“Stop depriving yourself! “, urge the capital letters in red and orange on the cover of the book. David Khayat is sorry: “No one can bite into a millefeuille or dip into a portion of French fries without panicking. “ In his last bestseller, published at the beginning of the year (Albin Michel, 224 pages, 19.90 euros), the famous oncologist sets out to attack “New diktats” of the’“Hygiene”, of the “Moral judicialization” what would be the quest for good health, a source of“A permanent and insidious stress of which the executioner is the guilt”.
Alcohol, sugar or salt would be simple “Cute sins of everyday life” that the doctor, fortified by his title of professor, recommends approaching with good humor. “Everything is possible today”, he assures by relying on press articles rather than scientific data. Everything is possible, according to him, even tobacco, leading cause of preventable cancer death worldwide.
For those who cannot quit smoking, David Khayat advises in his book of“Try electronic cigarettes or cigarettes made from heated tobacco, which are much less dangerous”, for “Get nicotine in a less toxic way”. Cigarette kills 75,000 people per year in France, according to Public Health France. Also, according to him, it is better to offer smokers “Something less carcinogenic rather than denying them a reduced risk smoking”. This so-called “risk reduction” approach is far from gaining unanimity in the world of public health. In the absence of sufficient hindsight to observe the possible harmful effects of these devices, the World Health Organization (WHO) disapproved.
A “smoke-free world”
This precept, applied in the treatment of drug addiction, has however been used by the tobacco industry to promote these new electronic products. Philip Morris, in particular, has been selling the IQOS since 2014, a heated tobacco device which it claims “reduced risks”. The studies that it sponsors assure it: since it does not reach combustion temperature, the tobacco of mini-cigarettes inserted in the IQOS would release between 90% and 95% less harmful substances.
However, his readers are not informed, but David Khayat is now a consultant at Philip Morris. For to pose all smiles on the site of “Philip Morris International Science” in the company of employees of the manufacturer of Marlboro, the founder of the National Cancer Institute (INCa) has traded the authority of the white coat, which he has for a long time draped on the cover of his recipe books “Anticancer”, for the patterned tie.
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