DISSECTING ANTISMOKER'S BRAINS
Heh!
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.
I have a window open in a car even if NO ONE is smoking, and I always have, even in the dead of winter or height of summer heat.
But I agree - the government needs to BUTT OUT of private lives and private businesses.
"I am convinced more and more every day that logic and sensibility is a trait that, through political expediency and promotion, has been lost to our society"
Well said and, sadly, true.
We have a coalition called Partnership for a Tobacco Free Maine that popped up after the Tobacco Settlement Agreement. They are being paid from the taxes that smoker's pay on cigarettes, so it's hard for me to believe that they really want a Tobacco Free Maine. They would be looking for another job. LOL!
But, this coalition has succeeded in forcing all restaurants, bars, taverns and sports bars to go smoke free. I say:
Partnership for a Tobacco Free Maine is Choking The Economy!
Also, a bill was passed this year that prohibits foster parents from smoking in their homes and/or 24 hours before a kid is going to be in their cars. Can you believe it?
And where are the protesters to force a change in their way of doing business?
This reply may take some time to contemplate for some....
I KNOW it. In the chat rooms, there is an "ignore button" when someone is obnoxious or you just don't care to read anything they have to say. It's so relaxing. I wish FR had that feature!
No smoking and raised their prices to boot? Talk about a recipe for disaster! heh!
That is exactly how I feel right now with all the anti tobacco propaganda these days
I got em' and I'm smokin' em!!
Same thing with a ciggarette, Walk around with it in your mouth without being lit and watch the people freak.
It's their way of making it look like they are actually doing something productive...........
Before the smoking ban took effect in Delaware there were several non-smoking restaurants we enjoyed going to....after the smoking ban, they still got our business, as did any bar or restaurant that we had previously frequented that the owner had publicly opposed the ban. Places that supported the ban lost our business instantly, even before it went into effect.
Now that we don't live in Delaware anymore, and only occassionally visit, it's very easy to decide where we are going to go.
I read about the foster care law too - UNBELIEVABLE. We've been made out to be worse that serial killers and child molesters. I always like the surprised looks when we go out to eat (with the kids) and ask for the smoking section. I didn't do that when my daughter was an infant - she was 2 mos premature and I didn't smoke in the house or around her until she was older.
The smoking settlement we got has gone mostly to social programs. They have a "quitline" but that's it. I agree, what in the world would they do without all the tax money they steal from smokers? At least here the taxes are not as high as other states. Have Maine and NYC cut off their nose to spite their face? Seems like it to me.
Wow! Are you kidding? In NYC, it's $7.50 a pack!
When Maine raised the taxes three years ago, I threw my hands in the air and said 'that's it.' I found out from friends in FR about rolling your own cigarettes. So, I went to the local Smoke Shop, bought bags of tobacco, the filtered tubes and a machine.
I have been saving a bundle. From $45-$50 a carton down to under $8 for what I roll. It's been terrific!
And to think that our country's foundation was based on a document that dictated "Government shall NOT tell proprietors, or anyone else for all that matters, how to pursue their life, liberty or happiness. (legally of course)
"It's their way of making it look like they are actually doing something productive"
Exactly - the red herring issue of the century. I think it was Pueblo, CO where there was outright civil disobedience when the city council passed a ban.
Denver has threatened but it hasn't happened yet (that's where we live). Luckily I haven't heard any rumblings lately.
You already have that feature. All you have to do is use it.
I know what you mean!!!
We've only lived in this area for a year, but have been coming here for nearly 4 and have become very familiar with a lot of the locals and the local spots.........folks around here are very independent minded and do not like being told what to do.
The owner of one of our favorite places, who is a non-smoker, told me that she would be the first one screaming the loudest if the government made an attempt to force any business to go non-smoking. Her attitude is that it is her business and she will choose her clientele by market demands, not government edict.
You know, I think I have to check out roll-your-own. We could certainly use the extra money I'd save. Thanks for the tip!
"In NYC, it's $7.50 a pack!"
But, but, that's to encourage people to quit for their own good! Why buy 'em there if you can't smoke them? I'd be buying over the net or out-of-state. Are the taxes less in New Jersey?
"And to think that our country's foundation was based on a document that dictated "Government shall NOT tell proprietors, or anyone else for all that matters, how to pursue their life, liberty or happiness. (legally of course)"
These people do not want to be confused by facts or history.
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