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A VACCINE AGAINST UNWANTED BEHAVIOUR

NEWS FROM DENMARK - To a high extend it is the genes that determine whether or not juveniles start to smoke3, according to scientific research abroad. Within a few years a blood sample can determine who is prone to be addicted to nicotine.

-Today we know that the genes play a major role when a person starts to smoke. You are not as it was believed earlier able to decide yourself whether or not to be addicted. Luckily we have become much better in anticipating who will be part of the risk group and thus able to target out efforts, says Gary Swan, researcher and head of the centre for health research at Stanford University in California.

Together with 324 other specialists in nicotine and tobacco he speaks at a tobacco conference in Copenhagen, set up by The Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (no Danish translation of this society, ed. note).

Danish experts at the conference, too, think that the future smoking policy to a much degree will be targeting individuals. That the message that everybody should stop smoking will be replaced by more individual solutions. According to doctor and researcher Stig Jørgensen, Copenhagen University, it will for instance maybe be possible to vaccinate against dependency.

EDITORIAL COMMENTS

As we can see, the tentacles of the anti-tobacco cartel are reaching Europe in a major way. This article is indeed a splendid example of US-imported junkscience propaganda, proceeding form the usual, unpunished set of lies:

1) SMOKING IS AN ADDICTION - Smoking is not an addiction, but a habit. The definition of addiction has been changed for political purposes, and it does not reflect medical reality.

2) SINCE SMOKING IS AN ADDICTION, WE DEVELOP A VACCINE - Based on the misrepresentation in (1), we can easily construct another lie: we can develop a vaccine.

3) WHY NOT DEVELOPING A VACCINE FOR OTHER "DISEASES"? - Based on the same misrepresentations, logic indicates that now we can make mandatory the "vaccination" against not just smoking, but anything that may be undesirable: what a bout a vaccine against alcohol, for example? Not to mention the genetic conditioning of people prone to violence... isn't that desirable, too? What about people "addicted" to food?

Since smoking is not an infectious disease -- in fact, it is not a disease at all, it follows anti-tobacco is an exercise to "train" the population to accept that state and health establishment can have the arrogance to control behaviour... and this opens the door to any twisted use of science and junkscience for any purpose the state may deem necessary.

It is not a coincidence that the Center for Disease Control of the United States two years ago has started classifying BEHAVIOUR as disease.

If this does not make clear to society that the health establishment has become the strong arm of politics (and vice-versa), then one must be blind, deaf, and dumb.

The implications of tremendous danger to society as we know it are clear. If through inaction we allow the anti-tobacco cartel to be successful in its endeavour, we may as well accept the unlimited control of the state over our lives, for we would be foolish to think that the state will stop with smoking.

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