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.
Thank you for your reply. My questions were mainly rhetorical. It is puzzling that there are 50 million smokers in the country and if the ones I know are any example, they are not sheep. Their creative means of avoiding their local state tax on cigarettes are nothing short of brilliant. I refrain for saying more for obvious reasons.
Getting back to the number of smokers, if only half of them contributed one ($1) dollar a month to a Lucky Strike-Back fund, that would amount to $25 million a month for filing and maintaining suits against the worst violators of civil rights on both coasts (no smoking at the beach??? bust me for littering, but don't be silly!)
. $25 million a month divided into $25,000 chunks means we can harrass 100 communities indefinitely, bleed them dry and cancel any share they may be "enjoying" from the tobacco "sin" windfall. Personally, I would be ecstatic to contribute for the rest of my life. Just knowing those moronic controlling twits are constantly defending themselves would be sooooo satisfying.
Responded to one of the whack-jobs. That just feeds their delusion of self-importance and keeps them coming back.
Here's one suggestion:
101 WAYS TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST ILLEGAL STATE TAXES...
You are very correct. I did do that. I've been trying to get better!!!
However, there are other folks that may only be reading/lurking who might otherwise accept what the whack jobs are claiming without having the fallacies pointed out. Those are the people my comments are primarily made to and for.
You are TOO FUNNY!!!!!!!!!
Believe me, we have been trying for YEARS!!!!!!!!!
Because I don't want to violate any rules here by seeming to be soliciting, feel free to FReepmail me or use my email addy from my homepage and I will be more than happy to further discuss the problems we face trying to get smokers to get organized and funded.
I read this morning about No Smoking day and felt so good about all the progress made that I got my Havana product from its hiding place in the humidor under the floorboards and lit it up in celebration.
LOL!!!!!!!!!
Oh that's ok. Hope you had a super week-end. Camping sounds like fun!!
Hope you had lots of fun camping........
I'm going to be up in Delaware next weekend......it's going to be fun walking around with an unlit cigarette....I can just imagine the reactions I'm going to get!!!
Thanks. I did. We all did.
You should take a camera with you to Delaware. I'd love to see some of these twits expressions.
Of course I'll have a camera!!
I mis-typed, I'm not going to be there on the weekend, I'm going up next Wednesday.
In fact I'm going up for a fundraiser for a friend of mine who is running for Governor. He owns a bar in a town just north of Dover and was very vocal in the fight against the smoking ban. He has a lot of other issues, particularly involving veterans, but the smoking ban is actually what caused him to get involved politically.
As far as I know his bar is the only business cited for smoking violations that has beaten the rap. He sells non-tobacco cigarettes and smoking them is perfectly legal because they contain no tobacco. The Delaware ban specifically states "tobacco" and nothing else..........
The smoke police could not say if the smoking they saw going on in his bar was tobacco cigarettes or non-tobacco cigarettes. Case dismissed.
Publius wrote: "Getting back to the number of smokers, if only half of them contributed one ($1) dollar a month to a Lucky Strike-Back fund, that would amount to $25 million a month for filing and maintaining suits against the worst violators of civil rights on both coasts (no smoking at the beach??? bust me for littering, but don't be silly!)"
If PM and the other tobacco companies had partnered with smokers in an openly funded "defense fund" back in the 90s (with the companies and smokers each kicking in a dime a pack) instead of getting buddy buddy with the Attorney Generals and the Antis we might have seen something like that happening. Unfortunately, the companies sold smokers down the river with the Master Settlement Agreement in an attempt to save their own hides, and smokers never got over the misperception that the compaines were fighting for them and thus there was no need to fight for themselves.
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Michael J. McFadden
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