June 27-29, 2005
The International Smokers Rights Conference
Stuff by Samantha:
You clicked on this link so you must want to hear what I have to say. Thanks! Since the speakers at the conference said all the good stuff, I'll just put things here that I said, thought, or wished I'd thought of at the time. (It beats the alternative of me boring you with endless text on how to create a web page and organize a newsletter.)We arrived in the middle of a sky thick with wild fires. No comment. None whatsoever needed.
We inspected the air with the no money redneck version of the Anti's equipment. They have money for fancy toys. We have Michael. We took Michael to 12 casinos. He smelled the air in each one and didn't die. Thus proving without a doubt that smoking bans are a waste of time and only result in the Antis having even more money to buy even more toys. Next year Michael will eat dessert in 6 Dallas restaurants. We'll let you know if he dies.
... There are many ways to fight bans.
... There are many more issues than bans. Read the Newsletter.
... Someone needs to create a plastic wrap that isn't annoying.
... If smoking bans were really about second hand smoke, why do they include smokeless tobacco products?
... Now the states want lost money from taxes on internet sales? Lower your taxes you idiots and people will buy from the local store. Don't create a problem and then make it worse by turning your citizens into criminals while using a legal product.
... "Fire Safe Cigarettes?" Gimme a break... changing a legal product no matter what the public wants? Offer alternatives, sure. Dictate to a legal industry? Huh? What's next? Baby diapers to government standards that cause more diaper rash? Then to allow states to have their own criteria for the horrid new cigarettes instead of one product alone? You think we don't see this as a back door attempt to destroy a legal industry and raise our product prices even higher from the added manufacturing costs?
... Special laws for cigarette litter? There are already litter laws, so enforce them already. Where's the special "Beer can litter law," "Trucker bombs litter law," and the "Broken sunglasses in the sand litter law?"
... Readers ask all the time why don't "they" just make cigarettes illegal and get it over with. The simple answer is, "Money." Them that gets it don't want to lose it. A small percentage of your population just fixed the road in front of your house that everyone gets to use. Have some tea. You'll be next.
... Do you think people care about the MSA, the RICO case, the WHO FCTC, or the FDA? No, because we don't really understand them and they have nothing to do with our daily lives and getting the car pool to Mary's house in time. Here's a primer for you… MSA is the government stealing money from legal companies. RICO is the government stealing more money from legal companies. (Don't think this will ever end. There are too many legal companies to get money from after this, and the lawyers have tasted the big bucks.) WHO FCTC and the FDA thing is Antis telling the world what to do because it isn't enough to control us, they want to control everyone. It's easy to pick on the tobacco companies now and later the booze companies, the fat food companies, etc… because they have their phone numbers and they can get away with it, based on all the other alphabet soup we just covered.
... If you are not a cologne wearer and don't want others to wear cologne, you do not have the right to force them to stop using a legal product. Forcing cologne wearers to stay out of bars because you might want to walk into one in a few years is not practical, nice, tolerant of your fellow man, or even sane when you really think about it. It's up to the property owner if he wants cologne wearers in his building or not. Buy your own business and put any sign you want on the door, or go find a sign you like. Carol Schwartz made her point in the media and DC took notice.
... Attention all kids… Yes you, the kid one day away from your 21st birthday. In spite of you being married, with two jobs, one kid of your own, a house mortgage, and a car loan, the Antis are talking about you with their "children statistics" while they show the photo of a cute 4 year old. Don't fall for it.
... Attention all smokers… Yes you, the nonsmoker at the age of 45 who had one cigarette at the age of 12. You who could be hit by a bus at the age of 95 and still be recorded as a smoker death. Don't fall for it.
... Attention all idiot sticks who think a whiff of smoke 100 yards away in an outdoor park will kill you instantly. Seek help, you are sick, you are just not right! Get a hobby, get a grip, and get a life man!
Antis think they need to be sneaky and lie. How silly is that? Wake up… there are two sides to every issue. You don't have to like it, but here in the real world, that's how things work.
Big Pharmaceutical, who want to have the only politically correct nicotine delivery system available, funds Antis.
So the Antis have money for press releases and any time any person has an opinion that doesn't match theirs… they are instantly condemned as a front for Big Tobacco. Derr… I wish some Big Tobacco money would come in to help support the Newsletter. We'd welcome any money in a heartbeat. Please make us a front for Big Bowling, Big Libertarian Party, Big Uncle Joes Muffler Shop…
What's with this "Big" thing anyways? You have more then $1.99 in your checking account, become a target of Antis who want your money, and you are suddenly saddled with a semantic connotation to strike fear in the hearts of sheeple?
Do you have kids? Are you familiar with the technique of them pushing your buttons and you having a choice? You either remove the button by laughing at the child so he has to find another way to get the angry learned response he wants, or you continue to let him push that same button until the men in the white coats take you away.
Antis… find another button, this one is older then dirt.
Readers… you go right ahead and write what you want to your local media and if some Anti responds that you are a front for Big Tobacco, you just tell him that his mother wears army boots. It makes as much sense and is just as childish. Do you really care what a couple of people in your state think? Speak your mind and you will find out that there are a million others who agree with you. It's just harder to get this side of the issue into the media. They are brainwashed into thinking the guys with the money must be right. The media should research stories for facts before printing them. They have gotten used to the idea that anything the Antis say must be true. When else in history have a few with money created such a smokescreen?
The good thing about the Antis thinking they can fool all the people all the time is that they can't. With the tobacco money drying up and them starting in on fat, scents, booze, etc… the public is starting to realize that they've been fooled and allowed a slippery slope to be started that now is creeping up on something they really do care about.
Antis are a rare breed, there are very few of them in the world. Non-smokers agree with smokers that it's all a matter of property rights. Everyone should decide what to do or not do on their own property. You don't want smoking in your bar? Good for you, it's your choice. You do want it? Good for you, it's your choice. The public is smart enough to read a sign on a door and spend money where they want. The market will dictate your business, which is the way it should be, not having the government doing it because a few guys with money said so.
It's time to put the Anti secrets, lies, and baloney where they belong, into the bright light of day where no amount of money can hide the shame they would be feeling if they had hearts.
Rest assured that the Anti machine created by Big Pharmaceutical will turn and bite them in the rear end soon. You can't pay someone that well to take rights away from citizens and private business' of legal products and not expect it to turn on you.
Big Pharmaceutical, you may throw money at the Newsletter to fight the Antis any time you want. Just don't wait to long, for them to get you in their sights. Being proactive is so much easier then being reactive. You created the monster, please stop it now. The minute you remove your money, they will be done. Unlike us freedom loving folks, Antis are in it for the money and will stop when the money does. Don't fall prey to the Recipe for Success that you created:THE ANTI-TOBACCO RECIPE FOR SUCCESS
1. Choose an industry.
2. Regulate the industry.
3. Tax the industry.
4. Sue the industry.
When one source of money dries up, return to Step 1 and repeat.
By Samantha Phillipe
Bans hurt and kill
Please print out the Ban Damage Page (Deaths, Injuries, Rape, and more) and the Ban Loss Database (Money and business lost due to bans) and bring them to your politicians. Tell them ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! This failed experiment in human behavior is killing people and it has to stop now. Death certificates from "smoking" are zero, while death certificates from smoking bans and making a legal product un-politically correct are rising.
They DO NOT force you to enforce the law.
Smoking bans force you to hang a sign and tell your patrons there is no smoking.
They DO NOT force you to enforce the law.
NY is doing it and so can you! Florida Judge Agrees!
Administrative Judge Michael Parrish notes that there is no legal requirement for a bar owner to take ''specific action'' when someone is smoking in the bar.
Please note: This makes all smoking bans illegal unless your State or town wants to train you, supply liability insurance, sign you on as police AND make it a law that anyone they want must be forced into police duty. Your 16 year old son washing dishes in a restaurant would have to go to the police academy because he may have to uphold the smoking ban law. Remove these un-enforceable laws from your books NOW to avoid law suits. Every worker has the right to sue you when hurt, your ban opens you up for liability.
My opinion counts as much as any other human on earth. No more, no less. Each of us has one voice, one say, and is no more important than any another human. If you like what I wrote, please send it on to your friends. If you don't like what I wrote, please send it on to your friends who will also not like it.
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Samantha
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