Smokers.Com Press ReleasesMay 14, 1999 For Immediate Release SMOKERS.COM CONDEMNS NAZI-LIKE TACTICS OF ANTI-SMOKING BYLAWSToronto, Ontario: On it’s website, Smokers.Com is comparing the current Toronto smoking bylaws, and recent proposals for even stronger measures by anti-smokers, to Hitler’s Nazi anti-smoking policies. "When it comes to smoking," says Mr. Smokers of Smokers.Com, "Toronto, and other cities, are turning into Totalitarian Police States, not much different than Hitler’s Berlin during WW II." "Despite many requests by individuals, organizations, businesses, and survey results, for a public vote on this issue, democracy has been suspended when it comes to smoking", says Mr. Smokers, who must protect his identity and where he lives, because of threats from fanatic anti-smokers. "Public input concerning even stronger bylaws has been reduced to two days at the end of this month, May 1999, which very few, if any members of the general public, are even aware of." The Smokers.Com web site provides smokers with an online community of many related services, where smokers can find a warm ‘Welcome’. It encourages patrons to insist on only top quality products from tobacco manufacturers, and, chastises any smoker too lazy to properly dispose of their cigarette packs, wrappers, and butts. The site also promotes respect for, and accommodation of, non-smokers rights not to be exposed to smoking. It says that the right to choose belongs to both sides. Mr. Smokers says he believes the anti-smokers are afraid of a public vote because it would most probably go against them and their plans. The Smokers.Com website, which since it’s startup January 21st, 1999 has gotten well over 16,000 individual visitors, bases this claim on it’s own independent online surveys, which clearly show even the majority of non-smokers (58 %), believe that there must be a public vote on the issue of smoking. A new survey is already indicating that hospitality and tourist related businesses have lost significant revenues and want to vote. He suspects that the key anti-smokers pushing the anti-smoking agenda are likely ex-smokers, for whom even 1 cigarette within a million kilometres is too close for them to resist smoking it themselves. This would explain trying to exterminate all tobacco consumption. "Could the extermination of all tobacco consumers be next on their agenda ?" he wonders And, Mr. Smokers says that a recent book by Drs. Gio B. Gori and John C. Luik, released by the Fraser Institute in Vancouver, reveals beyond any doubt that the Environmental Protection Agency report in the United States claiming second-hand smoke directly causes cancer and other respiratory diseases and ailments, was a deliberate fabrication. According to the Fraser Institute's description, "...The book carefully examines a recent decision by Judge William Osteen, of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, .... who determined that the EPA had knowingly, willfully, and aggressively disseminated false information with far reaching regulatory implications throughout North America..." "In the light of this new book, if nothing else", says Mr. Smokers, "on behalf of all our patrons, in the name of democracy, it is our constitutional equal right to choose, and we demand it back." Mr. Smokers also says that proposals recently revealed for horrific graphic photos covering 60 % of cigarette packs is clear evidence of fanatic power gone out of control. "Smokers are not stupid enough to claim that smoking has no harmful aspects, but, if these new proposals are to be, then we must also plaster horrific warnings on everything we use, including mother’s milk," he says. "Even zero-emission cars must be built of materials dug from the ground, and later disposed," he says, "and therefore, by anti-smoking standards, all vehicles must be forced to wear horrific signs covering 60 % of their surface, of mutilated brains, and other body parts, and the words ‘WARNING, Cars are LETHAL.’" "The anti-smoking campaign has already gone too far," says Mr. Smokers, "it’s time to let the people sort this out for ourselves. Free of totalitarianism, we will find an acceptable balance." Smokers.Com Media Contacts: Mr. Smokers |
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