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To: Max McGarrity
The Arkansas Board of Health is made up of citizens that meet 4 times a year and are not paid for their service. They are mainly health professionals that deal with the number one health issue in Arkansas, smoking. To suggest they are part of a world wide conspiracy and taking bribes is just nonsense. If the money trail is easy to trace, please provide some evidence that members of the Health Board have taken any money. By the way, there is a money trail from tobacco interests to the Governor.
13 posted on 10/28/2001 6:59:40 AM PST by sua sponte
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To: sua sponte
The Arkansas Board of Health is made up of citizens that meet 4 times a year and are not paid for their service. They are mainly health professionals that deal with the number one health issue in Arkansas, smoking.

These four "health professionals" are not elected by the people? Then what authority do they have to create laws that affect the people? The fact that they believe what they're doing is right, as you obviously do, doesn't make it so.

To suggest they are part of a world wide conspiracy and taking bribes is just nonsense. If the money trail is easy to trace, please provide some evidence that members of the Health Board have taken any money. By the way, there is a money trail from tobacco interests to the Governor.

Nowhere did I ever suggest these people are "taking bribes." But if they are guilty of getting laws passed that encroach upon the people's Constitutional rights, such as the right to run a business and make a living, then they are indeed part of the worldwide "conspiracy." whether you want to admit it or not. The War on Smokers is being waged from the very top levels of the federal government, from the National Institutes of Health in collusion with the World Health Organization, down to each local municipality. They all use what they call "Tobacco Money" (implying it was forcibly removed from the industry) to place ads, to sensationalize their latest junk science, to conduct 'polls,' to produce slick, professional anti-smoker materials to turn lawmakers into "true believers" like themselves. What they don't admit is that the money they use against smokers was NOT taken from the industry but from the smokers themselves, through punitive taxation and the Master Settlement Agreement.

16 posted on 10/28/2001 10:43:07 AM PST by Max McGarrity
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