March 7, 2010

You're Fired!

General Electric Co. the biggest U.S. conglomerate has joined drug maker Abbott Laboratories Inc., lawn care products maker Scott's Miracle-Gro Co. and other companies that prohibit their employees from smoking on the job, both indoors and outdoors. Corporate policies, including those of the Cleveland Clinic, go so far as to implement hiring freezes on smokers and others, and penalize smokers by requiring smokers to pay a premium for their corporate insurance programs.

And while they claim the genesis of these policies are grounded out of concern for employees' health and ever increasing medical costs to businesses; they also claim smoking on the job reduces employee productivity and as companies squeeze more out of remaining employees to boost earnings, less smoking breaks makes for more productive employees.

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December 11, 2009

Some Ideas for How to Stop Smoking Cravings

Almost everyone has heard the horror stories: dizziness, irritability, sleep problems, weight gain… While many of the more severe physical withdrawal symptoms usually last a few weeks at most, figuring out how to stop smoking cravings involves more than just weathering this initial storm.

Drug therapies with FDA-approved substances like bupropion ("Zyban") and varenicline ("Chantix") can help smokers who are figuring out how to stop smoking cravings. Nicotine gums, patches, and nasal sprays are other ways to gradually reduce the body's dependence on nicotine and deal with the physical aspects of smoking cessation.

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August 7, 2009

Smoking Banned by Nazi Germany

Adolf HitlerNazi Germany is credited with initiating the first public anti-smoking campaign in modern history. The National Socialist leadership condemned smoking and several of them openly criticized tobacco consumption. Adolf Hitler's personal distaste for tobacco and the Nazi reproductive policies were among the motivating factors behind their campaign against smoking, and this campaign was associated with both antisemitism and racism.

The Nazi anti-tobacco campaign included banning smoking in trams, buses and city trains, promoting health education, limiting cigarette rations in the Wehrmacht, organizing medical lectures for soldiers, and raising the tobacco tax. The National Socialists also imposed restrictions on tobacco advertising and smoking in public spaces, and regulated restaurants and coffeehouses.

Restrictions were imposed on the advertisement of tobacco products, enacted on 7 December 1941 and signed by Heinrich Hunke, the President of the Advertising Council. Advertisements trying to depict smoking as harmless or as an expression of masculinity were banned. Ridiculing anti-tobacco activists was also outlawed, as was the use of advertising posters along rail tracks, in rural regions, stadiums and racing tracks. Advertising by loudspeakers and mail was also prohibited.

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July 31, 2009

Smokers are not worthy of common courtesy

Denormalization refers to efforts to force smokers to quit by branding them as a sub-human, nicotine addicted species, unworthy of common courtesy or consideration.

It started with smoking bans; first on commercial flights, then all forms of public transit. Bans, first implemented in public buildings, were then expanded to private establishments: bars, restaurants and private clubs. Now, bans have grown to include privately owned automobiles where minors might be present. And the zealots are now pushing (and, in some cases succeeding) to ban smoking in public parks and even in private homes.

The smoking bans were predicated on the contention that secondhand smoke was a health hazard rather than a mere nuisance to non-smokers. But the evidence was, and still is, flimsy, at best.

But, the real reason for the smoking bans is to force smokers into social isolation. In a blatant attempt at behavioural modification. The anti-smoker cult reasons that, if they can reduce the number of places a smoker can light up, they can reduce the number of people smoking. Cultists, you must understand, hate smoking, and by extension, they hate smokers.

The campaign of denormalization is intended to stigmatize smokers, by making them appear, in the eyes of the public, as abnormal individuals engaged in a filthy habit that is injurious to both themselves and those around them.

Continue reading A smoker's health & anti-smoker hate

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July 27, 2009

Prosecution for profit

The vulture mentality of trial lawyers can now use the court system as a legal playground for the purpose of extortion of funds from targeted defendants. Today it is tobacco, tomorrow will be a different target, take your choice. They will use the billions of dollars they get from a tobacco bill to file suits against other industries creating a nightmare in our legal system. That's their track record and that's their plan.

Already, we have seen utility companies, financial institutions and pharmaceutical companies the target of multi-state lawsuits to extort more money from legitimate businesses.

It wasn't that long ago that lawyer greed was behind forcing Dow Corning into bankruptcy by thousands of unfounded plaintiff claims that Dow´s silicone breast implants caused health problems. The company acquiesced, and settled the billion dollar claims against it. Later, an independent panel of 13 scientists concluded that silicone breast implants do not cause any major diseases. The study, conducted by the Institute of Medicine at the request of Congress, is only the latest in a series of research studies concluding that there is no scientific evidence to support the breast implant lawsuits.

Read more Taxing Middle and Lower Income Families to Enrich Attorneys

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July 25, 2009

Smoking Banned on Galveston Island

Continuing down the slippery slope towards total control and tyranny, the Galveston City Council passed an ordinance banning smoking in bars and restaurants Island-wide, even inside tobacco stores. Galveston's City Council amended the ordinance language and adopted a comprehensive smoking ban for Galveston Island that prohibits smoking in bars, restaurants, private clubs, and outdoor seating areas. Additionally, smoking is banned within 15 feet of an establishment's primary entrance. This ordinance will take effect on January 1, 2010.

We don’t need more smoking bans because people are figuring this out on their own. In most cities and towns, more than half the restaurants are already nonsmoking by choice, and virtually every restaurant has seats reserved for non-smokers. There is little evidence that non-smokers who visit restaurants and bars believe smoking is a major concern. In restaurants with smoking and nonsmoking sections, better ventilation systems rather than smoking bans could solve any remaining concerns.

Smoking bans have had severe negative effects on restaurants, bars, and nightclubs in cities where such bans have been enacted. Smokers choose to stay home or visit friends who allow smoking in their homes, or spend less time (and less money) in bars and nightclubs before leaving.

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July 24, 2009

How to Buy Cheap Cigarettes

Finding cheap cigarettes these days has become almost impossible. Federal and state governments have piled on new taxes after taxes raising the price of cigarettes far beyond their true value. The most recent Obama cigarette tax raised the price of a pack of cigarettes to more than a gallon of gasoline. So much for his promise to not raise taxes on lower and middle class Americans.

It really comes as no surprise that States across America are increasing their law-enforcement attention on cigarette smuggling, which is costing states billions in annual tax revenues, the Wall Street Journal reported recently. Just a few years ago, those pushing to steal more of your money through higher taxation told us that higher prices for cigarettes would not create a black market. Similar to the Prohibition days of the 1920's, with each new tax comes additional opportunities for entrepreneurs willing to face-off with the Revenuers.

Many Americans have resorted to seeking out relief in neighboring states where the state tax burden may not be as high. For example, people stock up in low-tax states like Virginia and Missouri, and take them back to high-tax states like Michigan and New Jersey.

Other Americans are finding some tax savings in cigarette purchases at Indian reservations.

Since 2005, most of the on-line sources for buying cigarettes at lower prices have been shut down by the government in cahoots with credit card companies. The same credit card companies eager to jack up their interest rates to 29 percent or higher on those least able to pay, have received favorable treatment when it comes to erasing debts under Chapter 7 bankruptcy, in exchange for not accepting credit card transactions from companies selling discount cigarettes on-line.

The government has also been forcing discount cigarettes sellers to report cigarette sales made by their customers to state taxing authorities. So, even though it may appear you save on your initial purchase, when you later get a bill from your state tax office, you discover you have not saved anything at all.

Depending on what state you're dealing with… some states are aggressively going after this tax revenue and forcing collection from its citizens, while others are really only blowing smoke with toothless attempts to convince their citizens to voluntarily pay the taxes. For example, they may send you an official looking notice of taxes due, but if you simply ignore it, you never hear from them again.

At the end of the day, if you want to save money on your cigarette purchases, you've got to deal with the tax issue. That's where the greatest cost of your cigarettes are found and that's where you're going to save the most. While you may not be able to escape the federal taxes on cigarettes, state taxes are another matter.

The solution to buy cheap cigarettes may be to find a private method for purchasing low-cost tax exempt cigarettes without risk of being reported to ANY Government Agency and without ANY State imposed tobacco taxes!

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June 16, 2009

Moving Toward Tobacco Prohibition

Last week, another bill was passed and signed into law that takes more of our freedoms and violates the Constitution of the United States. It was, of course, done for the sake of the children, and in the name of the health of the citizenry. It's always the case that when your liberty is seized, it is seized for your own good. Such is the condescension of Washington.

The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act will give sweeping new powers over tobacco to the FDA. It will require everyone engaged in manufacturing, preparing, compounding, or processing tobacco to register with the FDA and be subjected to FDA inspections, which is yet another violation of the Fourth Amendment. It violates the First Amendment by allowing the FDA to restrict tobacco advertising in multiple ways, as well as an outright ban on advertising any cigarettes as light, mild or low-tar. The FDA will have the power of pre-market reviews of all new tobacco products, and will impose new user fees, meaning taxes, on manufacturers and importers of tobacco products. It will even regulate the amount of nicotine in cigarettes.

My objections to the bill are not an endorsement of tobacco. As a physician I understand the adverse health effects of this bad habit. And that is exactly how smoking should be treated — as a bad habit and a personal choice. The way to combat poor choices is through education and information. Other than ensuring that tobacco companies do not engage in force or fraud to market their products, the federal government needs to stay out of the health habits of free people. Regulations for children should be at the state level. Unfortunately, government is using its already overly intrusive financial and regulatory roles in healthcare to establish a justifiable interest in intervening in your personal lifestyle choices as well. We all need to anticipate the level of health freedom that will remain once government manages all health care in this country.

Actions in Congress such as this tobacco bill are especially disconcerting after we thought we were beginning to see some progress in drawing down the wrong-headed and failed war on drugs. A majority of Americans now think marijuana should be legal, taxed and regulated, according to a recent Zogby poll and over 70 percent are in favor of allowing medicinal use of marijuana. Bills like this take us down exactly the wrong path. Instead of gaining more freedom with marijuana, we are moving closer to prohibiting tobacco. Our prisons are already bursting with non-violent drug offenders. How long will it be before a black market in tobacco fills the prisons with non-violent cigarette smokers?

Hemp and tobacco were staple crops for our founding fathers when our country was new. It is baffling to see how far removed from real freedom this country has become since then. Hemp, even for industrial uses, of which there are many, is illegal to grow at all. Now tobacco will have more layers of bureaucracy and interference piled on top of it. In this economy it is extremely upsetting to see this additional squeeze put on an entire industry. One has to wonder how many smaller farmers will be forced out of business because of this bill.

Article written by Ron Paul (06/16/09)
Dr. Ron Paul is a Republican member of Congress from Texas.

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March 27, 2009

Hypnosis To Stop Smoking

There are a lot of people who are at the point in their life where it's important to stop smoking. There is no doubt that stopping such a habit is hard but there is no reason why it cannot be done with a little help. While some people have no problem putting the smokes away, others find that they are just not able to accomplish such a feat on their own.

If you are one of these people who want to look into hypnosis to stop smoking, there are a lot of places you can go to for the help that you are in need of. Using hypnosis to stop smoking is something that a lot more people are starting to check into, as there are so many people out there who swear by the techniques. There is no doubt that hypnosis to stop smoking to worth a shot. While it is not guaranteed to work, there is a good chance that some good will come from you checking into hypnosis to stop smoking.

Where To Go
There are a lot of different places out there that can offer you some hypnosis to stop smoking. Nearly every hypnosis center out there would be able to offer you some sort of hypnosis to stop smoking. All you have to do is start calling around to the local centers near you and see what their programs consist of and the price for their services. The different places that offer hypnosis to stop smoking is going to vary from place to place so it is important to make sure that you call around in order to get the best rate possible.

Considering that the overall cost is always going to be expensive, you want to make sure that you are talking to a lot of different places. Start looking through your local phone book for places that offer hypnosis to stop smoking. Also, you may have luck in finding places online that offer hypnosis to stop smoking. And do not be shy to talk about what you are looking for, as there may very well be people that you know who have gone through hypnosis to stop smoking and they could refer you to an excellent place. In the end, all of the hard work will pay off and you will be addiction free.




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February 24, 2009

Kansas Smoking Ban

Kansas lawmakers in Topeka Kansas approved a bill that prohibits smoking in bars, restaurants, workplaces and government buildings, and within 10 feet of any doorway, open window or air intake of any place where smoking is banned.

There are exemptions for any private club that existed Jan. 1 of this year, and the gambling areas of any of the four state-owned casinos authorized by a 2007 law. Only one casino, in Dodge City, is being built.

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February 9, 2009

Obama Signs Federal Cigarette Tax Hike

President Barak Obama signed the Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009, providing a major expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to provide health insurance to moderate-income families and illegal aliens.

This government handout is funded with an increased federal tobacco tax.

  • Increase U.S. Federal Tax on a pack of cigarettes from $0.39 to $1.01 per pack
  • Increase Federal tax on pipe tobacco from $1.0969 per pound to $2.83 per pound
  • Increase Federal tax on RYO tobacco from $1.0969 per pound to $24.78 per pound
  • Increase Federal tax on cigarette papers (50 or less) from $0.0122 to $0.0315
  • Federal tax on cigarette tubes (50 or less) = $0.0244 - New rate is $0.0630

Of course, the unintended consequences of this socialist bill will come back to haunt the collectivists who supported this nonsense.

When fewer people buy taxed cigarettes, the SCHIP program will suffer budget shortfalls requiring them to either scrap the program, turn to another group to redistribute income, or raise taxes on the entire population. The latter is the most likely scenario as these collectivists continue to push their nationalized health care programs.

The growing black market for cigarettes will also likely explode as more people turn to alternative sources for cigarettes. And, who can blame low income folks that can't pay for their own insurance now required to pay for insurance of families earning far more than they. It's not fair to those burdened with these higher taxes to shoulder more of the socialist load.

Already facing budget shortfalls, many states will be hurt by the reduced revenue collected as part of the Tobacco Settlement Agreements. The amount paid by participating manufacturers is adjusted annually based on the volume of their shipments. With shipments being reduced, so will the revenue to the states.

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January 22, 2009

A Little Hypocrisy Goes a Long Way

Writing in the Campaign for Liberty blog, Anthony Gregory said in his article, When Hypocrisy Matters…

A little hypocrisy is ubiquitous in nearly any society, but the issue of government always raises the stakes and makes it all the more egregious. It may be an insult for someone to verbally criticize you for a vice, such as smoking, only to light up himself minutes later. But for the government to impose the will, the ethics, the standards of some politicians on you by force even as they do what they claim should not be done—that is a different, much worse form of hypocrisy altogether.

Which brings us to William Corr, Obama's choice for the second slot at the Department of Health and Human Services. Corr is an anti-smoking advocate and both he and Obama seem to support an agenda, to be carried out by the Democratic Congress, of "increasing federal regulation of cigarettes, raising taxes on tobacco products and approving an international tobacco control treaty," as the New York Times puts it.

Obama has gotten attention as the first open cigarette smoker to be elected president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and yet he seems to have no problem pushing around smokers, making their habit more expensive (tobacco taxes always hurt the poor the most), and even internationalizing an issue that should not even be dealt with at the national level under our Constitution. In a free society, tobacco, along with other drugs, would be handled locally, and ideally by the family and community, and not at all through the criminal justice and regulatory systems. Yet politicians who drink alcohol or smoke tobacco or even have tried illegal drugs think very little of taxing, regulating, harassing and even jailing their fellow citizens for doing the same.

It has long been frustrating to watch a politician who smokes tobacco or drinks alcohol champion the war on drugs, all to stem the tide of chemicals that don't kill nearly as many people as tobacco and alcohol do. Perhaps it is even more frustrating to see a president who smokes cigarettes wave the anti-smoking banner. Government crusades against drugs, cigarettes or other vices always fail to uplift the moral character of the people, but they are great ways to destroy liberty and personal responsibility and are reliable sources of high hypocrisy.

As I have repeated over and over again with countless examples, the war on smoking is not about health, drug abuse, or the children… it is all about money, control, and jurisdiction. Or, as Mr. Gregory puts it in this article, it's about destroying liberty and personal responsibility.

Barack Obama has assembled perhaps the largest concentration of collectivists in his cabinet and advisors that this country has ever witnessed. If you thought the erosion of liberty was bad under George W. Bush, hang on because you haven't seen anything yet.

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January 17, 2009

Taxing Smokers to Pay for Children's Health Insurance

A recent strategy many smokers have turned to in order to reduce their cost of smoking is to buy a "roll your own" machine that is dramatically cheaper than buying packs of cigarettes. They are easy to use, and you can control what goes into your cigarette (getting tobacco with no additives or organic tobacco, etc). At least one smoker received the following email from the place they buy tobacco:

Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 1:23 PM
Subject: Note For Custom Blends Customers - Federal Tax Increases

To All Custom Blends Customers:
House Bill HR2 (S-Chip) has been introduced in the United States House of Representatives, and sadly, once again, tobacco users are in the crosshairs. Now, generally speaking, we have no problem with helping to provide medical coverage for uninsured children - our main issue concerns the funding changes in this bill, because removing "Pay as you Go" knocks a funding hole in this program that the additional taxes on smokers can't fill. And the unfair tax increases for roll your own smokers are heavy - our customers should read on, this will unfortunately affect you. Some Details of this Federal Tax Hike: Effective date April 1, 2009

  • - The prepackaged cigarette tax rate goes from $.39 per pack to $1.00 per pack. This is in addition to your respective State taxes.
  • - Snuff taxes go from $.585 per pound to $1.50 per pound.
  • - The tax on pipe tobacco is raised from $1.0969 per pound to $2.8126 per pound.
  • - The tax on Roll Your Own tobacco will increase from $1.0969 per pound to $24.62 per pound (yes, $24.62 per pound.).

Additionally the definition of Roll Your Own has been "expanded" to include cigar wrappers such as "blunt wraps". The tax change to small cigars (such as Deans Flavored cigars in the 20 packs) will be phased in over a five year period.

Rates per year:
2009 & 2010 - $.25 per pack
2011 & 2012 - $.50 per pack
2013 & 2014 - $.75 per pack
2015 and beyond - $1.00 per pack
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There is no business that can absorb this kind of punishment and not change prices and methods. This is utterly out of our control, and we're as dismayed as you must be.

Because of this new Legislation (HR2) and additional pending State tax legislation that is directly targeting items such as rolling papers, machines, and filter tubes, we have to fundamentally change our pricing structure: When these new taxes take effect, we can no longer offer free tubes with our tobaccos, or offer the 10% discount on multiple bag purchases.
The in-store customer loyalty program also has to be amended (perhaps cancelled) - we have to wait until all of these new taxes are finalized before we can make rational decisions.

Yet another new tax applies here - it's called the floor tax. This tax applies to any tobacco products that are on the floor of any of our stores just prior to the April 1st tax hikes on tobacco. We will have to have little to no tobacco in our stores by March 31st, so we recommend you order several weeks before the deadline. We have to draw down inventory in time or face an enormous tax burden. We can restock afterwards, but we need to be clear of tobacco on the floor for at least those two days, so please order early in March.

Finally, we strongly encourage you to contact your Senators and Representatives, and let them know how you feel about this unfairly targeted taxation. They should know that if raising taxes is so important, then everyone should share the burden. Tobacco users have long been the punching bag for legislators who lack the will to raise taxes on all citizens, and they need to know we're tired of it. Please be firm, but reasoned if and when you write them - and feel free to utilize the following link:

http://writerep.house.gov…

This is a link to the bill:

I can't tell whether this is a done deal or not, help?
http://thomas.loc.gov/
Type in Bill Number HR2 into the search box

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November 10, 2008

Kansas Speedway Smoking Ban

The Kansas City Star is reporting the Kansas Speedway will ban smoking in the grandstands and all enclosed areas of the complex beginning in 2010.

The policy, however, will not be enforced at the planned Hard Rock Casino & Hotel expected to open on the Speedway grounds sometime next year, with a hotel and other non-gambling amenities expected to start opening by late 2010.

“This has no effect on the casino,” Joe Weinberg, Cordish Co. principal and president of Kansas Entertainment Investors LLC partnership that will own the casino.

“We will allow smoking in the casino” and throughout most of the proposed hotel’s 300 rooms, said Weinberg.

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October 29, 2008

Smoking is healthier than fascism

Today's Anti-Smoking Purge Is Borrowed From The Nazis

A wealth of overlooked yet frightening literature concerning the Nazi crusade against smoking provides a clear parallel to contemporary developments and an alarming warning that state restriction of personal habits is the pre-cursor to dictatorship.

Beginning in the early 1930's, as part of the Nazi agenda for racial purity, Hitler spearheaded a national campaign to ban smoking in all public buildings, and denounced the practice as a betrayal of the fascist drive for bodily purity.

"Brother national socialist, do you know that our Führer is against smoking and think that every German is responsible to the whole people for all his deeds and emissions, and does not have the right to damage his body with drugs?" stated one magazine.

As I wrote earlier this year , "The regulation of the personal habit of smoking, including new legislative moves in San Francisco to ban cigarettes in private homes, and its enforcement by an eager cadre of state snoops and snitches, represents nothing more than a move on behalf of big brother towards the complete subjugation and shackling of the individual."

Read these shocking parallels and compare them to the endless lecturing we are forced to endure today about our personal lifestyle choices by the state and their propaganda arm, the mass media.

- The Nazis banned tobacco advertising and financed huge public relations campaigns to propagandize people into giving up smoking.

- The Nazis banned smoking in government offices, civic transport, university campuses, rest homes, post offices, many restaurants and bars, hospital grounds and workplaces, and Hitler gave awards to associates who quit the habit.

- A ban on smoking in private vehicles was called for.

- The Nazi Reich Health Office warned that smoking caused impotence and produced posters depicting smoking as a dirty habit of Jews, Gypsies, blacks, intellectuals and Indians.

- Nazi lobbyists lectured terrified children in schools on the horrors of racial impurity as a result of smoking.

- The term "passive smoking" (Passivrauchen) was coined by the Nazi Anti-Tobacco League. Its author, Fritz Lickint, offered no supporting evidence to claim that smokers poisoned everyone around them, while also stating that drinking coffee caused cancer.

- Hitler was an ardent vegetarian and did not smoke or drink after the age of 30, even accrediting the rise of fascism to his success in kicking the habit. He forbade anyone from smoking in a room he might enter. Fellow fascist leaders Mussolini, Napoleon and Franco also detested smoking.

- The Nazi anti-smoking crusade was unleashed with the help of manufactured junk science on behalf of the medical and health establishment, one such example being that smoking caused "spontaneous abortions" in pregnant women.

- Hitler attempted to price out smoking for Germans, levying huge taxes on cigarettes.

- Despite the Nazi propaganda crusade against smoking, tobacco sales increased in Germany, leading some history professors to hypothesize that smoking was an act of cultural resistance against fascism, until the late 1930's after smoking was banned in most public buildings and tobacco sales rapidly declined.

Another Nazi anti-smoking propaganda poster depicts a jackboot kicking a cigarette, a cigar and a pipe.

What conclusions can we draw from these parallels? Either the Nazis were benign really cared about everyone's health or they used the specter of anti-smoking to exert massive control over people's lives and scale back basic freedoms, getting a foot in the door for the political dictatorship that was to follow.

Similarly today, either the same elite that advocate "mass culling" of the majority of the world's population really do care about public health and well-being or they are using the excuse of the anti-smoking drive to condition us to accept state regulation over every aspect of our personal lives.

It's all about control, it's all about letting you know who the bosses are. If the government can regulate personal habits and behavior, what's next? If the state is so concerned about our good health as they would have you believe, why not use the latest scientific advancements to remove that nasty aggressive gene that causes so much unhappiness? Well, you're causing those around you distress and harming their health so why not? Are your political opinions a mental illness? Are they harming society? Perhaps we should ban certain types of "free" speech that is offensive to others.

You see where this is all heading - how long before our wall mounted personal x-ray body scanners are accompanied by special smoke detectors that inform on you to the local Stasi if you dare to light up?

We live in a paranoid world overpopulated by ninnying jellyfish who dare not dip their toe in the water in case there's a law against it, it might upset someone, or it might be bad for their health.

Many people will read this article having lost loved ones as a result of smoking. Please don't have a knee jerk emotional reaction, try to understand that the point I'm making - smoking is unhealthy but it is healthier than fascism and government regulation of personal habits leads to dictatorship.

The fact that the very language and policies that we are now bombarded with as a justification for state regulation of our personal lifestyle choices are directly lifted from Nazi policies for racial hygiene from the 1930's should alarm us all and act as a wake up call to the true agenda behind today's anti-smoking purge.

SOURCES (collated at this website )

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Article written by Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet | April 25, 2007

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