A major
newspaper in Denmark featured a full page article on the future of tobacco
control, in its Sunday August 28, 2005 issue. The major proponent of tobacco
control in Denmark, the Danish Cancer Society (DCS), was given free access
to the newspaper, by a journalist, Lars Henrik Aagaard, that declares
himself to be a future non-smoker! So he exhibits the masochistic
behavior of stabbing himself in the back!
Let me give you
some highlights of the article:
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The ‘experts’ from the DCS
estimate that in 25 years the ‘core’ of tobacco smokers will be the same as
the current ‘core’ of cannabis smokers.
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Smokers will be inticed to stop
smoking by pressure from their peers.
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The ‘experts’ claim that they do
not believe that smoking tobacco will be made illegal.
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The ‘experts’ believe that a
‘poison monopoly’ will be created, so that the few pesky smokers will buy
heavily regulated and pompously taxed tobacco products there. In order to
purchase at such a ‘monopoly’ one would have to register.
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The ‘experts’ claim that the
denigration of smokers is only in its beginning phases. More denigration,
hate and daemonization will follow, they confidently proclaim.
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The DCS claims that the first
major ‘advance’ will be the introduction of prohibition against smoking in
‘public’ places (which obviously includes ‘private’ places).
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Total prohibition will be
induced in private homes where nurses, caretakers etc. work.
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Tobacco prices will be doubled
or tripled according to current standards (which are already taxed. A pack
of 20 smokes is about 4 $. The DCS nuts are claiming that 20 smokes will be
8 - 12 $ - for leaves!).
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A ban against ‘addictive’
additives in cigarettes will be enacted.
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A ‘request’ that smokers are not
portrayed as ‘heroes’ in films. The ‘experts’ refer to a danish TV series
cigarette smoking hero. The series won an award in the US!
This is the
tendancy in great parts of the western world, and this tendancy will also come
to Denmark, the DCS claims, because the tolerance to smokers is being reduced
and more prohibitions are being accepted.
A four decade
advocate against tobacco, one female ‘doctor’ by the name Inge Haunstrup
Clemmensen, resorts to pure hypocrasy by stating the following:
“It is not a
development that I applaud, but I hear from more and more former smokers that
they are beginning to look down at smokers....”.
Of course Inge
Haunstrup Clemmensen applauds it - she is actively involved in instigating this
development!
More
hightlights from the article:
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In Taiwan it is prohibited to
sell tobacco products to pregnant women (just like in the good old days in
smoke ‘free’ Nazi Germany!).
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The definitive ‘knock out’
against the incarnated smokers would be a nicotine ‘vaccine’. This alleged
‘vaccine’ would make it impossible for nicotine to reach the brain. One
wonders what pleasures would then replace the nicotine? Perhaps the safest
would be to vaccinate everybody against any form of pleasure, thus
relegating us all to the nirvana of collective, egalitarian depression....
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Glutting at the prohibitionist
US state of California, the DCS claims that smoking rates in that state are
a mere 17 %. The DCS ‘experts’ carefully omit to mention that the Peoples
Republic of California is about to mandate warning labels on bread and
french fries!
The most
interesting information in the article is undoubtably the revelation that the
DCS has a target year of 2007 for the introduction of smoke free (aka. smoking
prohibition) laws in Denmark.
So, a little
more than 1 year remains for liberty seeking people in Denmark to repel such
attempts, if the DCS has things its way.
Perhaps a
little more time will actually be available. My guess is more like 2008.
The flag of
freedom is still swaying over the little kingdom of Denmark, but anti tobacco
advocates are doing their best to undermine it. Time will show whether they will
prevail.
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