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Cigarette Company Paid for Lung Cancer Study

smoking, cigaretteIn 2006, cancer researchers were jolted by a controversial new study claiming that 80 percent of lung cancer deaths could be prevented through widespread use of CT scans.

Small print in the study noted that it had been financed in part by a little-known charity called “The Foundation for Lung Cancer: Early Detection, Prevention & Treatment.” But a recent review of tax records showed that the foundation was underwritten almost entirely by $3.6 million in grants from the makers of the Liggett Select, Eve, Grand Prix, Quest and Pyramid cigarette brands.

Prominent cancer researchers and journal editors were stunned to learn of the association. Critics are now questioning the validity of the study, including its survival projections and its assumption that all lung cancer patients who were diagnosed by screening would have died without it.

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  New York Times March 26, 2008


Dr. Mercola''s Comments Dr. Mercola's Comments:

If you have been reading this site for awhile the issue of a large multinational corporation funding research that intends to deceive you and sacrifice your health for their profits is no surprise.

“They want to show that lung cancer is not so bad as everybody thinks because screening can save people; and that’s outrageous,” said Dr. Jerome Kassirer, a former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine, in the New York Times.

Of course, research that is sponsored by industry has a long and sordid history. It’s now clearly known that industry-sponsored research produces results that tend to favor the industry.

In one related study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, results showed that industry-sponsored studies were 3.6 times more likely to have results that favored the industry than studies with no financial ties to the industry.

This is why industry-funded research is now frowned upon, and often cannot get published at all. That is, unless they hide the funding source by disguising themselves as a charity or grass-roots organization. It is a classic case of a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

So now the “major” finding that CT scans can help prevent lung cancer deaths is getting a second look. It turns out that both the study’s survival projections and an assumption that all patients would have died without screening are being called into question.

Also worthy of attention is the overlooked fact that CT scans have radiation risks in and of themselves, and sometimes they detect cancers that won’t progress, leading to unnecessary biopsies and surgeries, not to mention extreme emotional distress (which could actually trigger a cancer state in your body).

What Can Prevent Lung Cancer Better Than a CT Scan?

Lung cancer causes the most cancer-related deaths among men and women, and over 215,000 new cases are expected to be diagnosed in 2008, according to the National Cancer Institute.

The most common cause of lung cancer, according to conventional medicine, is smoking, but exposure to secondhand smoke, radon, asbestos, air pollution and other chemicals also contributes.

So if you are concerned about lung cancer, and you currently smoke, should you quit smoking immediately? This may surprise you, but my answer is no -- not until you get your diet right.

You see, cigarettes are made up of many drugs that speed up your metabolism, which causes you to burn calories quicker. When you stop smoking, there are reflexes that slow down your metabolism, which will increase your ability to gain weight. This also, in conjunction with many behavioral components, tends to cause people to reward themselves with sweets and desserts because they have done a great thing by giving up something like smoking. Well, sugar is actually more damaging to your body than smoking, and is one of the reasons why many people who are successful in stopping smoking gain large amounts of weight -- clearly not something that is good for your health.

So my advice to anyone who wants to quit smoking is to first address your dietary issues. Find out your nutritional type, read through my nutrition plan, and get to work limiting your intake of sugar and grains.

It's also vital that you exercise and sleep well, among other things like addressing your emotional challenges. And then once you're feeling good and healthy, you are going to spontaneously want to quit smoking. And this is the time to do it.

Get Ready to Open Your Mind

This may sound shocking, but according to the research behind Dr. Geerd Hamer’s German New Medicine (GNM), smoking will only cause lung cancer if you believe it will.

This is based on the principle that cancer is actually caused by emotional traumas. A traumatic emotional experience, whether it’s the loss of a loved one, a severe worry or any other threat or panic, causes you stress on a physical and emotional level. It also, according to Dr. Hamer, causes a brain lesion that can clearly be seen on a CT scan.

This lesion is confirmation to your brain of the shock you have experienced, and it then transmits a biochemical signal to the corresponding body cells that can result in tumor growth, visual or hearing impairment, paralysis, diabetes or any other disease (depending on the area of your brain affected). In the case of smoking, the emotional trauma is a “death fright” that can occur if you believe smoking can kill you.

Consider this study from the German New Medicine Web site:

“In a large-scale study that lasted over several years, thousands of hamsters were constantly exposed to cigarette smoke while control animals were not. The researchers discovered that not a single animal manifested a bronchial carcinoma or a lung cancer. They had simply missed the fact that hamsters live underground and have absolutely no fear of smoke. That's why they have no code in their brains, no warning light against smoke.

With house mice it is exactly the reverse. They suffer an acute death fright with the least amount of smoke and run away. In fact, in medieval times, when one saw a swarm of mice run out of a house, one knew that there was a fire somewhere. Some of these mice can indeed develop a lung cancer, triggered by the death fright.”

The solution is not to treat the physical symptoms of the disease, but instead to get to the bottom of the emotional conflict, and heal yourself emotionally.

For even more tips on how to prevent the physical, environmental and emotional triggers for cancer, check out my 12 tips to prevent cancer, which are outlined in this past article.


Related Links:

  Sunshine Increases Survival Rate of Lung Cancer

  Red Wine Reduces Lung Cancer Risks

  Lung Cancer Killing More Women Who Don't Smoke




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Posted On Mar 28, 2008
Again that lovely little little circle:

'A' sells an addictive product that causes cancer and takes some of the profit to fund a study so B will detect the cancer.  B detects the cancer and writes a script for C. 

Now A is making $s, B is making $s and C is making $s.  If we avoid cancer, who makes money?????????

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Posted On Mar 28, 2008
You have to admit, it is a brilliant business strategy. It's a pity so many people fall for the brilliance of this kind of bovine excrement.

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Posted On Mar 28, 2008
Yep...Prevention pays nothing, but Treatment is the motherload!

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Posted On Mar 27, 2008
It wouldn't be the first time the little darlings have deceived the public.

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Posted On Mar 28, 2008
Smoking is not a direct cause of lung cancer or any other cancer. All smoking does is supply your body with many, many molecules that are missing many, many electrons, and many molecules that damage the immune system like many, many other things such as, breathing.

The reason some certain organizations are so free with tax payers money is because the tax payer allows them to do so.

Yes we could ban everything unhealthy if we could find enough qualified brain surgeons to cure the bi-cameral mind?

Yes we could live happlily ever after if we could cure the bi-cameral government.

We could throw out the words of oppression and take action on living in freedom instead.

Some studies are useless. I find in many articles are filled with I.I.B.S. syndrome but never any cures. We could throw out I.I.B.S. syndrome and take our health and all other issues in our own hands.

The next time we vote we could cast a vote for ourselves instead of casting a vote for someone who is running for public office!

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Posted On Mar 28, 2008
Too bad Ron Paul is not one of our choices this November.

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Posted On Mar 29, 2008
You have some very interresting and well taken points Jonny. To make it short, I guess I would find, nominate, vote for, and heavily support John Gault.

The rest would be my own decission if I wanted to continue to live under a hard soverign hammer.

For in the eyes of the creators, it is better for one to perish than a whole soverign created system to fall. But, what if all others would chose to stand with that one?

All makes the decission if they want to live under the hard ruling hand of a soverign empire, and all makes the decission if they want to live under the kind hand of freedom and truth and what's right and what's wrong, lest we forget who we are.

For the one that is one, is far more powerful than the many who are many! The rest is just an image floating in a wondering fog!

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Posted On Mar 30, 2008
"Smoking is not a direct cause of lung cancer or any other cancer. All smoking does is supply your body with many, many molecules that are missing many, many electrons, and many molecules that damage the immune system like many, many other things such as, breathing."


Auto accidents are not a direct cause of death or any other kind of injury.
All auto accidents do is supply your body with many, many G's of deccelerant force that damage tissue like many, many many other things such as, sports.

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Posted On Mar 28, 2008
"In 2006, cancer researchers were jolted by a controversial new study claiming that 80 percent of lung cancer deaths could be prevented through widespread use of CT scans."

Talk about putting the horse before the cart.
How about not smoking, or banning the cancer sticks altogether huh........But wait up, no that's gonna be way to costly for tobacco companies, big pharma and YES UNCLE SAM.....

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Posted On Mar 28, 2008
I agree with Jonny why not ban everything that is unhealthy for human consumption?  The bottom line is people have choices to consume whatever products they like, healthy or unhealthy.  So the company helped fund this research, isn't that what we expect them to do?  We sue them, collect the money and tell them to do more for their clients health.  Well they did and now we are all upset about it.   If "all" smokers had yearly  CT lung screenings, lung tumors at early stages would be diagnosed, treatment would commence, and the percentage of death from lung cancer would drop.  Now who is going to fund the CT lung screenings?  The cigarette companies, the hospitals, "Us" with an increase in tax? 

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Posted On Mar 28, 2008
There is no such thing as a "free country" guys......Show me one......and don't tell me the US or Canada please.......
People needs to be more educated so they can make better choices not only for themselves for but others as well..........

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Posted On Mar 28, 2008
They have to be kidding. CT scans use ionising radiation which increases your chances of getting cancer. No way would you find me willingly undergoing a CT scan.

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Posted On Mar 29, 2008
Hello. I am new to vital votes.

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Posted On Apr 19, 2008

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Welcome.

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Posted On Mar 28, 2008
Edward Bernays pulled stunts like this during his career. He knew that if he could get the word out first, credibility would favor him and his clients.

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