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.
As I said, I like to dive and I love the ocean. I take every butt with me on the way out. Littering as a problem has nothing to do with smoking, contrary to the cigarette litter people. Littering is littering. Littering is bad. The nature of the litter is irrelevant.
I was somewhat surprised to read that I am environmental menace by these people, but it shouldn't have shocked me. LOL! I guess my cynicism isn't so great since the stupidity of the site actually shocked me. A nice surprise.
A lefty friend of mine questioned why violence existed in the world and what would make normal people fight and kill in a war or other conflict. I explained that wars happen because certain people try to impose their will on other people.
The funny part is that the leftys entire political philosophy is predicated on forcing people to confirm to the dictat of the state. Yet they think they are pacifists.
They preach what to eat, what to ingest, what to read, what to smoke, what to drink, and everyting else under the sun. I am not a child and I will not be treated like one.
If the Conservatives lose, I will still do what I want, when I want. Thats what the US is all about. The question is, will I get thrown in jail for exercising my rights on my private property.
If you cant tell, I find the liberal smoke nazis beneath contempt, LOL!
Oh I know.......it's just as easy to ignore someone, period. Like the old saying "Silence is golden." :)
I put that right up there with smoking causing zits.................which I put right up there with smoking causing nightmares or knee pain.
(the above have been listed by the State of Delaware as being scientifically linked to smoking or exposure to SHS)
LOL!!!!
That's a lie and you know it......no one can quit cold turkey, everyone knows that smoking is more addictive than heroine and the only way to quit is by using pharmaceutical nicotine replacement therapies..........END OF SARCASTISC ANTI-SMOKER RANT
In all seriousness, Good For You.
My story is very similar to yours.
I no more blame my smoking parents for me smoking, my younger brother never smoked, than I blame them for the fact that I only drink beer and wine, which are pretty much the only alcoholic beverages they drank on any kind of a regular basis.
You did it again...
You have proven a point I've been trying to stress on many of these threads.......the smoking bans cover ALL businesses, not just bars and restaurants - yet the rest of the private businesses rarely get mentioned in articles regarding the bans.
Also, and nothing against you or any other small private business owner, the smoke police generally don't bother with any businesses other than bars and restaurants.
Understatement of the evening...........
I've only been to N.O. once, but I absolutely loved it....hope you have a good time.
As for SheLion - I think it was just a case of misunderstanding because she has missed some of the conversations you and I have had on this subject. She is a great person and while we occassionally butt heads, we will always remain close friends.
LOL! Love the opening picture! Excuse me while I light a cigarette will ya?
I guarantee that you and my husband would get a long famously!!!!
He was born in Mass, but the family moved to Delaware in the early 60s, so he pretty much grew up in Dover. But the original family home and the family cemetary is in New Hampshire.
I was born and raised in NYC.
It seems I keep moving further south to get away from that socialist/communist/liberalism that seems to be attempting to do do it's best to over take this country.
I see it as how smokers see the antis and would like to treat them, if we all hadn't been brought up so correctly.
Well, I am waiting for the extra chapters that address the options for suing for civil rights violation under equaal protection, and as a result of fraud and deceit in "documenting" the need for outdoor bans.
Also the unintended consequences of singling out an identifyable group for punitive taxation. I nominate the gays and their trillion dollar bill for AIDS as the next group to pay for their "lifestyle" choice. Followed by the heart disease crowd, the moby dicks...
Publius - I didn't write the book - just the review of it!!!!!
SL - don't worry about it - it was just a misunderstanding on everyone's part.
Ditter has legit health reasons for avoiding smoke, but is really not an anti.........regardless of what she says!!!!
Deleware is proof positive of the benefits of supply-side economics.
NYC... what a great place. I've been there twice and I loved it.
I think urban environments tend to breed a bureaucracy first and then proceed leftward. What a shame.
BTW, I'm sure I would get a long with your husband and you famously. I love that saying, LOL!
Happy memorial day Gabz and husband!
Well don't just sit there. Start writing!
Publius wrote: "Well, I am waiting for the extra chapters that address the options for suing for civil rights violation under equaal protection, and as a result of fraud and deceit in "documenting" the need for outdoor bans.
Also the unintended consequences of singling out an identifyable group for punitive taxation."
Actually, I think I addressed all those concerns, though I didn't get into anything specific with regard to legal stuff: my tolerance for reading law is a lot lower than my tolerance for reading science. I remember at one point I speculated on lawsuits for damages/injuries/deaths caused by smoking bans and the resultant "secret smoking" and dangerous discarding of smoking materials.
Your last point is particularly notable: the rate of tax cheating on 1040s has supposedly skyrocketed in the last 5 - 10 years. Our "voluntary tax paying" system is based strongly upon the perception by taxpayers that they are being treated fairly. At this point in many states there are probably VERY few smokers who would feel that way.
- Michael J. McFadden
It's nice to know some of you younger folks sre fed up with Massachusetts. I thought maybe it was a generational thing.
The housing is overpriced,the politicians are ignorant,and gays can get married but smokers are treated like criminals.
Cape Ann is georgeous,in fact I prefer the North Shore over the South Shore.
Happy smoking and happy diving!
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