I just wrote to this guy on the 13th. He is starting to "peddle his wares" again. Must be hard up for cash. Look at who is "donating" to his cause!
Patrick Reynolds! I have NO respect for you. I have no FAITH in you! You spew nothing but inaccurate, deceitful and dishonest lies to the general public.
You want the real truth about tobacco?? I started smoking in 1958. My parents smoked, but told me even that far back that if they caught me smoking, they would KILL me! My Mom put me into dance class when I was 8 years-old. When I hit High School, all my girl friends smoked. They were constantly telling me "here have one!" Even back then, I had heard that smoking is not good for us. And I told my friends, "No thanks. I am a "dancer." I can't smoke." Well, they caught me on an off day, offered me a cigarette. I inhaled the first time, and thought I was going to die. It took quite awhile for me to finally relax and enjoy a cigarette when my friends and I got together. My point is this, Patrick:
back in those days, the cigarette packs contained the total of tar and nicotine. Back then, over "50' years ago, we ALL knew that smoking was not good for us.
But it surely isn't the killer that you are making it out to be. I can't stand BEER! I have tried and tried to acquire a taste for it. I hate kissing my husband when he has "beer breath." It stinks! This is the same thing you tout about smoking! Why aren't you going after alcohol? We lost more teens this summer in twisted pieces of metal that used to be a car because they drank and drove! I sure wished those teens had smoked instead. They would still be here with us.
I have had many friends throughout my life who tried to "acquire" a taste for smoking! They could not. So how can you say with a straight face that it takes very little to get a person hooked.
My one grandmother died at age 42 full of cancer. Never smoked a day in her life. My other grandmother lived to be 86! Smoked THREE packs of NON-filtered CAMELS a day! She did from old age.
I think your stats are totally made up to benefit yourself, Patrick.
Smoking like most things today are not good for us. How many things can you come up with today that does not have a Government warning? And did you know about the Surgeon Generals report that OBESITY has passed smoking for health problems and health care? How about that, Patrick! Will you now receive funding to go after the OBESE??!!
You have your teeth sunk so deep into the adults who choose to smoke a legal product you can't see straight! You have a beef against your family, so you turn your back on them and go after us.
Well, Patrick, it's going to take a bigger man then you to convince us that the "United Smoke Free States of America" is the way to go! We aren't going to take this anymore! We are tired of you and your ilk. Your being funded with blood money to continue your pathetic war on the smokers.
We, as private citizens are NOT receiving funding. We work to protect our rights to smoke and we are working to protect the rights of the private business owners. We are building up, fast, Patrick. Both smokers and non-smokers alike. We are not going to take it anymore! And private citizens DO have the right to speak up!
Two more things we are working on. Getting out the TRUTH ourselves. For instance: you keep these study's swept under the rug, but we are getting the following links out to EVERYONE about second hand smoke:
And better yet, I think any anti who tries to dismiss the findings of the U.S. Department of Energy labs at Oak Ridge, should be confronted with the question: "Are you saying that DOE researchers committed scientific fraud and that their findings on ETS exposure are untrue?"
I know my words mean nothing to you! But I felt compelled to write to you just to let you know that you will be facing opposition! One can only pray that the American's will soon find out the real truth about you and your kind!