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March 3, 2006 |
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Anti-tobacco Challenge
March 3 -
Big Fat Zero -
Tuesday
a well-known tobacco control advocate issued a challenge for
anti-tobacco organizations to back up their smears with facts.
To sweeten the pot, a cash donation was offered and we all know how
ardently anti-tobacco chases the dollars.
Specifically the accusation, made by
various anti-smoking groups, that FORCES is a front for Big Tobacco
was challenged. Surely the wealthy groups with all sorts of
facts at their finger tips and the big bucks needed to dig up all
the dirt would be able to provide the proof. Didn't happen.
Quelle surprise.
HysteriaMarch 3 -
Sneaky Benzene -
Soft
drinks contain up to eight times more benzene than is permitted in
drinking water tests in Great Britain and France revealed.
Benzene has been linked to leukemia and cancers of the blood.
It is found in tobacco smoke although in extremely small amounts.
Reacting to this news British authorities assured the public that
the soft drinks don't pose a threat. James Austin is amused:
Imagine the shock
and horror on both young and old indoctrinated anti-tobacco
faces when they discover that they've been drinking benzene, one
of the chemicals they've been told is in tobacco smoke and
killing both smokers and them (through secondhand smoke). In
fact, many of them probably think tobacco smoke is the only
source on earth for benzene. Until now.
As for the
government's response, it's always reassuring that there are
safe levels of carcinogens. That is, unless those carcinogens
are found wafting through the air from the smoking section over
to the nonsmoking section...even in an outdoor setting.
EthicsMarch 3 -
Double standard -
For
years FORCES has exposed the scientific fraud that anchors the
anti-tobacco industry to its agenda of eliminating smokers.
We've lamented that reputable scientists and researchers remain
silent in the face of the propaganda avalanche that places political
and financial goals against scientific truths. Michael Siegel,
an advocate for tobacco control, is speaking up and his experience
sheds light on why honest researchers are so reticent. |
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Pro Choice Smokers
Newsletter
March 3 -
Latest
Edition Out Now - Read the incredible story of the
93 year old smoker who must leave her home to smoke
a cigarette in the cold winter rain. On the fat front
the revelation that obesity's death toll was wildly
overestimated seems not to have deterred the fat warriors in
their latest shakedown scheme. On a positive
note read the latest news about smoking bans defeated,
rethought and ignored. Check it out.
Junk Science
March 3 -
Discussion over -
Announcing
that the debate over global warming is over, the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change decrees that only
greenhouse gas emissions can explain freak weather patterns.
And what are these freak patterns? Cold weather in the
winter followed by hot weather in the summer with hurricanes
in the Caribbean. What to do about it?
Drastically reduce the standard of living for every
inhabitant on the planet.
While the politics of global
warming are Byzantine the unproven theory that human beings
are responsible for the current warming trend has obtained
the status of holy writ, to be accepted as a matter of
faith. Ending discussion as a tactic to gain power was
first perfected by the tobacco control industry where
"proof" is manufactured and dissent is ignored or severely
punished.
Understanding the
Obvious
March 3 -
Whew, that's a relief -
Smokers
will be relieved to learn from Action and Smoking and Health
that smoking two packs a day for decades is no more
dangerous than 30 minutes in a non-smoking section in the
local diner. Sounds crazy?
Not according to ASH
who is promoting outdoor smoking bans by claiming even 30
minutes spent in close proximity to a smoker in a park could
cause heart disease. Decades of smoking is the same as
30 minutes of stray wisps of smoke. FORCES finally is
in agreement of Action on Smoking and Health.
Population ControlMarch 3 -
Galloping into servitude -
There
may always be an England but these days the quest to provide
an absolutely secure and safe society is turning that once
proud country into a den of surly, subservient serfs whose
dreams of security have not only not been realized but have
exacted a high cost. Smoking bans and the incredible
mistreatment of smokers is only one aspect of the horrors
that have befallen. | |
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March 1, 2006 |
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Taxes
March 1 -
Meathead Economics -
Hollywood
dilettante Rob Reiner was caught with his hands
in the cookie jar. Reiner, best known as Meathead for a role
he played in a 1970's sitcom, is on the board of the
Children and Families Commission, the
California agency that dispenses the loot ripped off from smokers
who pay 50 cents a pack to fund childhood early development
programs. While it's doubtful that any children's lives have
been improved by these programs it is indubitably a fact that ad
agencies and media outlets have benefited greatly in a scheme where
the Children and Families Commission has paid millions of dollars to
advocate Reiner's new tax plan.
As this article from the Wall Street
Journal makes clear the commission's primary function is to enrich
public relations and advertising firms, some of which are run by
Meathead's friends. It's current mission is to advocate
Reiner's new initiative to "tax the rich" to provide universal
pre-school. The paper notes that nearly a quarter of a million
native-born Americans leave the state each year than move in.
Increases in the population are due to foreign immigrants, both
legal and illegal. Raising taxes even higher is the perfect
formula for accelerating taxpayer flight. Finally the paper
recommends that Governor Schwarzenegger fire the Meathead for
spending millions of state dollars to fund his latest cause. |
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Anti-tobacco Challenge
March 1 -
Collect the prize! -
According
to the gospel of anti-tobacco nearly every individual and
every group that disagrees with the anti-smoking agenda
is a front for Big Tobacco. FORCES, of course, is a
part of that front, so says anti-tobacco.
Michael Siegel, himself an advocate for
tobacco control, is issuing a challenge to anti-smoking
organizations to back up their claim that FORCES is funded
by the tobacco industries. If he receives proof by day
end today he will donate $100 to any anti-tobacco
organization that provides it. Bring it on!
Surely organizations with the financial resources of
anti-tobacco has plenty of proof to back up what they say.
Theatre of the Absurd
March 1 -
Tater Tots or heart attack express -
Extrapolating
data from Action on Smoking and Health indicates that 30
minutes of Tater Tot ingestion can cause a heart attack,
even in those not at risk! The social upheaval in
eliminating these deadly treats must be stoically endured.
Beneath the absurdity there is good information about
endothelial dysfunction, the
heart of ASH's hysteria. | |
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Health
March 1 -
Miraculous; the astounding progress of a secondhand smoke victim
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Most
of our readers are familiar with still-lively Canadian waitress
Heather Crowe. The article linked with here refers to recent
worker's compensation awards she received, but the original judgment
on her behalf by the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (OWSIB),
dates back to 2002. That year, prior to biopsy, with a tentative
diagnosis of a lung tumor, she sought the help of the Chief Medical
Officer for the city of Ottawa, Doctor Robert Cushman, to advance
her claim for compensation. Doctor Cushman is also president of the
non-profit Canadian Council for Tobacco Control (formerly the
Canadian Council on Smoking and Health) which is as well known for
its irregularities in fiscal accounting (government funding was
slashed following a scandalous audit) as for its zealousness in
pursuit of absolute tobacco prohibition.
Heather Crowe had worked as a waitress. With Cushman's help, and a
publicly flaunted diagnosis of a "smoker's tumor," the OWSIB found
that passive smoking in restaurants entitled Ms. Crowe to
compensation. If you've never heard of a "smoker's tumor" before
it's because there's no such thing. "Smoker's tumor" is nothing more
than a propaganda term created by Ms. Crowe's prohibitionist
managers. Smokers and non-smokers alike can get any form of lung
tumor, either benign, or cancerous. The four major cancerous types
are small cell, large cell, sqamous, and adenocarcinoma (which also
includes the sub-type called alveolar.) All of these types can
overlap in diagnosis. Collectively they account for about 95% of all
lung cancers. Some tumors are more benign, slow-growing, unlikely to
spread, and these can usually be eradicated. Heather Crowe's actual
and proper diagnosis has never been publicly revealed.
There is a Catch-22 to lung cancer diagnosis. Tiny inscrutable spots
appear on virtually everyone's lung X-ray. One of these spots in
thousands might be early cancer. Biopsies are invasive and false
positives and false negatives from biopsies are common. A rush to
diagnose can therefore easily lead to the wrong conclusion. This is
a big reason why most actual lung cancer patients can't be saved. By
the time lung cancer becomes genuinely apparent it's usually too
late to fix it. Heather Crowe was given her diagnosis (whatever it
may really have been) four years ago. She was given a prognosis at
the same time. Surgery was pointless. Chemo and radiation treatments
could grant her a brief respite, perhaps a year to live, perhaps a
few months beyond, but no more.
Well, the prognosis was sure wrong, so the obscured diagnosis
becomes additionally suspect. Four years have passed. We learn that
Ms. Crowe's insides are scarred by the noxious treatments but no
sign of lung cancer exists. Heather has spent four years
intermittently promoting smoking bans, but otherwise spending most
of her time noshing in the luncheonette she once worked at, or at
Burger King where she is interviewed for the accompanying article.
She's entering her sixties now
and has gained forty pounds since her fatal
cancer diagnosis. The OWSIB has ordered her back to work.
We never were told what real form of lung cancer Ms. Crowe was
supposed to have. We know over-zealous diagnosis is terribly unwise.
Heather Crowe is very possibly a physical victim of purblind medicos
and prohibitionists. She is very certainly an emotional victim of
the unthinking zealots. Anyone can get cancer anywhere in the body.
Passive smoking "science" is statistical blather, as transparently
fallacious as eugenics, the racist "science" which brought so much
misery to the world. Passive smoking cannot conceivably cause lung
cancer. Incidentally, it was confidently predicted by many that,
following on Ms. Crowe's case, a flurry of Canadian waiters and
waitresses with lung cancer would file claims. Not one has appeared
in four years.
We are glad to see the doldrums of Heather Crowe's career as an
anti-smoking stooge. We expect to hear little about her for some
time, and as long as that holds, we wish her well. She is a victim,
not of the friendly restaurant patrons who gave her tips, but of the
psychopathic activists who used her, to throw those patrons out into
the frozen Canadian streets. Heather says of her old restaurant
friends, "I feel like I have taken so much from them." She has all
right. The movement that twisted her has.
This is an era for hate, hysteria, and terrible harm. In another
four years, or forty, that may change. Heather may not make it that
far. She's set at this point to die of old age. Anti-smokers now try
to ignore her continued existence, but when she goes, no matter how,
the ghouls will surely try to resurrect her image as a post-mortem
poster girl. Yet if sanity ultimately wins no one will be listening
to the fearmongers anymore. If justice reigns again the ghouls who
still walk the Earth will be pacing in a jailyard. |
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February 27, 2006 |
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Prohibition
February 27 -
Us versus Them
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William
Utz, an Arlington attorney and a nonsmoker, said he enjoys
socializing with friends who smoke and they should be free to choose
a restaurant that allows smoking. People should be "tolerant of
others and their social pleasures and accommodating of their lawful
activity," Utz said.
The recent victories in Virginia, Maryland and
Galveston Texas highlight the anti-tobacco's false dichotomy that
society is composed of a majority of nonsmokers who not only refuse
to associate with nonsmokers but also feel smokers must be curtailed
from enjoying a lawful pleasure. Testimony in Virginia
shows that citizens who choose not to smoke
choose to support their friends' and family members' right to do so.
In this day and age no one is forced to inhale secondhand
smoke, including employees. Patronizing and working in
establishments where smoking is permitted is a matter of choice,
something we all value.
Straightening Up Eaters
February 27 -
Attack on conventional wisdom -
This
year has been unkind to many of those who toil in the junk science
vineyard. Recently the benefits of the low fat diet have been
shown to be vastly overrated. Dethroning the low-fat obsession
is a cruel blow to those special interests who plan on reaping
riches from shaking down the food industry.
This article from TCS Daily is an excellent
compendium of the myths and realities of low fat diets. It's
interesting to note that the fat warriors chose to link breast
cancer to fat consumption much as the tobacco warriors found
non-existent links between this frightening disease and smoking.
Capitalizing on disease is what social engineers do best.
Ameliorating or curing disease is something they don't do at all.
Ethics
February 27 -
30 Minute death sentence -
Ever
notice how nonsmokers collapse with horrendous heart attacks brought
on by wisps of smoke drifting over the sands at popular beaches?
Self-absorbed you! Action on Smoking and Health has noticed
the slaughter and is now educating politicians that one half hour
near a smoker can be deadly. Proof is never required.
Michael Siegel, a lone voice of tobacco control
sanity, challenged ASH on this nonsense and ASH has bravely
responded, with "proof." The proof, however, is as laughable
as ASH's initial effort to pretend that tobacco smoke is deadlier
than plutonium. Siegel explains how ASH's irresponsible agit-prop
is not only hateful and duplicitous but also produces results that
run counter
to
the goals of tobacco control advocacy. |
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Anti-Smokers
February 27 -
Hypocrisy Awards -
So
many targets so little time. Michael Siegel has given
himself a daunting task; find the hypocrisy in anti-smoking
groups and rank each accordingly. Obviously it isn't
hard to find the hypocrisy since devoting massive resources,
provided by taxpayers, towards fighting an innocuous
pleasure enjoyed by millions while ignoring actual disease
requires a well-developed hypocritical aptitude.
What's hard is taking all the examples and deciding which
are the most egregious. As an advocate of tobacco
control, Siegel has insights that renders invaluable in
discerning all the layers of hypocrisy that permeate the
anti-tobacco establishment.
Commentary
February 27 -
Mistakes - Everyone makes mistakes and most when
confronted with the consequences are will to admit to an
error in judgment. The political class, however, is
loath to acknowledge infallibility even when correcting such
mistakes would bring in more money, the lifeblood of
politicians. State-imposed smoking bans costs each
state and citizen tax revenue. The money drain is not
confined to the hospitality industry.
Health
February 27 -
The elephant in the living room -
The
ocean of anti-smoking studies that are cranked out monthly
rarely include a breakdown of socio-economic status.
To do so would diminish the propaganda value since poverty,
not smoking status, is the number one indicator of health.
An affluent smoker who avails himself of the medical
profession is generally healthier than the poor individual
who may not smoke but doesn't have the resources to seek
regular advice and treatment from a doctor.
This weekend cable news reported on a
study that "found" smokers are more susceptible to teeth
decay that requires a root canal. Is it the smoke or
the lack of a first rate dental plan? Who knows, since
the researchers' press release would be valueless for the
anti-tobacco movement if actually found that poor people are
more prone to root canals than the affluent, smoking status
being irrelevant. infallible
Injustice
February 27 -
Consider the source of funding -
United
Seniors was founded in 1991 as an alternative to the
left-wing AARP. It receives that bulk of its funding
from the pharmaceutical industry, which most likely explains
why the organization has filed a huge lawsuit against the
tobacco industry demanding billions for addicting smokers
with nicotine. The same nicotine that is the
"medicine" in smoking cessation products sold by Big Drugs. | |
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