June 2007 - Page 7 of 7 - Forces International

Smoker as Nigger

The title is incendiary but the use of society’s most despicable slur is not gratuitous.  Nor does the subject matter have anything to do with race, although racism, along with human kind’s long list of other destructive pathologies, is central to this article.
 Donald Homa is a cognitive psychologist in the Department of Psychology at ASU.  We are glad to publish the article he has sent. “I became involved in this issue – the dangers of secondhand smoke – some years ago, and have had extended articles printed in a number of newspapers, but no one here would publish a recent article of mine, which I’ve included as an attachment”, he writes to us – and we are certainly not surprised the mainstream media hopes it remains hidden.  Dr. Homa exposes the passive smoke for what it is: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.forces.org/evidence/psaip.htm">a fraud institutions should be ashamed of</a>, driven by vitriolic hatred to “denigrate and vulgarize the smoker.  Arizona has seen television spots in which the smoker is urinated on by a dog, and an unsuspecting young lady drinks the phlegm of a smoker”.   Political terror and intimidation control the press these days on the issue of smoking and health in general.  Even the slightest indication of the truth – that the health authorities are divulging false information to instigate hatred – is enough to censor any information right out . The media must "help" the people believe that passive smoke kills, so people can have licence to hate.  Hatred, so anti-tobacco thinks, will eventually drive smoking out of society.
That is the ultimate mistake, however.  It is true that antitobacco is out of control; it is true that there is hatred without limitation.  But it is also true that, around the world, a rapidly growing number of smokers is getting ready to lower themselves to the level of their enemies, and to get down to the dirty job of making them understand that they will be those who are urinated on – and forced to swallow the phlegm of their own hatred.  Because even the “niggers”, one day, will decide that they have had enough.

By webmaster, 18 years ago

Hundreds of pubs to flout smoking ban

“Landlords at up to 200 pubs are planning a ‘day of defiance’ when the legislation comes into force next month, allowing customers to light up on July 1. The number involved is expected to grow and some publicans have vowed to continue to break the law beyond July 1 if customers want them to."  Tabloid sensationalism or real action?

By webmaster, 18 years ago

A concentrate of virtue

Germany’s most well-known heavy smoker, former Chancellor (1974-1982) Helmut Schmidt recently announced that he’s been a cigarette smoker for 70 years now. His equally chain-smoking wife took up the habit even longer ago.  In TV interviews, the 88-year-old Schmidt is never seen without his menthol ciggies. "I smoke everywhere, except in a church", especially in the presence of American TV journalists.  The inventor of the G8 summits also claims to have special permission by the fire department to light up in non-smoking areas of the Hamburg Thalia Theatre.

By webmaster, 18 years ago

The Department of Fat

In New Jersey the power of the state is coming down hard on the tubby, establishing a new department to shape up the people, especially the children.  The new Office of Nutrition and Fitness will oversee programs to slim down the tykes through education, support groups, physical activity and the de-normalization of particular culinary practices.  The commissar in charge of the new department is considering having the public schools nag parents whose offspring are judged too heavy.  While the goals and especially the budget of the new department are fairly sparse there is a well-known phenomenon where government agencies and departments inevitably metastasize and becoming more dictatorial.  New Jersey doesn’t often assume a trend-setting role but rest assured that 49 state governments are enviously looking at that state’s fat department and making plans to get one of their own.
<a href="http://www.montereyherald.com/health/ci_6063839">Link to original article</a>
<a href="http://www.data-yard.net/10b3/new_jersey_fat.pdf">Link to stored article</a>

By webmaster, 18 years ago

Fashionable bigotry

Recently The Disney Enterprise people enacted a severe smoking ban at their Disney location in Orlando, Florida.  This ban makes a complete mockery of the fact that Walt Disney himself was a smoker.  The site we link to is a hate-filled site with a photo of Walt smoking.  Underneath, the statement reads "Disneyland lung cancer".  For kicks contrast the anti-smoking cretin pictured at the top with the smoking Walt Disney and ask yourself which of the two makes a positive contribution to society.

By webmaster, 18 years ago

No more adoption for smokers

The massage of "public health" is clear: smokers no longer belong in society. They are not welcome in public places, on the job, and as parents – even of the adoptive kind.  This is the process of denormalization of a time honoured-habit for which not one death can be demonstrated to be caused by.

By webmaster, 18 years ago

Do the math

<!–webbot bot="PurpleText" PREVIEW="http://www.data-yard.net/10b3/mich-beach.pdf" –>Ottawa County in Michigan proposes to ban smoking outdoors based on what may appear on the surface as some very scary sounding numbers.  Add in some extreme speculation presented as fact, mention "the children" and….PRESTO….another oppressive ban takes shape.

By webmaster, 18 years ago