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"Tom Toast" from Gallergy of the Absurd.

The New York Post reports Tom Cruise will be visiting New York for a gala on April 19 to benefit the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, a controversial "detox" program for 9/11 workers.

Cruise, a Scientologist, helped open a clinic in downtown Manhattan after the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. The clinic offers free Scientology-inspired treatments to firefighters, cops and other rescue workers exposed to high levels of toxins at Ground Zero. Tickets for the fund-raiser range from $6,250 to $100,000. WTF?! $100,000? Do you get to smack Cruise in the head twenty times for that price?!

The detox procedure reportedly includes high doses of niacin, the ingesting of cold-pressed oil and longs intervals in a sauna — is not endorsed by New York City's Fire or Police departments but some rescue workers brainwashed by Cruise say the program has helped them.