Indonesian clinic touts smoking as cancer cure

JAKARTA: An Indonesian woman smoke a cigarette in his mouth exhales a thin, naked patient in a clinic in Jakarta, where tobacco is openly presented as a cure against cancer.

Patient West emphysema, a condition she developed decades of smoking. With cancer and autism is simply one of the evils of clinical Griya Balur claims he can cure him with cigarettes.

"I missed it, "said the woman, a regular customer, with an American accent, like Phil Collins? s "I Can Feel It" sounds in the background.

Griya Balur would be closed in many parts of the world but not in Indonesia, a developing new frontiers for big tobacco, which seeks to replace its declining profits in the health-conscious West.

A long tradition of tobacco use combined with poor regulation and billions of dollars flowing into government coffers from the tobacco industry: places like Griya Balur challenged.