Posted on 05/31/2004 9:39:17 AM PDT by Gabz
May 31, 2004:
Yes, you read the title correctly. We're celebrating, because we're helping to take them on.
While the day is usually greeted by an annual flood of orchestrated media events and press conference strategies that demonize, not only smoking, but smokers, World No Tobacco Day 2004 offers something new: a competitor with teeth.
FORCES is pleased to be part of the proud announcement by AEthna Press of the publication of "Dissecting Antismokers' Brains" by Michael J. McFadden on World No Tobacco Day.
Memorial Day is the "unnoffical" start of summer in the USA, let us make it the official start of the end of the anti reign of terror on smokers.
Usually, FORCES does not celebrate World No Tobacco Day. It is after all, a holiday of the Antismokers! However, this year is different.
After a steady buildup of power throughout the 1990s the new millennium has seen the Antismoking Crusade fall over the edge separating simple extremism from outright insanity. For years they built their power and success on such basic propaganda tricks as “saving the children” and through building a baseless fear of normal exposures to indoor tobacco smoke.
The last few years have seen a climactic change in their approach however. Their fixation on “zero-tolerance”, their insistence on the need for 300 mile per hour winds in smoking sections, their drive for tax increases reaching literally into the thousands of percent in some cases, and their drive to ban open air smoking on patios and beaches in the push to “Denormalize” smokers, have combined to unveil the true madness under their extremism.
This insanity is exposed and the lies used in its promotion are revealed on May 31st, World No Tobacco Day, with the full publication of Dissecting Antismokers’ Brains by Michael J. McFadden (see AntiBrains for detailed information)
McFadden’s thoroughly documented book hurls a broadside at the heart of the Antismoking Crusade, exploring the distortions of language, law and science used in pursuit of a tobacco-free world. His main focus and most heavily referenced arguments concern claims about the dangers from ordinary contact with secondary smoke but he also examines the damage to the social fabric brought about by smoking bans and discriminatory taxes and practices.
The author’s graduate training in statistics and propaganda analysis shines through in the care he’s taken to back up his claims with over 600 references while his close work with citizen activists over the past 20 years has given him the ability to translate that care into a style that will speak to almost any reader.
That style is aimed at both the casual barroom regular and the college classroom. It is comfortable for either casual section-by-section browsing or following a logical progression of scientific analyses that will find a solid home in academia. World No Tobacco Day 2004, rather than being a celebration of a powerful lobby’s success in achieving bans and dictating to the media, may turn out to be the Antismokers' Last Stand as people learn how they’ve been lied to and manipulated by those bent on socially engineering the perfect world.
FORCES wishes Mr. McFadden the best of luck with the full release of Dissecting Antismokers’ Brains and will watch with glee as it sweeps across the dried cornfields of Antismokers’ mental derangement. While his approach is a bit more conservative than some we usually espouse, we believe he makes up for it with his enthusiasm and fresh insights: May 31st, 2004 will truly mark the beginning of the end of the era of Anti Madness.
Cracking a window just a bit creates a vacuum that pulls the smoke out of the car. I want the smoke in my lungs, not in my eyes.
Good Lord, I hope the DU isn't sharking this thread awaiting a strike!
If so, my friend, you have just opened all of us up to it with that reply!
I need to look in my PO box for the check! I will settle for a good box of cigars! My humidor is getting low... and I do have one big humidor (and two smaller ones)!!!
I think (hope) that should read plaques..., or used to describe the condition of my daughter's room... (LOL)
I will also try to keep this civil and not go ad hominem on you or anyone else.
I haven't seen anyone on this thread that is pro-smoking. All I have seen is people that are agaisnt junk science being used to control the behavior of adults. Which is actually a conservative position.
No one here has made any claims that smoking is a HEALTHY habit, and it being "nasty" happens to be your personal opinion.
The article that started this thread takes aim at the socialists of the UN and reviews a book written by someone who detests the use of junk science and propaganda to promote social behavior control. The book doesn't promote smoking, nor does the review.
I was in radio - say it 30 seconds or less, or else!!!!
Not too long ago, I went to one of those very old and elaborately decorated movie theaters complete with velvet curtains and the works. There were small ashtrays built into each armrest (which we weren't allowed to use of course).
My grandparents remember being able to smoke everywhere even inside a movie theater, my parents remember being able to smoke in the lobby of a movie theater but, unlike their parents, not while seated and watching the film, and my memories will be of smoking outside several feet away from the theater so that I can't even stand under the overhang when it rains.
Yes, things sure have changed. Do you remember candy cigarettes? Imagine trying to sell something like that now. LOL!
But they really don't want people to quit smoking, because they have become accustomed to their tax money. Even the so-called conservatives at FR who are anti-smoking. They like the tax money that is generated, and they hope it will go into their social engineering programs.
My husband has been checking the mail box for years waiting for my checks to start showing up over this issue!!!!
The funny thing is that as soon as I put someone accusing me of being paid by the tobacco industry on the spot by offering up my tax return in exchange for theirs - the accusations stop rather quickly.
Sure tells me something!!!!
Some people light up in defiance to the SOCIAL ENGINEERING policies pushed by liberals and so called "small government" (except when bigger suits us!) conservatives.
Most of us also are against extra taxes, except, once again, the so-called small government conservatives.
HELL no! They would have shot me years ago! LOL!
Oops. Sorry. But, it is true. I do prefer firsthand smoke to secondhand smoke. Not that there's anything wrong with secondhand smoke, which is a beautiful, beautiful thing (and quite necessary in the grand scheme of things if I wish to obtain a tasty puff of that delicious firsthand smoke)...
Um... I'm just making things worse, aren't I... LOL.
I'm going to try to keep this civil and not go ad hominem on you or anyone else
The ad hominem.
Thats really a reactive and childish response because smoking IS a nasty and very unhealthy habit.Why not defend crack smokers' rights also?
You forgot, "Oops, did I say that out loud?"
I'm in aviation - say it and do it in a time frame that is compatible with getting it right the first time, or else!!!!
LOL is right...........
Reminder to Gabz: preview is your best friend........
Yes, I meant plaQues, not plaGues........
Geesh. In New York, crack is probably cheaper than cigarettes.
That you are doing sir, however in a very pragmatic fashion. ; )
I remember being able to smoke inside a movie theater in your seat.
That went by the wayside with the advent of the mega-plexes, even before government ordered smoking bans.
Of course comfortable seating in movie theaters also disappeared at the same time. I have not been to the movies since 1982, not because I couldn't smoke - but because I can't sit comfortably. There is not enough room between seat rows for someone with a 36 inch inseam without stressing their neck by sitting in the front row.
Good thing so many people are quiting -- keeps prices lower.
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