AANTI-SMOKER PROPAGANDA BTHE TRUTH
  • Smokers are addicted junkies who can't quit without our help. The vast majority want to quit and welcome our intervention. Big Tobacco is responsible for their addiction.
  • Smokers CHOOSE to smoke or they'd quit like the 48 million ex-smokers in the US who quit without help. Smokers have been led to believe they are victims, but they are not. No one was ever forced to smoke.
  • The War on Tobacco is "for the children," and it's necessary to stop Big Tobacco.
  • It is not right to punish the 98% of adult smokers on the pretense of punishing Big Tobacco.
  • Smoking bans are good for business.
    Workers have a right to a safe workplace.
    The public is entitled to clean air and there is no safe level of tobacco smoke.
    All nonsmokers support bans.
    Even smokers support bans.

 
  • Smoking bans harm small businesses and put employees out of work. Workers have a right to a choice of where they want to work. The public has been misled for decades into believing if there's no smoke, the air is clean. Smokers and nonsmokers do not want bans, only anti-smokers do.
  • Smoking bans help smokers quit. Smokers love bans and we want to help them.
  • Anti-smokers want to force smokers to quit. Their goal is a smokefree world by 2015.
  • Secondhand smoke is a Class A carcinogen that contains 4000 chemicals. There is no safe level. If you can smell it, it's killing you.
  • Sunshine is also a Class A carcinogen and normal human breath contains the same chemicals. The "dose makes the poison" and SHS in daily life is not dangerous.
  • Raising the price of cigarettes keeps kids and adults from smoking. Every 10% increase causes a 7% decrease in youth smoking.
  • The price of cigarettes has increased 422% since 1991. The percentage of adult smokers is the same now as then, youth smoking is higher and kids are starting younger.
  • Smokers cost society billions of dollars in medical care, up to $7 for every pack of cigarettes they smoke. Nonsmokers pay the difference.
  • All research except that paid for by anti-smokers shows that smokers pay into the system far more than they take out. Smokers have subsidized nonsmokers at least since 1994 says the Congressional Research Service.


This petition will be delivered to President George W. Bush, to Tommy Thompson at DHHS (who spends $3 million a day funding anti-smoker activities), to John Ashcroft (who is crafting another attack on Big Tobacco which will be paid by smokers alone), to the ACLU Lifestyle Discrimination Division, to all Congressmen and Senators, and to the governors of the fifty states.

PETITION

We, the fifty million smokers in the United States, believe that under the Constitution our interests should be represented and that we deserve equal protection under the law. In the current climate of fanatic extremism against those who choose to smoke, a legal activity, we have neither. We are burdened with oppressive, punitive taxes and selectively discriminated against in employment, medical care, property use, and even in our homes and families, with the blessing of our own government. We reject the label of "addict," which validates the desire to vilify, ostracize and demonize us by those who think it's their right to dictate how others live. We are not weak, selfish, ignorant or stupid; we are not murderers or child abusers because we smoke; we are one in four of your friends, neighbors, and family. We deserve the same respect and dignity afforded every other American. The War on Smokers must be stopped now by defunding the hate-filled anti-smoking movement that is built on lies and arrogance. The unfair, divisive and destructive behavior modification campaign must be dismantled and those unelected non-governmental organizations and officials stripped of their power to legislate and levy taxes on the citizens of this country. We demand a return to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution with inclusion of ALL Americans, including smokers, in the anti-discrimination statutes of this country.


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