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HM Govt declaration of smoking
status regulations (2012) require me to display the
following symbol on all
publications.
The Truth About Alcohol www.alcoholhealthalliance.org
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ASH to Ashes! Visit Facebook and show your support!
ASH's useful idiot was Lord Darzi. "Lord Darzi told the House of Lords in a letter that the costs for removing a typical 25-square-foot retail tobacco display would be £212, based on estimates received from a company (4 Solutions) involved in the Canadian display ban. But the DoH correspondence shows that Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), the most prominent anti-display organisation, was told directly by 4 Solutions that it was not correct."
One of many comments at http://takingliberties.squarespace.com/taking-liberties/2010/7/20/display-ban-how-ash-misled-mps.html
Sir Richard Doll, the first scientist to publish research establishing a link between lung cancer and primary smoking, commented: “The effects of other people smoking in my presence is so small it doesn’t worry me.”
Alan Plater - RIP - wrote the lyrics for "I'm Going Outside" for FOREST
I'm going outside and I may be some time
Good enough for Churchill but now it's a crime
The puritans in Whitehall say I'm lower than slime
So I'm going outside and I may be some time
They've issued banning orders to the taprooms and the clubs
You can only have a smoke if you're banged up in Wormwood Scrubs
The wagging of the fingers and the shaking of the heads
Have sent us all a scurrying to the cycle sheds
I may be some time 'cause I'm going outside
Call me unworthy but I've got my pride
Call me unclean but let me confide
I may be some time 'cause I'm going outside
I blame Sir Walter Raleigh for bringing home the fruit
The imperial tobacconists who corner all the loot
The hypocrites in government who grab their share of swag
A plague on all their houses and I need a drag
I'm going outside and I may be some time
Once approved by Royalty but now it's a crime
We're now officially classified as lower than slime
So I'm going outside and I may be some time
Quit smoking, save your money and get wealthy
And you're guaranteed to die of something healthy
But I'm going outside and I may be some time
Bill of Rights of 1689 makes clear this country CANNOT be ruled by ANY foreign power:
“No foreign Prince, person, Prelate, State, or Potentate, hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction, Power, Superiority, Pre eminence, or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm.”
scroll down to the non-ranty part of this page . . .meanwhile:
UK Pub Closures 2004-2009
Airedale Hospital in Yorkshire is also restoring smoking shelters . . . .
"The government knows it is not stopping drinking by putting poison in alcohol," New York City medical examiner Charles Norris said at a hastily organized press conference. "[Y]et it continues its poisoning processes, heedless of the fact that people determined to drink are daily absorbing that poison. Knowing this to be true, the United States government must be charged with the moral responsibility for the deaths that poisoned liquor causes, although it cannot be held legally responsible."
Under the health act of 2006, it is the
responsibility of the owner or the controller of "smoke free" space to uphold
the law. It is not illegal to smoke in a shop or on a train. It is illegal for
the owner or controller of the space to allow you to smoke.
NOT TRUE: It is illegal for the OWNER to allow you to smoke in these premises
Members and their guests have access to all the bar facilities listed above. Also, the Members' Smoking Room is provided for the exclusive use of Members of Parliament (Monday to Tuesday 14.00 to 17.00 and 18.00 to midnight; Wednesday 14.00 to 17.00 and 18.00 to 23.00; Thursday 13.00 to 17.00 and 18.00 to 19.00; closed Fridays).
Source - Theyworkforyou.com
Antismoking campaigns rely on ignorance. The less educated people are, the more likely they are to have a subjective understanding of the world around them. Very often this will be an almost magical understanding. Their world will be composed of things that have magical properties. It will be one in which tobacco smoke (and tobacco smoke alone) can magically cause lung cancer, and carbon dioxide (and carbon dioxide alone) can magically cause global warming. In a magical understanding of the world, anything is possible.
http://frank-davis.livejournal.com/
Are ASH planning to invade our homes next?
Not content with this funding stream ASH Scotland wins £500,000 from the National Lottery
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MY BODY IS NOT THE PROPERTY OF THE STATE
www.ourlittleplace.com/chemicals.html
3. BENZYL ACETATE (in: perfume, cologne, shampoo, fabric softener, stickup air
freshener, dishwashing liquid and detergent, soap, hairspray, bleach, after
shave, deodorants)
Carcinogenic (linked to pancreatic cancer); "From vapors: irritating to eyes
and respiratory passages, exciting cough." "In mice: hyperanemia of the
lungs." "Can be absorbed through the skin causing systemic effects." "Do not
flush to sewer."
SMALL VICTORY FOR SMALL BARS IN HOLLAND!
. . . that's just for starters.
BAN the SMOKE FREE QUANGO
Pat Nurse addresses UKIP Conference Southport 2009
The smoking ban legislation in force since 1 July 2007 in England is being amended for the G20 Summit being held in April at the Excel Exhibition Centre in Docklands, London.
It has been revealed that smoking rooms will be allowed at the venue.
"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical
minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds
forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the
clean end"
R. J. Wiedemann LtCol. USMC Ret."
"It is essential that campaigners create the impression of inevitable success. Campaigning of this kind is literally a confidence trick: the appearance of confidence both creates confidence and demoralises the opposition." (fa)
ASH(ist)SO YOU THINK THE AIR IN YOUR PUB IS HEALTHY NOW?
ALCOHOL HEALTH ALLIANCE
LINK
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When the ban was first introduced in July 2007, amid claims by health campaigners that smoke-free would attract more drinkers into pubs, tax inspectors said that the new law would not represent a material change in either direction to their trading position.
As a result of the initial flawed advice, the Government's Valuation Office Agency (VOA) refused to give pubs any rate reduction for loss of business. - Telegraph 8/11/8
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*"There is no evidence that Champix has been a factor in any of the deaths." . . .on the other hand, there's no evidence that "passive smoking" is a factor in any "deaths". actually there's no evidence of any deaths at all.
Daily Mail 8/11/08
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So we have a major charity getting taxpayer's funds, which sets up a go-between institution to bankroll a lobbying pressure group. (ASH) which in turn supplies dubious statistics and dodgy surveys directly to the Dept of Health. I'm sure there must be laws that would criminalise such practices in The City. Pete Robinson writing in The Publican
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victim may be the
most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under
omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his
cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own
good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own
conscience. “
C.S. Lewis.
"The day will come when the joybells will ring again throughout Europe,
and when victorious nations, masters not only of their foes but of themselves,
will plan and build in justice, in tradition, and in freedom a house of many
mansions where there will be room for all."
Winston Churchill (1940)
Sirchia
is a medical doctor. He became a hero of antitobacco when Italy had the sad
distinction of becoming the second nation in Europe to embrace the Neo-Nazi
healthist ideology after Ireland.
Bill 282, Mississippi, presented on Friday 25 January
2008:
“An act to prohibit certain food establishments from serving food to any
person who is obese, based on criteria prescribed by the state department of
health; to direct the department to prepare written materials that describe
and explain the criteria for determining whether a person is obese and to
provide those materials to the food establishments; to direct the department
to monitor the food establishments for compliance with the provisions of this
act; and for related purposes. Be it enacted by the legislature of the state
of Mississippi.”
Dear Anne Cryer
Some years ago I ceased to be a member of the Labour party. I did this for
various reasons including the Iraq war, ID cards and PFIs. I now note with
dismay that a recent Rowntree report describes an ever widening gap between
rich and poor in the UK.
I have reached the point where I can no longer bear to vote for the party that
was built out of the toil and the hopes and the dreams of an honest working
class. The reason? The endless chipping away of our civil liberties, our self
determination and our common sense. Despite your election pledges you went the
whole hog and banned smoking. The effect of this on the sociality of millions
of people is incalculable. And what for? Because a cadre of vested interests
chose to tell the biggest lie in history about environmental tobacco smoke.
Even the HSE agreed that there was no risk (although the document - OC 255/15
has now been replaced with an emasculated version - OC 255/16 - this being in
itself a sinister development). Repeatedly challenged to produce evidence the
anti-smokers can only bluster and shout "Roy Castle".
My father, Reverend George Speller, one time vicar of xxxxxx parish, and a
smoker and socialist all his long life, taught me to stand up for the truth,
and to think for myself. Now I find myself out of step. We have become so
blinded by the lies backed by big Pharma - who have a vested interest in
"smoking cures" that to speak up for truth and common sense is to be hounded
for heresy.
I have to tell you that while this unjustified and illiberal ban remains in
place I will not be voting for you. I will vote in any way that is likely to
keep the BNP out, but it will not be for the Labour party I once loved,
cherished and cheered.
I have the courage of my convictions. Do you?
Yours sincerely,
George Speller
I’m Robert E. Madden MD, FACS. I am also a non-smoker.
HOWEVER I am a passionate opponent smoking bans. Most of the opposition to the
smoking bans has been based upon economic factors such as loss of business
revenue, even closings. My opposition is due to loss of individual freedom and
abuse of scientific fact.
I am a practicing chest surgeon, a teacher and a former cancer researcher. I
am also past president of the New York Cancer Society. I will not tell you
that smoking is harmless and without risk, in fact one in eight hundred
smokers will develop lung cancer. Asthmatics should avoid tobacco smoke. What
I will say is: 1) it’s a personal choice and 2) so called second smoke (ETS)
is virtually harmless. One may not like the smell but it has not been shown to
cause cancer, even in bartenders. If people do not like the odor then they may
go elsewhere. Those who support the ban have no right to deny 24% of the adult
population their enjoyment of a popular product based on dislike, possibly
hatred of smoking. This attitude is that of a bigot, akin to anti-Semitism or
racism.
Fascist Nazi anti-tobacco activists succeeded in banning smoking from government offices, civic transport, university campuses, rest homes, post offices, many restaurants and bars, hospital grounds and workplaces. Tobacco taxes were raised, cigarette vending machines were banned, and there were calls for a ban on smoking while driving.
Thanks to party-sponsered 'junk science' from the Ministry of Science & Education and the Reich Health Office, posters and cinema 'shorts' were produced depicting smoking as the typically despicable habit of Jews, jazz musicians, Gypsies, Indians, homosexuals, blacks, communists, capitalists, cripples, and harlots.
Zealous lobbyists descended into the schools, terrifying children with tales of impotence, racial impurity and spontaneous abortion. (source: BMJ No 7070 Volume 313)
Any of this sound familiar?
"in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily, and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods."
A.Hitler, Mein Kampf
The term "passive smoking" (Passivrauchen) was coined by the Nazi Anti-Tobacco League. Its author, Fritz Lickint, offered no supporting evidence to claim that smokers poisoned everyone around them, while also stating that drinking coffee caused cancer.
from an earlier posting . . . .
The HSE gives its views here at para 9: 'the evidential link between exposure to risk in exempted premises will be hard to establish,. In essence, HSE cannot produce epidemiological evidence to link levels of exposure to the raised risk of contracting specific diseases ...' .
NOTE - This link no longer works because:
SCANDAL - since this link was published the HSE have edited this document and republished it as OC 255/16
Imagine our surprise then, when we were told OC 255/15 was no longer on the HSE website as an accessible document. A quick emailed response revealed that this document, which was not due for review until 2011, had been replaced by OC 255/16. Readers will not be surprised to learn that paragraph 9 in 255/15 dealing with the epidemiological evidence based statement, had been removed and a watered down version replaced it at paragraph 14, with no mention of the HSE’s previous conclusions.
and we thought 1984 was long past . . .
. . . you can read the original before the HSE were got at here: http://wispofsmoke.net/PDFs/255_15.pdf
"My daughter was fit and healthy before she started taking this drug, but now the doctors say she has to be on medication for the rest of her life. I am blaming Zyban for this," Susan Sinclair, quoted in "Ban anti-smoking pill that wrecked my life," Northern Echo (UK), July 23, 2001.
At last - evidence of ASH's strict adherence to the truth - on their VERY OWN FRONT PAGE at http://www.ash.org/ they make the following link - read and weep!
http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s1i21773
Meanwhile, over the pond:
"Field
studies of environmental tobacco smoke indicate
that under normal conditions, the components in tobacco smoke are diluted below
existing Permissible Exposure Levels (PELS.) as referenced in the Air
Contaminant Standard (29 CFR 1910.1000)...It would be very rare to find a
workplace with so much smoking that any individual PEL would be exceeded."
Letter
From Greg Watchman, Acting Ass't Sec'y, OSHA, To Leroy J Pletten, PHD, July 8,
1997
Britain being Britain, the news is that we're going to have sad little monkeys, sexually frustrated penis-faced Hitler wannabes, desperate to victimise someone, snooping around our bars at the employ of the local council. And soon, we're told, there'll be council officials snooping to ensure we don't drink too much when we're down the pub of an evening: believe me, alcohol will be next on their list of stuff to ban. - Rod Liddle The Times
Forest Directot Simon Clerk: http://www.friction.tv/debate.php?debateno=130
"Our Fuhrer Adolf Hitler drinks no alcohol and does not smoke.... His performance at work is incredible." (From Auf der Wacht 1937:18)
"More than 14 million lawful smokers will be stripped of their dignity shepherded outside pubs to the humiliation chambers for officialdom to sneer at. I see it as nothing more than a government incited hate crime against people going about their lawful business."
Hamish Howitt, licensee of the Happy Scots Blackpool
The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld
complaints against the Department of Health for its anti-smoking advertising
campaign. Advertisements showed smokers with giant fishhooks piercing their
cheeks. Another showed a hook pulling a mother away from her small daughter. A
third depicted a man being pulled through traffic and into a newsagent's shop to
buy cigarettes.
Taking Liberties, 16 May 2007
People disregard the withdrawal of rights they have enjoyed for so long at their peril and I admire the courage and commitment of "Freedom to Choose" who are continuing the fight against authoritarianism...Lord Stoddart
HM Govt declaration of smoking status regulations (2009) require me to display the following symbol on all publications.
http://www.smokersclub.com/home.html
E-PETITION calling for review of licensing laws on musical performance. Music should not be a licensable activity and the current legislation breaches our right to freedom of expression.
SIGN UP HERE: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/licensing/
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The Lucidity Institute
http://www.lucidity.com
Official
Bambi Owners Club Web Site
My Bambi Web Page
Dear my local MP,
I understand your position as an anti-smoker. Like many you are not open to
reason on the matter, so I won't try to dissuade you. However I do think you
should be aware that you are aligning yourself with some very shady goings on.
Most Anti groups, notably ASH have no hesitation in recommending
pharmaceutical smoking cessation products. I'm sure this has nothing to do
with the flow of money from the pharma companies to WHO, ASH International
etc.
The main pharmaceutical product is NRT, nicotine replacement therapy which
exchanges "bad" nicotine for "good" nicotine. These substances are of course
identical (and are likely to do exactly the same cardio vascular damage)
except that one comes from tobacco manufacturers (bad) and the other (good)
comes from drug dealers or pharmaceutical companies as they are often called.
Most antis now accept that the published success rate of these "stop smoking
aids" is as low as 1.6% and it is obvious that NRT is simply a way for the
pharma companies to take over the business of nicotine supply.
ASH and other organisations, however, are unstinting in their support for
another product made by Pfizer. Things, however, are not all they should be:
“Hundreds of reports of suicides and violent reactions tied to the
stop-smoking drug Chantix were left out of a crucial government safety review.
The reports were missing because the drug’s manufacturer Pfizer Inc. submitted
years of data through ‘improper channels’, according to the Food and Drug
Administration. Serious problems — such as people killing themselves, trying
to kill themselves, depression and unprovoked attacks on others — were mixed
among 26,000 records of non-serious side effects such as nausea and rashes
dating back to 2006, the year Chantix, or varenicline, was approved.” Daily
Mail, May 29th 2011
Is it acceptable even to you as an anti-smoker that a drug company should
obfuscate the dangers of a flagship drug in this way?
If not I wonder what you will do to right this wrong.
Yours faithfully,
George Speller
Dear Mr Speller
Thank you for your e-mail regarding smoking cessation products, the contents of which, I assure you, I do take very seriously.
As such, I have sent a copy to Anne Milton MP, the Minister for Public Health, with a request for her response.
I will forward this on to you upon receipt.
Best wishes
[MP]
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