controls / Apoyo Ciudadano para las Medidas Contra Tabaquismo
en Uruguay. Written by ioman01 on Jan-24-07.)
US - Baltimore MD: Evidence Translation and Dissemination Center for
Secondhand Smoke; Global Tobacco Research Network; Leadership Training
in Tobacco Control; OpenCourseWare in Global Tobacco Control; Risk
Benefit Assessments; Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Women and
Children.
Venezuela - Baruta: Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Women and
Children.
Vietnam - Hanoi: Mapping Tobacco Industry Activities in Southeast Asia; Reduce Smoking in Vietnam Partnership (RSVP); Tracking Tobacco Control Measures in Southeast Asia. Thai Binh: Second Hand Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Women and Children.
Jon Samet's Projects / Johns Hopkins School of Public HealthJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health faculty conduct research in more than 90 countries - where they should be presumed to be using legitimate health work as a Trojan Horse to nurture lackeys who will push their health fascist political agenda!
Global Projects Map / Johns Hopkins School of Public HealthNew York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is "the largest donor in the
125-year history of the Johns Hopkins Institutions, with gifts
including $100 million to the Johns Hopkins Initiative."
One of Samet's earliest published studies was co-authored with Frank
E. Speizer, of the "Nurses Health Study" at Harvard School of
Public Health. (Questionnaire reliability and validity in asbestos
exposed workers. Samet JM, Speizer FE, Gaensler EA. Bull Eur
Physiopathol Respir 1978 Mar-Apr;14(2):177-188.) Other Samet studies
dating from 1979 in the tobacco documents:
Samet was the co-author, with Frank E. Speizer, of an invited paper,
"Passive Smoking and the Lungs: A Review of Effects Other Than
Malignancy," for the Fifth World Conference on Smoking and Health, in
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in 1983. The conference was funded with
contributions from the Canadian Cancer Society, Canadian Heart
Foundation, Canadian Lung Association, Health and Welfare Canada, and
Merrell-Dow Pharmaceuticals (Canada) Inc. (Proceedings of the Fifth
World Conference on Smoking and Health. William F. Forbes, Richard C.
Frecker, and David Nostbakken. Canadian Council on Smoking and Health.)
Samet thanked A. Judson Wells "for his helpful comments" in Samet's effort to blame secondhand smoke for causing cancer in nonsmokers (The Relationship Between Passive Exposure to Cigarette Smoke and Cancer. In: Indoor Air and Human Health. Richard B. Gammage and Stephen B. Kaye, editors; Vivian A. Jacobs, technical editor. Lewis Publishers, Inc., 1985. [The editors were affiliated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory.]). Samet was also part of the clique behind Wells's bogus passive smoking claims in Environment International, 1988. Wells was later the ghost writer behind Kenneth G. Brown, under whose name the key chapters of the EPA's report on the alleged health effects of secondhand smoke were written, via illegal pass-through contracts with ICF Incorporated.
Samet, 1985 (book copy) / tobacco documentSamet testified that he "wrote a portion of a chapter for that report on smoking, lung function and development of COPD. This was my first contribution to these reports." (Written Direct: Dr. Jonathan M. Samet, US v. PM, 99-cv-02496, Vol. 1.)
Samet testified that he "wrote a chapter on methodological issues
related to smoking and lung disease in the workplace and I was also
Consulting Scientific Editor." (Written Direct: Dr. Jonathan M. Samet,
US v. PM, 99-cv-02496, Vol. 1.)
Samet was one of three "consulting scientific editors" and "prepared
draft chapters or portions" of the 1986 Surgeon General Report, "The
Health Consequences of Involuntary Smoking" (Acknowledgments, pp. 8
& 9.)
Samet is credited with preparing draft chapters or portions of the 1989 Surgeon General Report, Reducing the Health Consequences of Smoking, another fraudulent concoction that blames smoking for diseases caused by infection.
1989 Surgeon General Report Acknowledgments / CDC (pdf, 23pp)Samet was one of five scientific editors, and prepared draft chapters, of the 1990 Surgeon General Report, "The Health Benefits of Smoking Cessation."
The Health Benefits of Smoking Cessation, 1990 (34 pp) / tobacco documentSamet participated in a Student Skills Workshop with Peter Magee of the American Health Foundation at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Epidemiological Research, June 12-15, 1990.
Society for Epidemiological Research, 1990 / tobacco documentSamet was co-editor with John D. Spengler of the book, Indoor Air
Pollution, A Health Perspective (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.)
He was co-author of an article within it, "Environmental Tobacco
Smoke," with Brian P. Leaderer. Other contributors included David B.
Coultas and James E. Woods Jr.
Indoor Air Pollution and Health. Testimony of Jonathan M. Samet before the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment, Committee on Energy and Commerce, April 10, 1991.
Samet testimony April 10, 1991 / tobacco documentSamet was the author of Chapter 5, "Environmental Tobacco Smoke and
Cancer," in the May 1991 draft version of the EPA Technical Compendium,
which was concocted by the US Environmental Protection Agency before
its report was even completed. It included a review of junk science
implicating secondhand smoke as a cause of non-lung cancer as well.
Jonathan Samet is a member of the Health Research Committee of the Health Effects Institute, which dupes the automotive industry into funding its enemies' junk science. The Health Effects Institute funded his 1991 article, "The environment and the lung. Changing perspectives," which shows that Samet already had his mind made up that environmental tobacco smoke caused lung cancer in non-smokers. It was also funded by the US government's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the Department of Energy. (The environment and the lung. Changing perspectives. JM Samet, MJ Utell. JAMA 1991 Aug 7;266(5):670-675. Review.)
Samet, JAMA 1991 / tobacco documentSamet was a member of the Science Advisory Board of the EPA ETS
report. In a classic example of black disinformation, the
Associated
Press smeared that members of the SAB who
served on the review panel of the Center for Indoor Air Research,
including arch anti-smoker Jonathan M. Samet, were tainted by ties to
the tobacco industry, and claimed that Geoffrey C. Kabat, an author of
ETS studies who was affiliated with the American
Health Foundation, had
been
recommended by Philip Morris. This actually demonstrates control of the
tobacco industry's research money by the anti-smokers. (6 Members of
Panel on Smoking Have Ties to Tobacco Group. AP, Nov. 10, 1990.)
Samet's crony, anti-smoking activist A. Judson Wells, boasted at a
public hearing of having been the author of that report.
Samet participated in the 1994 SG Report. (U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services. Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People:
A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, Georgia: U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and
Health, 1994.) He testified
that "I authored the chapter on the health consequences of smoking by
children." (Written Direct: Dr. Jonathan M. Samet, US v. PM,
99-cv-02496, Vol. 1.)
Samet: "I have served on a number of committees and advisory groups concerned directly or indirectly with indoor air quality and health. These include the Indoor Air Quality and Total Human Exposure Committee of the Science Advisory Board of the Environmental Protection Agency; the National Air Conservation Commission of the American Lung Association; and SSPC 62 of the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), which is charged with revising the organization's Standard 62. I also served on the Working Group on Tobacco Smoking of the International Agency for Research on Cancer and was a Consulting Scientific Editor for the 1986 Report of the Surgeon General on involuntary smoking. I was subsequently the Senior Scientific Editor for the 1990 Report of the Surgeon General on smoking cessation. I am presently Chairman of the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation (BEIR) VI .Committee of the National Research Council. I served on BEIR IV and was Chairman of the Panel on Dosimetric Assumptions Affecting the Application of BEIR IV Risk Estimates." (Testimony on 29 CFR Parts 1910, 1915, and 1928 Indoor Air Quality; Proposed Rule, Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration. (Version: 8/12/94).
Samet testimony, 1994 / tobacco documentSamet was a contributing author in the 1998 SG Report. (Executive
Summary. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Tobacco Use
Among U.S. Racial~Ethnic Minority Groups--African Americans, American
Indians and Alaska Natives, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and
Hispanics: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, Georgia: U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and
Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 1998.)
Jonathan M. Samet of The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene
and Public Health was the anti-smokers' star witness on smoking and
health in the Minnesota
tobacco trial. He relied on old, defective
studies in order to ignore the role of infection in causing the
diseases blamed on smoking.
Perjury: 1. the willful telling of a lie while under lawful oath or affirmation to tell the truth in a matter material to the point of inquiry. 2. the breaking of any oath or formal promise. Jonathan Samet, the anti-smokers' star perjuror about the supposed health risks of smoking at the Minnesota tobacco trial, makes Bill Clinton look like George Washington.
Confounding By InfectionSamet was a contributor to the 2000 Surgeon General Report,
"Reducing Tobacco Use."
Samet was a reviewer of the 2001 Surgeon General Report, "Women and Smoking."
Acknowledgements, 2001 SG Report / Centers for Disease Control (pdf, 9 pp.)"Key Findings of the Prevention Research Initiative Survey," Samet's contribution to the fanatical BS of R!A's Prevention Research conference. Also Steven A. Schroeder, president of RWJF; William L. Roper; R!A Board member Samuel C. Silverstein; Maureen Clark of the University of Michigan; Clair Callan of the AMA; Maureen Byrnes of the Pew Charitable Trusts; Louis Sherwood of Merck pharmaceuticals; George E. Hardy of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials; current CDC director Jeffrey Koplan; Assistant Surgeon General Douglas B. Kamerow; former Rep. John Porter of Illinois; and William D. Novelli, now inciting health fascism at AARP.
Prevention Research / Research!America (pdf)Jonathan Samet and Barbara K. Rimer of the National Cancer Institute's hate-mongering Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (the home until 2000 of Donald Shopland, whose anti-smoking activism dated from the 1964 Surgeon General report) are co-chairs of the Mott Selection Committee of the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation. The winners of the 2001 Charles S. Mott Prize were anti-smokers (and NIH Fat Cats) Frank E. Speizer and Walter C. Willett. Jon & Frank just happen to both be at the automotive industry-funded Health Effects Institute, and Walter Willett is a funding fat cat of the NCI.
Selection Committees / GM Cancer Research FoundationSamet has been an Adjunct Scientist at Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute in Albuquerque since 1994. Research!America Directors Mary Woolley and Leon E. Rosenberg are on the Board of Directors of LRRI, where the National Environmental Respiratory Center is located. "NERC was initiated with funds designated by Congress in the EPA appropriation, but was envisioned from the beginning as an effort funded by multiple federal and state agencies, industry associations, individual companies, and other ogranizations." Jonathan Samet is on the External Scientific Advisory Committee of NERC, along with Morton Lippmann, Chairman of the EPA Science Advisory Board that produced the EPA's corrupt report on secondhand smoke. It is another propaganda organ to trump up the supposed dangers of particulates.
Board of Directors / Lovelace Respiratory Research InstituteSamet was on the Board of Scientific Counselors of Intramural Programs at the National Cancer Institute.
Factbook 98 / NCI (pdf)Samet and Phillip J. Landrigan, the pediatrician featured on ABC TV's Good Morning America program, are on the Advisory Committee of the National Children's Study, a US government-funded prospective following 100,000 kids from birth to age 21. As usual, chronic infection is a neglected concern.
Advisory Committee / National Children's StudyJonathan M. Samet was Chairman of the IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) committee which produced the fraudulent Monograph on Smoking and Involuntary Smoking (Monograph 83, 2003).
The IARC Monograph on Smoking and Involuntary Smoking (Monograph 83)Jonathan M. Samet was Senior Scientific Editor of the 2004 Surgeon
General Report, "The Health Consequences of Smoking." He testified that
"I also was co-author on a number of the chapters. A number of new
causal determinations were made for diseases not previously linked to
smoking." (Written Direct: Dr. Jonathan M. Samet, US v. PM,
99-cv-02496, Vol. 1.)
Q: Was Dr. Frank Speizer one of your professors at the Harvard
Medical School?
A: That's right. He was the director of my fellowship and a mentor. Dr.
Speizer trained in epidemiology with Sir Richard Doll.
Q: Who is Sir Richard Doll?
A: Richard Doll has long been one of the field's preeminent
epidemiologists. He did much of the pioneering work on cigarette
smoking and diseases beginning in the late 1940s extending into the
1950s and remarkably to the present day. I'll be describing some of the
findings of his work, particularly with regard to the well known
follow-up study or cohort study that he conducted of about 34,000 male
and 6,000 female British Doctors. [sic - Richard Doll is incompetent
dinosaur who ignores infection as a cause of cancer blamed on smoking!]
Q: Did Dr. Speizer start any similar studies?
A: Yes. He started the Nurses’ Health Study, a very well-known
follow-up study of over 100,000 U.S. nurses. It's a very important and
well-regarded study of the effects of smoking and other factors on
health. Dr. Speizer has won several prestigious awards including the
Ochsner Award for research contributions to the study of smoking and
health and he shared the Mott Prize, given by the General Motors Cancer
Foundation, with Walter Willett.
Q: Did you do any original research regarding smoking and disease with
Dr. Speizer?
A: Yes, during my years in Boston and subsequently.
Q: Have you been accepted previously to testify as an expert witness?
A: I testified as an expert witness in the State of Minnesota and Blue
Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota case in 1998 as an expert in the science
of smoking and health. Subsequently, I testified as an expert in the
Engle suit in Florida and the Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey case
in the United States District Court in Brooklyn in 2001. I also
testified in as an expert in two administrative proceedings: before the
Federal Trade Commission as an expert against R.J. Reynolds in the Joe
Camel proceeding about six years ago and in 1994, on behalf of the
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) with regard to its
proposed rule on indoor air quality.
Jonathan Samet's perjury about
smoking and cervical cancer: Samet claimed that "smokers are at
higher risk for malignancy of the cervix, once HPV infection has taken
place." (page 105) The studies he relied upon are defective, because
they did not considerHPV reinfection by the male partner, nor did
they consider the effect of infection by multiple strains of the virus.
As usual, these corrupt charlatans are exploiting residual confounding.
Jonathan Samet's perjury about
smoking and liver cancer: Samet claimed, without any
justication, that "smoking causes liver cancer." (page 107). No
questions whatsoever were even asked about confounding by hepatitis viruses B and C.
In fact, Samet personally committed fraud by confounding in a study of
which he was a co-author. He also ignored the known role of human
papillomavirus in esophageal, laryngeal and bladder
cancer, and the roles of Helicobacter pylori
and Epstein-Barr virus in stomach cancer. He
lied that smoking causes heart
disease as well, because the death rates from this have fallen as
much among smokers as among non-smokers - which is consistent with a
shared underlying cause to which smokers are more likely to be exposed,
but inconsistent with a causal role for smoking.
(Written Direct: Dr. Jonathan M. Samet, US v. PM, 99-cv-02496, Vol.
1.)
And, strokes are known to be associated with infection as well, and aneurysms with Chlamydia pneumonia. And Samet's claim that "maternal smoking causes 1) premature rupture of the membranes, placenta previa, and placental abruption; 2) pre-term delivery and shortened gestation; and 3) fetal growth restriction and low birth weight," are based upon the deliberate scientific fraud is deliberately using defective studies that ignored that causal role of chorioamnionitis - which is underscored by the complete failure of these lying charlatans to reduce the rates of these perinatal illnesses. (Written Direct: Dr. Jonathan M. Samet, US v. PM, 99-cv-02496, Vol. 2.)
Samet testimony, Vol. 2 / US Department of Justice (pdf, 111 pp.) In that
year, Samet was also a co-author of a defective study designed to
falsely blame smoking for liver cancer caused by hepatitis viruses.
Samet's fraudulent study completely ignored the role of hepatitis C
virus! (Cigarette Smoking, Alcohol Drinking, Hepatitis B, and Risk for
Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Korea. SH Jee, H Ohrr, JW Sull, JM Samet. J
Natl Cancer Inst 2004 Dec 15;96(24):1851-1856.)
ACTION
ITEMS FROM WINTER MEETING [page 7]
| No. |
Responsibility |
Summary |
Disposition |
| 4 |
EHC |
Forward comments on ETS PD to A.
Persily & J. Samet by February 25th |
Complete |
| 7 |
Parsons |
Forward information on ETS paper
for ETS symposium to TC 5.12 (Cardenal, Wray, Griffith) |
Complete |
Names are presumably those of Sidney Parsons, Vice Chair; and Bernardo
Cadenal, a guest.
9.0
SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS [page 10]
9.1
POLICY –
ROSE
ENVIRONMENTAL TOBACCO SMOKE (ETS)
EHC
discussed the ETS PD drafted
by the PD Committee. The PD will be considered for
approval
by Technology Council
and the BOD at this meeting.
It was moved and seconded that,
(3) EHC
endorse the approval of
the Environmental Tobacco Smoke Position Document as shown.
BACKGROUND: The PD was approved unanimously by the PDC as shown in Appendix 6.
MOTION 3 PASSED: 10-0-0, CNV
Action Item 1 (Chair): Draft
Presidential letter of thanks to be signed and sent to those on
the ETS
PDC to thank them for
their considerable effort.
AD HOC COMMITTEE ON HEALTH
EFFECTS
It was
moved and seconded that,
(4) EHC
formally approve the
response to the recommendations of the Presidential Ad Hoc
Committee
on Health Effects as
shown.
BACKGROUND: The BOD asked EHC
to
respond to the recommendations of the Presidential
Ad
Hoc Committee on Health
Effects. EHC’s formal response (Appendix 7) includes a reply to
the
recommendations and plan of
action.
MOTION 4 PASSED: 9-0-1, CNV
Environmental
Tobacco Smoke (ETS) Position
Document (PD) [page 28]
Title: Health
Concerns of Environmental Tobacco
Smoke (ETS)
Purpose: To inform ASHRAE membership and the public
about the health effects of
involuntary exposure
to tobacco smoke.
Scope:
1.
Define
what
is meant by ETS, passive smoke, and involuntary exposure to
smoking.
2.
Describe
the types of indoor environments where ETS exposure might occur.
3.
Reference
health effects associated with involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke.
4.
Report on
worldwide efforts to reduce/restrict involuntary exposure.
5.
Recommend
that ASHRAE members follow the guidance available in local/state
code and/or ASHRAE documents/standards.
Results of Letter Ballot [page 29]
Recommendation for Approval of ETS Position Document
Issued: May 15, 2005
Closed: May 31, 2005
Bohanon, Hoy YES [Bohanon has been an employee of R.J. Reynolds
Tobacco for 20-some years, who was with CORESTA]
Coultas, David YES [Coultas is one of Jonathan M. Samet's longtime
cronies: Search:
Coultas DB / PubMed.]
Houston, Tom YES [Houston is a longtime anti-smoking activist: Search:
Houston TP / PubMed.]
Persily, Andy YES ["BOD Ex-Officio," a government scumbag from the NIST
who has 20 hits since 1984 in TDO]
Samet, Jon YES [Samet is an anti-smoking arch-conspirator: Search:
Samet JM / PubMed.]
Schoen, Larry YES
Spengler, John YES [Spengler is a longtime anti-smoking activist and
chemical hysteric: Search:
Spengler JD / PubMed.]
TOTAL: 7-0-0
In 1992, Persily was on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the
Indoor Environment Program of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University (which was sponsored by Philip Morris) with Brian P.
Leaderer, the author of the "EPA" ETS report chapter on risk analysis
and another crony of Samet. (Period 2 Project Report Evaluation of
Displacement Ventilation and Conventional Variable Air Volume Systems
for Indoor Air Quality Control. Est. date 1993, p. 7.) James E. Woods Jr., who was on the
Science Advisory Board of the "EPA" ETS report, selected him for that
position, along with Leaderer and John D. Spengler! (Letter,
James E. Woods of VPI&SU, to Harold G. Burnley Jr. of Philip
Morris, Sep. 3, 1991.)
[So, the voting board was composed
of four professional anti-smokers, two incompetent and presumably
malicious ASHRAE accomplices, and one traitor. This is typical of how
the anti-smoking filth achieve unanimity!]
(ASHRAE Position Document on ETS. In: Environmental Health Committee
(EHC) Minutes. American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and
Air-Conditioning Engineers, Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, June 27, 2005.)
Remember that for decades, the mass media have marketed the ventilation industry to smokers as a supposed ally! But their real goal was to extort money from business owners who were afraid of smoking bans, and foolishly thought they could appease the anti-smokers by investing in ventilation equipment. Then, after they hand over their money to the ventilation mobsters, the anti-smokers pass the ban anyway. In this way, they relieved the business owners of funds that could be used to pursue a lawsuit against the anti-smokers. So, ASHRAE and its accomplices should be prosecuted for conspiracy, fraud and racketeering under the RICO statutes!
Jonathan M. Samet was Senior Scientific Editor of the 2006 Surgeon
General Report, The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to
Tobacco Smoke.
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