Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes and Usher stepped out Wednesday hosted a fundraiser for the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project.

Tom Cruise launched this project in the wake of September 11 to help firefighters who were exposed to hazardous materials circulating in the air following the collapse of the World Trade Center.

"I started this project out of the great respect I have for the courage and service of the rescue workers," Tom Cruise told the crowd, as quoted by MTV News. "When I started this project, it was because I was in a position where I knew that I could help."

Tom Cruise has urged firefighters injured in the September 11 terrorism attacks to quit using their medication and inhalers and start drinking oil instead, ABC News reported.

The controversial "detoxification" is based on Scientology principles, not scientific ones, and the method of flushing poisons from the rescue workers' bodies involves an intense regimen of jogging, sauna and ingesting oils and high doses of niacin.

Not surprisingly, the unorthodox program has been slammed as ridiculous and potentially harmful by members of the medical profession. So far, Tom Cruise has raised $1.6 million for the detox program. 

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