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.
You are correct......the UN and WHO, while promoting all this anti-smoker popaganda is also clling for higher taxation of smokers.
My attitude to them is if you don't want me to smoke make tobacco illegal, but stop trying to balance your budget on my back.
Where on the internet? Looks like a solid cigarette machine, better than some of the cheap plastic ones i've used...
they're gonna get you for that........
(but only if someone tells them.....my lips are sealed!)
Correct!!!!!!!
I've read enough of your posts to know that I wouldn't ignore you but if someone starts getting personal and nasty with me, when I see their name on a reply to me, I don't even bother to read it. That's all I meant by my comment - That you can ignore anyone you want to without an "ignore" button.
As for the smoking issue I believe that government at ALL levels should just butt out. I quit smoking about 4 months ago but it was my choice. I have friends who smoke and I still have ash trays in my house. I tell them, "Smoke 'em if you've got 'em"
Thankfully, you are a well accepted freeper, and this being the case, you have survived the Clinton tenor! LoL's
Love your screen name.......It's been raining all day so I was unable to get any of my chile peppers in the ground - at the moment I have 44 plants ready to put in...........I've got a long day tomorrow and a lot of holes to dig, because I have another 60 or 70 plants to put in besides the chiles!!!!
Oh wait......I'm a smoker, that means I'm incapable of doing any kind of manual labor such as digging holes. And I'm also too stupid to be capable of even doing any gardening because smoking has addled my brain. Oh and my addiction doesn't let me do anything for more than short periods of time............I'm not even going to bother continuing, I'm sure you've gotten the drift!!!
Time to get another beer!!!!
I remember when I was a teenager I was able to do things in a theater that I can't do anymore...with my girl fiends blessing given me! ; )
The machine SheLion showed in her post is GREAT. It's the same one we use.
We purchased ours through www.abstobaccostore.com (or maybe "shop" instead of "store")....It's in West Virginia, and the gal that owns the shop is a super gal!!!!
You're a good person............
Your point is well taken regarding ignoring people - sometimes, however, I have to admit it is difficult. The "ignore" feature on some other sites does help in keeping down the blood pressure and being able to focus on the discussion at hand.
ROFL!!!!!!!!
Coming up on 16 years since we met and my husband and I have never been to the movies together.
Why bother? I can wait 6 months and it will be on video or DVD, the rental will cost less than half the price of one ticket and we can watch it in comfort while drinking adult beverages and smoking cigarettes, cigars, or pipes (depending on the subject matter).
Without the "teenage drive" to be divested of parents, there is no reason to wait in line for "missing a movie through personal activity in the last row" when one can appreciate it in home theater comfort at home! : )
Age and self sufficiency, through hard work, has it's benefits! : )
I am ALSO against more taxes and social engineering but there is such a think as cutting off your nose to spite your face and smoking to thumb your nose at liberals falls into that category.
Maybe I am a bit unreasonable about this issue since several people close to me have died of lung cancer.
Nothing to do with the fact that they SMOKED,however!(Sarcasm intended).
Riverman
Good cigars when I used to smoke them. Ever since i found Cubans though I cant smoke anything else.
Seeing as though you are concerned about people's health, or think that the government should be, you must also support tighter smog standards and taxes on 'polluting' vehicles, right?
I support gun owner's rights because people have a right to defend their lives and property.
When did lighting up a cigarette do the above?
Riverman
You've got that right..........until the grubmint decides your haed work doesn't matter and they will dictate to you if you make self suffiency or not.
Nope,I an firmly AGAINST any "anti-pollution"taxes as I am against more cigarette taxes.The government is a voracious taxation machine that never stops,especially here in California.
I just have a problem with the ACT of smoking and think people should be intelligent enough to live a smoke free life WITHOUT government interference.
Riverman
If smoking is nasty and very unhealthy, why do 55 million plus enjoy smoking a "legal commodity?" If it was as nasty and unhealthy as you say it is, then no one would enjoy it.
Why do you think you should call the shots, just because you do not like people who smoke?
Hell no.
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