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THE PURITANISM. IT'S EMBARRASSING - June
12, 2001 - The President's daughter is nailed for ordering a
drink in a Texas restaurant and the nation's pundit class dons sackcloth
and ululates its shock, dismay and outrage to the four winds.
Lost in the pious threnodies is the fact that what Jenna Bush is being
crucified for is legal nearly everywhere else on the planet.
Only in America is it illegal for an adult to buy a cocktail.
From The Economist a call for America to grow
up and bury the Puritanism that is quickly turning the country into
a monstrous Sunday School Camp cum Nursery School. From smoking
to drinking, the time has come to boot the Nannies in their well-padded
derrieres and get them out of our lives, for good.
 WHO, WHAT and WHY? Trans-national Government, Legitimacy and
the World Health Organisation
- May 21, 2001 - "Why be interested in the World Health Organisation
and its attack on the tobacco industry? First, because the controversy
over tobacco is of enormous social, political and fiscal importance,
and has yet to be clearly stated and assessed. Secondly because the
WHO has added to the con-fusion, by proposing massive legislative
measures with no democratic mandate. The story that I tell in the
following pages is meant as a warning. More and more legislation issues
from bodies that are not accountable to those whom they seek to control.
Only if we are aware of what this means in a particular case, can
we understand the more general threat to our freedom." -
By Roger Scruton. This document requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. If
you don't have it, click
here to get a free copy. For more information on the abuses
and the corruption of the WHO, click on the header bar.
Tobacco Cartel:
Alive and Well - May
12, 2001 - "I have long argued that 1998 Master Settlement
Agreement (MSA) between the big tobacco companies and the states effectively
"cartelized" the industry, blocking new entrants to the
tobacco market. But a recent article in The Wall Street Journal gave
readers the mistaken impression that the tobacco giants face intense
competition from new and smaller companies that didn’t sign the
MSA. Because that question is the subject of pending litigation before
two federal appellate courts, it’s important to set the record
straight." - By Robert Levy, Cato Institute. If the above
link does not work, click here.
 The
Therapeutic State - The Tyranny of Pharmacracy - May 11, 2001 - "... Gerald Dworkin, for example,
believes that 'A man may know the facts [about the dangers of smoking],
wish to stop, but not have the requisite willpower... In [such a case]
there is no theoretical problem. We are not imposing a good on someone
who rejects it. We are simply using coercion to enable people to carry
out their own goals' ([1972] 1999, 127-28). This notion is coercive
paternalism in pure culture. I maintain that the only means we possess
for ascertaining that a man wants to stop smoking more than he wants
to enjoy smoking is by observing whether he stops or continues to
smoke. Moreover, it is irresponsible for moral theorists to ignore
that coercive sanctions aimed at protecting people from themselves
are not only unenforceable but create black markets and horrifying
legal abuses."
This formidable essay by Dr.
Thomas Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, State University
of New York Upstate Medical University, is a must-read for all those
who still have a social conscience, have at heart their individual
liberties, and do not want to submit to the new "health revolution"
that the pharmaceutical cartel wants to impose. The 37-page piece
is a pdf document at The
Independent Review. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader, click here
to get it free.
 Third
Reich Tactics On Secondhand Smoke
- April 6,
2001 - "Firearms,
fat and alcohol have all been the targets of medical analysis identifying
possible health risks and accompanying recommended legislative action.
This untamed tyranny of doctors will continue as long as the lay public
greets the health community's legislative pronouncements with tacit
acceptance in a manner similar to Third Reich-era Germans."
As the word is slowly but surely getting
out that the secondhand smoke hysteria is a scam, so there is a parallel
realization that the anti-tobacco agenda is startling similar to what
went on in Hitler's Germany. Anti-tobacco is very sensitive
to the comparisons and objects vociferously when referred to as "smoke
Nazis" but it seems that the American public is beginning to
call a spade a spade.
Our
Society's Moral Confusion Runs Deep
- March
13, 2001 - Beautiful opinion piece
from Canada about a society which is losing itself, its values, and
eventually, its purpose. Where are we going with lawsuits, hysteria,
and the use junk science to justify bigotry and intolerance? What
do we hope to achieve? The frightening reality, and part of the problem,
is that no one has the answer, including the self-righteous assassins
of freedom and tolerance.
Truth
Campaign: Insult to Intelligence
- March 8,
2001 - "It is terribly obvious that the people producing
the commercials are fanatics, and it is difficult for anyone to accept
the argument of someone who is so obsessed with their cause that they
seem willing to do anything to convince the public that their view
is correct."
Of all the odious screeds inflicted
upon the public, the Truth campaign, funded by the American Legacy
Foundation, provokes the most negative reaction. People aren't
just bored, irritated or indifferent, they HATE the ads that are an
ubiquitous part of popular television. The highly negative reaction
comes from smoker and non-smoker alike.
This article, from one of those targeted
by the anti-tobacco ads, explains why the Truth is a big turn off
and why people, of all generations, reject the Truth's hateful message.
LIBERTY IN CANADA - An Interview with Pierre Lemieux -
February 27, 2001 - "What
is this if not apartheid in the real sense, i.e., state-imposed discrimination?
Smoking illustrates a more general absurdity in our administrative
tyrannies: private discrimination is often forbidden (for example,
a "smokers only" restaurant cannot discriminate against
nonsmokers), while state discrimination is legalized. It should be
just the other way around."
Duped
Americans
- February 14 - "Second-hand
smoke and global warming are two of a good number of unproved postulations
that "educators" have elevated to true science by circumventing
traditional standards of scholarship and ethics."
This editorial from the
Republican-American is not about secondhand smoke but encompasses
the bigger picture of why frauds such as the ETS scam are accepted
by a large number of Americans and almost all of the press. It's appropriate
that the Republican-American is a publication in Connecticut,
a state that is facing, a massive campaign of lies regarding secondhand
smoke.
Does
Smoking Prevent Cancer?
- January
29 - "Years ago in Spain I conversed with a distinguished
cancer specialist. We discussed worries that we're not living in an
era of science. Everywhere was official pseudo-science. All seemed
living on past theoretical momentum. He offered a startling question.
Could smoking prevent cancer?" How much of the
"indisputable link" between tobacco and cancer is scam? What is kept
from us? These are the spontaneous questions arising from this
interesting article.
FORCES interviewed by Laissez-Faire
City Times - SMOKING TRUTHS
- An Interview With Gian Turci
- January
22, 2001 - Gian Turci, board member of FORCES
International, founder of the Canadian chapter, and co-founder
of the Italian chapter, is interviewed by Carlo Stagnaro, an international
correspondent of Laissez-Faire City Times, about the scientific frauds
and politics behind the international antitobacco cartel.
 WE'RE
ALL SICK, AND GOVERNMENT MUST HEAL US - Added
January 18, 2001 - "In
recent decades a portentous cultural change has been gathering momentum
in the United States, giving rise to dangerous social and governmental
developments. Increasingly, Americans have embraced a therapeutic
ethos." [...] "More and more people have been declared,
or have declared themselves, "victims." They take themselves
to be suffering, if only from hurt feelings, because others - parents,
schoolmates, coworkers, people at large - have somehow infringed their
asserted personal right to health and happiness."
PROHIBITION
FEVER - A Legacy of the W. Era - Added January 11, 2001 - "What
do guns, drugs, and alcohol have in common? They are all highly portable,
highly prized by many people, despised by others, and can be abused.
Each has been the object of societal sanctions. As we head into the
new millennium, with a new president who promises to reduce the unintended
harms caused by government, it is time for America to recognize some
lessons about prohibition." - By Dave Kopel, Independence Institute,
and Dr. Michael S. Brown.
Tune Out,
Light Up - Added
December 14, 2000 - "American teenagers - and adults too - would enjoy the fuller
complement of life if they turned off the television, and lit up a
cigarette. You see, in terms of destroying years of life, television
is far worse than tobacco."
Tobacco Smuggling and
the EU -- or: "OH, WHEN WILL THEY EVER LEARN" - November 20, 2000
- "A major, often repeated, criticism of European officials is
that they are insufficiently accountable and hence are not appropriately
'punished' for their errors and follies, as happens in both the private
sector, and within the several national governments of the Union.
However, when the mistakes are a product of the officials' own conduct,
they deserve sure and swift punishment, demotion, or removal from
office. Yet often they are applauded for their mistakes. The latest
example is media support for last Thursday's EU announcement that
it is suing tobacco companies for their alleged complicity in lost
tax revenue as a result of smuggling of cigarettes into the Union."
WHY DO WE REFUSE TO
GIVE UP? - by James Walton - Except for some remarks about the
"established" link between smoking and lung cancer, whose
origins are still unknown, thus the link is still unproven, (also,
see article about lung cancer in The Evidence below), this great article
is the delight of all non-hysterical, rebellious, freedom-loving smokers,
happily puffing in the face of the bile-drowning antismoking zealots
(including, who knows, those who have put up the article on The Telegraph,
and could not resist but put at least a hint of antismoking in the
caption of the picture... who wants to be discouraged, anyway?...).
"I'm afraid I even imagined future generations - puzzled by the
clouds billowing from their ancestors in films and photographs - turning
to my book for enlightenment. Well, having finished the research,
I don't think they'll need to. Smoking, I would now suggest, may be
here to stay." [...] "...I reckon that I smoked nearly 40,000
cigarettes while working on the book. On the other hand, I didn't
begin puffing until I was 29. I took it up for two reasons. First,
as a result of an uncharacteristically successful diet in the early
Nineties (some people give up smoking and start eating a lot. I gave
up eating a lot and started smoking). Second, because non-smokers
were becoming increasingly irritating, and the only way I could distance
myself from them was to light up. "
SMOKING AND PROPERTY RIGHTS
- By Ninos P. Malek - Very nice article
on the smoking prohibition from a purely Libertarian point of view.
Keywords are mendacious,
fascist and bigots. The only word missing from this excellent
evaluation of anti-tobacco fanaticism by a fed-up nonsmoker is rapaciousness.
Sheer greed for loot is the vice exhibited by all the key
players making their living off anti-tobacco.
Herb Greer superbly
conveys the awareness gradually permeating society that anti-tobacco
is a nasty piece of goods far more concerned about control than health.
The extreme measures advocated by the zealots is resulting in a backlash
that will flush the charlatans into the sewer.
A BUNCH OF HYSTERICAL, SPOILED,
WHINING BRATS Added April 10, 2000 - SCENTS
AND SENSELESSNESS - This incredible article is our Recommended
Reading of the week. It is long but, believe us, it is worth reading.
No other article so far has better described the extent of the mental
disease that is pervading North American society.
After the war on drugs, the war on tobacco, the war on alcohol,
the war on food, the war on global warming,
the war on tooth brushes, here comes
the war on scent. Similarly to ETS junk science and propaganda, "important"
environmental groups and "scientists" are now forcing the
banning of scent. Some poor, hypochondriac baby out there is "hurt"
by after-shave and perfumes! And the equally sick authorities, of
course, cater to the whiners.
This is no longer a war against disease -- real or presumed. This
is a war against LIFE.
No more comments. Just read this. The parallels with the antismoking
hysteria is astounding -- and fightening. We assure you that you will
need an (unscented) cold shower afterwards, for you will believe that
you have been dreaming. Not so. This article will still be there for
you to realise that it is time to react to the health cartel, and
the world it wants to build.
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