CONCLUSION: These people are aware of the realities listed above, but they have found an endless supply of money that they are exploiting at the expenses of society.

SOVIET-STYLE PROPAGANDA IN CALIFORNIA -- THE GANGSTERS ARE FEELING THE BACKPRESSURE - THE GOVERNMENT SMOKESCREEN - The state-funded antismoker organisations in California are sparing no (taxpayer) expense in a Soviet-style propaganda against second-hand smoke, trying to convince the population that second-hand smoke is dangerous to people.

That of course is a fraud, and the monumental evidence against that needs to be discussed no further.

It is interesting to observe that the anti-tobacco cartel, though provided with virtually unlimited funds, gets into a total tantrum about second-hand smoke. Just like the child that, after all, did not get the attention he wanted, the Californian anti-tobacco cartel thinks that if the message is yelled, the message is believed - or that people will give in due to "wear and tear". All totalitarian regimes have used this technique, with the only result that people simply became totally indifferent to the propaganda, with the exception, perhaps, of a few weak-minded individuals -- and that is the way it should be. Obviously, history is no lesson for the Californian cartel. If it were, that would presume the presence of intelligence.

Instead, all the cartel is achieving is just an louder, tiresome statement of its frauds.

In fact:

• Notwithstanding the "creatively interpreted" statistics, smoking rates are not decreasing. The official sales of cigarettes are decreasing, of course, but that is because smokers either buy out of state, or buy smuggled product. Points against the cartel are scored in both instances -- and the cartel knows it.
• The smoking rates have actually increased among the youth. Not surprisingly. When you hear from a million imbeciles that something is bad for you, your interest is peaked even if you did not think of it before.
• The year 2000 is only two months away, and the "Smoke-Free America (or California) by the year 2000" still belongs to Dreamland -- and it will stay there. We can now say with total assurance that the cartel has failed that goal -- and that is in itself an immense victory for smokers.

And the facts are simple: THERE ARE NO RISKS IN SECONDHAND SMOKE, and the gangsters behind the propaganda are guilty of public fraud, therefore deserve jail sentences. It is just a matter of time before they will increase the huge US prison population.

Synopsis of a Fraud - This letter by FORCES Canada's Pat Hagen to the Libertarian Party of Canada effectively sums up the great frauds of the anti-smoking propaganda in Canada - frauds that are not different than what is going on in several nations of the world.

Once the antismoking scam will be finally revealed at mass level, and anti-tobacco will inevitably take the historical way of alcohol prohibition, the anti-smoking movement will go down in history as the perpetrator of the greatest, most successful fraud in the history of mankind.

And the gullibility of the public and politicians, as well as the ability of institutions to systematically deceive the people they are supposed to "protect" will be the lessons the future generations will learn - way more than this 'scientific' fraud intended.

HEIL, HEALTH! - WE HAVE DEFEATED THEM ONCE. WE WILL DEFEAT THEM AGAIN. - The fascination for "the strong state that protects us all" is not new, as it is not new that this attitude reveals the extreme weakness of those who support it. Prohibition can be rationalised in a million ways, and science can be gagged and manipulated. Yesterday it was tobacco, today it is guns, and tomorrow it will be red meat.

Proctor says: "...That does not mean, however, that anti smoking movements are inherently fascist; it means simply that scientific memories are often clouded by the celebrations of victors and that the political history of science is occasionally less pleasant than we would wish."

Nice (and politically correct) move, Dr. Proctor. Defending junk science should protect you from the political lynching of the anti-tobacco cartel. However, reality is that when the state, or a group of people, thinks that it is entitled to force the behaviour of another group to comply with its standards, that is what fascism is all about.

Fascism is a mental condition way more than it is a political doctrine. It therefore can apply to any party in any nation at any time, and under any guise. And THAT is the historical trap that you fail to see (or conveniently neglect to mention) in your otherwise beautiful book -- and THAT is what must be destroyed.

A NATION RUN (AND PILLAGED) BY LAWYERS - STATES' BIG SUITS AGAINST INDUSTRY - " A growing wave of lawsuits by cities and states against makers of cigarettes, guns, and now lead paint, has reignited a fierce debate over the role of lawyers and the enormous fees they can earn in legal actions brought by public officials. "

" Under the legislation proposed by the Chamber of Commerce, any outside lawyer who contributed more than $250 to the campaign of a public official would be barred from being hired to pursue a lawsuit." … " But this year, Republican lawmakers with the backing of business groups passed legislation requiring the State Attorney General to have contingency-fee contracts approved by a board appointed by top state officials. Legal fees could not exceed $4,000 an hour."

$4,000 per hour. And THAT is considered to be a LIMITOR. The scientific, political and legal gangsterism that has been used against the tobacco industry as a test case is now evolving against a large number of industries in the US. Guns, meat, lead paint, toothbrushes… and it will end only when the American people will break the back of the legal profession - decisively and permanently. Otherwise, the legal profession will break the back of the US, and the industries that bring prosperity and wealth to the US such as, yes, the tobacco industry.

IT'S STILL BETTER THAN NOTHING - "We have been concerned that this will scare scientists away from sensitive areas like, hypothetically, the health effects of environmental toxins or research into tobacco.''

So speaks a representative of the American academic system. He's worried that releasing data used by researchers funded with tax dollars to the public will inhibit academic integrity. It's very doubtful that he hasn't heard of the Environmental Protection Agency's vacated secondhand smoke study or is unaware of the rash of discredited studies cranked out by Stanton Glantz and his cronies at the University of California. These are only a tiny fraction of the politically and ideologically driven studies that have been completely debunked once independent reviewers have examined the research data.

The grant system in this country is a disgrace. Massive amounts of cash are shoveled into University and federal agency troughs to be slurped up by third-rate intellects whose only raison d'etre is to keep the funds flowing. They are smart enough to know on what side the bread is buttered. For instance, if money is dispersed to study the effects of secondhand smoke by a government agency that preaches secondhand smoke is a hazard, research, farmed out to the right place, will back up that erroneous contention. If anti-tobacco, anti-first amendment activists say Joe Camel seduces children, they have no problem buying the research, with tax dollars, that proves their point.

Congress, acting on behalf of the people passed a law that said the public can obtain all data produced by researchers who receive federal money. The reaction of the government grant community was shrill and their squawking has paid off. The office in charge of putting the measure into effect has watered it down. With the Clinton Admistration in charge, it's only to be expected that the squalor at the top will trickle down to the flacks below.

The good news is that the law is on the books. Bureaucracies can thwart the will of the people only so long. The American public will obtain full disclosure. Kudos to the US Chamber of Commerce for not lying down. The group is talking lawsuits and Congress will hear plenty about the hijacking of this much needed law.

BETTER STICK TO EXTORTION, MEATHEAD - A few years ago, third tier movie director Rob Reiner, experienced an epiphany that altered his life. His new mission became the nurturing, developing and the raising of other people's children. Armed with a bundle of New Age quackery, Reiner, best known and loved as son-in-law Meathead on the 1970's sitcom "All in the Family", peddled his vision of family life controlled by the state to the California legislature. When that august body turned its collective thumb down to his massively exorbitant and intrusive childhood development programs, the Meathead did what any vapid, leftist knucklehead does these days. He wrote, financed and drummed up special interest support for a huge tobacco tax. His measure passed with the barest of majorities last year and Reiner was annointed Czar of the Children by Governor Gray Davis.

The state bureaucracies reporting to the Meathead have provided an expensive object lesson in government waste, inefficiencies and petty power plays. Nonetheless, the Meathead tobacco tax has collected millions of dollars, at the expense of the state's general fund, and provided an profitable playground for The American Cancer Society, The American Heart Association and The American Lung Association. His regressive tax has been very hard on the poor folks whose children were to be the primary beneficiaries of his vision of state over parental control. The people who can afford his tax can afford to buy their cigarettes in bulk outside California.

After passing his tax and establishing his chaotic local bureaucracies, the Meathead took a break and made a movie. His opus "The Story of Us", opened this weekend and it seems Rob Reiner had better stick to his new career of bloated government nanny and public-fund spendthrift. The linked review says it all but omits the description of one key scene.

The married couple are contemplating a man on whose bald pate lies a birth mark vaguely resembling the shape of California. Responding to the Rorschak blob, the wife utters the first thing that comes to her mind; Gray Davis. Many images, good, bad and horrific, spring to mind when free associating to "California" but only an out-of-shape, dilletante, recently appointed Czar of the Children would ever insert "Gray Davis" into a movie about marital life. The Meathead's toadyism is a fitting comment on a directing career that is down the drain.

LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A NEW CARTEL - At the risk of being perceived as the Cassandra of the 1990's we bring more evidence that the cave in by the Tobacco Industry ushered in an new era highly conducive to all sorts of shakedown artists and gangsters. In California, an anti-alcohol advocacy group is working overtime to join the nanny government gravy train. The Marin Institute for the Prevention of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems has learned well the lessons from the tobacco shakedown.

Working with stooges in local jurisdictions, the Marin Institute believes that its message should be spread throughout the world by the use of public funds. It also believes it has the right to smear legal industries to enforce its ideology on a sheep like populace. We now have the tired spectacle of a bought local politician threatening to sue a billboard company for NOT carrying anti-alcohol propaganda. Win or lose on this one issue, the Marin Institute is a symptom of a new cancer threatening to join the anti-tobacco malignancies that are destroying this country.

SOME DECENT NEWS FROM THE FREE WORLD - ACTIVISTS FUME OVER FREE CIGARETTES FOR ELDERLY - Slightly dated, but encouraging signs from where civilisation and personal choice are still an important issue in society, while frauds and hysteria are not.

Anti-tobacco cartel operatives have been activated to counter a gesture of kindness by the tobacco industry in Japan. "This is practically telling people to hurry up and die,'' lobotomised unit Bungaku Watanabe, head of the Tobacco Problems Information Center recited -- without, of course, realising the stupidity of its assertion.

It is going to be difficult for the anti-tobacco bastards to claim that the tobacco industry is trying to "addict new smokers" this time!

BOCA RATON DOES THE RIGHT THING - In a major upset for anti-smoker activists, Boca Raton's city council tabled discussion of a misguided plan to prohibit smokers from working for the city. The action firmly upholds basic American ideals in the face of a well orchestrated plan to deny basic civil liberties to one quarter of the population

The council's decision to postpone - indefinitely, it appears - action on this matter is a decisive defeat for The American Cancer Society. ACS has received millions in grants through ASSIST, the federally financed anti-smoker program, to devise policies designed to compel citizens to quit smoking. The ASSIST document Approaches Directed to the Social Environment. is a chilling blueprint in the tradition of Nazi Germany that outlines the step-by-step scheme to coerce Americans into altering their behavior in accordance with the dictates of the state. The section on Economic Incentives explicitly advocates the ill conceived policy that Boca Raton wisely rejected.

Although the council's rejection of the plan to deny the rights to city employees that all other Americans enjoy is good news, it is only a first step in the right direction. Police officers, fire fighters and maintenance workers are currently compelled to sign a no-smoking agreement. City goverment and the unions involved must work together to rectify this injustice. In the meanwhile, the City Council of Boca Raton deserves applause for listening to its citizens and tossing a terrible policy into the trash.

It must also be noted that smokers and civil libertarians let the Boca Raton City Council know how abhorant they found the no-smoking policy. When smokers stand up and protest, public officials are presented with the clear choice of listening to the voters or listening to thugs like The American Cancer Society. When push comes to shove, the politicians will listen to the voters.

WHO: MORE TRASH VOMITED FROM THE MOUTH OF GRO HARLEM BRUTLAND. AN ENERGETIC REACTION FROM THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY AND FROM INTERNATIONAL ADVOCATES FOR FREEDOM AND POLITICAL INTEGRITY IS NECESSARY -- IMMEDIATELY - TOBACCO INDUSTRY FACES WHO INQUIRY - The WHO is drumming up its lies in anticipation of the international convention on tobacco control, where the WHO will present its altered, computer-generated information to some 50 governments, and will try to convince them to suffocate free information on tobacco, and to deny the right to smoke of billions of people.

Gro Harlem Brutland is vomiting more trash and waving the 4-million virtual tobacco-related deaths in the face of the world.

Gro Harlem Brutland, head of the WHO, is a liar. She knowingly lies to the world in order to further the WHO's political agenda of global control.

The WHO cannot substantiate its claims, and it is defrauding the world using virtually unlimited funds from the US and the pharmaceutical industry to instigate a worldwide persecution.

Within its limited means, FORCES appeals not just to the tobacco industry, but to all smokers in the world and all organizations that still care about both national and personal independence to react vehemently against this world-scale fraud, and to communicate with local governments about it. The scientific evidence, as well as the proof of the WHO's machinations and political corruption are on this site.

The WHO has turned into a major international gang and into a threat to civil liberties and scientific integrity all over the world. The WHO, the anti-tobacco organizations and the corrupt politicians supporting them must be stopped with all means that are necessary.

This message is not influenced by, or paid for, the tobacco industry with whom FORCES has no contact.

WHO: THE FRAMING JOB IS FAST PROCEEDING - SWISS HEADS U.N. INQUIRY INTO TOBACCO INDUSTRY - The WHO gang and its international minions proceed rapidly to frame the tobacco industry at international level while the industry, at least on the surface, does not seem to react.

' Zeltner, [top Swiss representative of the international anti-smoking corruption cartel] a doctor and lawyer, said: ``There are three suspicions -- that the tobacco industry tried to undermine tobacco control policy-making [great job, if it is true], that it tried to undermine research activities or the results […sorry, the undermining of sound science, as well as data falsification is a speciality of anti-tobacco], and that it interfered in the funding processes at WHO" ' [that is very nice, since we can see what the funding by pharmaceuticals to the integrity of this organisation.

But it gets even more hilarious:

``It is an important and delicate issue...We hope to come up with our first results in the first half of next year,'' this associated crook told Reuters in an interview.

Come on, we already KNOW what the results will be, for if they do not exist, they will be either fabricated or "creatively interpreted." It is astonishing and frightening to see how anti-tobacco can talk about the scam of the century as if it was an honest matter -- as if this wasn't a trial whose outcome hadn't bee firmly established long ago. Most people are not as stupid as you think, Zeltner.

This latest move is the result of the work of Roberta Walburn, the Minnesota lawyer "hired" by the WHO to apply US extortion and data fabrication/"interpretation" techniques at international level.

The WHO is working hard to induce all governments to silence and suppress the promotion of a legal product that supports the world economy, and especially those facts and science about smoking that are contrary to its political agenda. The WHO's anti-smoking agenda is established by the US and by the pharmaceutical industry which is a substantial contributor (therefore a controller) of this international organisation.

The WHO bureaucratic monster should be strongly reshuffled, or better yet dismantled and replaced with a smaller and efficient organisation taking care of real scourges while its executives and operatives should be the object of a very close international investigation. But this is not even conceivable until political winds radically change in the US - the moppeteers of the anti-tobacco cartel.

For a complete documentary of the WHO's close association with the international anti-tobacco cartel, CLICK HERE.

HOW TIMELY… BUT THE MATH DOES NOT SQUARE - IT CANNOT - EACH DAY OVER 3,000 US TEENS TRY CIGARETTES - Ah, timing is everything. Since the old "3,000 study" (the one on the base of which Clinton was lying about the "3,000 teens start smoking every day") was shot down because it was actually referring to people of legal smoking age over 20, now the anti-smoking gangsters in California have fabricated a new one.

Very timely indeed -- coming up with a new "study" just when the anti-tobacco cartel is making its big moves to get money from the state settlements.

But even fabrications have to be "smoke screened" to diffuse the truth. Let's see:

Title: "Each day over 3,000 US teens try cigarettes"

"Every day, almost 5,000 US teens try cigarettes for the first time, and about 2,000 young people become regular smokers, according to new survey results." Wait! 5,000 try - 2,000 become regular smokers = 3,000 try cigarettes as in the title (but don't become regular smokers...), but it is 5,000 in the opening sentence of the text. Confused? So are we. But this is nothing. Try this:

"Over 10,000 individuals between the ages of 10 and 20 participated in a national telephone survey used to determine their smoking status." [...wondering how much that survey has cost American taxpayers?] … "The majority of the individuals surveyed were as young as 12 or 14 years when they first experimented with smoking."

Since the survey includes 18 to 20 year-old, those LEGALLY permitted to purchase and use cigarettes; the figures hardly cover underage smoking! And WHAT PERCENTAGE of the interviewed people represents those of legal age? Where is "the majority" quantified in a percentage number? Unknown… proprietary data base? Most likely. That means that no one can find out.

And here is the final bang:

" In an interview with Reuters Health, co-author Dr. John Pierce, UCSD professor of cancer research, cites ``tobacco advertising'' and ``the effectiveness of the Joe Camel campaign'' as possible reasons for the dramatic increase in smoking among today's youth." ... "urgent need for increased tobacco control efforts aimed at young people.'' [meaning more money into their pockets].

Sure, Mr. Liar. Joe Camel has disappeared, tobacco advertising has become almost invisible, and this youth is trying today (if that is true at all). And of course, anti-tobacco advertising has nothing to do with youth experimentation… isn't that so, you crook?

PATCHES ARE ANOTHER FRAUD BY THE ANTISMOKING CARTEL - The "patch" does not even work as well as a placebo for quitting smoking after 48 weeks. Most of those studies showing the patch was good were sponsored by -- guess who? -- the PHARMACEUTICAL companies! Here is a letter written to the New England Journal of Medicine by the Veterans Affairs Medical Center on the lack of efficacy of the patch that WHO and the rest of the cartel love so much.

LACK OF EFFICACY OF TRANSDERMAL NICOTINE IN SMOKING CESSATION - Though even this letter seems to proceed from certain assumptions as if they were proven facts, the letter nevertheless makes it crystal-clear that smoking cessation devices do not work, and they are yet another scam by the anti-tobacco cartel and the pharmaceutical industry that finances anti-tobacco for obvious commercial reasons.

Aside from the fraudulent aspect of smoking cessation devices, it is useful to reflect on WHY the smoking cessation gizmos do not work. If we detach ourselves from emotions and politics, and from the public money-funded "studies," the answer is astonishingly simple.

 

CLICK HERE for further information on the "addictiveness" of nicotine in "THE EVIDENCE"

Smoking is not an addiction. Approaching smoking as if it was an addiction is inevitably doomed to failure - but not before making the pharmaceutical industry and the operatives of the anti-tobacco cartel quite rich and powerful at the expense of the public.

Drug substitutes like Methadone work in limited ways because they partially replace, or mimic the effects of, powerfully addictive chemicals that create a physical dependence. Smoking is not a physical dependence, and nicotine is not addictive. If it were, nicotine delivery devices would work. Smoking is a habit, that is, a mental association between feelings or actions and the pleasure of smoking. And as most habits, it may indeed be very difficult to break.

It is not conceivable that the pharmaceutical industry and the "Intelligentsia" (if there is such a thing) of anti-tobacco are unaware of these facts. It follows that the only possible explanation is a conscious fraud for the purpose of political and monetary gain, and as such it must be punished with the full weight of the law.

But even forgetting propaganda and frauds, and in view of the LACK OF PROOF about the "lethal" effects of smoking -- and also considering the pleasure and comfort it gives - why quit?

NO MONEY FOR SCHOOL SUPPLIES BUT PLENTY FOR HATE - Public school teachers in San Francisco have taken to the streets to panhandle for money to purchase basic school supplies. Teachers throughout this rich state must suppliment their supplies with their own money or their students will do without basic educational materials.

The public school establishment may stiff its students but it has plenty of money to shovel anti-tobacco education down their throats. More than $200-million tax dollars are allocated for anti-tobacco education efforts that include funding Joe Camel funerals, jazzercise classes and hate campaigns worthy of Nazi Germany. It's no surprise that California students rank near the bottom of the national pile in student achievement and that teen smoking in skyrocketing.

FLORIDA APARTHEID - The Florida city of Boca Raton is poised to put its stamp on government discrimination by refusing to hire smokers. Boca Raton is putting into practice what the anti-tobacco cartel has been urging for over a decade. The cartel has been supremely unsuccessful in persuading smokers to quit - anyone remember Smokefree America 2000? - so the thugs have been working on local legislators to discriminate against those who choose to use a legal product by denying them employment.

The American Civil Liberties Union, to its credit, attempted to halt similar bigotry in North Miami but was thwarted by the Florida Supreme Court. It's unfortunate that the ACLU has been all too silent regarding the role of the publicly funded tax-exempt organizations that have pressured governments to deny Americans basic civil liberties.

Three years ago we exposed the odious ideology of the cartel to the public. In a federal document, The American Cancer Society outlined the cartel's agenda of coersion and state-sanctioned discrimination. Take a look at Approaches Directed to the Social Environment now and marvel how much of the ACS' hatefulness has permiated what once was a free country.

HOW WONDERFULLY CONVENIENT - Displaying the coordination that that makes anti-tobacco a well oiled cartel, the University of California, San Francisco has released a study that supports the Clinton regime's suit against the tobacco industry. Clinton claims treating alleged tobacco related illnesses costs the federal government $20-billion per year. UCSF pulls a study from its study mill that claims treating tobacco related illnesses costs the federal government $20-billion per year.

Coincidence? Not likely when UCSF is the lair in which anti-tobacco operative Stanton Glantz practices his dark arts of statistical manipulation as a hired gun for the special interests that are taking the American public to the cleaners.

DISABLED SMOKERS BOYCOTT ROB REINER - PRESS RELEASE -- SAN JOSE, CA - October 7, 1999 - Pipe Able, an international organization of pipe smoking men with disabilities, announced today a worldwide boycott of Hollywood actor / director Rob Reiner. This comes as Reiners latest movie, "The Story of us", opens across the country. The boycott is in reaction to the increased financial burden forced on thousands of low income Californians who enjoy tobacco products.