Freedom to Choose
To fight against the injustice of smokers being treated as second class citizens (and to dispel the myth about Second Hand Smoke) in the UK!
The Smoking Ban CAN Be Changed!
But do the 14 million smokers have the stomach for the fight? I think they would if they had the right leadership! Someone who will galvanise them into action and who would make us realise that we are NOT ALONE, that we do have something in common, mainly that we have been ostrasised by the loony left of this Country of ours. We should all stand together and, being the largest minority, can really make a difference.
THE CHOICE IS YOURS!
If you feel like a duck in a shooting gallery then it's time to make a stand and shoot back, the ammunition is here and on the web!
THEIR NEXT MOVE
Don’t make the mistake of thinking that the fight will be over if you give them the family restaurants, or if you give them the pubs, or even if you just hold out for private clubs. Antismoking extremists hate smoking with a passion and they will never stop until they have everything…
Unless you stop them.
You’ve heard of towns in California where they’ve banned smoking outdoors, even on your own front porch if a neighbor or passer-by objects. Even that is not enough for them:
Bill Godshall of Smoke Free Pennsylvania is now complaining, “Unfortunately for many involuntary smokers in Calabasas, the ordinance exempts many different locations, so people will still be exposed to tobacco smoke pollution... " and notes that, "The new rules exempt residences, backyards... "
John Banzhaf, founder of Action On Smoking and Health, is now boasting "Here we are literally reaching into the last frontier -- right into the home... No longer can you argue, 'My home is my castle. I've got the right to smoke.' "
Stop Them Now!
A Call For Action.
The smoking ban is based upon lies: lies about the health effects of small amounts of secondary smoke exposure upon workers, lies about customer demands, and lies about the expected economic effects on bars, entertainment venues, and small restaurants.
The antismoking lobby lied about these things because they knew that the government would never agree to a ban based only on the demands of noisy extremists forcing an unwanted agenda on others. They lied because they know that if a ban’s true economic consequences were told truly that business owners would have risen up and united in protest. They lie simply because the truth does not support their goal: “To reduce the public acceptability of smoking.”
This ban CAN be overturned if pubs and their patrons are willing to stand and be the forefront of a resistance to an unjust and ill-based law. Pub staff, customers, and British citizens in general need to learn about the lies behind the ban, refuse to lend their cooperation and unpaid labor in the enforcement of the ban, and demand the ban’s reasonable amendment to decently based general standards for clean air and good health without the trampling of private rights.
The last attempt to ban smoking on the European Continent ended in 1945. The idea that the same kind of lies and propaganda should form the basis of a new set of bans fifty years later is unconscionable and can not be allowed to stand!
Join together and send this ban Back To Hell!
How did we get to this?
Black Sunday
On the 1st of July 2007 England embarked on a tyrannical crusade against 25% (one quarter) of it's population by introducing into law a draconian smoking ban in all enclosed places including pubs, clubs, bus shelters, bus stations, rail stations, restaurants, and any other enclosed space they deemed fit, pushing the largest minority of it's citizens onto the damp, cold streets to have a cigarette.
It is now around 7 months since the ban came into force and already we can see the consequences of such a badly drafted and enacted law. Pubs and working men's clubs are closing down, or at the very least losing money hand over fist. Bingo halls are closing down because of the lack of the smoking trade! People who live in neighbouring homes to a pub or club are complaining about the noise by smokers FORCED to go outside in all weathers to smoke. And the vehement attitude of the anti-smoker knows no bounds; already people have been MURDERED and VIOLENTLY ATTACKED just for doing something that, just a few short weeks ago, would not even have turned a head!
There are 14 million smokers in this country who contribute £9.8 BILLION to the economy and only £1.5 BILLION is spent by the NHS (National Health Service) on people being treated for smoking related diseases. Currently there is £0.00 being spent on a non-smoker for a SHS (Second Hand Smoke) disease, as far as I am aware because there has been NO positive proof that there is a relationship between the two.
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Contents
The Great Helena Heart Fraud Forest at party confrences
The Antismoking Lobby National Smoking Day
30 Minute Heart Attack Study SleepWalkPrison
The Great Outdoor Smoking Fraud
Pete Robinson from The Publican
Hall of fame
Man of the people Hamish Howitt
Websites of interest
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It is said that when the British went to India with guns to force the natives to spin cloth, Gandhi rallied his people and reminded them that the British really had no power over them. The British could not spin cloth with guns… all they could do was shoot people. If they wanted cloth they had to reach a deal.
The government can not run the pubs of England, Ireland, Wales, and Scotland. Only their owners can. Government smoking bans only pass when they’re not fought. They are only stopped when they ARE fought.
Get connected and get active NOW before it’s too late!
In the final analysis
what happens is only up to you.
Copyright 2007 by Michael J. McFadden
Author of Dissecting Antismokers’ Brains
May be copied and distributed freely in support of Day of Defiance activities.
Their Health Lies
Antismokers claim that scientific studies are unanimous and unequivocal in finding that secondary tobacco smoke is killing thousands. If that were true then smoking bans might be justified despite business losses and social disruption. If that were true then a smoking ban might be worth the injury to freedoms and livelihoods. But it is not. Quite plainly and simply....
IT IS NOT TRUE.
There has never been a single decent scientific study showing that the low levels of smoke found in public places with modern ventilation systems kills ANYONE. Even most studies of relatively unventilated and concentrated lifelong daily exposure have failed the most basic scientific research standard of statistical significance.
You might wonder then why every week seems to bring a new study to the news claiming secondary smoke is a killer. The answer is simple: money and trickery.
The money buys political lobbying strength: dedicated professional lobbyists to visit and present carefully prepared packages of propaganda one-on-one to government officials. It also buys media time and space everywhere from The Guardian to the BBC to MTV. The trickery buys the words and skills to “adjust the attitudes” of the citizenry to accept ever more draconian restrictions upon and even outright persecution of smokers.
A lot of that attitude adjustment is accomplished by promoting studies deliberately designed to give the "proper" results and then publicizing those results over and over again, year after year, and then going on to distort the actual findings of those studies into claims that extend far beyond even the initial biased results. The media rarely questions information from antismoking sources since it's assumed that they are the "good guys" and have no reason to lie.
Bad assumption.
Changes in the law
On the 1st of October 2007 this Labour Government brought another law which raised the smoking age from 16 to 18 years old in a bid to stop young men and women from smoking. Time will tell if this works or not.
Another proposed law is to raise the age you can purchase alcohol from 18 to 21 years old! Will there be a backlash from these young men and women when they can no longer join their mates down the pub? Will there be a local hostelry for them to go to when they reach 21?