Have no doubt about it: health and environmental scares have robbed this generation of the age of prosperity and freedom that was their birthright, for which their forefathers fought and died. The cost of a continual shift of labor and resources from the economically productive sector to the regulatory system and compensation culture have cost all of us billions of dollars. The tobacco settlement and the massive amount of money it generated for anti-smokers is a perfect example. The propaganda it has paid for and the friends it as bought are now rolling over smokers nationwide, and many are cheering. It is teaching everyone else how the socialist game is played. All you need is a new set of victims (the next group in line to lose it all).

How was it all done?

It is true that countless studies have shown passive smoking to be harmful, but that is where the money is. Gone are the days when the dispassionate scientific debate to find truth was normal, now the dog with the best connections and biggest teeth wins. The media picks the winners, and you are told facts and truth through their biased filter from whatever source they will allow. Who and what determines truth has been hijacked since the mid 80's on tobacco related issues.

The almost 1 billion dollar a year anti-smoking industry has many who dance to the anti-smoking music because it pays well and offers many returns -- grants for research on smoking related topics that never seem to end. Could this be the reason cancer has never been beaten? Because lots of money is lost to politicalized prevention games. (We all need cures) All you have to do is claim harm for rivers of money to come flowing your way.

There are many reasons for population control in general, and most of them are morality based. You do not go around killing and beating up others or destroying property. The police enforce God's law of common decency and good citizenship. Public health on the other had has the power to enforce the discovered rules of science inquiry on the population, with out the checks and balances of the court system that criminals have automatically. Are the claims of public health valid? A better question to ask is "Are they ever challenged?" Does media and political hype equal fact? If you as a smoker have your public rights taken away, will the government pay to defend you against your accuser?

It is time to turn an ugly stare back at those who claim harms and provides information about it and say "OK, put up real world evidence of harms, such as death certificates and medical records of any who have died from exposure to passive smoking. If you can not do this then get lost. You deserve no ones time or obedience" The sad truth is no one in government or the media has ever demanded real world evidence to justify action. Statistics or hearsay has always been enough.

Taking away the rights of smokers and the rights of business people who cater to them without real world evidence of harm is a criminal act of government in a free country.

The definition of socialism is where the elite dictate what you may have and may do, based on truth as THEY define it. The truth is freedom is disappearing in America. What are the good people of this nation going to do about it? Will the freedom to fight back be taken away by the time most are ready to?

Dave Pickrell
President and founder
Smokers Fighting Discrimination, Inc.
A not-for-profit organization
P O Box 5472
Katy, Texas 77491
Phone: 281-347-8780 Eve 713-977-2456 Day
Email: sfdsmoke@hal-pc.org

SFD is 100% grassroots funded

Pickrell has been an unpaid activist for the fair treatment of smokers since 1993 and a crusader against the use of junk science in public policy matters.

"We need to again put God first in this Nation. His truth, His Integrity and His sense of fairness if we are to survive."