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Latest Hot Co-op Topic: Secondhand Smoke

Submitted by MsProgressive, Dec 11, 2007 12:51

That's why there has been a carefully cultivated and pervasive atmousphere of "chicken little" when it comes to second hand smoke. All the scare-mongering ads of folks like NYQUITS, ASH and GASP are not brought to you by "concerned citizens" as one might expect ... but by the Billions in "sin tax" levied against smokers through a back-door agreement between CLASS ACTION LAWYERS, and TOBACCO LIABILITY INSURERS otherwise known as the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA)! The 2006 Surgeon General's report on Smoking and Health was an inflammatory SCAM - claiming the possibility of "one whiff death" for non-smokers which is totally UNFOUNDED. But it's claims having been WELL CIRCULATED - it has spawned small town and State prohibition laws across the country. (See anti-tobacco scientist Michael Siegel's blog linked at "More than a nuissance." Siegel says anti claims are HURTING their movement because they are compromising their CREDIBILITY with one factless claim after another!) Moreover - BIG PHARMA - the guys who stand to make $10 in nicotine replacement product sales for every DOLLAR they contribute (tax free!) to folks like "NYQUITS" - IS COMPLICIT in this monster scheme! State wide smoking prohibitions, which have followed in the wake of this well funded deception, have divested small businessmen and their employees of MILLIONS in income (their "private property" income) - and disenfranchised SMOKERS of their Constitutional guarantees to Free Assembly! To whit: The MSA is unconstitutional! Yet the pockets of smokers are blithely picked by legislators, year after year, because their ASSEMBLIES get to reap about HALF of the tax cash that they collect for anti groups, and are effectively treating smokers as their bottomless, and politically helpless, ATMs! FORCES Intenational recently filed a legal Complaint against the ORI (a government "science watchdog") for NOT having effected its due diligence in the case of the many bogus "scientific" claims asserted by FORMER Surgeon General Carmona in his 2006 "Report" on Smoking and Health. See: www.Forces.org and search "ORI." Much of the small business ban damage that our press has been complicit in 'covering up' can be researched in the Encyclopedia and Forums pages of www.smokersclubinc.com. Neither of the aforementioned PRIVATE and NON-Profit websites are funded in ANY WAY by big tobacco - as the MSA has stripped Big T of much of its advocating rights - so to ALL of you ANTI CARPETBAGGERS who are PAID to watch blogs like this one ... "don't even go there." And fatties beware! The same class action lawyers who 'shook down' smokers are about to go after YOUR broad backsides, using the same "charitable" treasure chests (ACS, RWJF) - so if you think GOVERNMENT INTRUSION into your personal lifestyle choices does not affect YOU - think again - 'cause you are NEXT!

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Sue

Feb 19, 2008 16:33

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lilyofthevalley

Feb 18, 2008 02:24

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mjg

Feb 14, 2008 12:37

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Dave

Jan 2, 2008 16:51

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BklynGal305

Feb 14, 2008 18:16

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Travis

Mar 9, 2008 17:38

Benjamin's problem is that he paid too much for a cheaply-constructed condo, like so many other New Yorkers over the... [MORE]

Mike

Dec 14, 2007 10:47

Mike is wrong here. I lived in a 3 family house with a smoker in the basement. The stench permeated... [MORE]

L Yeostros

Jan 8, 2008 10:03

That's why there has been a carefully cultivated and pervasive atmousphere of "chicken little" when it comes to second hand...

MsProgressive

Dec 11, 2007 12:51

Superb post - Accurate and to the point, I agree fatties are next, intolerance is a hateful thing. I have... [MORE]

Vinnysmad

Dec 12, 2007 09:31

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culprit

Dec 13, 2007 21:06

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MsProgressive

Dec 14, 2007 09:29

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Terra L. House

Dec 10, 2007 12:10

Oh Terra here we go again- the usual stuff being spouted by antismokers. Was the ex-Surgeon General's Reports ever based... [MORE]

Pablo

Dec 10, 2007 19:16

I am very pleased that the press is finally starting to focus on the health hazard of secondhand smoke that... [MORE]

bythebay

Dec 12, 2007 01:47

My husband and I were forced to move from a condo because I have asthma and the people below us... [MORE]

Jacque Petterson

Dec 9, 2007 21:50

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Mark

Jan 6, 2008 00:43

I live in a rent stabalized building in Brooklyn. A new neighbor moved in next to me and the stench... [MORE]

M

Feb 15, 2008 16:41

It sounds like the trial lawyers are still at it, planting articles such as this. Mr. Zitomer should move if... [MORE]

Rus Mueller

Dec 6, 2007 20:39

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Shih-Ming Laura Yeh

Dec 6, 2007 18:29

Thanks for this very interesting and timely article. I have a related concern. My apartment windows are directly in line... [MORE]

Marcia Lawther

Dec 6, 2007 16:17

I believe secondhand smoke is an act of disrespect. The mentally of someone smoking around nonsmokers is simply of an... [MORE]

Mystique Till

Dec 6, 2007 13:43

Perhaps Mystique do your homework- the largest study on Second Hand Smoke presented in 2003 by Enstrom and Kabat showed... [MORE]

Pablo

Dec 10, 2007 19:08

It's truly remarkable to see some posts denying the harmful affects of secondhand smoke. The head in the sand approach... [MORE]

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Dec 11, 2007 14:22

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RS Bissell

Dec 12, 2007 10:35

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dan

Dec 13, 2007 13:36

Consider this. It is a smokers right to choose to smoke. It is a non smokers right to choose... [MORE]

Tim Breneman

Jan 7, 2008 13:45

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