"What you are witnessing is the New Prohibition. It is the Volstead Act all over again, in different guises. It aims to enforce clean living by edict. And it is almost certain to fail, as greatly as the last Prohibition failed in the 1920s."

THE MAJOR ERRORS OF JOURNALISM'S "BIG GUNS" - GOVERNMENT'S TWO-FACED TOBACCO POLICY - "The EPA's fraud was minor compared to the government's pretense that smoking costs it money. Various studies demonstrate that government reaps substantial savings because of the premature deaths of smokers who (by the way, cigarettes are the most heavily taxed consumer good) collect few, if any, retirement, health care and nursing home benefits," George Wills says.

But the problem of Wills (and too many other writers) is that the rest of his article really stinks from the factual and attitudinal point of view. First, he opens up by kissing the sitting area of the readers' majority with sentences like: "Let us stipulate that the companies, without which the world would be better…", then he continues with anecdotes that are supposed to remove all doubt about the "known" harmful effects of tobacco. But of course he does not bring a shred of proof to sustain his position - simply because he cannot.

Wills concentrates on the hypocrisy of the US government but -- out of ignorance or political convenience -- he ignores the fact that THERE IS NO SOLID PROOF about ANY of the deadly diseases attributed to tobacco. He simply caters to the popular folklore that smoking is no good for you, and calls cigarettes "nail coffins".

For as long as the lack of proof (and statistical attributions are no proof) is not challenged and re-examined, no argument about free speech and state hypocrisy will make any significant dent in the public opinion. For as long as people of the calibre of Wills proceed from assumptions that become assertions about the dangers of tobacco without looking into the facts themselves, the argument that health policy must override freedom and justice will prevail.

It is time the attention of the "big guns" of journalism be called on the fraudulent aspects of the anti-tobacco movement and its junk science. This, of course, assumes that those "big guns" have the maturity to revise their prejudice by looking at the facts - and the courage and the honesty to expose the lies they discover.

In the meantime, we cannot find it in our heart to cheer on people like Wills who, while on one hand rightfully accuse governments of hypocrisy, on the other hand validate the very frauds that are used by those governments to act hypocritically.

ANTI-TOBACCO CHILD MOLESTERS: WHAT THEY DO TO OUR CHILDREN - A BUS OF LIES - "During their 45-minute journey through the tobacco education bus, the students sat in the "Stench" family living room, visited a school bathroom with a toilet full of cigarette butts and stepped on a gigantic tongue that coughed."

The morbid attack on children's minds and their conditioning through displays of exaggeration and false information continues in California in pure, irresponsible anti-smoking style. Not having real facts and arguments to bring forward to persuade people rationally, the anti-tobacco fascists have no choice but to resort to the imposition of their frauds on fragile children with the force of the state.

And hear the arrogance of these criminals: "Anything we can do to help children make good choices -- about drugs, alcohol or smoking -- is worth the effort." And WHO is to establish what the "good choices" are -- FAMILIES or the health gangsters?

CON MEN DIVERSIFY - ``California has always been a bellwether state on issues related to gun violence,'' Daynard said. ``This has to be very bad news for the gun industry.''

What anti-tobacco operative Richard Daynard is talking about is a decision by some activist judges to allow a suit against a gun manufacturer to go forward. The suit seeks to hold the gun maker liable for the deaths that ensued when a maniac stormed a San Francisco law firm. The plaintiffs claim that the manufacturer "negligently marketed its guns to criminals".

Aside from the absurdity of suing a manufacturer for the deaths caused by a deranged criminal, two aspects of this report are pertinent to the tobacco issue.

First, the myopia of the gun industry and second amendment advocates is stunning. Last year when Charlton Heston, President of the National Rifle Association, became a shill for a new California tobacco tax, the organization responded to outraged NRA members and smokers by lamely stating that they had no position on the tax initiative and that tobacco is a "health" issue. As the same junk science, media propaganda and judicial activism used against smokers and cigarette companies is now brought to bear against gun owners and the gun industry, the NRA is now in the sad position of watching the chickens come home to roost.

Second, and most relevant to smokers, is the appearance of Richard Daynard in a story about gun suits. Richard Daynard, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law, is a well known anti-tobacco operative who has received millions of dollars in federal grants to traverse the country educating ambulance chasing lawyers on how to effectively take on the tobacco industry. It appears that Daynard is now branching out to assault other legal businesses. After enriching himself by shaking down the gun manufacturers, at taxpayer expense, he will surely move on to other businesses targeted by the trial lawyers and their political patrons. It's an excellent living courtesy of the American public.

FASCISM AND THE CAMPAIGN TO END SMOKING - "From the vantage point of a late-20th-century observer, the public health policies of the National Socialists who ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945 seem surprisingly modern. Those policies are illuminated in Robert N. Proctor's most recent work, The Nazi War on Cancer (Princeton University Press, 1999), which documents the war against cancer and other public health campaigns by the Nazis. A historian of science at Pennsylvania State University, Prof. Proctor has written extensively on medicine, public health and their relations with politics, especially with National Socialism."

The National Post publishes this splendid piece by Pierre Lemieux. Visit Pierre Lemieux's "Subversive Liberty" Site.

THE GLOBAL BUSINESS OF SUING TOBACCO - "The march of science through the tobacco fields took another bizarre turn the other day with a report that claimed to show that non-smoking men have sex more often than smokers, and enjoyed it more. Whatever the remote plausibility of the claim, based on 290 men who were allegedly "studied" during the research, it disappeared by the fourth paragraph of the news story, which said that non-smokers between the ages of 24 and 36 were having sex 12 times a week. Maybe that explains what all the young reporters in the newsroom do during their lunch breaks.

More likely, though, the report is another bit of propaganda from the anti-tobacco industry, a vast and lucrative global enterprise...."

This article by Terence Corcoran also reveals the outrageous state payment to anti-tobacco parasites like Garfield Mahood, who pretends to represent non-smokers while actually representing a hateful organisation that exists and gets rich almost exclusively with with Canadian taxpayers' money.

CHEAP JUNK SCIENCE COMMENTED BY CANADIAN SCIENTISTS: "WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND…" - "NON-SMOKING MEN HAVE SEX MORE OFTEN - AND ENJOY IT MORE TOO" - Says who?… Has anti-tobacco junk science made it to our bedrooms yet? No - not yet. This piece of garbage is based on the usual self-reporting by smokers and non-smokers where non-smokers boast more than smokers. Poor science - reduced to take notes of who is bragging the most about his bed!

Wow! TWELVE times a week? Hey, married and unmarried people out there, what are you doing? The "protagonists" of this latest piece of science fiction are getting it so often, we wonder if they get around to accomplish anything productive!

"We do not understand…," say Canadian junk scientists, maybe really believing that some fool out there can take the issue of smoking and potency seriously. Canadian junk science continues to distinguish itself either for blatant exaggerations and frauds about smoking, or for being a side-kicking lackey of American junk scientists. After the recent "French Paradox" now is the time, once again, of smoking and potency.

Smokers have successfully reproduced for over 500 years, and they had/have children like anybody else. The most famous lovers were smokers. All smokers can confidently say that they have a normal sex life, both from reproductive and libido points of view.

But since a couple of years ago, where yet another lie was added to the already immense anti-smoking Library of Frauds, the anti-tobacco cartel and its paid minion scientists want to rewrite both history and medicine even when faced with the most blatant reality. Five hundred years of successful sex and reproduction in the West and countless thousands of years among the American Indians mean nothing to these bozos. Every-day life means nothing also.

Nothing means anything for a hate industry that is gone so amok and so blind; it can only listen to itself and build colossal superstructures on fraudulent foundations and exponential exaggerations. And for that, it is getting political and financial rewards by equally schizophrenic and corrupt governments.

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FEDERAL TYRANNY MARCHES ON - "Last week, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno made good on President Clinton's State of the Union address threat to sue tobacco manufacturers to recover federal health-care costs associated with cigarette smoking-related illnesses. This most recent attempt at extortion of cigarette manufacturers, and ultimately smokers, should raise all sorts of red flags. "

TAXPAYER GROUP: FEDS' NEW TOBACCO SUIT WILL BLOAT GOVERNMENT, NOT SHRINK TAXPAYER BURDENS - ' As the U.S. Justice Department today announced a massive federal lawsuit against tobacco companies in order to "recover" money for taxpayers "injured" by smokers' "costs," a study by the non-partisan National Taxpayers Union Foundation (NTUF) should serve as an important warning: Far from reducing tax or health care burdens, settlement funds from similar state-level lawsuits are already lining lawyers' pockets and pumping up pork-barrelers. '

WHAT WOULDN'T THEY DO TO HIDE THE TRUTH? - RED WINE MAY COMBAT SMOKING 'FRENCH PARADOX' STUDIED - Anti-smoking junk scientists go to any extent to deny that smoking is not as harmful as they claim. Since the French drink a lot and smoke a lot, and it is not possible to otherwise explain how they are in average healthier than other populations (i.e.: North Americans) who smoke less and drink less (the drinking issue is arguable), we now have the "French Paradox"…

Of course, it would not be a paradox at all if only we would admit that smoking is not that bad… but God forbid such heresy! Thus here comes the junky, but politically correct, explanation from the new alchemists. It is a compound in red wine that reduces the "ill effects" of smoking!

Go climb a tree.

HOW NOT TO REGULATE TOBACCO - "Let's see if we've got this right. The federal government pays subsidies to tobacco farmers. It collects taxes on tobacco products. For fully a generation it has required cigarette makers to post a health warning on each pack. And now, this same government is suing the tobacco industry, charging that it conspired to defraud and mislead the American public. A question: Can you sue the government for fraud?"

EXPOSING THE MOVERS OF THE ANTI-TOBACCO CARTEL: WHAT ABOUT SCIENTOLOGY? - HIGH PROFILE COUPLE NEVER PAIRS CHURCH AND STATE - Anti-tobacco gangsters are always preoccupied to make those who expose their frauds appear as if they are corrupt and weirdoes. What better method can exist but reflecting one's image on someone else to hide who you really are?

Call the looted a looter, call the victim a thief, call the normal a weirdo and you'll be all set. That has always been what worked in times of social oppression and ethical aberration. Those who set up to save the world have indeed sold themselves to the devil. This seems to be the case of the notorious anti-tobacco cartel operatives mentioned in this article.

And rabidly anti-smoking CNN should be considered a reliable source of information?! But it is indisputable that these are the opinion-makers of today's "progressive," anti-smoking America.

A FEDERAL TOBACCO LAWSUIT: BAD ECONOMICS, BAD LAW AND BAD GOVERNING - Interesting article by The National Center for Public Policy Research:

"The way some politicians go on about tobacco, you'd never know that it is government's fine coffers that profit the most from cigarettes.

Has any politician ever mentioned that government rakes in 53 cents per pack of cigarettes sold1 while tobacco companies make about 28 cents?

The 53 cents, by the way, doesn't include the money from the unprecedented $246 billion tobacco companies agreed to give the states. If you don't think that adds a pretty penny to the government's take, you're, well, smoking something."

WHERE THERE IS SMOKE... - Editorial on the shamelessness of the US Government:

"Attention press flacks, advertising executives and publishers. Have you put out a press release or published an ad in defense of a politically incorrect industry? Have you, on behalf of that industry, used your First Amendment freedoms to criticize a government official? If so, the Justice Department may have a few questions for you. You may be guilty of racketeering.

Press releases and advertisements turn out to be key evidence in the suit Attorney General Janet Reno announced the department is filing against the tobacco industry."

NOT ENOUGH STOMACH TO DO IT: SOME DECENCY STILL EXISTS - BOARD REJECTS VALLEY HI SMOKE BAN - "After five months of work, the McHenry County Board's Valley Hi Committee has failed to convince a majority of the full board to support a move to make Valley Hi Nursing Home a no-smoking facility.

By a 15-8 vote, the board this week decided to allow smoking in the 117-bed facility. The committee had recommended that the county adopt an admissions policy to bar new residents from smoking in the building. Current residents who smoke would have been allowed to continue to do so.

'Good Lord, they're 80 years old. Give them a break,' said board member William Dwyer, who opposed the committee recommendation."

Right. But there is more to it than that. Some of those people have risked their lives to protect the liberty of those who now have contempt of them. With their cigarettes in their mouths, they have put it all on the line for a nation that is quickly turning into what these people have fought against.

The anti-tobacco bastards are arguing that it is hypocritical to permit smoking and then cure the diseases that smoking is "causing". It is not hypocritical, for 99% of the disease they are curing is not "caused" by smoking, since there is very little proof that smoking causes 1/100 of the disease attributed to it. For this reason, those who accuse the Board of hypocrisy are guilty of fraud or, at least, of unforgivable incompetence.

In one sentence, they should be ashamed of themselves.

GULIELMUS, QUO VADIS CUM TUO CIGARRO? (Bill, where do you go with your cigar?) - DESPITE TOBACCO SUIT CLINTON CAN'T KICK THE HABIT - More on the hypocrisy of the Commander-in-Chief of the anti-tobacco cartel - just as false as the cartel's "science" itself!

TEENS CAN SEE THROUGH THE LIES OF THE CARTEL - 7 STATES, D.C. LOSE GRANTS FOR FAILING TO CUT TEEN SMOKING - Despite all the efforts of 'the experts', those teenagers just keep right on smoking. Teens can see through the lies and propaganda of the anti-tobacco cartel. They can see the absurd claims, the corruption, the falsification of evidence, the stale rhetoric, and the political correctness to cover it all.

Thank you, youth of America. Keep on puffing. One day soon, you will have the opportunity to smoke out political gangsterism, and return America to its fundamental values of individualism and personal liberty, whether you smoke or not.

THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT MOVES FOR THE FINAL LOOT - U.S. PLANS MASSIVE TOBACCO CIVIL SUIT - Not satisfied with the over 200 billion dollars stolen from the pockets of American smokers, anti-tobacco gangsters want to rob much more:

"U.S. Plans Massive Tobacco Civil Suit" The Washington Post reports, "The Justice Department plans to file a mammoth civil lawsuit against the major tobacco companies as early as today, alleging that cigarette smoking costs the federal government billions of dollars annually in health-related expenses and seeking to recover those funds on behalf of taxpayers, sources familiar with the matter said yesterday."

' "They are trying to do in the courts what they weren't able to do through legislation. They tried to impose burdensome tax increases on the sale of cigarettes, and Congress rejected that effort. Now, they are trying to use the court system to essentially impose a tax," said Gregory Little, associate general counsel of Philip Morris USA, the nation's largest tobacco company. '

"The true reality is this will be a difficult case. The charges are serious. And the claims have substantial merit. But no one knows how this lawsuit's going to come out. For the tobacco industry, this is Russian roulette. If they lose, they lose big," says an anti-tobacco gang operative.

True, for a change. But if the industry wins, will the anti-tobacco scum be wiped off the face of the US, and will its operatives face trial and jail for their endless and unspeakable frauds? Will this ultimate outrage by the US Administration convince the tobacco industry to give to the criminal anti-tobacco cartel what it wants, and SHUT DOWN OPERATIONS AS EARLY AS TODAY? Finally, will the tobacco industry precipitate the US into social chaos, crime and smuggle? The tobacco industry should do it without hesitation, and without worrying about its stocks, for after wiping off anti-tobacco, the tobacco stocks would soar to levels never reached before. After all, why should they behave responsibly with those who want to eliminate them?

But all that is unlikely. Like the prostitute, who gets into bed with those who want to murder her, the tobacco industry seems to be still under the enchantment of its killers.

 

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The only crystal-clear purpose of the cartel is to bankrupt and nationalise the tobacco industry, and ripe huge profits while controlling a large segment of the population. The tobacco industry has the power to save us from that, even at the cost of creating social chaos. But it lacks the balls to do it, and all smokers pay - and not just with dollars.

THE COMPLAINT OF UNITED STATES CARTEL AGAINST THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY

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CRIME PAYS - LAWYERS IN FLORIDA'S BIG TOBACCO REAP $50 MIL - "Lawyers in Fla.'s Big Tobacco Reap $50 Mil" The Law News Network reports, "The opposition has ended to a $349 million settlement in a suit two Miami attorneys brought against the tobacco industry on behalf of airline flight attendants exposed to onboard smoke.

That clears the way for Stanley and Susan Rosenblatt to receive as much as $49 million in fees and costs this week, ending an eight-year battle that resulted in no money for their clients."

Well, the clients have to learn not to hold the ladder for the thieves, bacause the smart thieves get the loot and the fools are left holding the ladder.

In times of moral inversion, we must congratulate the thieves for what they have achieved notwithstanding the ABSOLUTE LACK OF PROOF OF ANY DANGER WHATSOEVER to health by second-hand smoke.

Dear thieves, keep on stealing. The system rewards you well, your fellow gangsters in the anti-tobacco cartel salute you, society at large does not care, and the victims don't really seem to mind, and all's well with the world.

Who says that crime does not pay? All you have to do is to be on the right side of the law, and when you'r not, just change the law. Simple, no?...

THIS IS ANTI-TOBACCO: THE ANTISMOKING OUTRAGE DU JOUR - EPISODE II - SMOKER ON WHEELCHAIR WANTED FOR HIT-AND-RUN: HE SMOKED OUTSIDE BUT REFUSED TO CLOSE THE DOOR! - After the blind guy victimised by a sting operation, now they're going after the lame.

Marina Del Rey. A paraplegic smoker waits for the dentist. He feels like smoking, but of course he cannot exercise his right. So he goes outside, but he does not close the door behind him. Great mistake: didn't he know that second-hand smoke kills on contact, and that he loses all rights when he exercise his right to smoke?!

Commanded to close the door by the non-paraplegic receptions, he ignores the order. When the receptionist finally closes the door herself, his humiliation and exasperation explode. Now the man is wanted by the police. More inside.

Of course, the psychological consequences of repression and discrimination on smoking, the vilification of the self and the resentment thereby created by social marginalisation are not even a thought by the criminal antismoking activist, the dishonest politician or the imbecile layperson. Prostitutes, thieves, even child molesters have rights, but smokers have none if they smoke. This is the "wisdom" of "progressive" America. Do you like what you see? What are you going to DO about that?

But here is the $1,000 question: who is the criminal in this true story?

CIGARETTE TERRORISM - ' Forget all that. All the fanatics care about is the negative side of the ledger, and if they have to ignore facts to achieve their goal, no matter. Actually, all the fanatics really care about is power, obtaining the power to run other people's lives, by any means necessary -- distortion, misinformation, and outright lies. You better live your life the way these little tin-pot tyrants demand, or they will use the power of the State to beat you into submission. Leftists call this "compassion". In fact, it might be more appropriate to describe those tactics as "terrorism". State sponsored terrorism. '

FASCISM IN NEW YORK - HIZZONER ISN'T HOT ON TOUGHER ANTI-SMOKING LAW - "SMOKING foes who are pressing the city to strengthen the 1995 Smoke-free Air Act are about to run into some major roadblocks.

Insiders said Mayor Giuliani has reservations about a proposal presented to City Council leaders two weeks ago that would ban smoking in bars, private offices and all restaurants."

Mr. Giuliani may find that a total ban is not be politically advantageous at this stage. Remember that Guiliani is running for the Senate (against La Clinton), and he probably won't want to alienate some of his campaign donors (smokers, small businesses, bar owners, restaurant and bar associations, and some big buck donors) or potential supporters and voters.

Short of this considerations, it is hard to believe that Giuliani has any concept about respect for the rights of smokers. Anti-tobacco fascists should indeed see eye-to-eye with Rudy, for behaviour control and iron fist of politics have always distinguished Giuliani to the point of speculating that his real name may actually be Benito even by those who believe in, and support, police states.

Of course, to date, the New York Post is the only newspaper that has seen fit to publish the news about the total ban. The rest of the press obviously prefers to "keep it quiet," keep the people in ignorance and then trumpet after the fact about the new "progress" towards a healthy police state -- the ultimate dream of today's America, it appears.