Couple of quickies here to amplify the total lunacy of smoking bans and the liars that support them.
We know that smoking bans kill businesses-just look at my constant 'header'. We know that in excess of 13,000 businesses have now gone to the wall since the introduction of the smoking ban. We also know that more than 700 CIU clubs have received rate rebates due to the rapid downturn in business, but according to one Linda Bauld, a highly over paid yet under knowledged soul attached to Tobacco Control there have been no business losses. Just shows the length & depth of the powerful financial arm of the pharmaceutical industry!
And in an interesting update on the smoker shooter situation, bar owner (Chris Ferrell) has now been charged with the murder of country singer Wayne Mills-as he should have been immediately after the event.
Wayne Mills will no longer be entertaining folks in the bars & clubs in the Nashville area - or anywhere else for that matter! if you remember he lit a cigarette in a no smoking area and was then shot by Ferrell..... "in self defence!"
Not quite sure what this imbecile thought he was defending himself from as apparently the only thing in the dead guys hand was a lit cigarette, fully loaded with blanks!
Ferrell's
lawyer David Raybin says that his client surrendered as soon as he
found he had been indicted on the charge of second-degree murder. Raybin
said: "I have every intention of contesting this charge. My client
denies that he's guilty of any degree of homicide."
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Defence lawyer stated that "we have every intention of contesting this charge. My client denies that he is guilty of any degree of homicide."
Unbelievable really for the only self defence possible is that he (Ferrell) thought he was about to be subjected to the equivalent of sarin gas, therefore his life was in danger! (is there a report anywhere that states that the deceased was about to slap this fool, stab him, shoot him first, stub his cigarette out on his shooting hand, shove his guitar up his ass or any other form of violence?) The man is an idiot and if this is his defence then I hope that, at long last, the truth about SHS, 3rdH/S and what ever other degrees of smoke have been/may be announced by court case time, are brought to light and totally refuted by the jury. But then, being America, they will have to select the right jury for a trial based on such a defence-no point having 12 anti smokers on the panel for Ferrell would walk away a free man with a $1m bonus for bravery!
Carmona-born to lie for money!
The other matter of course is that all this government hysteria about smoking, SHS et al has led toward this event occurring as they (health freaks) have brainwashed hundreds of thousands of people into believing that even a wisp of cigarette smoke will kill at 30 paces. We have former "Surgeon General" Richard Carmona to thank for this ridiculous situation for it was he that stated there was no safe level of exposure to SHS! look where that idiotic statement has got us now! I seriously think that it is time to reverse all this psychobabble on these anti tobacco nutters - don't you?
It is very sad that the situation has evolved where an innocent entertainer of millions ends up shot to death by some anti smoking nutter but this is exactly what was always needed to show these prats in power exactly what they have created. Roll on the court case for we shall follow this with interest.
The final act of lunacy (now been signed into law) is by Michael Bloomberg, as his parting gift to New Yorkers. Under 21? then you can't legally buy cigarettes!
How utterly insane is that when they can draft you into the US Army at 18, send you off to get your head blown off, an arm go missing or simply legless courtesy of some roadside bomb but you can't buy a packet of smokes. It really is about time these imbeciles took a long hard look at all the rebellion they are storing up on both sides of the water. God forbid you should lay in some desert region, bleeding to death and ask for a last cigarette - nanny Bloomberg would have a fit! It is probably the best thing for NY that Bloomberg has finally retired for what a hypocrite he is, donating $500,000 to foriegn anti cigarette structures yet leaving 1/3rd of his inhabitants living below the poverty line! Doesn't say much for the man really does it!
The final act of lunacy (now been signed into law) is by Michael Bloomberg, as his parting gift to New Yorkers. Under 21? then you can't legally buy cigarettes!
How utterly insane is that when they can draft you into the US Army at 18, send you off to get your head blown off, an arm go missing or simply legless courtesy of some roadside bomb but you can't buy a packet of smokes. It really is about time these imbeciles took a long hard look at all the rebellion they are storing up on both sides of the water. God forbid you should lay in some desert region, bleeding to death and ask for a last cigarette - nanny Bloomberg would have a fit! It is probably the best thing for NY that Bloomberg has finally retired for what a hypocrite he is, donating $500,000 to foriegn anti cigarette structures yet leaving 1/3rd of his inhabitants living below the poverty line! Doesn't say much for the man really does it!
Let the peasants starve
Don't let this country follow suit, act before it is too late -->
Bar owner Chris Ferrell has been charged over the shooting of country singer Wayne Mills
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Bar owner Chris Ferrell has been charged over the shooting of country singer Wayne Mills
Read more at http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/74286#60Vyu3jpsZLPHxLc.99
Read more at http://www.nme.com/news/various-artists/74286#60Vyu3jpsZLPHxLc.99
"God forbid you should lay in some desert region, bleeding to death and ask for a last cigarette - nanny Bloomberg would have a fit!"
ReplyDeleteNot just nanny Bloombug either Phil! From p. 331 of TobakkoNacht, a letter I had pubbed in the Burlington Free Press a number of years ago:
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A Modest Proposal....
Dear Editor,
January 5ths' article, “Winooski Hearing Set On Smoking Ban,” quotes Councilman Clark justifying his desire to boot smoking veterans out into the cold by saying, “This seems like a good way to honor our veterans, to prolong their lives.”
The Councilman would probably agree with the Lung Associa¬tion's spokesman, Joel Africk, who urged people not to send smokes to soldiers in Iraq even if those soldiers asked for them, saying, “Tobacco use presents an immediate and real danger for our soldiers who are on the lines today... our troops should be sent care packages that don't kill.”
I would like to suggest that Messrs. Clark and Africk spend some time with these fighting men personally and discuss such issues of honor and danger with them as they stand in the snow outside their veterans' halls or huddle in Afghanistan’s trenches. I'm sure they'd find the discussions most enlightening
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Unfortunately those discussions never took place. Maybe Bloomy will pop over there instead!
- MJM
If as Cameron has told us some time ago that all new legislation Has to be Evidence Based, then the "claims" by Anti tobacco for Plain Packs is dead in the water, as we know, there is No evidence, talking about being Dead, I can only hope that All Anti smokers take responsibility for the Shooting and death of a smoker, we have seen Murder, Rapes and Attacks on smokers that have been Forced to go outdoors simply to use a Legal Product and Pay a massive amount of Tax into this Sad, Intolerant Country, Shame on All the Anti's.
ReplyDeleteIf Linda Bauld said there were no business losses as a direct result of the UK smoking ban this would be a blatant lie. How was her report spun and why was nothing more made of it? I find it disgusting no one has attempted to challenge this, after all drinks companies alone must still be losing millions of pounds every year since, due to fewer people going out to pubs.
ReplyDeleteAnon 15:40... Unfortunately the pub trade folks sometimes seem to drink a wee bit too much of their own product and forget the past. I don't know just how it's been over in the UK, but I know that here in the US the "wet-led pub" (bars) dip tends to hit mainly in the first three years. After that, most of the weaker land-locked bars have gone out of business and the ones that are left start to see the dip bottoming out and begin rising again as the dredge up whatever leftover clientele comes over from the closed pubs and as general inflation has its annual effect. Within two years after that they look at their balance sheets and say to themselves, "Wow! We're doing BETTER the last 2 years! I guess the smoking ban wasn't so bad after all!" -- while totally forgetting that the current 5 or 10% increase is following a 25% loss, and that, as a business, they actually DID lose $25,000 to $250,000 over those years that they'll never get back.
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Are you paying more than $5 for each pack of cigs? I'm buying high quality cigarettes over at Duty Free Depot and I save over 60% from cigs.
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