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Prohibition Through the Hookah Looking-Glass
Kamal Chaouachi (TICAP, The Hague, 15 March 2010)
Johann Neander, 1622.
Prohibition Through the Hookah Looking-Glass
Kamal Chaouachi (TICAP, The Hague, 15 March 2010)
The globalisation of hookah smoking ( © Satoshi Kambayashi)
Prohibition Through the Hookah Looking-Glass
Kamal Chaouachi (TICAP, The Hague, 15 March 2010)
Source: Lebanese media. Re-published in Rima Nakkash's audiovisual presentation at WCTOH
(World Conference on Tobacco OR Health, Mumbai, India, 10 Mar 2009)
Prohibition Through the Hookah Looking-Glass
Kamal Chaouachi (TICAP, The Hague, 15 March 2010)
« She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped
over the edge of the mushroom, and her eyesover the edge of the mushroom, and her eyes
immediately met those of a large blue caterpillar,
that was sitting on the top with its arms folded,
quietly smoking a long hookah, and taking not the
smallest notice of her or of anything else. »
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Prohibition Through the Hookah Looking-Glass
Kamal Chaouachi (TICAP, The Hague, 15 March 2010)
Description: Glowing charcoal, poked aluminium foil, tobacco-molasses mixture, vertical stem, valve, water vessel, suction hose.
Prohibition Through the Hookah Looking-Glass
Kamal Chaouachi (TICAP, The Hague, 15 March 2010)
Johann Neander, 1622.
Prohibition Through the Hookah Looking-Glass
Kamal Chaouachi (TICAP, The Hague, 15 March 2010)
Shirazi, 1535: "Your lips make qalyân draw enjoyment. Its mouthpiece becomes like a sweet. This is not smoke around your face. But a cloud whirling around the moon..."
Source: Semsar H., cited in K.C.'s book (1997)
Prohibition Through the Hookah Looking-Glass
Kamal Chaouachi (TICAP, The Hague, 15 March 2010)
Prohibition Through the Hookah Looking-Glass
Kamal Chaouachi (TICAP, The Hague, 15 March 2010)
Credit: © K.C. and/or with permission from : Nepal (G. Toffin); China (J.C Garnier); Iran (Bucharest Museum); Meduse pipes.
Prohibition Through the Hookah Looking-Glass
Kamal Chaouachi (TICAP, The Hague, 15 March 2010)
Top right: Exhaled MainStreamSmoke and Side-Stream Smoke (credit: Formindep)
Left: WHO recycled photomontage, i.e. fake poster (INPES, France)
Prohibition Through the Hookah Looking-Glass
Kamal Chaouachi (TICAP, The Hague, 15 March 2010)
© Credit: K.C.; Teubner&Godert ; Effat; Afifi_Soweid (Tob Control 2005;14:363_4)
Prohibition Through the Hookah Looking-Glass
Kamal Chaouachi (TICAP, The Hague, 15 March 2010)
Credit :Phospohore, Paris (left); Sam Sherraden, News, GW Hatchet 10 Nov 2005 (right, top); The First Post, UK, 21 Jan 2006 (right, bottom)
Prohibition Through the Hookah Looking-Glass
Kamal Chaouachi (TICAP, The Hague, 15 March 2010)
Protest against ban (The Olympian, 13 Dec 2005). Photo: Steven M Herppich
Prohibition Through the Hookah Looking-Glass
Kamal Chaouachi (TICAP, The Hague, 15 March 2010)
““REGULATION”” projects ““in agreement”” with the FCTC (Framework Convention for Tobacco the FCTC (Framework Convention for Tobacco Control)
““Labelling”” of hookah smoking mixtures (based on a so-called ““standardised”” smoking machine of the US-American University of Beirut :
Tar: 802 mg (vs. 10 mg for 1 cigarettes)[note: undisclosed (on purpose) proportion of glycerol and no information given on the composition of the tar information given on the composition of the tar produced at very low temperatures]
Nicotine : 2.94 mg (vs. 1 mg for 1 cigarette)
CO: 342 mg (vs. 10 mg for 1 cigarette)-----------------
Left : Inexistent studies and pseudo-science at the US-American University of Beirut (funding: $3 million by US National Cancer Institute).