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"When health is equated with
freedom, liberty as a political concept vanishes." Italy, smokers have spoken: smoking is wonderful
What is the situation today? Business has sharply decreased in “public” places because all those non-smokers were already pouring into the locales since time immemorial, for - except for a handful of petty whiners - nobody really minded smoking. Smokers instead started inviting non smokers to their places (discovering, by the way, that they could get twice as drunk and twice as fat for half the price while smoking galore), and non smokers, of course, returned the courtesy and discovered the same. After a short flex in tobacco sales at the beginning of 2005, the year 2006 closed with sales increases of over 1,000 tons of cigarette tobacco (equal to 1.1% of the total sales) and sales taxes have enriched the state by 12.5 billion Euros (16.25 billion dollars; population of Italy: 60 million). The increase has been so spectacular that not even the Italian mass-media (notorious for thoroughly kissing the buttocks of "public health" and suppressing any information favourable to smokers) has been able to contain the information. A further point must be highlighted: in the previous 2003-2005 period (where smoking was allowed virtually everywhere) tobacco sales went down by 5,000 tons/year – spontaneously. Pathetic and typical are the reactions of the antismoking pharma-goons to this perfectly expectable “paradox”. In direct competition with God, former minister Sirchia (waiting for trial this June on several charges of pharmaceutical corruption for manipulating public bids in the health system) boasts that his law is perfect as is, and blames the lack of enforcement, contradicting previous statements that Italians “loved and respected" his law so much, there were virtually no tickets! His nicotine-deprived brain cannot understand the difference between obedience and respect. Italian smokers may mostly obey the law (after all, the state has the legal use of violence), but they certainly don’t respect it. How can one respect something based on fraud and prevarication? Other antis indicate that the “smoking patients” need to be “cured” with a steep increase of the cost of cigarettes, ignoring that such approach lead to a crashing failure in Ireland and in other countries. Cigarettes are so much loved by smokers that, if it comes to the crunch, they cheerfully give up other goods to keep on smoking - and this preference is what antismoking cons call addiction. In short, the antismoking idiots are in a tizzy, and blame the situation (and each other) for the resounding defeat of their social engineering plan, so proudly advertised as "social progress". Of course, not only do they fail to understand that prohibition does not work, but mainly fail to perceive the most fundamental and unarguable point of all. After all the relentless, spare-no-expense state and pharmaceutical brainwashing, Italian smokers have given this message to “public health”: “We don’t believe you: go back to keeping small pox under control, and public kitchens and toilets clean”. And that is exactly what "public health" should be limited to -- by law. So smoking goes on in "The Beautiful Country" – legally or not. February 2 [02:00 GMT] - Stirring up hatred - This particularly venomous editorial disguised as a news article is becoming more the norm nowadays as the denormalization campaign has created an open season on spewing vitriolic hate towards a minority. This particular story doesn't slam smokers so much as the smoking but the inference is quite clear. "Keep the dirty, filthy smokers out of sight therefore out of mind". Articles such as this were common 120 years ago, not only common but perfectly acceptable....as long as you were white that is. Back then the elite, ruling classes routinely fabricated monstrous lies and deceptions aimed at convincing the public that the targeted minority were savage barbarians who wouldn't think twice about raping and murdering your daughter and didn't deserve even the semblance of dignity or respect, much less entry into establishments frequented by their white persecutors. These lies were fed to a compliant media that was more than happy to repeat them....over and over.....until it became "common knowledge" among the white majority that the negro (to use the vernacular of the time) was indeed a creature to be feared and reviled. The only thing that has changed is the targeted minority. February 2 [02:00 GMT] - Legislature Takes Smoking Down to the Millimeter - The pharmaceutical corporations, on high looking down on the Washington State legislature, issued a new order and, lo, it was obeyed with the utmost alacrity. This time the lawmakers are furthering the smoking cessation racket by requiring the cigarette companies to alter their cigarettes so that they won't burn. No burning cigarettes, no accidental fires but best of all smokers will abandon the distasteful "fire retardant" cigarettes and take up smoking cessation nostrums. Norman Kjono explains how the pharmaceutical companies and their handmaidens in the legislature pass ever more intrusive laws to further the mercantile agenda of Big Drugs. Law making ain't pretty but this bit of sausage making is truly revolting.
February 2
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You
aren’t successful? Go radical!
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Expecting next week’s launch of a new Green Paper “on moving beyond a smoke
free environment”, an European Union official demands a “radical” approach.
Define a target group. Look for a radical solution. Sounds like political
approaches already discredited a long time ago. While it could be a worthwhile
philosophic encounter to figure out what is meant with “beyond smokefree”
(totally smokefree? Now really smokefree? Absolutely smoker free?), it is
definitely a slap in the face for everybody looking to find solutions acceptable
for all segments of society… February 2 [02:00 GMT] - Scarier than Matrix, more colourful than Lord of the Rings … it’s the Global Warming Media shocker that everyone’s talking about - One thousand six hundred pages. A big report scheduled for release (except the actual report won’t be released on the release date, just a big billow of propaganda instead). Lots of advance billing: “a smoking gun”, according to one of its publicists, “a battalion of intergalactic smoking missiles" according to another. Is it the newest big budget Hollywood blockbuster coming soon to a theatre near you? No, it’s “science”, stupid -- the Fourth Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. And whatever it does say (or fails to say), it seems the general public will be hearing mostly about what its boosters want us to believe it says. February 2 [02:00 GMT] - The how's but not the why's - The contest run by small town political mediocrities to prove which of them is the meanest and toughest on smokers was won a few weeks ago by Bangor Maine when the city council passed a law prohibiting people from smoking in their own cars. The backslapping was resounding even though another group of third-raters will inevitably topped Bangor in anti-tobacco stupidity. We are happy to link to a rare examination of how the anti-smoking media covered this story. The author does a fine job in highlighting the bias shown by the coverage of this story. He gets it right but doesn't delve into why the mainstream media is so lockstep anti-tobacco. It's for the advertising revenue! Without drug company product pushing newspapers, radio and television stations would go out of business. From NBC, ABC, Fox News, CBS down to the small town newspaper, all are beholden to Big Pharma for survival. When smokers in Bangor Maine are confined in colonial-style stocks where the self-righteous public can amuse itself throwing garbage on the ungodly the media will, as always, cover the story without reporting any of the facts. February 2 [02:00 GMT] - Calling a spade a spade - I’m not picking on Joe. He didn’t get the story any more wrong than the surgeon general did. As every person who has read the 727-page report has pointed out (a group that does not include a single politician in the state of South Carolina, by the way), the study did not find any increased incidence of heart or lung disease whatsoever from the kind of brief exposure to secondhand smoke that occurs at restaurants and bars. None. Zero. As this author discovered, and what we have been preaching for years, is that there is no evidence that secondhand smoke is harmful to anyone. He goes further in exposing how the former U.S Surgeon General, on his way out of the Bush administration, lied through his teeth about the hazards of secondhand smoke. We are glad that knowledge of the ETS fraud is getting out but are truly delighted that Michael Graham is calling the anti-smokers what they are; Nazis. Does anyone who objects to that appellation really believe that the people who pass smoking bans and smoker discrimination legislation wouldn't, in their heart of hearts, love to see smokers marched into a concentration camp? February 1 [02:00 GMT] - An epidemic of bigotry - Just a few years ago people laughed when presented with the proposition that anti-smoking campaigns will inevitably lead to physical violence against smokers. The laughter is a bit hollow but few people even now believe that violence is the inevitable end to state-approved propaganda that target one group of people. Norman Kjono knows better. He has watched the progress of anti-smoking activity and is usually not surprised at the increasingly blatant hatred displayed against smokers. He was taken aback, however, with a recent opinion piece published by the rabidly anti-tobacco San Francisco Chronicle that exceeded even the hateful rhetoric of the Puritanical anti-smokers operating in his hometown of Seattle. Both San Francisco and Seattle imagine themselves to be bastions of progressive thought, tolerance and acceptance. People who live there, of course, know better but, as No butts about it makes glaringly clear, a line between mere distain and actual violence is being blurred. Certainly a hateful piece that gloatingly advocates violence would not have been printed even in San Francisco a few years ago. On a positive note Bay Area residents did object as these letters to the editor (final two letters) attest. February 1 [02:00 GMT] - Turning the tide - Denmark has a smoking ban that can, in these days of total prohibition, be described as soft. Not soft enough for many the citizens of that peaceful and progressive country who are fed up with narrowly focused special interests imposing their wills on the majority. Our correspondent from Denmark reports on the growing resistance to prohibition. February 1 [02:00 GMT] - Anti-smoking groups look to Big Drugs for money - It's old news to Forces and our readers but we are truly delighted that the press is finally examining the financial ties between so-called anti-smoking organizations and international pharmaceutical corporations. Behind every anti-smoking measure, whether smoking bans, tobacco taxes or anti-smoking propaganda, there is a huge pile of cash provided by the same drug companies that manufacture and sell smoking cessation products. Sometimes the drug companies themselves pass out the cash and sometimes a drug company front group, like the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, pays the bill but rest assured without drug company money anti-tobacco activism would wither and die. The so-called health charities who are funded by Big Drugs while never noting who their sugar daddy is, go to great lengths, when caught, to proclaim their independence. As the editor-in-chief emeritus of the New England Journal of Medicine notes: "Would the pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars a year if they didn't think it was valuable? Of course not." February 1 [02:00 GMT] - So typical, so irrelevant… and so wrong – This slightly dated article is a good and very common example of drifting issue. Starting from the “progress” of banning smoking in airplanes, the writer wonders how much things have changed now that there are bans in cars and parks, and then proceeds to show how such bans have become “too much of a good thing”. It is useless to discuss whether it is right or wrong or beneficial to ban smoking in cars or parks (because, supposedly, that would not "protect against the dangers of secondhand smoke"). The issue is, in fact, irrelevant to the point, because "the dangers of secondhand smoke" have never been established - even for indoor environments - so the principle has not been established. But here we see a very common discussion between pro and con AS IF that principle were established. That’s how drifting (and chaos) are created, while those who stay on target (the smoking prohibition cartel) successfully proceed with their goals of total prohibition. Let us say it again: discussions over bans outdoors or in the car should not occur unless the principle (passive smoking is dangerous) is established - and it is not. It is not established scientifically and not even statistically. The opposition of the writer from a piece under the ingenious title of “Protect our Children” thunders: ”It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that secondhand smoke is bad for your health” and he goes on mentioning – guess who – the Surgeon General! Perhaps it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that passive smoke “causes premature death and disease in children and in adults” ; but it sure takes a con to say it. So, let’s stay on target – the target being the corruption of public institutions pushing a fraud and the arrogance of those who define prohibition as “progress” just because they don’t like the wonderful scent of tobacco smoke. February 1 [02:00 GMT] - In the mind of the idiot, the smoker is always short of breath – Please read this on an empty stomach – but read it nevertheless. It is a call from Canada to make tobacco illegal, just like a hard drug. Then read the short reply by the editor, and put it all together. It is hard to engage such imbeciles, who cannot even make a distinction between a choice and an addiction, so it is better not to waste time. The problem is that there are a lot of people like Spakowski, who make “diagnoses” based on their own hate and superstitions – and many of them work in “public health”. The proof of Spakowski ‘s obtuseness is this: forbidding heroin and cocaine did not make the habit go away, it simply created the war on drugs that fuels crime and destroys the lives of millions -- and the consumption is now more widespread than ever. Here are the defective programming equations of these confused minds: Public
smoking prohibition based on
ETS fraud
= quitting smoking. Why? Because if they were not addicted they would behave as the fraudulent law that aims to control their personal choices wants, and they would not smoke! The cause of them crowding to smoke in polar temperatures is not a criminal form of Apartheid called a smoking ban, but their "addiction". So far we are still in the realm of severe idiocy, but here comes the pathological part: we have made it so difficult for them to live as they want that IF smoking in -30°C = addiction, THEN making tobacco illegal = quitting Why? Because ”they” will respect the authority of an even more fraudulent law based on prejudice because "they" will be terrified by the punishment for doing what WE don’t like. And if smokers all over the world (and in great numbers) don’t start making political noise to forcibly restore respect, you can soon expect such a law enforced by a police station near you. One last thing: don’t look at the tobacco industry to fix that. They are broken, and will officially cheer laws like that all the way to the receiver. February 1 [02:00 GMT] - Forward to the past - Never before now have so-called progressive hewed more inflexibly to the past. One hot bed of phoney progressivism is Madison Wisconsin, where the inmates long ago took control of the asylum. It goes without saying that the Madison "progressive" elite hate smokers but their loathing also encompasses a rather larger group; those who enjoy modern conveniences. From one of the endless task forces so loved by social engineers comes a scheme that would pave the way to a return to hunter gatherer days.
If human progress were left to these people we would be living in caves and dying at 30. Our carbon footprint would indeed be zero but so would our quality of life. Remember always that those harking back to a primitive life no one sane wants always describe themselves as humanitarians. They are not be ironical. January 31 [02:00 GMT] - Children Raised Near Busy Roads Have Poorer Lungs - Here is a study that, once again, proves the obvious: pollution may cause poor pulmonary function. We are sure that, in a different study, these very same children will have poor lungs because of passive smoke! Be that as it may, we cannot refrain from making a philosophical consideration: if we have to keep our lungs (and the rest of our bodies, apparently) in pristine conditions for all our lives, what do we live for? To deliver our bodies to the undertaker in pristine conditions? On the other hand, we are positive that farmers living 300 years ago (when presumably there was far less "pollution") had perfectly clean lungs - except that, in average, they were buried at 45. Like all idiots, we want our cake and eat it too. January 31 [02:00 GMT] - Festival of hate - The measures will include a $1.25 per pack increase in the state cigarette tax, a statewide ban on smoking in public places such as bars and restaurants, and a significant increase in state money going to efforts to help smokers quit the habit, the source said. The governor has spent his entire career fighting big tobacco and he has said that fighting the scourge of tobacco on our youth is a priority. Where is the audit of the Master Settlement Agreement dollars? And know this: The new tax will never be used FOR the smoker. The smoker ban was never about the smoke, It is about the smoker. This smoker tax is not about healthcare or secondhand smoke. It is about the smoker quitting. It is about control of all behaviors. How harmful are your behaviors? Do you have a behavior you've been told is naughty, not good, not good for the homeland? Do not fear, it will be taken care of for you, one way or another. January 31 [02:00 GMT] - Debunking the junk - Bart Williams of Fairbanks Alaska puts pen to paper as he succinctly squashes the silly notion that secondhand smoke is hazardous to nonsmokers' health. He takes on a false analogy regarding shooting ranges:
January 31 [02:00 GMT] - Going too far - The hubris of the anthropogenic climate preachers may finally be bearing fruit as this articles indicates. As the level of hysteria ratchets every higher the outrageous claims are finally getting the attention they deserve. Hurricane Katrina, for instance, is being used as proof that man is heating up the climate despite the fact that hurricanes have devastated the gulf of Mexico coast line forever. There are plenty of hurricanes' that were far more powerful than Katrina. This articles highlights how dramatic pictures and wild claims now set the tone for what should be a sober examination of natural phenomena and how it responds, if at all, to the presence of mankind. The predictions have become so lurid and horrendous that the panic-mongers have painted themselves into a corner that will fall off the cliff if their dire forecasts don't come true, soon.
January 30
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Smoking Ban For Dummies
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In the January 30 [03:00 GMT] - Cigarette Price Increase Fuels Irish Inflation - It is outrageous that interest groups should be in a position to “cook the books” in terms of how indexes of economic performance are presented to the public. But in Ireland, if the anti-smokers get their way, that is what may happen. S.A.D. Ireland reports that a 50 cent hike in a 20-pack of cigarettes has helped fuel Ireland’s recent inflation. Most interesting, efforts have been made by anti-smokers and their supporters in government to mask the effect of artificially-imposed cigarette price hikes on the wallets of consumers:
Why not remove alcohol, dairy products, and snack foods from the consumer price index as well? Why not remove consumer products – computers, DVDs, televisions – that encourage a sedentary lifestyle? If these people had their way, we’d get a whole “virtual economy” that reflects their delusional “health paradise”.
Not satisfied with forbidding her smoking neighbors from lawfully enjoying a legal, state-approved, product in restaurants and bars, Susan is on board the campaign to throw them out of their own homes. As a symptom of her delusion she believes herself to be a progressive, caring individual. Marie Antoinette thought she was getting a bad rap and in truth Paynter's viciousness far exceeds hers since Marie at least advised the starving masses to eat cake in the face of a bread shortage. Susan wants to make it impossible for smokers to buy their smokes. She wants to remove cigarettes from Safeway and other large stores since she is offended by the sight of low, evil smokers picking up their poison from the sacred precincts where she herself shops. Susan is particular contemptuous of the less affluent smoker letting the cat out of the bag; liberals hate the lower classes. Fair minded individuals are asked to read Susan's latest hate-filled screed and ask themselves with whom would they rather be stuck on a desert island. A lunatic whose hatred for the "other" surpasses exponentially the supposed hatred demonstrated by right wing demagogues or an honest, hard working smoker who gracefully survives in the Washington State that kisses the clammy ass of a shrieking parasite like Susan Paynter.
January 29
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Don’t like the results of your measures? Prohibit them!
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“This
has been a scene repeated at hospitals all over the
January 29 [03:00 GMT] - Action group presents petitions - Smoking ban opponents present their petition demanding that Scotland's unjust smoking ban be altered or overturned completely. Along with lists of citizens outraged by prohibition the FIfe Smoking Action Group and Freedom to Choose has plenty of facts to back up the hospitalities contention that the smoking ban is costing the tax-payers plenty. The group is also demanding that the authorities set clean air standards that apply to indoor air quality, rather than focusing only on secondhand smoke. If it is anti-tobacco's aim to improve public health, the short shrift given to indoor air pollutants is puzzling and needs exposure. Fife intends to hold the politicians' feet to the fire. January 29 [03:00 GMT] - Cheese to join olive oil and raisins on British kids' TV ad ban - Cheese is junk food! That’s the message from British regulators as they decide to ban its advertisement during children’s viewing hours, hypothesizing a larger-than-average portion size to bolster their argument of “danger”. Cheese joins a list of other advertising-banned foods which includes, incredibly, sultanas, raisins, olive oil and various nuts, as well as a variety of pre-packaged snacks. A National Farmers' Union spokesman described the latest ruling as “mad” and “absurd”, but the industry lobby is unlikely to put off the new breed of totalitarian-minded micro-managers that the Tony Blair government has unleashed under its cynical slogan of citizen health “empowerment”.
Let us ignore the fact that, generally, overweight is easily prevented in dogs by simply feeding them as the vet advises and making sure they get lots of exercise. Don’t have the time and will to take care of your pet properly? Don’t get one. But what do we know? Modern Public Health can fix every lifestyle problem with a handy pill and a quick swallow. January 29 [03:00 GMT] - A concentrated dose of BS - As a public service we offer this brief advertisement that will fulfil your quota of pharmaceutical shilling. After watching this you will not have to pay attention to the non-stop drug ads that pollute your television screen. You will have heard it and seen it all in one easy session. All you have to do is completely suspend belief and wrap yourself in a comfy cocoon of Big Pharma love.
January 29 [03:00 GMT] - Obesity of China's kids stuns officials - For veteran observers of the Big Health politics-and-publicity machine, it sometimes seems like a Big Health Medium Term Planning Committee must crank out these headlines six-months to three years in advance, stick them in a file, then queue them up to be matched with a press release when the time is right. Don’t reporters, no matter how blasé, jaded and disempowered, ever get bored with it all? Country by country, month after month, “officials” get regularly “stunned” by the extent of obesity in their jurisdiction, and become predictably very concerned about “An American-style obesity crisis” in their own back yard. Wouldn’t it be great if some media outlet had the budget – and the will – to follow the grant-and-corruption trail we strongly suspect is a universal run-up to every “shocking” new “obesity crisis”? By the way, the lead for this article incredibly manages to make it sound like bad new that “urban Chinese boys age 6 are 2.5 inches taller and 6.6 pounds heavier on average than Chinese city boys 30 years ago.” We should hope so. Thirty years ago, the Chinese were getting by on sparse rice rations that were painstakingly calculated to provide just enough calories to maintain an individual, and nothing more. The availability of proper adequate nutrition remains an issue in some rural areas today. As we read on, it becomes clear that the real “news” here is that many more of the Chinese people are now well-fed. And the final word is left to a Chinese parent who remembers the bad old days:
But someone has decided that a scary “obesity” headline is the only way to spin any story that contains the word “food”.
Once the ideological statement is made (followed by the usual fraudulent statistical mortality attribution figures) here comes another indispensable nugget of false information (notice the standard keywords directed to your subconscious to make you believe that smoking is a sickness and you must quit): “Nicotine is one of the most addictive substances known, and it's common for smokers to suffer repeated relapses when they try to quit”. The terrible social danger implied here by this diabolical health ideology may not be clear to all – but it better be. After the fraud machine about habit “X” is set into motion against the targets (and those who do not practice the habit have been taught to hate them to create social pressure), it becomes “ethical” and “necessary” to intervene (in this case on the brain) to “help” those who either never asked for any help, or have been conned by rotten “public health” institutions into believing that they are sick or that they are getting there. Here is when Big Pharma comes in, cheered by “public health” and even by some of its victims. Now apply this to drinking, eating, smoking pot, having sex – or whatever personal lifestyle you may conceive that “public health authorities” (read Big Pharma) may have an interest in controlling or suppressing to gain dollars or power. The holy dam of personal life/body management has been broken with smoking. Après moi le deluge. Please. don’t fall into the trap: these people are damaged in the brain alright – by nature and in a criminal fashion. If you feel that you need to quit something, quit listening to them and start acting – at all levels – against them. |
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