The moral of the story is only one, and it is not the tobacco firm that misses it: if you are on the right side of power you can lie, falsify, slander, abuse and torment -- and you'll be a self-appointed hero. If you are on the wrong side of power, you'll be stoned no matter what. And you'll be stoned even more if you try to rightfully defend yourself, for you are expected to be standing still, and be the remorseful victim of persecution for something others have unilaterally established that you've done wrong.

THE REAL FACE OF THE PARTNERS OF THE WHO - IN BULGARIA, 10 YEARS OF MISERY - "The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are successfully devouring Bulgarian industry. They have insisted on the privatisation of Bulgaria´s plants and factories. In many cases, the Bulgarian government, which diligently follows the I.M.F.´s advice, sold these factories to powerful foreign corporations. And these corporations often liquidated the businesses (a new way to fight the competition!)."

"Before the fall of Communism, I and many others believed that the Communist government was lying about the United States of America. We thought all its warnings about America were simply propaganda. And from 1989 to 1993, I was a democratic activist. That was before I understood the true work of the I.M.F. or the World Bank or the transnational corporations and their policy of expansion. We fell for the seductive talk about democracy and openness. Now 10 years later, I wish we hadn't."

The I.M.F. and the World Bank are "partners" of the WHO, and also bring US-made anti-tobacco, and through it, more political arm-twisting and control by the predatory pharmaceutical multinationals, Blagovesta Doncheva! The WHO is now the American syringe used to inject that social poison in Bulgaria too. And as it happens in the US, reciprocal hatred and mistrust will exist between those who smoke and those who don't, adding to the tribulation of your people. Those who were once friends and tolerant of each other will be enemies. Smoking in itself may be menial, but anti-smoking certainly is not, for it is the result of a madness that knows no boundaries and restraints -- and all for the mighty dollar.

The seductive talk of anti-tobacco, the empty promises of health and lower Medicare cost, the pharmaceutical industry singing the siren's song between its fangs will seduce and corrupt your government even more. And the WHO, like all invaders, will bring its friends to your home just to "save lives in amity and health" -- whether you like it or not.

SOMETHING SMOKERS AND PRO-CHOICE ACTIVISTS SHOULD REALLY PONDER ON - DON'T GIVE UP ON ANYTHING WHEN IT COMES TO POLITICS - "Many Americans feel frustrated by what they perceive to be their inability to influence the national government.

They are right. An ordinary individual has almost no chance of being heard in opposition to well-funded lobbyists and super-rich individuals. But they are wrong to believe that the situation is hopeless.

Conservatives and libertarians especially have a difficult time organizing because they both tend to be individualistic. Nevertheless, if they wish to effect change, they are going to have to change and learn how to organize people around key issues."

MORE ON THE YOUNG VICTIM OF THE ANTI-TOBACCO CARTEL - Parents' lawsuit focuses on school district's policy for handling expulsion of student - "A 13-year-old described by her father as a ``happy-go-lucky kid,'' a good student who loved sports and writing poetry, got suspended from school for three days for having a cigarette in her locker."

Sent home on her school bus -- crying hysterically, the parents say -- she was found by her mother that afternoon, dead by suicide in their basement."

These are the appalling consequences of anti-tobacco -- the consequences of hatred against smokers stimulated by an unrelenting, criminal campaign of unpunished frauds that divides society, persecutes individuals -- and kills innocent victims.

Students who are punished for smoking are the victims of injustice and oppression by a new form of perversion against those who are most vulnerable. While we are not condoning smoking by the youth, we are not condemning it either - if condemning means treating young people as if they were criminals. Smoking does not hurt others and it seldom hurts even the smoker.

American schools and universities have become ovens in which fraud and misinformation on tobacco is cooked and force-fed into innocent mouths. But worse yet, these institutions have become a pressure cooker where anti-social behaviour is stimulated through propaganda, repression, oppression, and punishment, showing the abysmal failure of a generation, and a system, that has lost all the intelligence and the moral standing necessary to deal with social matters, and it can only use fraud, force, and intimidation to accomplish its goals. This system has replaced parents with institutionalised behaviour "modification", the contempt for snitching with toll-free snitch lines, classic education with health garbage, and the teaching of Christian compassion with hatred for those who are different, while instigating disrespect for parents who do not comply with the fascist heath doctrines. So much for "In God we trust": God wrote only Ten Laws.

"Tamijane had told her parents that she had tried smoking," says a friend.

``I emphasised to her, don't do it. If you smoke and you get caught you not going to be able to do sports any more ... She adamantly told me she was never going to smoke again.''

FEAR is used to prevent the rightful and normal experimentation and discovery by the youth that is not sanctioned by the rotten state agenda. PUNISHMENT is used against the exercise of one's human RIGHT to experiment with a legal product. Health propaganda, renamed "education", is imposed on students who had better not disagree with the party line even if they know they are hearing lies -- or the consequences are quite heavily felt.

The Third Reich could not have done a better job.

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT - CONSUMING DEMOCRACY: ACTIVISM, ELITISM AND POLITICAL APATHY - "Consumer activism is a potent force in British political life, which encompasses a network of non-governmental organisations, charities and campaigning groups. Its political style strongly resembles the approach of American citizen groups, and its activists have succeeded in projecting their lobbying operations as those of a social movement. Consumer activists insist they are marginalised outsiders who represent the voice of the powerless consumer. In fact, they have close links with the British Establishment and should be seen as key players who are strongly involved with the political elites. The success of this network is closely linked to a decline in trust in the British political system. Consumer activism thrives in the condition of apathy and social disengagement. Consumer activists regard their campaigns as a superior alternative to parliamentary democracy. Their attitude to political participation expresses a strong anti-democratic ethos." - By Dr. Frank Furedi.

CARTEL TAKES ON DRUG STORES - With its coffers bursting, the state's Tobacco Control Section has a big problem few ever face; how to spend creatively all the cash ripped off from consumers. Although their mandate from the voters is only to educate the populace on the supposed dangers of smoking, the anti-tobacco cartel stooges are in a bizarre competition among themselves to devise the most outlandish methods of squandering tax funds. From Salon comes the latest example of illiberal, state-sponsored gangsterism.

One outfit has managed to combine grandstanding with fascism in support of the pharmaceutical industry. Cartel stooge Christine Fenlon, perhaps a misspelling of Felon, heads a drug industry front group called Pharmacy Partnership that wants to ban tobacco products from drug stores so that the overpriced and ineffective nicotine delivery devices manufactured by Big Pharmaceutical will not have to share the shelves with the real stuff.

The tobacco tax that funds thugs like Christine Fenlon was never meant to be used to coerce businesses, lobby for laws or promote hate. With absolutely no oversight by the legislature, the tobacco tax junkies are running amok and imposing their agenda of smothering control on a citizenry that never foresaw what was coming.

THE BENEFITS OF SMOKING - THANK YOU FOR SMOKING - This older article was sent to us recently. Though dated chronologically, it is a contemporary and important piece that discusses a very important issue that many want buried, and others are forgetting: there are many benefits in smoking. The article also touches on the reasons (political, of course) why all research on the positive effects of smoking was stopped.

The reasons are clear -- and logical: if we have to make people believe that smoking is the father of all evil, how can we possibly lie about its negative effects and have research showing that there are positive health effects? We need to suppress research in favour of political and scientific frauds, and bury the studies that showed that smoking can be good for you.

That seems logical to us. If we were medical and political gangsters -- and paid handsomely to boot -- who knows, we would probably do the same thing!…

-- Naah!

JAWS - LAWYERS POOL RESOURCES, LEVERAGE SETTLEMENTS - Discovering strength in numbers and taking in the lessons learned from the tobacco settlement, lawyers across the country are looking for yet another industry to target.

"Without even setting foot in a courtroom, lawyers Russ and Maury Herman have frightened a fortune out of the health insurance industry. The brothers and law partners have created a "national mega-firm," linking lawyers across the country to sue HMOs for a variety of alleged frauds."

Why not? The health insurance industry has been instrumental in the popularization of anti-tobacco frauds (such as disease attribution) that have no foundation in reality. They have used fabricated "risks" of smoking to force money out of smokers through higher health insurance rates, and influenced employers to fire/not hire smokers because "they cost more". They mostly used lawyers to accomplish all that.

Well, now it is time to get a taste of their own medicine. Those who use sharks to eat other people tend to forget that they are people too - and sharks will eat them eventually.

CIGARETTE MAKERS ABSOLVED - The nannies have always seemed to be in the minority, the squeaky wheels who get the grease. More and more we find non-smokers, including non-smokers who really hate the smell of tobacco, sympathising with smokers, or at least not siding with the nannies. ABC News just did a poll and found the same thing - by a 2 to 1 margin people thought the lawsuits against tobacco companies are ridiculous.

Of course, ABC had to throw in a little bit of anti-tobacco "creativity" to be politically correct: God forbid, in fact, that this poll could be ever misunderstood as an absolution of smoking! So, in the icon on the left we can see a little sub-header: "No Sympathy for Smokers" -- implicitly, those dirty, filthy sub-humans who had the disgrace to make a now politically incorrect choice 30 years ago, when intelligence was much bigger and bureaucracy much smaller. The poll shows that 60% of "the people" thinks that cigarette makers should not pay for the disease that the anti-tobacco cartel says are attributable to smoking - no proof necessary, of course.

Two small details that ABC seems to neglect are:

1. The 60% of "the people" include smokers, who hardly have no sympathy for themselves. Most smokers already don't think that they should be compensated because they have the maturity to understand that they have to pay the consequences (if any) of their own decision
2. The 34% that says to "pay" smokers is probably representing non-smokers, anti-smokers, or operatives of the various anti-tobacco cartel -- all those, in other words, who have either a political, emotional, of financial vested interest in supporting compensation for smokers

THIRD WAY OR THIRD REICH? - ' "We have moved past the sterile debate between those who say government is the enemy and those who say government is the answer," Clinton said in his 1998 State of the Union address. "My fellow Americans, we have found a third way."

"We are working with business to use technology, research and market incentives to meet national goals," Clinton told the Economic Club of Detroit in February. "Some have called this political philosophy the third way."

What Clinton means by this gobbledygook is that Big Business will own the economy (as under capitalism), while Big Government runs it (as under socialism). '

CARTEL TAKES ON DRUG STORES - With its coffers bursting, the state's Tobacco Control Section has a big problem few ever face; how to spend creatively all the cash ripped off from consumers. Although their mandate from the voters is only to educate the populace on the supposed dangers of smoking, the anti-tobacco cartel stooges are in a bizarre competition among themselves to devise the most outlandish methods of squandering tax funds. From Salon comes the latest example of illiberal, state-sponsored gangsterism.

One outfit has managed to combine grandstanding with fascism in support of the pharmaceutical industry. Cartel stooge Christine Fenlon, perhaps a misspelling of Felon, heads a drug industry front group called Pharmacy Partnership that wants to ban tobacco products from drug stores so that the overpriced and ineffective nicotine delivery devices manufactured by Big Pharmaceutical will not have to share the shelves with the real stuff.

The tobacco tax that funds thugs like Christine Fenlon was never meant to be used to coerce businesses, lobby for laws or promote hate. With absolutely no oversight by the legislature, the tobacco tax junkies are running amok and imposing their agenda of smothering control on a citizenry that never foresaw what was coming.

SUE THE BASTARDS... FOR CHEAP! - SCHOOL SUED OVER GIRL'S SUICIDE - WAUSAU, Wis. -- "The parents of a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide after being suspended from school for possessing a cigarette filed a civil lawsuit Tuesday accusing the school district and some administrators of negligence."

"…The Martins are seeking more than $75,000 in damages."

Just 75,000 dollars. This appears to be what the life of a young smoker is worth in America. Even if they lose, the anti-tobacco criminals are getting away for cheap. Criminal charges are not mentioned at all.

What the hell, after all, she was just a young smoker…

TOBACCO GESTAPO BLOWS A LOT OF SMOKE - Yet another voice against the second hand smoke frauds and tyranny: Warren Bluhm (The News-Chronicle).

' I'm sure Taku Ronsman doesn't think of herself as an advocate of totalitarianism. She's certainly too nice a person to serve in the Thought Police or the KGB. But my Merriam-Webster paperback dictionary defines totalitarian as "of or relating to a political regime based on subordination of the individual to the state and strict control of all aspects of life, especially by coercive measures." So, as sweet as she appears on the surface, I must sadly conclude that Ms. Ronsman believes the state should control people's lives, by force of law if necessary.'

'Our government was not formed to prevent citizens from having bad habits. In fact, it was formed to prevent government tyranny. Oppressive taxation of smokers, forcing them out in the cold, and micromanagement of private lives and businesses sure sound like tyranny to me. This is the land of the free. If you hate a little smoke that much, there are many countries where people who irritate you can be sent to gulags. Maybe you can find a home there.'

GET YOUR HANDS OFF THE YOUTH, YOU FANATICS! - FEDERAL AGENCY TO INVESTIGATE DISMISSAL OF SOUTH GRAND PRAIRIE HIGH SCHOOL CHEERLEADER - "GRAND PRAIRIE -- The Office for Civil Rights will investigate whether a student who was kicked off the South Grand Prairie High School cheerleading squad for smoking a cigarette was discriminated against because she is a female, an investigator with the agency said yesterday."

Corporal punishment for smoking a cigarette. Violence is quite OK, it appears, when administered against young tobacco smokers by the school -- but if parents administer it to their own children, they can face jail. Such is the moral inversion of these communist and "progressive" antismoking times, and of the criminals behind them!

Get your hands off the youth, you fanatic child molesters! Let the youth enjoy the right to smoke when chosen, and teach instead some REAL EDUCATION, for a change. The US already has one of the lowest average academic levels in the western world. This is quite a negative accomplishment already, and it explains why so many people fall for the anti-tobacco frauds -- school teachers included.

The brainwashing and persecution of the smoking youth with FALSE INFORMATION about tobacco is already having terrible consequences (see below) and IT MUST BE STOPPED.

IS IT TIME TO CONSIDER A HEALH-CARE COMPETENCY EXAM? WHY NOT? THE LOGIC OF HEALTH TOTALITARIANISM FOLLOWS ITS EVOLUTION - MAKE INDIVIDUALS MORE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR HEALTH - "Is it time to consider a health-care competency exam that would require the consumer to be a responsible partner in health maintenance? After all, you can't drive a car without passing a test demonstrating some knowledge and the ability to drive. Yet we, in effect, issue lifetime health-care licenses through health insurance, Medicare and Medicaid without any requirement of knowledge about health. Are we placing all our bets for the health of our nation on the prospects of miracle drugs and treatments to provide antidotes for self destructive behaviors?"

What about prison terms for those who will not go along? It seems the logical next step to ensure compliance!

TEENAGE SUICIDE - VICTIM OF ANTI-SMOKERS - Screeching their love and concern for the children, the anti-smokers have made life hell for minors who smoke. The anti-tobacco cartel has pushed draconian laws upon spineless legislators and school districts who punish underage smokers with a viciousness that is breathtaking.

From Wisconsin comes the tragic story of a schoolgirl expelled, not for smoking, but for merely having a cigarette on her personal property. The good student was so distraught and humiliated that she took her own life. She joins a growing list of Americans who have suffered violence and loss of life because of the anti-smoking hysteria gripping this country. These horrible tales will become increasingly common unless the perpetrators are brought to justice.

The bereaved parents are contemplating a suit against the school district. In addition, they should take a look at The American Cancer Society, the anti-tobacco organization that runs the anti-smoking program in Wisconsin. The ACS is reaping millions of dollars from the taxpayers to "solve" a non-existent problem. The ACS believes tobacco should be outlawed and in the interim is willing to advocate harsh penalties for smoking. The American Cancer Society's hands are stained with blood.

UNDERCOVER COPS BUST BAR OWNER - For months the San Diego police vice squad has conducted undercover visits to bars in search of smokers. Detectives follow leads provided by the county health department. When police spot smokers, they show their badges, ask the smokers to step outside and issue tickets. Fines can be as high as $270.

The above paragraph from The San Diego Union Tribune should convince the doubters that California is now a full-fledged police state where civil liberties are now obsolete. The story describes the financial ruin of a bar owner who has been crushed by a health department directed completely by the anti-tobacco brown shirts who have foisted a wildly unpopular law upon a demoralized populace.

The owner in the story attempted to obey the law prohibiting smoking in bars. Like most owners he found that bars are not conducive to health fascism and, to make a living, he resumed making his customers welcome. Now a working stiff is ruined, San Diego is synonymous with Nazi Berlin and a city attorney's office has been debased.

This incident highlights anti-tobacco operative Stanton Glantz' lies that no-smoking laws will have no financial impact on businesses. Bankrupt business people and jailed smokers can pass the time by calculating how much of their money ended up in the wallets of Stanton Glantz and his criminal cronies.

FIRST STAGE ACCOMPLISHED - The signatures have been counted and verified. The state initiative to repeal the Rob Reiner tobacco tax has made the cut and will be on the ballot next March. Below are pertinent paragraphs from the initiative:

Repeals additional $.50 per pack tax on cigarettes and equivalent increase in state tax on tobacco products previously enacted by Proposition 10 at November 3, 1998, election. Provides for elimination of funding for Proposition 10 early childhood development and smoking prevention programs. Prohibits imposition of additional surtaxes on the distribution of cigarettes or tobacco products unless enacted by the state legislature.

Provides that all additional tobacco taxes previously collected under Proposition 10 shall be appropriated and expended at which time the California Children and Families First Trust Fund shall terminate.

Last November, Rob Reiner, former sit-com actor and current third tier movie director, watched the election returns with dismay as his tax scheme appeared to be headed for defeat. One week later he was crowing with triumph as the final return revealed that his tax hike had garnered a franction of a percentage over 50 percent.

The results of his narrowly approved initiative have confirmed the worst fears of those who predicted that the hundreds of millions stolen from California citizens would launch the most irresponsible orgy of special interest spending in the state's history. After months of haggling, the gaggle of parasites who administer the loot are spreading it around to the social engineers and new-age quacks who are now charged with raising lower income children as they see fit.

With no state oversight, the thousands of new county bureaucrats will reign over their fiefdoms completely unaccountable to the tax payers who foot the bills. Already reports are surfacing that some of the funds are being used to pay the salaries of employees who were hired to perform functions completely unrelated to the so-called "childrens' development" programs the Reiner Tax is supposed to address.

Californians have an excellent opportunity next spring to regain control from the theives and special interest confidence artists and return it where it belongs: to the people.

ONE MORE REVIEW OF THE PROCTOR BOOK - A BREATHTAKING STUDY OF THE REAL ANTISMOKING NAZIS - While the parallelism between the present health cartel and the Nazi Party cannot be overstated, here is another review of Robert Proctor's book: " The Nazi War on Cancer" by Peter Fritzsche.

While political correctness has forced Proctor to take safety distance from the advocates of free choice, his work, inescapably, blatantly demonstrates that totalitarianism and the use of health policy to control behaviour are one and the same.

This review is illustrated with several images of the time. One of them is modern, and the politically correct caption says: "In a 1995 advertisement, Philip Morris equates smokers with Jews for its purposes." If the purposes are freedom to smoke and to choose, then they are noble even if they have a commercial background. The commercial background is the same as the one of the pharmaceutical industry financing the anti-tobacco cartel's false information in order to sell ineffective smoking cessation devices.

At any rate, that was when PM hadn't bent over yet. PM was indeed quite correct in comparing the persecution of smokers with the persecution of Jews. While at first that was interpreted by many as exaggeration, and an insult to Jews, each day demonstrates that those who compared the two persecutions were seeing far beyond average.