Another great article by Dr. Carl Phillips (he's on a roll lately):
New claims about burden of disease from smokeless tobacco are utter junk (the short version) | Anti-THR Lies and related topics
New claims about burden of disease from smokeless tobacco are utter junk (the short version) | Anti-THR Lies and related topics
There have been a spate of claims recently, stemming from this junk science paper (“Global burden of disease due to smokeless tobacco consumption in adults: analysis of data from 113 countries” by Kamran Siddiqi, Sarwat Shah, Syed Muslim Abbas, Aishwarya Vidyasagaran, Mohammed Jawad, Omara Dogar and Aziz Sheikh) that there is some huge health burden from smokeless tobacco. This piece of utter crap — bad even by the standards of tobacco control “research” — deserves a detailed point-by-point critique, but it is just so bad that I cannot stand to do it right now. So I am going to provide the short version.