Present-day anti-smoking forces are following the same blueprint that Adolph Hitler used in his hopes for a smoke-free Nazi Germany. Smoke Nazis' quest for control and regulatory power closely mirror the original National Socialists of 1930s Germany.
We list the Nazi anti-smoking accomplishments alongside of those of the Smoke Nazis.
It reveals where the Health Nazis are headed.
* The Nazis banned tobacco advertising and financed huge public relations campaigns to propagandize people into giving up smoking.
In April 1970, Congress passed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act banning the advertising of cigarettes on television and radio starting on January 2, 1971. The Virginia Slims brand was in the last commercial shown, with "a 60-second revue from flapper to Female Lib", shown at 11:59 p.m. on January 1 during a break on The Tonight Show.
* The first modern, nationwide tobacco ban was imposed by the Nazi Party in every German university, post office, military hospital and Nazi Party office, under the auspices of Karl Astel's Institute for Tobacco Hazards Research, created in 1941 under direct orders from Adolf Hitler himself. Major anti-tobacco campaigns were widely broadcast by the Nazis until the demise of the regime in 1945.
In 1975, the U.S. state of Minnesota enacted the Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act, making it the first state to ban smoking in most public spaces. To begin with, restaurants were required to have No Smoking sections, and bars were exempt from the Act. As of 1 October 2007, Minnesota signed into law a ban on smoking completely from all restaurants and bars throughout the state. This is the Freedom to Breathe Act of 2007. In 1990, the city of San Luis Obispo, California, U.S.A. became the first city in the world to ban indoor smoking at all public places, including bars and restaurants.
There are now 35 states with some form of smoking ban on the books.
* A ban on smoking in private vehicles was called for.
Gain for anti-smoking movement: No puffs allowed in private vehicles
BERKELEY, CAL--Some hospitals have banned smoking inside a person's own vehicle if it's on hospital property, a step viewed as logical by the anti-smoking movement but repugnant to its critics.
* 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.
Fact: In 1995 The Congressional Research Service (CRS) released a review of the EPA report [on second-hand smoke.] The CRS was highly critical of both the EPA's methods and conclusions."
Fact: According to the CRS "The studies relied primarily on questionnaires to the case and control members, or their surrogates, to determine EST [Environmental Tobacco Smoke] exposure and other information pertinent to the studies.
* The Nazi anti-smoking crusade was unleashed with the help of manufactured junk science on behalf of the medical and health establishment, one such example being that smoking caused "spontaneous abortions" in pregnant women.
Cherry-picked Science on Secondhand Smoke
In a recent paper entitled “Sorting Out Junk Science,” published by the American Council on Science and Health, a toxicologist notes that she most often sees junk science when a regulatory agency “puts political objectives ahead of scientific integrity.” It occurs, for example, when an agency adopts a political position and then “selectively seeks data that support and further that position, even to the point of actively excluding any results which are inconsistent with that position.”
Results that are inconsistent with the desired position (banning smoking) are simply excluded.
* Hitler attempted to price out smoking for Germans, levying huge taxes on cigarettes.
"On June 3, the state cigarette tax increased by $1.25, to $2.75. With the $1.50 city tax, the total retail price for a pack is now the highest in the country—around $9."
--NY Magazine: The Unsmokables
"More states that haven't (raised taxes) should do so. This will stop tax-skirting smuggling of cigarettes from low-tax to high-tax states and discourage youth smoking," Todd said.
--American Cancer Society: How to Fight Teen Smoking
Despite the Nazi propaganda crusade against smoking, tobacco sales increased in Germany, leading some history professors to hypothesize that smoking was an act of cultural resistance against fascism, until the late 1930's after smoking was banned in most public buildings and tobacco sales rapidly declined.
This war against smoking is being waged by the same types who were responsible for Prohibition. Smoke Nazis come in different flavors.
For some, it's a misguided attempt to remake society into a "better place"--and, of course, they get to define "better". The urge to feel morally superior to evil smokers is practically overwhelming for this breed of Smoke Nazi.
For others, it's all about control: nothing can quite duplicate the feeling of telling others what to do for this brand of Smoke Nazi. They are most like the Nazis of the 1930s: it was also about control for them as well.
If you smoke, then it's open season on your personal freedom of choice. Smoke Nazis had good teachers: the original Nazis had no use for choice; they wanted smoking gone at any price. However,smokers can take heart: they won't be the last to be singled out by the Health Nazis.
Sadly, many non-smokers stand on the sidelines, while their neighbors, friends and family are systematically demonized. They wrongly think that they have no side in this fight. They don't smoke, but smoking doesn't bother them, so they don't care who wins.
These non-smoking bystanders are dead wrong: it will affect them, sooner or later.
If smoking were outlawed (as happened to marijuana in the 1930s) completely, the Smoke Nazis won't stop their crusades to remake the world in their image. The overweight, the too-heavily perfumed, the junk-food eaters, the wearers of leather shoes and coats: these are next on the list of behaviors that some people find offensive. It's in the nature of the people calling the shots.
Once a Smoke Nazi tastes blood, they become insatiable.
by Mondoreb
Sources/images:
* Tobacco advertising
* Today's Anti-Smoking Purge Is Borrowed From The Nazis, Smoking is healthier than fascism
* infowars
* tommcmahon
*free-vegetarian.thumbnail.jpg"> myconfinedspace
* Smoking ban
* davehitt/facts
* Junk Science
* How to Fight Teen Smoking
* Higher cigarette taxes have smokers gasping
To the Left, a sense of irony has always been over-rated.
Socialists and others, proclaiming themselves anti-fascists, proceeded to use fascist tactics to shut down an Oxford Union debating club forum recently.
An eyewitness reports:I was one of over a 1,000 protesters from all walks of life that gathered outside the Oxford Union debating club on Monday of this week to try and stop it from hosting a “forum” featuring two leading Nazis.
Nick Griffin, leader of the British National Party(BNP) and Holocaust denier David Irving were to be two of the speakers at the debate. Neither is an appealing figure, but they weren't the only speakers who had their plans disrupted that night.
Their scheduled opponents never got to argue their cases either, thanks to the quick wits--and arms and legs--of the brave watchmen of British liberties.The atmosphere at the protest was electric as people thronged around the Union building, arguing with those trying to attend the meeting.
The real debate of deciding if a real debate gets to take place. The witness has a real future if the Soviet Union is ever reconstituted. 
The air was full of real political debate – in sharp contrast to the superficial rituals that the Union prides itself on.
Or Nazi Germany.
Getting to decide another's actions, or what is heard or said: it's enough to stir the blood of Socialist and Nazi alike.
People kept up a noisy presence by chanting and singing, when suddenly a gate swung open. Around 60 of us pushed our way into the Union compound past a pair of security guards that tried to rugby tackle us.
Eventually around 35 of us made it into the debating chamber – fending off attempts to physically block us by the Oxford Union’s champions of “free speech”.
We argued with the people inside, telling them that what went on in their chambers had real effects in the outside world.
At this point they decided to walk out of the debating chamber and hold their meetings with Nazis in two separate rooms elsewhere.
The atmosphere was getting ugly, so we negotiated to be let out.
One might remark that the atmosphere was plenty ugly well before that. But then that would spoil the mood.
The witness then recounts how he exited the building, "rejoining the protest outside to cheers."
Irony was not among the well-wishers, having long since departed.
It's disturbing whenever free and open debate is strangled. There's little doubt that had Griffin had 1000 of his cohorts and true-believers present, while the witness had tried to address a crowd, that the same results would have occurred.
Shout them down, shut them up: they're Nazis, they're Socialists, they're Jews.
The end justifies the means. What would Stalin do? Or Hitler or Mao or Che? What is Chavez doing at this very moment?
Tactics are tactics and totalitarian methods are totalitarian methods, no matter what the label.
The witness can slap some lipstick on his Nazi-like actions and pretend that they're now pretty and noble; just as he slapped some quotation marks around free speech and pretended that it wasn't.
The Brown Shirts excelled at disrupting the speech of anyone they disagreed with: breaking up meetings of opponents, shouting them down, hounding them in public until they silenced them. Physical violence shortly followed and grew.
As did the list of those whose speech they found disagreeable.
Once a group gets to decide who speaks and who is silenced, they develop a taste for it. Today's allies become tomorrow's enemies. And there's always a need for an enemy: a target's just the thing to produce an "electric atmosphere" among the faithful.
At least it can't happen in America. Can it?
Liberal zealots spend their days crafting Internet screeds against the coming Bush police state. The rants are so many, one would think they'd have time for little else.
But there's always time to be found to rush down to the College Union to fling a pie at the occasional conservative speaker who wanders on campus.
It's not really police state tactics if the target is Ann Coulter. After all, she's such a bitch.
A squelching of free speech is a squelching of free speech.
There's a reason that Nazis and White Supremacists and Socialists like our witness mainly flourish in the shadows with their cronies: when they come out into the light, most people can see how insanely ridiculous they are.
The issue of political elites not listening to their constituents is always a wild card in Europe, but I'll take the regular guy's good sense every time, Jerry Springer notwithstanding.
Give David Irving three hours of prime time every week and in less than six months, both he and his loony views will be as unpopular as any of the politicians who now hog the BBC's airwaves. As if they aren't already.
There'd be a line of historians from Oxford to Moscow forming up for a chance to debunk the nut.
If the Socialists are really interested in stamping out the BNP, they'd take up a collection so Nick Griffin could get his prime-time slot too. The British see through him. Let Nick have his chance to humiliate himself.
But then, that would be letting ordinary folk make up their own minds about what to hear.
Source: Socialist Worker, "1000 Anti-Fascists Wreck Oxford's Sham Debate"
by Mondoreb
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
New York's voters are finding out what many financial figures discovered long before now: when Eliot Spitzer wants something, he's not going to let niceties stand in his way.
And Eliot Spitzer is finding out that New York voters think much about his latest attempt to strong-arm those with differing opinions.
Voters my dump Eliot Spitzer because of his license love for illegals immigrants. From the AP:
Spitzer certainly lived up to his billing about changing things. New Yorkers are only now finding out what his ideas for changing involved. If you were one of his earlier objects of attention in the financial world, you already knew.
Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan to provide illegal immigrants with driver's licenses has sunk his favorability rating to an all-time low of 41 percent, and has left only 25 percent of voters planning to re-elect him, according to a poll the Siena Research Institute released Tuesday.
Forty-six percent had an unfavorable opinion of Spitzer, and 49 percent said they would "prefer someone else" as the next governor. Last month, 54 percent of voters had a favorable opinion of the governor.
"Eliot Spitzer's standing with voters has fallen faster and further than any politician in recent New York history," Siena spokesman Steven Greenberg said in a written statement. "Everything may not have changed on day one but from the voters' perspective, everything about Governor Spitzer changed in year one."
Spitzer swept to office last November with nearly 70 percent of the vote, carried largely by his reputation as a reformer and his campaign pledge to change everything starting on "Day One."
The New York Times now reports that Spitzer is dropping his whole license plan--at least for now.
Eliot Spitzer is used to telling a compliant media his ideas about his targets. And if his targets resisted his ideas, he'd use threats and bullyboy tactics.
Now that same media is telling Spitzer the voters' idea. He's didn't like it when he met resistance on the license issue.
He'll find that voters are a little harder to bully.
by Mondoreb
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Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
