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- that died from second hand smoke?
Here is a post from another board I thought very informative
towards the fight against the smoking ban.
(permission was given before I copied this)
Here is a post from another board I thought very informative
towards the fight against the smoking ban.
(permission was given before I copied this)
1. The fight against smoking bans is not as grim as you depict it. Smokers comprise about 20% of the adult population, ie. voting population. 20% is usually enough to swing any election or referendum. Smokers must make sure to vote against any and all smoking bans.
2. Surveys have shown that most non-smokers are ambivalent about smoking bans and can be swayed by solid arguments against smoking bans, especially economic and constitutional-bill-of-rights arguments.
3. Prepare yourself to combat the lies, deceptions, and paranoia spread by anti-smoking crusaders by arming yourself with facts and information about the smoking issue, the true effects (or non-effects) of smoking and secondhand smoke. A good source of information can be found at http://www.forces.org.
4. Confront the lies and insults of anti-smokers at every turn. Write a tight, effective letter to the editor at least 3 times a year. Write, e-mail, and call your city councilman, county commissioner, state legislator every time a smoking ban becomes an issue. Show up at town council meetings--appear before the town council, county commission state legislature with counter arguments against smoking bans both from a health stand point and economic stand point and also a constitutional-bill-of-rights standpoint. Answer rude putdowns of rude, condescending anti-smokers with a good counter putdown--throw the crap back into their faces every chance you get, don't let any putdown go unchallanged. Don't allow yourself to be manipulated by guilt trips laid on you by anti-smoking crusaders. Any time an anti-smoker makes outlandish claims about the tens-of-thousands of deaths caused by secondhand smoke, make them prove it. Embarrass them by asking them to provide the names of just 3 people that have died from secondhand smoke the past year, they can't because there are no deaths medically certified to have been caused by secondhand smoke.
5. Provide financial support to smoker rights organizations such as Forces International and United Pro-Smokers rights.
Anti-smokers, and the organizations that champion their cause, have a visceral hatred for smoking and smokers and will say and do anything to eradicate smoking from the landscape. They are a viscous, conniving, lying, bunch or sanctimonious a**holes and things will change only when smokers decide they have had enough if their shit and do something about it.