Recently, a Winnipeg physician decided to publicly announce that he will not treat smokers - for any reason - and has posted a notice in his clinic telling smokers to

"Butt out by March 1st."

Warren Klass, President of FORCES Manitoba, comments.

Canada's Nazi-style War Against Smokers

Canada's 'elite', including politicians and the media, have launched an unprecedented attack on smokers. I don't have to inform the readers of Forces Canada what has gone on. As a former graduate student of German history, I have attempted to draw attention to the obvious, but little known truth that the VERY SAME POLICY was implemented in Nazi Germany. The slogan of Hitler Youth that encapsulated the mind of fascism was: "YOU HAVE A DUTY TO BE HEALTHY".

Penn State historian Robert Proctor stated in his book,"The Nazi War on Cancer", that Hitler's anti-smoking campaign was "in some sense just as fascist as Yellow Stars, and Death Camps." For about 40 years after WWII, anti-smoking campaigns were associated with Hitler. Part of the reason Continental Europe has not embraced the punishment agenda of Canada, the U.S.A., Australia, is because of memories of Nazi occupation - and their smoke free agenda. Hitler financed the first link between smoking and lung cancer. It took Anglo-American scientists until 1964 to find the same link. Here is what Hitler's epidemiologist Dr. Hans Muller came up with: "IF you smoke 35 cigarettes a day, AND work in an asbestos factory, AND don't eat your fruit and vegetables - IF you get lung cancer-there is a one in a million chance (p>0.0000001) smoking didn't play a role."
The Nazi War on Cancer, Robert Proctor, page 196
Canada's current War on Smokers is modeled on this Hitlerian concept. High cigarette taxes, draconian indoor smoking restrictions, and a moronic anti-smoking propaganda campaign. Hitler Youth and the League of German Girls all took "No-Smoking" pledges for Hitler. The punch line to Hitler's "Secure and Sanitary Utopia-a Smoke Free Germany." is more people ended up smoking than at any time in human recorded history-about 50%.

Those most likely to smoke? 'The Children™' graduates of Hitler Youth and The League of German Girls who not only took smoke-free pledges for Hitler but were fed a non-stop propaganda barrage about the evils of smoking. Just like 'The Children™' of Canada. German medicine was changed from "Curative" to "Preventive". Drs. were no longer there to heal the sick, but to lecture patients about the evils of smoking, drinking, etc. A German doctor born after WWII recently wrote, "The German Medical profession bore and promoted the belief that curing patients was one thing but to heal the nation was incomparably more important...To a large degree the medical profession was not politicized but politics was medicalized."
Dr. E. Ernst.Commentary: "The Third Reich-German physicians between resistance and participation" International Journal of Epidemiology, 2001:30:37-42.

Even Hitler's doctors never cut off medical treatment to smokers. Canadian doctors have done what even Hitler's doctors refused to do! As late as 1939 (the year Hitler launch WW11) the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) wrote glowing articles praising Hitler's anti-smoking campaign. It was OK to have thugs throw bleeding people strapped to wheelchairs in a hospital in the freezing cold to have a cigarette (I can attest from first hand experience the same thing happens in Winnipeg Hospitals), but it was NOT permitted to cut off treatment in Nazi Germany.

I need help from the readers of Forces Canada. It's a waste of time to ask you to write to the papers of Winnipeg to complain or the Premier (this is Manitoba). If I thought for one second I thought it had a snowball's chance in hell of working, I'd ask for a flood of e-mails. Instead I am asking you to:

• RIP UP ORGAN DONATION CARDS- (as a smoker your chance of getting a transplant are at 649 lottery levels)
• Do Not Donate Blood
• Do Not Donate Money, Time or Goods to a variety of Medical Do-Gooder organizations (especially The Lung Association and The Cancer Society)
• Let your local paper, MP, or whoever else should be interested in knowing, why you are striking back.

Have no illusions. YOU ARE NEXT.