The New Cancer Treatment: Cigarettes!

Cigarettes are one doctor’s main weapon in the treatment of cancer in Indonesia.

The news was reported in today’s Jakarta post – usually a fairly decent newspaper (I used to read it regularly when I lived in Indonesia) although given to the odd strange article.

Apparently, the good doctor has developed a special cigarette which captures and extracts poisonous metals from the body.

Here’s the clip from the newspaper:

Seventy-one-year-old Greta Zahar, who holds a PhD in nanochemistry from the Bandung-based University of Padjadjaran, has been researching and developing specially treated cigarettes and cigarette filters, which she dubs the Divine Cigarette and Divine Filter, for more than a decade. She developed a detoxification process called balur (smear) treatment, which uses smoke from Divine Cigarettes as a conduit to capture and extract poisonous metal such as mercury from the body – a process she believes can be beneficial in treating cancer and several other diseases.

Source: Jakarta Post

A quick internet search reveals a website called Divine Cigarette: The Mechanism of the Process.

In addition to extolling the benefits of Divine Cigarettes, it also questions whether cigarettes are really toxic, before going on to attack the pharmaceutical companies and anti-smoking movement for launching an anti-nicotine war against tobacco.

After all, as she she points out, the evidence against has not been corraborated by a respectable scientist:

…there has never been an Indonesian researcher who scientifically reported that impotency and cancer is definitely caused by smoking. It is very puzzling however, that Indonesian cigarette companies are willing to print government health warnings on their cigarette packets.

God, who would trust a non-Indonesian scientist! I mean what medical advances has the rest of the world made?

So does smoking cause cancer:

The answer is: no one has ever proven it. No one really knows what causes cancer.

Hmm. Personally, and while I am sceptical about passive smoking, I am convinced by the British doctor’s study, which followed tens of thousands of smoking and non-smoking British doctors for decades to provide pretty convincing proof that cigarettes are bad for you.

Sounds to me like the lady is either a nutter,  or is being financed by the Indonesian tobacco lobby, which still retains immense power.

Regardless of her motivation, I can’t wait to see the reaction of ASH America’s John Banzhaf III. In fact, I think I’ll send the story on to him personally.

Tags: cancer treatment, divine cigarettes, smoking

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