‘And the postman commeth to deliver a booklet unto me this goodly morn’; I hadn’t ordered said booklet, it just arrived! It was entitled “STOP SMOKING/START LIVING“, courtesy of the NHS.
I thought that as they had gone to all the trouble of sending it, or the postman had taken it upon himself to start his own ‘quit smoking scheme’, I would have a gander whilst taking my morning constitutional-coffee whilst walking up the garden and back.
It opens with the fact that “Ireland is smokefree, Scotland is smokefree“… err… total lies. Scotland still has a 25% calling of smokers after 5 years of wasting £millions & Ireland has seen a 2% increase in smokers since the implementation of their particular ban. Oh yes, and S Ireland has been forced to see the ‘benefits’ of a “European financial bale-out” as the country has lost £1m per week in tobacco taxes!
Even in the most basic, easy to understand written form, the anti-smoking campaigners start with lies.
But don’t worry as it gets better the further we go into this booklet.
It asks “How would you like to spend all the new time you suddenly have in your life?” Now the burning question here is quite simple-who knows how much time they actually have? Do the NHS actually have a massive chart telling them exactly what date each individual will die therefore can claim with absolute certainty that if ‘a’ person stops smoking they will most definitely exceed that pre-determined date? No? I didn’t think so, they are simply playing on people’s fears of death, especially what may be considered a premature death! Konrad Jamrozic was an ardent anti-tobacco campaigner but died, aged 54, of a ‘sarcoma’ (bone cancer-no known cause). Yet, Lorna Gobey celebrated her 100th birthday with a fag & a drink! (and Lorna is not the only one I assure you). Life, or lack of it, is determined by our genes-excepting fatal accidents of course but these anti-smoking zealots, under the tremendously, financially overwhelming arm of Big Pharma would have you believe that smoking/tobacco is now the root cause of every ailment since the Bubonic Plague all those years ago.
“Get ready for a smokefree world” Now this is just hilarious folks. How can our world be smokefree whilst we have heavy industry & transport aplenty? It is simply an impossibility. What they really mean is that they want a ‘smoker free world’ which is a totally different thing altogether. It means that this crusade is not about everyone having the right to ‘clean air’ (which smokefree really means) it is about ridding the earth of a particular section of people who enjoy tobacco products. This is pure persecution of a minority faction that wish to do no harm to anyone-save possibly themselves!
Another little gem, “Cope better with having to run down the street”. Err… why would I need to run down the street? Do we now live in a society where muggers chase us every time we step outside the house? Is there a new law that states walking is illegal and we must run everywhere now-lest we be charged with loitering? No hope for the obese then, or the elderly, or the infirm or babies-shall I go on? Point made I think.
“Reduce your stress levels”. Now this has gone from the ridiculous to the absurd as the only time I have seen a smoker/smokers stressed out is when they have been deprived of a cigarette. Having seen many of my wife’s family depart this world courtesy of a variety of cancers (none of the 9 smoked nor drank actually) I can assure you that each and every occasion was stressful and the intake of that warm, soothing tobacco was so relieving as to be manna from heaven.
The entire booklet is in the same vein but nowhere does it actually state that if you don’t smoke you won’t get cancer. Well, it wouldn’t would it! They wouldn’t dare print that for fear of being sued from here to eternity, because nothing can guarantee a person not having/getting cancer-it is in the genetic make up and no matter how much Lansley, America’s Surgeon General or any other bigoted health professional tries to hide that fact it will be common knowledge the world over one day and people will simply look back and ask themselves “how did the people stand for all that crap all those years ago?”
The answer my friends is not blowing in the wind, it’s the result of years of twisted propaganda where the order of the day was simply, tell me lies, sweet little lies….
And, by the way, I have only got to page 5!
(A sad footnote:)
A good friend mine, Paul, has just passed away. A lifelong non-smoker whose wife enjoyed a fag when they went out, but he tolerated her enjoyment as, like me, he wasn’t bothered in the slightest by others smoking – even within a 5 mile radius. He was fit as a fiddle and regularly walked between 3-5 miles per day, well, being a postie he would do wouldn’t he!
When the ban came in they stopped going to the pub as she couldn’t sit and enjoy a fag with her Bacardi & coke, unless of course, they sat outside in the nasty weather this country provides.
Well, all you bansturbators, it just shows you that all your evil is no guarantee of longevity as Paul had reached the grand old age of 52! he never smoked during his life, kept super fit and was a great believer in ‘each to their own’.
Isn’t it a shame that others (no hints Debs, Sheila) can’t do the same!
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