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.
There are 5 right now, I think, that could use the Ignore Button.
Gabz quoted and wrote: " 'I think it was Pueblo, CO where there was outright civil disobedience when the city council passed a ban.'
And if I recall correctly, part of it was the bars and restaurants refused service to members of the council that voted in favor of the ban!!!!"
Wow! Now there's an idea I've never seen before in this area. Bars and restaurants certainly do have the right to refuse service to people, and I think I remember reading about one New York restaurant that refused to serve a particular ban proponent, but I've never seen the idea floated of turning them ALL into pariahs.
And they certainly shouldn't object to the treatment... after all, they claim that *most* bars and restaurants will do better after bans. Those that WERE doing better would continue to serve them... all they have to do is FIND those places!
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Michael
Not being a smoker, or anti-smoker either, why do you put the windows down when you smoke? I understand if there are kids in the car, but why if not? Don't you lose the smoke that way?
El cheapo...hee...hee...hee...!
Well, I myself quit smoking in '88, had an Aortic dissection (John Ritter demise) in '00 and was brought back to life by very talented Doctors.
I started smoking again in '01 however I prefer to inhale and since I do, Carltons are my favorite choice in my healthy and normal life I might add.
NYC GOP Chick considers such posts TMI, however I see it as good info, for I am healthy as can be, less the dissection.
My heart was the healthiest heart the doctors have seen, and at my age (just guess)they were very impressed with the health of my heart, cardiovascular system, and my health in total.
The only change in the recent past before my demise, is I married a nurse,(two weeks before) who was supportive through my rendering of having my heart removed ,and even favored me with putting my dog to sleep,: ( while I was in surgery, and claiming to my family that she knew how to put a person to sleep for good without a trace, I was interrogated by the Doctors as to what I possessed in the household for poisons, was checked and probed for such and nothing found.
Point being, sh!t can happen, smoking aside, and they DO happen, smoking aside!
What's the big deal with society whether people smoke or not?
Because I want to.
It's definitely worth the read.............
Your post is most contemplative to say the least.
and his ilk!
UH OH.........you've just defined yourself.
According the die-hard online gnatzies that word (ILK) is proof positive that you are a paid shill of the otbacco industry and nothing you say can be taken as your own personal opinion. (/sarcasm)
My plan had been to get my tobacco seedlings in the round......unfortunately it has been raining most of the day........
Don't stock up, they still get the taxes......grow your own!!!!
Or at least buy loose tobacco and roll/stuff your own.....loose tobacco is taxed differently than cigarettes.
Also - if you do buy your cigarettes from the corner store, stop buying from the major manufacturers. The little independent companies make a comparable (in many cases better) product and are not paying in to the smoker extortion known as the MSA.
I kid you not........
The sorriest part of the entire scenario was the table she was going to seat us at was about 4feet from the bar, which is the smoking section. Yet she refused to give us an ashtray because the table was designated non-smoking.
Give me a flipping break.......
Understand your point.
You will be happy to know that plagues and framed prints are found everywhere in my daughter's public school that proclaim "In God We Trust."
I believe I read it is Virginia law for it to be in the public schools.
I personally think it is a great idea...........
They are the ones that have tried to turn smokers into pariahs, getting a bit of their own back is appropriate fair play!!!!
BADABING!!!!!!!!!!!!
What's the big deal with society whether people smoke or not?
In a word..........control.
I'm going to try to keep this civil and not go ad hominem on you or anyone else but how in God's name did conservatism get equated with pro-smoking advocates?Do you just get a kick out of spiting the liberals and PC environmentalists?Thats really a reactive and childish response because smoking IS a nasty and very unhealthy habit.Why not defend crack smokers' rights also?
I can go along with the objection to government intrusion on our personal choice when it comes to smoking.I think that is a valid conservative point.But to ENDORSE the act of lighting up a cigarette?Sorry,but like the proverbial broken clock,even the liberals are right this time on this issue.
Riverman
You could have been very beneficial in saving bandwidth!
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