Thank you for smoking!
To all Canadian smokers: Are you absolutely disgusted by the dishonest anti-smoking propaganda permeating the airwaves these days and which, in all likelihood, YOU ARE PAYING FOR? Check out
The Facts About Second Hand Smoke
It knocks the crap out of the second-hand smoke bullshit that is behind the serious erosion of personal freedom and property rights in North America. It also contains valuable links to sites of interest including advice on how to avoid being impoverished by the rapacious and thieving cigarette taxes smokers are being assaulted with.
Thank You for Smoking
So they've
banned smoking in Hamilton and Toronto restaurants have they? Well, knowing that
Toronto has an ample supply of it's very own buttheads should certainly
provide some consolation to the residents of Hamilton-East.
Anyway,
what Toronto should really do is make smoking in Toronto restaurants mandatory.
It's time for smokers to organize their own lobby and DEMAND that their
rights be respected.
Smoker's
rights activists should perhaps devise a long term strategy. They shouldn't
expect all of their agenda to be implemented overnight.
Forget about
restaurants for the time being. Start small, with a few laws designed mainly
to aggravate non-smokers.
For example,
passengers on public buses and patrons at movie theaters should be forced
to smoke. If they don't have their own cigarettes then the establishment
they are patronizing should be required to take reasonable measures to
ensure that tobacco products are easily available.
The law
should dictate that all buses and movie houses provide ash trays in convenient
locations. Bus drivers and ushers should always have a carton of smokes
available for efficient distribution to those who don't ordinarily smoke
and to those who happen to be out of smokes at the time.
Later, smoking
laws can be expanded to require smoking everywhere. Smoke alarms with the
circuitry reversed should be required in all dwellings.
It is particularly
important to have mandatory smoking in bus shelters.
Once smokers
rights advocates gain the upper hand we can really rub it in for all of
those obnoxious anti-smoking zealots.
How about
this law: when serving food in restaurants the wait staff should be required
to ensure that every patron has a lit cigarette on the table.
Accessible
Inhalation is a fundamental right. To accommodate patrons who are smokingly
challenged extra measures must be mandated. Those who are unable to smoke
due to paralysis or amputation should be aided by staff who have undergone
special sensitivity training in addition to any relevant technical training.
Senior citizens,
who would otherwise prefer not to smoke, could be granted some form of
preferential treatment as is the case in other areas. For example, seniors
could be required to smoke ten percent less than other citizens.
Smokers
need to exert social pressure as well. When non-smoking relatives and in-laws
come to visit they should be offered a cigarette as soon as they come in
the door.
If they
choose not to smoke they should be asked to go outside. After all, smoking
should be seen as an indoor activity.
What makes
more sense; stepping outdoors for a cigarette or stepping outdoors for
some fresh air? The people who want fresh air should be the one's huddled
around doorways in the middle of winter.
Hospitals
and nursing homes should require that anyone standing within twenty-seven
feet of the building have a lit cigarette in their possession at all times.
Once movies
and buses have implemented smoke freedom activists must keep pressuring
legislatures for more laws.
Instead
of pushing for a smoke free society we should be pushing for a free smoke
society by the year 2000. Some people cannot afford to smoke. No one should
be deprived of tobacco just because they cannot afford it.
Smoking
is a basic right, therefore the government should pay for everyone's cigarettes.
Non-smokers might balk at the idea of having to pay for someone else's
pleasure but they need to be reminded that, according to the anti-smoking
side, second hand smoke is almost as good as lighting one up for oneself.
The third
millenium will open with the century of the smoker. New scientific evidence
will reveal that smoking is actually a very healthy activity.
Due to chronic
exposure to the contents of tobacco, smokers build up a resistance to all
of the other chemicals, natural and synthetic, to which modern man is exposed.
There are hints already that this is the case. Consider, for example, alleged
MCS (multiple chemical sensitivity) sufferers. How many are smokers? Not
many....
A recent Hamilton Spectator announced, "Hitler's war on smoking put Germany ahead of the world." Hitler apparently decided what was bad for him was bad for Germany and used his power accordingly. Apparently smoking was heavily restricted in NAZI Germany long before similar draconian interventions became common in the U.S. and Canada. Quick, before any more time passes by, let's find out what the NAZI's were doing about eating meat. Hitler was a vegetarian as well as a non-smoker. Maybe NAZI Germany was ahead of the world in this regard as well!
More information as to the nature and extent of NAZI methods of tobacco control can be found in Robert Proctor's book, The Nazi War on Cancer
Modern anti-smoking dictates, it turns out, were a familiar aspect of one of the most brutal regimes in modern times. The methods used by the NAZI's to stuff human beings into it's mold were no different from the current fascistic campaigns.
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