I also want to preface this by stating that I am a non-smoker by upbringing and personal choice. I am one of those people who never even thought to try smoking. I have no family members who have ever smoked…and shockingly this applies to my husband as well. We also live a very healthy lifestyle by “personal choice”. We are a 40 something Italian couple, so of course we have a garden…pretty much pre-determined by our genetics. We eat a very healthy diet. It is none of my business what other American citizens choose to do with their lives. It is none of my business if they smoke or what they eat! It never has been, it never will be!!
If you read nothing else from this post please read the following...it sums-up the other info. in a concise manner. Once again the saying that "If people Don't Know Their History They are Doomed to Repeat It" applies. It seems that in 60+ years and winning WWII we have not learned much; and are relinquishing the freedoms that our forefathers fought and died to preserve.
Hitler – Socialism – Islam (Sharia Laws) – Government Power Grab & The Correlation With Our Current Bans and Proposed Bans:
The first major campaign to use the powers of government to make people healthy did come out of the policies of Hitler's National Socialist movement. Hitler's Germany was feed a dose of government sponsored propaganda, much like state sponsored anti-smoking adverts. The German people were told: "Your body belongs to the nation! Your body belongs to the Führer! You have a duty to be healthy! Food is not a private matter!"
In addition the first major anti-smoking campaign anywhere was started by the Nazi government. Of course that's just where they started. They also turned their attention to alcohol, what breads people ate, even meat eating itself. It seems that many top Nazis, like Hitler, were avid vegetarians and advocates of the "organic" in food. The same lunatics bought into herbalism and made sure that Dachau, the first concentration camp, became one the world's leading sources for "natural" herbal remedies and spices.
In the centrally planned society of Hitler and his health fanatics like Hess, Himmler and Göring, everything was of concern to the state. Proctor says: "Here as elsewhere in Nazi ideology, the liberal distinction between public and private spheres was abandoned. As one Hitler Youth health manual put it: Nutrition is not a private matter!'"……….
We Nazis understood that every German citizen must live for the state. And in the same way that wise farmers accept responsibility for the health of their herds, we used the power of government to keep our flocks healthy. We were disgusted by the addictive powers of cigarettes, since both mind and body were supposed to belong to the Führer. We succeeded in almost criminalizing the smoking of cigarettes.
Our Ministry of Science and Education ordered elementary schools to discuss the dangers of tobacco. Government-sponsored cultural and educational events were declared "smoke-free." In the late 1930s we called for increased taxes on cigarettes and later instituted bans on cigarette advertising. I am most proud of the legislation we introduced prohibiting sales of cigarettes to minors. We set up counseling centers for the psychological treatment of smokers, and we established smoke-free restaurants…..
CONTROL:
The rise of the anti-smoking sentiment in America coincides with society's shift from accepting personal responsibility to attaching blame for just about everything on someone or something else other than where the true blame resides. Along with abandoning personal responsibility, "enlightened" Americans have renounced reason and truth and have handed over the control of their lives to a power hungry conglomerate of politicians, lawyers, judges, and quasi health professionals.
SMOKING IS HARAM (UNLAWFUL) IN ISLAM:
This article was first published in JIMA (Journal of Islamic Medical Association, Volume 15, and No.4, 1983. The author holds the unique distinction and honor to be the first Muslim Scholar in the world to declare Smoking is Haram. He did with full conviction and courage. Twenty years later the Ulama have realized the truth and every Muslim country in the world is following suit by declaring Smoking is Haram.)
In Islam cleanliness and hygiene are emphasized to the extent that it has been considered a part of Iman (faith). It is very well known that a smoker's mouth is unclean and foul smelling "like a cigarette ash-tray." Allah (SWT) says:
"And forbids them what is bad." The Qur'an, Surah Al-'Araf, 7: 157
Islamic Food Prohibition per Sharia Laws:
For this reason Islam has prohibited certain foods due to their ill effects and permitted all other pure, good and clean food products. Allah Ta’ala says in the Noble Qur’ân:
“O’ Believers! Eat of the good and pure (lawful) that We have provided you with and be grateful to Allah, if you truly worship Him.”
Bans on smoking and foods are happening across the globe…an example from our neighbor Canada.
THE WAR ON FUN – Info. from Canada:
WARNING: Health Canada wants you to know that this book review was written while smoking cigarettes, drinking beer and eating burgers.
In it, Ezra clearly shows how big health lobbies, politicians, do-gooders, busybodies and lawyers are attacking personal liberties, destroying the long Canadian tradition of freedom, turning rational grown-up adults into children, wanting to replace parental responsibility by bureaucratic programs and creating a victimhood mentality. As far as do-gooders are concerned, people (i.e., you and me) don't know what's best for them and must rely on bureaucrats and politicians to tell them what to do...
Ping to an easier to read version of my freepmail.
Ping to my post...I did just a little research. Took me just about an half and hour. I have become so disgusted with the current bans...and the specter of bans to come. So I seriously just typed in "Hitler" and "smoking"...and "Islam" and "smoking....and the treasure trove of verifiable, documented info. that leads directly back to Communism, Socialism, and all of those freedom killing "isms". I will be stepping away from the computer for the week-end...but keep the sentiment going...the complacency that is happening as these bans increase and just roll across America is sickening.