Corporations Say...No Smoking

Thursday November 14, 2002 09:53

by Watchdog

Onward to ANOTHER Prohibition

Before anyone goes along with the "wholesome" sounding anti-smoking crusade...please consider that this stuff HELPS the cigarette industry and their many ingredients suppliers, advertisers, insurers and investors...and gov't officials who allowed typical cigarettes to be so contaminated with dangerous, toxic, fire-starting, cancer-causing non-tobacco adulterants. WE, and the tobacco plant (nature) are blamed for effects of big corporate crimes.

Simply see a great,informative web site at www.ktc.com/~bdrake and THEN ask local or national "health" authorities what THEY have to say about dioxins in typical cigs...from all the still legal chlorine adulterants (bleached paper, pesticide residues, agricultural additives, Fake Tobacco made from industrial waste cellulose etc.).
Ask them about RADIATION (!) in cigs...from still legal (in the US certainly) uranium-contaminated phosphate tobacco fertilizers.
Ask about Fire-Starting additives used to make cigs burn faster and not go out (like natural tobacco) when untended.
Ask about Addiction-Enhancing additives...pput there so people smoke more and profit Big Cig more.
Ask about flavorings, sugars, artificial sweeteners, aromas, soothing additives etc...to all the better attract the kids.
Ask which of all this stuff has been tested for safety in this use. (NONE of it has.)
What do we get instead of prosecution of this cig cartel for mass, secret poisoning?...Bans on "smoking" (though "smoke" can mean anything)...while the industries that made cigs so bad get ignored.

Smoking even the purest tobacco may not be 100% safe (nothing is) but the CRIME of secretly adding known toxic and cancer-causing and addiction-enhancing stuff to a natural plant product that natuarally creates a withdrawal symptom, is a crime beyond understanding. Note that NO studies of unadulterated tobacco have yet been brought to legislatures or courts. How to then incict "tobacco" is a mystery...and an injustice. It's like "Reefer Madness" all over again.

STOP "war on tobacco". START War on cigs contamnated with deadly non-tobacco elements! And start war on gov't "regulators" who are in BED with these industries!
Anti-Smoking crusade is NOT about health, as they say. It's about minimizing liabilities for the cigarette manufacturers, the additives suppliers, the tobacco pesticide makers (oil and pharmaceuticals), lying advertisers, and ALL their insurers and investors. It's also a way for complicit gov't officials to look like they didn't have anything to do with this global crime.

See that site, above...and take it from there.

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it is not hypocritical it is a reminder of the poison that this civilisation has given us

by iosaf

Thu Nov 14, 2002 18:13

that poison is grown for cash
that poison is sold to children
that poison is smuggled to avoid tax
that tax is raised on poison
that we are addicted to poison that ensures the early death of millions and saves health budgets.

our very cigarettes remind us of the shit which is this system.
which is why thinking activists will address teh issues of fair tobacco production / supply.
It is one of the issues that torpedoes "smash the system" screaming idiots, yep smash the system and watch millions come down off tobacco, heroin and coke, I for one wouldn´t like to see that, it would be the most bloody of counter-revolutions.

and I told Ken Clarke MP and MD of British American Tabacco pretty much the same when we bumped into each other last year on Plaza Pi purely by synchronicity.
Mr Clarke was defending BAT in a commons select comitee on tabacco smuggling in South America.
his reply should not be issued on an open newsiwre, it contained the F word, and not Feck the real F word.

why??

by marlboro man

Thu Nov 14, 2002 16:11

i always wonder why so many activists and environmentalists smoke so much.

it's the perfect example of a bad product..

tobacco smoke damages the health of people around you
tobacco makes you unhealthier, and is self-inflicted so will leave you as a burden on the health system
tobacco companies advertise heavily in developing countries
the tobacco industry intimidates, bullies and makes large political donations.

it is so hypocritical - someone going to an event about some green issue and standing outside smoking afterwards...

herbel ciggies

by Brian

Thu Nov 14, 2002 16:02

it is possible to get herbal cigarettes in most health food shops, theyre pretty rough though. Good for makin spliffs tho- no dodgy man-made or man-included chemicals- like cyanide, who the hell wants to smoke cyanide???

someday I hope that those who grow tobacco

Thu Nov 14, 2002 12:40

receive a fair wage for their labour.
Tobacco is one of the most important cash crops in the poorer hemisphere of the planet.
It´s is also one of the drugs that "oils" the daily working of the planet. The behaviour of the Tobacco corporations is infamous, they have been implicated in smuggling, targetting children in Asia to make up for falling sales in the West, and so on. But hopefully someday tobacco growers will get paid properly. I often think I wouldn´t mid paying the current price of cigarettes if the 700%(on average mark up) went to the growers and not the local state.

additives

by connexion

Thu Nov 14, 2002 12:08

Anybody tried to get additive free or organic cigarettes or tobacco such as American spirit in Ireland.

Truth is they're not available here due to trade restrictions something to do with the government stamp on tobacco products. So we don't even have a choice on the matter.

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