Smoking
Policies: A Question of Good Management - "Hospitals,
which led the race toward prohibition in the mid-80s, are now
spearheading the return to designated smoking areas. For them
prohibition produced three major problems."
Lies,
Damn Lies...A Closer Look At Statistics On Smoking And Health
- Every schoolboy used to know that Disraeli is supposed
to have said "There are three kinds of lies; lies,damned
lies and statistics". Another Tory MP, Dr.Charles (later
Lord) Hill, quipped: "Figures don't lie, but liars can
figure". Such jibes find ready targets in the rough and
tumble of party politics, but surely they could not apply to
scientists concerned with concocting health warnings on smoking?
If you believe that, read on.
Smoking, Health Risks And
Free Choice - - Another wonderful article coming to
us from Forest, the pro-choice on
smoking from Great Britain, on the use of tobacco, the reality of
some claimed health risks and debunking the secondhand smoke
hysteria. The use of health hysteria on the public is not new,
but it seems to have made a strong comeback...indirectly, thanks
to the antismoking activists. The neo-prohibitionists will not
stop with tobacco, but will continue on. The top heavy health
care industry will see to that so their funding doesn't get cut
off. - By Paul Anderton. The fourth in
a series of articles from Forest. - Courtesy of
FORCES U.S.A.
The
Political Abuse Of Children: A Critique Of The Parents Against
Tobacco Campaign - Another beautiful article
from FOREST, the British
pro-choice-on-smoking organization. This article explores the
exploitation of children for the purpose of anti-smoker
propaganda. Unfortunately, history teaches us that children have
always been exploited as tools for persecution. The persecution
of smokers is no exception. - By Chris Cooper.
Introduction by Lord Harris of High Cross.
Smoking
And Its Enemies: A Short History Of 500 Years Of The Use And
Prohibition Of Tobacco - by Sean Gabb
- A beautiful essay coming to us from Forest in
Great Britain, on the history of tobacco prohibition. The
repression on tobacco is not new. It has happened many times
before...for repression itself is as old as man.
The Historical Origins Of Health Fascism - Dr.
Stephen Davies is scrupulous in demonstrating the origins of
health fascism in his treatment of two separate medical
controversies occurring in England. His short study of compulsory
vaccination and eugenics is relevant to the anti-smoking movement
in several key aspects, notably the process by which education on
a health issue quickly turns into coercion and persecution when
people don't heed the advice of their betters. Dr. Davies reveals
the inherent elitism behind the compulsion employed in the past
as well as the compulsion surfacing today.
The
Critique of Health Scares and State Paternalism -
This powerful article from England, written by Chris
R. Tame and David
Botsford, wonderfully describes the tremendous
danger of the "health scare" movement and its mental
and political dynamics. It contemplates the corruption of media,
evidence and science to create a lucrative, self-perpetuating
loop that ensures profits and control, as well as loss of liberty
and spontaneity. This is also the closing article of the book
"Not Just Tobacco"
