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2-10-98


ANTI-SMOKER TALK SHOW HOSTS CENSOR INFORMED SMOKERS' ADVOCATES

Anti-smoker talk show hosts are well-known to us for indulging anti- smokers with interminable rants of lies, slanders, defamations, libels, and ignorance of the lowest kind. And then they refuse to allow smokers' advocates to speak, to make it look as if everyone agrees and there is no dissent. And they especially try to exclude well-informed smokers' advocates, because we commit the unpardonable sin of winning arguments and making the anti-smokers look bad.

Dave Anthony of WIBA in Madison, Wisconsin, is just such an unprincipled host. He allowed a notorious anti-smoker named "Willie," who is equally notorious for both his extended ramblings and his excessive calls (which have forced local hosts to make rules limiting the number of calls per week), to spew forth his venom and bile before the top of the hour, and then call back again after the news to continue his tirade.

When I dialed in to speak, the call screener told me that I would be next. But, knowing who I am, Dave Anthony ignored my call and changed the subject. So I would like to expose what happened, and inform the public that this happens frequently, and on many other talk shows across the country that I have called as well.

I would also like to share the comments that I was planning to make, for the benefit of any WIBA listeners who may drop in on this website who heard the show in question.

Willie spouted the stock anti-smoker cant about "nicotine addiction." But when asked about cigars, he said, "I don't think that they are specifically a nicotine delivery device," to the amusement no doubt of anyone who places a value on intellectual consistency.

He called tobacco executives "amoral people," and advocated that smokers' relatives ought to "kill them" in retaliation for the "suffering" they've supposedly caused. Meanwhile, smokers' advocates would probably be banned from the show if they talked about killing anti-smokers.

(Furthermore, I have been personally threatened with death by shooting, ON THE AIR, by famous talk show host Paul Lyle. He worked in this town before going to San Diego, and is a big wheel in the Association of Talk Show Hosts. This was shortly after his first-time purchase of a handgun, which he dwelt upon at length in a number of shows. I defiantly called in and played an electronic toy that made a tinny "machine gun" sound effect, and he spewed Yiddish curses at me.)

Willie called for a ban on all tobacco industry advertising. He cited some billboards, which are allegedly "all over town" (despite the fact that this area's largest billboard firm cravenly capitulated to anti-smoker bullies some time ago), as supposed examples of the tobacco industry's deceitfulness.

He claimed that the ads were aimed at black people (he tacitly presumes that white people would never accept black people as symbols of glamor and sophistication), which he takes as inherently reprehensible, apparently in the belief that black people are incapable of thinking for themselves.

He claimed that the ad showed some "white powder" on the cigarette pack, which he inferred to be "cocaine." And, he babbled that the cigarette stuck up like a "phallic symbol." Then, on the basis of his own racist and malicious misconstruals, he thinks the tobacco industry ought to be denied any freedom of speech.

Some of the points I would have made if I had not been denied the opportunity:

Let's look at the anti-smokers' crimes, versus Willie's free associations about pictures on billboards. These include blatantly fraudulent smoking cost claims, which pretend that non-smokers' costs don't exist; a ten year campaign of deliberate libel that smokers are an economic burden, and censorship of the truth; and 41 state lawsuits that are founded on nothing but perjury to Congress. Anti-smokers flagrantly lie about matters of fact, while their attempts to charge the tobacco companies with lying strain credulity.

And, there is no nicotine addiction. The anti-smokers changed the definition to falsely make nicotine "fit" it. Under their bogus definition, even caffeine could be proclaimed "as addicting as heroin and cocaine," and a cup of coffee ludicrously termed a "caffeine delivery device."

Nicotine improves mental functions in both smokers and non-smokers. There are more nicotinic receptors in the right hemisphere of the brain than in the left, and one of nicotine's effects is stimulation of the right side of the brain.

Stroke victims with damage to the right side of their brain sometimes deny that their left side is paralyzed, because of their loss of the right- side function of detecting contradictions to their beliefs. They make up excuses, such as having arthritis, etc., to explain the immobility of a limb, or they may even claim that it has moved when it hasn't.

My own theory is that anti-smoker mental processes are much like those of right-sided stroke victims. They pile lies upon lies, their proverbial "house of cards," getting progressively more out of touch with reality, because they block out any awareness of contradictions to their dogmas.

The anti-smokers refuse to consider that improved mental processing could be desireable. Instead, they try to force tobacco use into a false and defamatory model of mood-altering drug use, in order to justify persecuting tobacco users.

They misinterpret inaccurate subjective reports of "stimulant or depressant effects" as objective pharmacological effects. They trump up merely missing cigarettes, or just thinking about them, as "craving" and equate these with severe physical withdrawal symptoms. And, with monumental obtuseness, they have even misconstrued the hormone rises caused by nausea from a too-high dose of nicotine, as euphoria!

Anti-smokers hate nicotine, because it threatens their whole corrupt world view when unwanted rational thoughts break into their conscious minds. It should surely be possible to prove, objectively and scientifically, that anti-smokerism is a manifestation of severe brain disorder.

One possibility is the ingenious neurological trick of instilling ice- cold water in the subject's left ear. This stimulates the right side of the brain, and for about half an hour afterwards, even right-sided stroke patients admit the paralysis that they had been denying. The information had been getting into their brain, but access to it had somehow been blocked. Moreoever, a single patient acts like two separate persons, one denying and the other not denying paralysis, neither of whom is aware of the other!

Anti-smokers block information that doesn't reinforce their prejudices. It would not be surprising to see them likewise split into two separate people, a cold water one who is intellectually honest, and the regular one who is a cant-spouting, deluded freak.

A straightforward, high-tech method would be MRI determination of subnormal activity in anti-smokers' right brains. Considering the numerous crimes committed by the anti-smokers, anti-smokerism is a psychopathology that demands forceful intervention, for the protection of society.


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

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