Anti-smokers are not "nannies." Their actions, from EPA corruption, to fraudulent smoking cost "studies" and malicious lawsuits, to the systematic libel of smokers as "addicts," have shown that they are ruthless, psychopathic criminals.

Our pretended defenders in the media have enabled the anti-smokers to take over by reflexively pulling their punches, and hitting them only with trifling accusations such as "nannyism," while refusing to charge them with the crimes of which they are guilty.

"Nannyism" is not a violation of federal laws. But corrupting the EPA with illegal pass-through contracts to a hand-picked crony (who wrote the crucial chapters of the ETS report), IS a serious violation. It can and should be prosecuted.

It justly impeaches the credibility of this report that those infamous confidence intervals were fudged, and important evidence ignored, under this compromised circumstance.

But our phony advocates refuse to speak of Robert Axelrad's admission of guilt to the EPA Inspector General, and name his stooge, Kenneth G. Brown, and to pointedly condemn the media's coverup.

They timidly flinch from openly rejecting the EPA report. They are afraid to say, point blank, that "IT IS CORRUPT." And, rather than hold our rightful moral high ground, they abandon it without a fight, and try to shift the battle to the marshland of "what about air pollution" or some such, instead.

This is how they actually LET the anti-smokers win. Likewise, these cowards parrot the anti-smoker-approved spin on smoking costs that "smokers' early deaths saves money," and we're supposed to cheer this abject self-denigration as a great breakthrough of the truth. Why don't they tout the costs of non-smokers' Alzheimer's disease, instead?

They don't have the guts to, or to press on and make the point that the smoking cost lawsuits are fraudulent, and thus their purpose is not "recovery" of smoking costs at all, but extortion and fraud, under color of law.

The federal civil rights laws in this country are supposed to apply not just to small-fry beat cops who beat up a suspect, but to white collar big shots who abuse their official powers, such as those attorneys general, as well. But our traitorous "defenders" refuse to stand up for our civil rights.

The media are filled with smokers who are self-hating losers with inferiority complexes, who blindly believe that anti-smokers tell the truth, and anyone who contradicts them must be paid off by the tobacco industry to lie. They "defend" us by unconditionally surrendering on all points, and bleating, "If smoking is so dangerous, then why don't they ban it?" Our question to them should be, why don't you challenge them? And why do you ignore everything we send you?

Their tripe fills the editorial pages because the anti-smokers know it's harmless to them, and useless to us. They are only enabling the media to deceive the public with a superficial, sham pretense of allowing criticism and discussion.

Smokers must stop being so naive as to applaud this junk. And above all, smokers must learn some self-respect, and stop being so desperate for any tiny crumb of sympathy.

Those who let the anti-smokers frame the issues are the anti-smokers' hand servants. Those who deny the anti-smokers' crimes are no more our friends, than Holocaust deniers are friends of the Jews. We must demand of those who purport to be our friends that they speak out boldly on OUR talking points, not let our enemies set the terms of the debate.

Courtesy of Carol Thompson 08/23/93
Smokers' Rights Action Group
P.O. Box 259575
Madison, WI 53725-9575
Phone: 608-249-4568