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.
They were DELICIOUS! I used to LOVE that candy! Oh yes. The anti smokers would be screaming if they saw THAT candy on the market again. LOL!
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Many people die of lung cancer - including non-smokers.
I don't know anyone who denies smoking increases the risk.......but just because someone smokes does not mean THAT is the reason they get lung cancer.
Correlation does not equal causality.
I'm not going to say you are unreasonable about this issue, but I will suggest that you might look into getting a copy of the book in the article............it is an eye-openner.
Yes, I am a friend of the author, but no I do not get paid to promote sales of the book.
Well, shoot. I looked everywhere in FR's preferences to find a link to use an "ignore button," but there isn't any. :(
I thought I had missed something! Thanks!!
In celebration of this day I'm burning the tobacco I have on hand .
The Klintoon era is when I sat up and took notice. I'm a lot more political today then ever. But working in a State House is not for me. I would be in fist fights all the time with the DemocRATS.
I'm still upset that it has rained all day and now we have severe thunderstorm, hail and tornado watches in effect.
I held off planting my tobacco seedlings until today to celebrate.
OTOH - it's probably good I didn't put them in on Saturday, with the kind of weather we've had since last night!!!!
Where did I mention anything about guns? Smoking is a personal LEGAL enjoyment. You don't like it, I do. Why do you want to take it away from me? Do you think that's fair? Take something away from someone because you don't like it? Where are you from?!
Diplomacy isn't your bag, your more of a thought provocative person! ; )
>>>>>Why do you want to take something away from someone>>>>>>
I don't think Riverman or any of the antis (as you call us) here want to take your cigarettes away from you. Its not *what* you do, its *where* you do it.
I like to eat breakfast in my nightgown. On the rare occasions that I eat breakfast in a restaurant, I will forfit this little luxury & get dressed. I will do it for *your* dining pleasure (& because there is a rule against it).
Oh no! I can get fiery!
You'd get mad too, if someone kept jabbing you with a saber in the ribs!
You are and if emotional outcry's are beneficial to you then perhaps a shrink is also.
What we are trying to get across is this: it should be up to a business owner and his patrons if the place accommodates both smokers and non-smokers. It should not be left up to the government. This should be a free market where there are places for everyone to go and be happy.
It should be the business owner's decision. Not the government.
No, at that point I would get even.
<1>Oh no! I can get fiery!
Really? : ) LoL's
Personally I don't believe you belong in the category of true antis, and while I do not particularly care for Riverman's tone - I don't believe he is in that category either.
But please understand that both She Lion and I have put up with some very serious abuse here on FR and else where over the years. While we both have developed alligator hides over the years, some comments still do sting.
Neither one of us are looking to cause a fight, but dang it - we sure are tired of people claiming they can dictate how some one else runs their private business or their personal lives.
All we ask of non-smokers with problems being around smoking is to talk to the owners of the business....not to the politicians.
My "tobacco" seedlings are already in the woods!
Your right on, Gabz. There is room in this world for everyone.
Aren't we supposed to accept "Diversity?" :)
I detest a post such as yours. I think it smells, who gives you the right to post such a reply?
Are you male or female?...Let me guess, it's none of my business right?
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