Critical Scientists

Scientists sceptical of Tobacco Control methods and practice

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

Below is a list of those scientists who dared make their disagreements public. Often these scientists are retired and dare to speak out only because they are no longer vulnerable to any consequences imposed by the dictatorial Tobacco Control community.

Arnett Jr., Jerome C.

Pulmonologist, Elkins, West Virginia. Policy advisor for The Heartland Institute, adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and scientific advisor to the American Council on Science and Health.

The abuse of scientific integrity and the generation of faulty "scientific" outcomes (through the use of pseudoscience) have led to the deception of the American public on a grand scale and to draconian government overregulation and the squandering of public money

• Source: Scientific Evidence Shows Secondhand Smoke Is No Danger

Bourque, Jean-Jacques

Retired psychiatrist, Montreal, Canada

• Author of Écrasons la cigarette pas le fumeur

The idea that is promoted by the Quebec government, that second-hand smoke is more dangerous than the smoke inhaled by someone who is smoking, is completely off the rails"

• Source: Smoking defended by Quebec doctor

Chaouachi, Kamal

Tobacco researcher specializing in medical anthropology. Holder of a post-graduate diploma in Tobacco Science from the University of Paris (1998). Taught hookah science to French doctors (University of Paris XI-XII, 2006-2010). Scientific collaborator of various research centres in Asia, Africa and Europe. Paris, France

Since prohibitionists are not capable of producing quality evidence, they rely on quantity so that each new “study” can contain sentences like “There is “an accumulation of evidence that…” environment tobacco smoke kills, etc.… and the not less classical ending call for funding: “More research is needed”… Besides, they have themselves set the criteria for considering acceptable “evidence”. For instance, who controls the so­ called evidence published in WHO reports? The WHO Tobacco Study Group (TobReg) experts of course. Who are those experts? The same who are to be found in the editorial boards and peer­ reviewers lists of numerous journals supposed to provide the evidence at the grass­root level. This is a vicious circle, a global trick, a global hold up of science.

• Source: Prohibition Through the Hookah Looking­Glass

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Denson, Ken

Medical researcher Thame Thrombosis and Haemostasis Research Foundation, UK (deceased)

Even, Philippe

Pulmonologist, president of the Necker Research Institute, now retired, Paris France

"They have created a fear based on nothing"

Le Parisien (Translated in English, Dutch)

Frenk, Hanan

Tel Aviv University, Israel - Psychologist

Whereas smoking is a persistent behavior that is often difficult to quit, the causal role of nicotine in this behavior is far from clear. In fact, the evidence for the contention that nicotine is instrumental in limiting smoking is at least as strong, if not stronger, than for the hypothesis that nicotine causes smoking.

• Co-author of A Critique of Nicotine Addiction
• Nicotine lectures

Gori, Gio Batta

Epidemiologist and toxicologist, fellow of the Health Policy Center in Bethesda, Md. He is a former deputy director of the National Cancer Institute's Division of Cancer Cause and Prevention.

Grieshaber, Romano

From the year 2000 until retirement in March 2011, Prof. Dr. med. Romano Grieshaber was executive director of prevention and research of the association for food and restaurants (BGN) and is an Honorary Professor of Applied Prevention and Health Promotion at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. He was a board member of the Research Society for Applied System Safety and Health (FSA), a member of the International Social Security Association (ISSA) and CEO of the Center for Interdisciplinary Prevention (KIP) of the University of Jena.

Prof. Dr. med. Romano Grieshaber is non-smoker and the Author of the book "Passivrauchen: Götterdämmerung der Wissenschaft" (published by PubliKom Z.) in which he openly objects the sacrosanct dogmas of the WHO and debunks Tobacco Control Science.

Molimard, Robert

Professor emeritus of physiology and coordinator of the DIU of Tabacologie to the Faculty of Medicine Paris-South.

Founder of the first French learned society on tobacco and nicotine dependence, inventor of the word tabacology.

Author of “La Fume” and the “Small handbook of Défume”, Paris, France

BELIEFS, MANIPULATION AND LIES IN THE TOBACCO ISSUE by Robert Molimard http://cagecanada.blogspot.ca/2010/12/beliefs-manipulation-and-lies-in.html

Phillips, Carl V.

Researcher and consultant in areas related to economics, epidemiology, scientific epistemology, and social research. Spent most of his career as a professor of public health and now has an independent academic-style research lab, Populi Health Institute. U.S.A.

Ropohl, Günter

Prof.Günter Ropohl studied both, mechanical engineering as well as philosophy at Stuttgart Universität, obtaining his PhD (Dr - Ing) in 1970. In 1978 Prof. Ropohl wrote his Habilitation thesis in philosophy and sociology at Karlsruhe Universität where in 1979 he became Professor. In 1981 Prof. Ropohl became Professor for general technology and philosophy of technology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, where he lectured until 2004.

Prof. Ropohl is is an honorary member of the German Engineering Association (VDI) and published more than 210 articles and 30 books. (10 as author and 20 as editor or co-editor). Prof. Ropohl also wrote a number of critical articles in NovoArgumente about passive smoking, smoking bans and the WHO. Underneath each article there is this statement: :

"Prof. em. Günter Ropohl hat bis 2004 Wissenschafts- und Technikphilosophie an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main gelehrt. Seine Verbindung zur Tabakindustrie beschränkt sich darauf, dass er ihre Produkte genussvoll konsumiert. Bezahlte Aufträge aus dieser Branche hat er nie erhalten. Dies sei erwähnt, um den unsachlichen Verdächtigungen zuvorzukommen, mit denen Tabakgegner wissenschaftliche Argumente zu ersetzen versuchen."

Shaw, Michael D.

Environmental scientist, California

Simpson, Terry

Scientist, Author,Surgeon, Phoenix, Az

Snel, Jan

Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, NL Psycho-physiologist