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In the ambiguous language that has become a character trait of that
company, Philip Morris denies that it would surrender to the
antitobacco cartel. On the other hand, it is clear that PM, in an
attempt to "look good" in the public eye, has given in to
the scientific and political frauds pushed forward by the cartel . But
in fact, PM is availing fifty years of politicised, biased, and
often fraudulent science about the health effects of primary and
passive smoking -- fifty years that have failed to produce one
single PROOF about the alleged effects of tobacco on
health. While some of the antitobacco gangsters are rejoicing, others
are cautious -- just in case PM still has some guts left to fight back
with. Smokers should simply drop the use of PM products (among them:
Marlboro, Virginia Slims, Benson & Hedges, Merit), and shift to
other manufacturers.
Need more proof of the total bend-over of PM? Get this: '' PM
announced that it will not support California's Proposition 28, the
initiative to reverse Proposition 10, the State's $.50 cigarette and
OTP tax increase geared to fund "childhood development
programs." PM spokesman Tom Ryan said, "[I]t has become less
of a smokers' rights issue and more of a question over childcare
development and that is not something that we think we should be
involved in" '' (PR Newswire 2/22, 2/23, AP 2/23).
Sure. And why should "childhood development programs" be
on the shoulders of smokers? Never mind... we hate to agree with the
antis -- though proudly for the opposite reasons -- that PM is indeed
a contemptible company without any principle and decency. A true
mirror of our corrupt times. Keep on smoking -- but not PM
products! Justice Ronald Holmes ruled the reach of the act was
extra-territorial and beyond the power given to the province under the
Constitution Act.
The Tobacco Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act was
proclaimed in 1997 and amended last year. It makes it easier for the
government to sue cigarette manufacturers to recover the costs of
treating smoking-related diseases. However, the tobacco companies
countersued, arguing the law is unconstitutional. " Justice, common sense and due process win -- sometimes. But the
rapacious legal actions of a government bordering with gangsterism
have been stopped cold, this time. The British Columbia government,
endorsing the most fraudulent science ever conceived - a science that
"attributes" to tobacco use almost every disease known to
man without scientific proof - cannot steal money from smokers
and tobacco industry.
After lighting up cigarettes, cigars and pipes at FORCES, we all
reminded each other that enthusiasm couldn't make us complacent. The
BC government, and many other corrupt governments, is determined to
continue in the persecution and over-taxation of smokers, while
endorsing junk science to rationalise that persecution. It is
therefore important that the fight continues harder than ever, and
that the popularisation
of the LACK of proof against virtually ANY
"tobacco-attributed" disease continues relentlessly, to
ensure an antitobacco-free future, unbiased information to the public,
and liberty of choice for this and future generations. ``There's no sense trying to enforce something in a volatile
situation,'' said Brian Hatton, the region's director of environmental
health. ``We've run into a number of situations where we were
concerned for the safety of our staff.'' ' Finally, Canadian smokers understand that the only way to oppose
the annihilation of their RIGHT to smoke is to oppose FORCE to force.
Unfortunately, there is no other way, for truth, reason, logic, common
sense, invitations to debates... all have failed to achieve peaceful
coexistence. Some governments are determined to obliterate smoking and
demonise smokers with ANY means necessary, no matter how much those
means break the rule of law, civil and human rights, the code of
science and the one of diversity and civilisation. There are no
dangers in secondhand smoke, thus there is no reason for a ban.
Our congratulations and encouragement to the courageous Ontario
smokers who have decided that enough is enough, and they have called
the increased stake of the state. A CLOSER LOOK AT McCAIN
(added February 5) - ''I have not ever voted for a tax
increase. I'm for less government.... I'd put my conservative
credentials up against anybody.'' But the impact of his tobacco
legislation would have been a painful new tax on smokers, who are more
likely to be found near the bottom of the income ladder. And the
tobacco and campaign finance bills together would have meant an
enormous expansion of government power - exactly the reverse of what
McCain claims to want. There was protest in Prince George yesterday. Apparently, a large
group of protesters went to the WCB offices and when they got inside,
they all lit up cigarettes and smoked like crazy. It appears that the
the mass media hasn't reported this one, for the regime wants to
project the impression that the smoking ban is successful.
The WCB fascist hierarchy of the branch said that if it happens
again, the cops would be called. Let us hope that desperation, if not
love for liberty and truth, continues to drive the protest. The health
cartel does not care if families are ruined and people lose their
jobs. Like automatons programmed to lie and oppress, they must
continue their suppression of liberty no matter the cost. Only the
force of equal determination can create the political impasse needed
to bring the antismoking fascists to a halt. Smokers, stay home, and
do what most smokers do best to defend their rights: nothing.
This time, at least, you are having an effect! This "study" may be in support of another crooked branch
of antitobacco junk science: the gateway theory, which means
to demonstrate that tobacco use leads to drugs, and/or alcoholism. The
gateway theory has the same scientific foundations of craniology
(phrenology) -- the laughable "science" straddling the
19th and 20th century. Craniology meant to "demonstrate"
that the shape and the size of the head was a direct function of the
intelligence of the individual: the greater the intelligence, the
bigger the head! It was also used to infer the inferiority of blacks,
since it was claimed that blacks' head-to-body mass ratio was smaller
than the one of whites.
As we enter the 21st century, we are the sad spectators of
"scientific" and social regression into political, nearly
superstitious speculations where prejudice and pocket book, instead of
reason and causality, drive "scientific" thought that has
become nothing but the servant of a degenerated political and cultural
establishment.
So, this is what means to be "progressive" and smoke-free
-- eh? ' The court extended its reasoning to Internet advertising.
"The Internet poses a similar issue by virtue of the fact that
Internet-based advertising is targeted at no state in particular, but
at all states in general," the court stated.' What tricks will the anti-tobacco Mafia use to go around a federal
judge this time? It seems that ignoring federal judge decisions has
become the favourite sport of the antismoking state, in the face of
the rule of law. This has been the case of Federal judge Osteen, when
he ruled that the EPA used corrupt science to classify ETS as a class
A carcinogen, and vacated the classification. That decision, as well
as the overwhelming lack of evidence about the dangers of passive
smoking, did not slow down the antismoking cartel a bit. Actually,
since then prohibition became more rampant than ever.
What is the use of having science and courts when we respect
neither? The answer is simple. Totalitarian and Mafia-style regimes
use and respect court decisions only when they serve to legitimise
their purposes. When that does not happen, technicalities are used to
ignore both courts and science, while those judges and scientists who
dare to disagree are labelled, and often punished in a variety of
ways. Strange things happen in the Land of the Free, and in its
satellite countries. JAMES LEAVEY APPOINTED FORCES International is pleased to announce the recent
appointment of British journalist James Leavey as its media
co-ordinator. James handles all press enquiries, including requests
for interviews, information, photos/images, and advertising. He lives
and works in London, England, where e-mail enquiries should be sent to
jamesleavey@bigfoot.com.
As well as being a major contributor (on the lighter side of
smoking - see his selection
of articles under 'columnist') to FORCES International over the
last two years, James is the editor of The FOREST Guide to Smoking in
London and The FOREST Smokers' Guide to Scotland - the world's first
two travel books for smokers, both available on the Net.
James is also a regular contributor to Cigar Style magazine,
Classic Cigar magazine, Heathrow International Traveller magazine,
among others, and writes/edits JJ Fox's occasional cigar newsletter,
The Humidor, which can be seen online at www.jjfox.co.uk Anti-tobacco propagandist Matthew Myers, head of the Campaign for
Tobacco-Free Kids, said, even after the withdrawal of the ads, that
the Legacy anti-smoking campaign still "is hard-hitting'' and it
bears watching whether the foundation will continue in that direction.
"Hopefully this is a one-time incident in which the tobacco
companies demonstrate that they haven't really changed by threatening
the foundation whenever it produces hard-hitting ads that put the
tobacco industry in a bad light,'' he said.
The pornographic ads, designed to instigate hatred of smokers
especially by minors, are divulging medical frauds and half-truths
concerning the unproven health effects of smoking. The Campaign for
Tobacco-Free Kids receives heavy money for divulging information that
is as stomach-turning as it is unsubstantiated. Nevertheless, like the
rest of the cartel TFK is intolerant of opposition and it has even the
face to take paternalistic tones towards its intended victims.
Not only was American Legacy Foundation rebuffed by the tobacco
industry for breaking its part of the agreement in the Master
Settlement Agreement pact which funds it, but by AG Easley, who helped
broker the settlement, and by many of the national TV networks which
wouldn't accept the ads because of their bad taste.
Also please notice that Matt Myers' boss sits on the board of the
American Legacy Foundation. Matt Myers' boss is Steve Schroeder, CEO
of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which supplied the big bucks
for the founding and operation of Tobacco-Free Kids. So while the
board of ALF votes to rescind the ads (for now), one of the board
member's attack dog gets print for savaging the tobacco industry just
as much as the ads did.
If this mafioso behaviour would occur in any other corporation,
there would be immediate outcry, and talk of racketeering. But not
when the antitobacco cartel is involved. Unfortunately, a bent-over
tobacco industry has signed a deal that allows the cartel to
stigmatise smokers in the same way Jews were stigmatised in Nazi
Germany, using corrupt science to justify its actions. Protected by an establishment that is endorsing systematic
scientific and political frauds on the health effects of smoking, good
old Stanton knows quite well that, no matter what, the fascist
antitobacco agenda will continue in the face of any evidence
of corruption. However, it is interesting that all of a sudden, lung
cancer takes a second place to heart disease: "The real
killer from secondhand smoke is heart disease, not lung cancer. Heart
disease kills about 10 times more people than lung cancer. And not
even the tobacco industry has contested the evidence on asthma."
Sorry Glantz, your diversions simply don't cut it. Firstly, the
fact that heart disease
kills more than lung cancer does not have anything to do with ETS causing
either. Nice try. Second, the tobacco industry has bent over,
and it will sing any tune the cartel imposes, the asthma song included.
Curious how "even the tobacco industry" becomes credible
when it serves your agenda of lies, Stanny boy!
Unpublished studies or not, relative risks like the ones described
by Glantz are ridiculously small, and the quantification of such small
risks can be affected by an immense variety and combination of
concauses and even involuntary bias. Glantz knows that better than
anyone else, and we leave the conclusions about honesty and integrity
to the reader. About Hirschhorn, the presence of "nitrosamine
metabolites (how much?) after HEAVY (how heavy?)
exposure to ETS" does not mean that any dangerous treshold is
reached. Ah, we forgot the "no exposure is safe exposure"
BS. What is the risk from the exposure to vehicular exhaust fumes? The
antitobacco cartel is not interested. It gets no cashola out
of that. Wrong end of the telescope indeed, Mr. Hirschhorn! Getting
people to look through the wrong end of the telescope is what the
cartel does when it wants to make the gargantuan frauds on ETS appear
small and remote. "I smoke because I adore being lectured. Because we owe it to
the Indians. Because cigarettes keep me company without getting on my
nerves. Because half the point of having a vice is pissing off the
virtuous." So far, no study ever performed on passive smoking (about 40)
except a minor one have shown any serious risk, but the anti-tobacco
cartel and it major mouthpiece, the WHO, continue to
lie about secondhand smoke dangers. Click here to see all the studies
ever performed on secondhand smoking
"The Warwick University specialists estimated that some 23
earlier studies that did not link passive smoking with lung cancer may
have been ignored. Researchers often average all previous findings,
but the overall picture may be distorted because some reports with
negative findings have not been written up in journals."
Perhaps antismoking should be added in all synonym dictionaries
next to the word corruption. "There is clear evidence of publication bias in these
studies."
"Reanalysis of the data allowing for the possibility of
publication bias substantially lowers the estimate of relative
risk." ... Thank you very much. What about systematically investigating
straight forward corruption? What was the involvement of the
pharmaceutical industry in those studies? Were people linked to the
antismoking cartel involved in the research? Who paid for those
studies? Were there grants involved? If so, what were the conditions
of the grants, and how those conditions were formulated in the
contracts? Were there political pressures exerted on the researchers
during the studies? Were the data collectors part of antismoking
coalitions, or influenced in any way to round raw data figures
"to excess?"
Those are all interesting questions, and we would not risk much in
betting that a thorough investigation would answer yes to
most - if not all - of those questions. From recent news reported in
this page, it seems that the rampant
corruption of the antitobacco cartel is showing up more and more.
How long will people and political forces stay indifferent to the
overwhelming evidence about the corruption of "overwhelming
evidence?"
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