Hat tip to Kin_Free
I am shamelessly presenting you with this blog/article from our Canadian friends, as they have, somehow, obtained this document detailing, in more than 100 pages, how to get the media, thus the people onside. It is a lesson in ‘firing up’ even the most placid of non-smokers. It is basically a campaign hatred manual!
Some of the vile posts on forums emanate from such people, dedicated to eradicating smoke/smoking/smokers from the planet. Their foul wordage bears no equal, it can only be described as pure hatred: eg,
“Dennis Brady” (?) had this to say:
Smoking is hated – as is any foul smelling addiction. We would have no less disgust for people whose habit was sh*ting on public beaches or on park benches. We would be as disgusted by people who refused to bath or use deodorant.
We DO want smokers segregated – removed from all contact with non-smokers.
Do you understand? Need I repeat it
Right then folks, I think we get the gist of that little tirade!
“doggiez” had this offering as a solution to what he/she perceived to be “the smoking problem”:
Put even MORE cancer-causing chemicals — tar, formaldehyde and the other 700 — into cigarettes to hasten their deaths.
This post by “doggiez” takes warfare to a whole new level; this IS hate mail, this is incitement to riot!
Apparently, this is much used (Dennis Brady again):-
The people have learned to never trust anything coming from the tobacco industry or its shills and apologists.
This is clever usage of words for it immediately implies that all tobacco industry ‘speak’ is fallacious-which of course is not true.
Note also the clever little word ‘Shills’. I thought shills must be an ‘Americanisation’ of supporters or such like-but nay!, The internet tells us the following:-
One who poses as a satisfied customer or an enthusiastic gambler to dupe bystanders into participating in a swindle. (ie, the 3 card trick!)
Now that is clever, not only have they implanted mistrust in the tobacco industry, they have now introduced trickery & duplicity into the argument to make it look like a criminal activity (Swindle, yes? got it?)
The anti-tobacco machine is indeed deep and twisted (as long suspected) for they have found the way, gently at first, to slowly indoctrinate non-smokers-even those that don’t give a hoot whether people smoke or not. Think about it: how many people created havoc because someone was standing within 10 ft of them smoking a cigarette pre-ban? How many idiots stood waving their arms about, warding off ‘the evil smoke’ pre-ban? How many idiots moaned about ‘walking through a wall of smoke’ to get into their pub or club? Answer to all 3 = NONE!
These are all situations caused by the ban and emphasised by the anti’s manual as ‘must do’s’! And, by God, it is working-just look at New York & “Barmy Bloomberg” for proof. Jesus wept, they’ve even managed to get smoking banned outside!
C.A.G.E. even give us this gem to digest:
All this time, it was not your next door neighbour, co-worker, friend or relative who was turning into an aggressive “Mr. Hyde” when protected by the cover of anonymity. We now have tangible proof that most of the people who are posting obnoxious and hateful material are simply following orders from the anti-tobacco industry:
We have obtained the manual on how to effectively implement outdoor bans published in September 2010 by Physicians For A Smoke-Free Canada (PSFC):
SMOKEFREE OUTDOOR PUBLIC SPACES: A COMMUNITY ADVOCACY TOOLKIT.
Admittedly, I am not in the same league as some of our regular respondents to newspaper articles about smoking (mostly pro ban articles) but I do see similarities in style, wordage etc even though names differ.
I urge you all to settle down with a flask of your favourite tipple, a packet of fags, pouch of baccy-whatever-and read all 101 pages of this ‘complete guide to anti-tobacco strategy’.
As our friends at C.A.G.E. point out we have the weapon of TRUTH we must use it well.