Posted on 05/23/2008 7:17:18 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084
Anti-tobacco will fail too. Has anybody figured out why yet? I did.
So I guess we can solve all social ills by engaging in constant “you’re a jerk” campaigns. Those campaigns all funded by the “jerks”.
Typical looter do-gooders. There’s a lot of evil hidden behind that false front of “caring”.
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We the People Sheeple of the United States Nanny State, in Order to form a more perfect Union Socialist Utopia, establish Justice Socially engineer a country of non smoking, physically fit, teetotalers, insure domestic Tranquility Smoking bans in bars, limits on unhealthy food and social drinking, provide for the common defense Universal Healthcare, promote the general Welfare health of the population whether they like it or not, in order to save above mentioned Universal Healthcare entitlement program from bankruptcy, and secure the Blessings of Liberty Dependency to ourselves progressive liberals and our Posterity Hitler Youth who we brainwash through public school education, do ordain decree and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Nanny State of Liberals.
Yes, given enough push and brainwashing from the MSM you can convince most people of anything. You can even convince them that wiping their ass with 3 pieces of toilet paper instead of 30 will save the planet.
Hard to believe.
“...obesity has always been stigmatized.”
Including all too frequently right here on FR.
In all seriousness, why do you think smoking has been made to not look cool? And more importantly...how?
how about a social stigma for liberal idiots?
None of this social change could not happen without the media who not only report it, but promote it.
Only reason I know of is to rob people via taxes on tobacco.
I like that. Social stigma against Marxists, liberals and ungrateful America hating losers.
Sounds good to me. How do we get the NY Times, ABC, NBC, CBS and USA Today to play along?
The part of that campaign that bothers me the most is the attack on “second-hand” smoking. It bothers me, because it's all based on lies and exaggeration. The strategy was to scare people about the “dangers” of second-hand smoke; so that they would support bans on smoking indoors. It's worked so well that they're even banning smoking outdoors (in parks, near government buildings, etc.) The smoke-fascists know full-well that second-hand smoke isn't harmful. The real intent is to turn all smokers into social lepers — and that's working too. It's scary how easily public opinion can be molded.
(BTW, I don't smoke & except for smoking a pipe for a while in college, and the odd cigar — I never have.)
How? was it made not cool? Through the media and even more forcefully, by using kids taught to shame their parents.
I mock the obese. But it’s for a higher purpose.
I find this very telling and reason for a giant "See, I Told You So".
You’re smart. You get it. Most people don’t.
I also wonder if the number of smokers has actually declined or just the amount of people who admit that they do.
Sorry, I don’t think that shaming people into a better lifestyle for their health and for Society’s health is necessarily a bad thing. Gluttony is a sin, is it not?
Fat people suck. Bottom line, end of discussion.
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