Your SO right, Doc!
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.
Any Careful, Dispassionate, examination of the "Second-Hand-Smoke" "Scientific Literature" will EASILY REVEAL a "Psuedo-scientific Scam."
The "Anti-Smoking Crusade" is NOT about "Health;" it is about POWER!!
We are witnessing an attempt to regulate normal American Behavior at the Retail Level.
This is an Old, well-Used, Communist Trick.
First, Establish a Cadre of "Tattle-Tails;" Then exert CONTROL.
The "Jerk-Weeds" who are unable to understand this tactic are the "Targets of" the Psychopaths wishing to Control us.
They have created the "Bogey-Man" of "Cigarett Smoking" as their "in!"
THINK ABOUT IT;--Thousands of "Tattletales" reporting on "smokers."
--& Then, Thousands of "Tattletales" reporting on Citizans who disagree with a particular Government Policy--& Then, Thousands of "Pre-Programmed Citizens" reporting on their Fellows who disagree with the "Government's POV" about a particular Issue.
Freedom is EASILY PERVERTED.
Doc
'HURRY TO OUR SIDE!'
At first they did, Then Mcgreedy raised NJ taxes to $2 which makes packs >$5.50 so they continue onward to Pennsylvania, Delaware or Virginia.
But they are still hurrying to New Jersey's side because you still smoke in restaurants and bars in New Jersey.
Oh! I know what you were saying. hehe! I was just picturing you as a kid puffing your heads off.
I think smoking one after another would make "me" puke too. One at a time, please. hehe!
Your SO right, Doc!
Gabz wrote: "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."
LOL! Now Gabz, I *did* buy you a beer when I came to visit last year. In the Antis' handbook that would make you a "Mike McFadden Front Group." :>
Actually, people can read at least a decent introduction to what's in the book for free if they go to the website and follow the links for secondary smoke and the reviewers' reactions page. One note though: some of the articles on that "reviewers" page are actually fairly primitive versions of what they eventually became in the book after almost three years of work.
Still, anyone here who's concerned about secondary smoke should take a few minutes to read the excerpt on the web page about it... you might be surprised.
That's what I meant. I have no idea how much cigarettes cost in NJ. But they "have" to be cheaper then NYC.
But the business's are making better revenue now with the smoking population of NYC going over to NJ. I know "I" would, if I lived in NYC!
We didn't have any sense back then.We were the Beavis and Butthead types that try anything for a buzz.
Well, Beavis and Butthead can be fun. :)
I'm sure we all had a little Beavis and Butthead in us when we were that age!!!
Those were fun days. I'm older than you and I had my first smokes while babysitting(believe it or not).
When the couple came home they didn't say anything. I don't know if they were smokers or not,but they continued using me as a sitter.
I was 15 years old.
No Tabasco?!! Whaddya mean no Tabasco! What am gonna....what?...oh sorry.
Yeah, Especially since they added frostbite to the list of things that smoking causes.
ROTFLMAOPIMP!
I want to smoke one just reading this :)
Believe it or not,I don't smoke now.I quit when I was 21 and that was 22 years ago.When they got to a buck a pack,I thought that was too much.Besides,I got sick of everyone bumming them off me at work,so I quit cold turkey.
Well, both my parents smoked, but even back then, they told me smoking was bad and if they caught me smoking, they would KILL me. hehe!
I wasn't going to smoke, but one day, at lunch from High School, over at my girl friends house with 4 other girl friends, all smoking.......they finally talked me into it.
Been smoking ever since, and that was when I was 16.
So, it wasn't smoking parents that got me to smoke......or the ads on TV or the Bill Boards........but my peers.
Well, that's good. Smoking isn't for everyone. :)
We were all scuba diving the other week and I got a great kick out of smoking on the beach. We were scowled at and I turned to my buddy and said "Man, I want to quit someday but the way it pisses folks off now makes me laugh my ass off!"
Here in Mass, they just banned smoking in ALL business establishments. I don't know if it is going to be ratified but the damn Mass. Congress did vote it in. Now, I own a business here. We smoke in the back room. The customers don't get exoposed to it. It's not that I really care but you have to respect your paying customers. My business is not a restaurant.
Well, the only thing I can say is that I WILL NOT COMPLY! Who the hell do they think they are, telling me what to do in my own private property. If they want me to not smoke in my own business, then they can come with the police and arrest me by force.
I am sure that the next thing will be that cigarettes cause global warming and everyone must stop smoking to protect the earth.
Damn nazis.
I still enjoy left handed cigarettes though.
Smoking Ban Aids Out-Of-State Bars
"Our members (in NJ) have reported a surge in business," Dowdell said. "We're in close dialogue with leading restaurateurs in New York City and they continue to report their sales have suffered as much as 20 to 50 percent."
http://cbsnewyork.com/campaign/politicsny_story_215203147.html
Business Booms Across The River
New Jersey Bars And Restaurants Benefit From New York City Smoking Ban
http://cbsnewyork.com/siteSearch/topstoriesny_story_153064147.html
Butts ban in city a boon in Jersey
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/88799p-80790c.html
New York's smoking ban is a boon for out-of-state bars and restaurants
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/08/02/national0357EDT0441.DTL
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