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Letter
of Apology to All Cigarette Smokers
(A
Response to a Letter by Joe C.)
Dear Joe,
There is a big misunderstanding there. You and
all cigarette smokers of the world are our friends. Your very identity has been
attacked as that of hookah users’. Our (old) site [The Sacred Narghile] is far
from being PERFECT. Undoubtedly, there may be still some old stuff there that
we need to take out. Keep in mind that, from the beginning to date, we have
been completely ALONE in the world to fight the powerful anti-tobacco
industry “science” (dozens of "studies" now and almost no one (apart
from ours') to criticize them) about hookah smoking .
At least, you, as an Anti anti-cigarette smoker,
have millions of friends and thousands of organizations over the world, not to
mention the Tobacco Industry itself (with all its powerful science even if it
keeps silent further to the anti-tobacco Litigation of the past decade).
6 years back or so, they launched violent
attacks (in the media and the biomedical press) targeting the hookah and its
users with “chainsaw” equations like like “1 Hookah = 200 cigarettes”. No cigarette smokers’ rights organization or even
the Tobacco Industry reacted to this “peer-reviewed” and “good” “science” . We
decided we had to. So, we responded, point-by-point, to this propaganda and
sometimes, as them, arithmetically. We realized later that we may have hurt (by
“collateral damage”) cigarette smokers when stating, for instance, that
cigarettes are more hazardous than hookah.
The question is not there, we do agree with you.
The question is that of human and
civil liberties (Forces). For instance, when we counterattacked the huge
fraud over hookah "Passive Smoking", we first recalled how
that related to cigarettes has been inflated and
caricaturised (Word document) by the Anti-Tobacco industry. To support
this statement, we cited Pr James E., Pr Michael S. and other independent researchers'
studies.
Be assured that we don’t want to divide. We are
WITH you. The reverse is true. Please tell us in which passages (or on which
pages exactly) there are unfriendly
references to cigarette smokers. The page you refer to contains no such material.
We will correct them as soon as possible. UNITED we must stand against Prohibition (Watch Forces' Round Table: Rebellion: Reality or Illusion ?).
Thank you for your understanding and your help.
And, once again Joe, please accept our deepest apologies.
----- Original Message -----
From: Joe C. < [undisclosed] >
To: sacrednarghile[a]gmail.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 6:04 PM
Subject: friendship
I've been
working, for quite some time, on an "anti-anti-smoking" essay.
It's a fascinating experience, as you obviously know...
I arrived at your
site, after spending quite a bit of time at the Tobacco Timeline, and at a site
describing the Sacred Origins of Tobacco. Wonderful, wonderful stuff.
I assumed, when I
first gazed delightedly at your front page, that I'd found some "new
friends."
I quickly observed,
however, that you've placed me and millions like me in roughly the same place
as the anti-smokers place me. You've danced to their tune and decided
that cigarette smokers are "lesser beings," from whom you must spend quite a bit of time and
energy distancing yourselves - - -
Well, divide and
conquer. That's the way it works and, no doubt about it - it works.
Even when we're all
angry at "the Massa," we can't help but think exactly as he does.
Sad.
Good luck with your
sacredness.
- joe c[……..]