Tobacco is not subsidized by the Government, tobacco subsidizes the Government.

DEFINITIONS

Reporter: One who obtains information through investigation.

Organism: Any form of animal or plant life.

Infection: Injurious contamination of the body or part of the body by pathogenic agents, such as; fungi, bacteria, protozoa, rickettsia, or virus (all organisms).

Pathogenic Agent: Disease producing bacteria or microorganism.

Pneumonia: An inflammatory disease of the lungs caused by bacteria and/or virus (organisms). Pheumococcus bacteria, Friedlander’s bacillus, Mycoplasm Pneumoniae bacteria, Adenoviruses, etc.

Asthma: Respiratory disease caused by allergy. It is the same type of hypersensitivity as hay fever but the allergic reaction occurs in the bronchi, not in the nasal passages.

Allergy: A condition of hypersensitivity in certain persons to substances harmless to most individuals.

Allergen: The substance that produces the allergic reaction. It is usually a protein or protein-carbohydrate complex. (Note: sometimes psychic factors play an important role in allergies.)

Muddled Thinkers: Members of the ANTI smoking group and the other ANTI groups who think that everyone should adhere to and avoid the same things. They do not question the source, its veracity, or the motivation.

Money: The reason and motivation, billions of dollars, for the propaganda and lies dispersed by those behind the ANTI smoking group.

SOMEONE IS LYING!

Tobacco smoke cannot cause ear and sinus infections and pneumonia in children. Pathogenic agents (organisms) cause these illnesses. There are no pathogenic agents (organisms) in tobacco smoke. Organisms cannot be created from tobacco smoke, only God can create organisms.

The number of children with asthma is going up possibly because of smoking. This is an interesting correlation. If fewer people smoke then more children develop asthma? Tobacco smoke cannot cause Asthma. Can it trigger an attack? There are no allergens, protein or protein-carbohydrate complexes, present in tobacco smoke. But, asthma attacks can be psychosomatic. And, thanks to the ANTI smoking group and the media, a child who has been told that tobacco smoke triggers an asthma attack possibly will have an attack if tobacco smoke is visible. (Numerous clinical trials at Medical Institutions have shown that no attacks occur if children do not know that they are in the presence of tobacco smoke.) Tobacco smoke can be irritating.

Teen smoking rates are increasing. It doesn’t take a real bright child to figure out that the ANTI smoking group is lying. All they have to do is look around, 38% of the people who smoke live beyond 80 years old, 50% live beyond 75, and 85% live beyond 65. This compares to 43% of non-smokers living beyond 80 years old, 50% of non-smokers live beyond 75, and 85% of non-smokers live beyond 65. (The premature death occurs between 75 and 80 and scientists do not have a clue why. There are too many confounding factors. Smokers tend to eat more meat, drink more alcohol, eat less fruits and vegetables, have more hazardous jobs, and so on.) The scary thing is that many young people having figured out that the ANTI smoking group is lying might conclude that information on actual threats/dangers, REAL DRUGS like; heroin, speed, LSD, and diseases like AIDS, etc., could also be a lie.

A fetus obtains less oxygen and his/her development is impaired if their mothers smoke? If this is true then women who live at higher elevations should not become pregnant because less oxygen is available to the mother thus less for the fetus. Pregnant women should not exercise nor do any activity that requires the mother’s body to use more oxygen thus depriving the fetus. The relationship between mother and fetus is not quite as simple as the ANTI smoking group would have us believe.

STUDIES

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Grants, Federal, State, and private fund every study. The people that conduct these studies do not do so because they are the noble among us.

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Every study used by the ANTI smoking group on secondhand tobacco smoke has been proven to be flawed and the data manipulated. Also, these studies are generally a compilation of responses to questionnaires sent out to select individuals. A comprehensive list of these studies is illustrated in the Environmental Protection Agency document EPA/600/6-90/006F, page 5-28 and 5-29. To truly understand the manipulation of the data it may be necessary to consult with a person familiar with Epidemiology for explanations of the 90% Confidence Interval, the 1.19 Relative Risk factor for the U.S. studies, and the 1.04 lower limit. No study supports the "ANTI" smoking group’s claims, even after being manipulated. But, the beauty of propaganda makes it appear that the studies show a danger from secondhand tobacco smoke.

Some studies use questionable scientific methodology. Many of these studies are done by collecting nicotine samples from fibrous collectors placed in the workplace and other areas. These studies have been used to claim that the risk of developing lung cancer from secondhand tobacco smoke is 3 in 10,000. The amount of nicotine collected by this method is usually around 2.3 micrograms in a 40 hours period. There is probably more nicotine in an order of french fries.

Nicotine is used as an identifier. The constituents of tobacco smoke that the ANTI smoking group claims harms people cannot be measured because they are present in such minute quantities, parts per quadrillion (quadrillion is 1,000 trillions). The substances are present but one must remember that "DOSE DETERMINES THE POISON". Examples: Apples contain cyanide, strawberries contain benzene, and there are over 10,000 food items that we eat everyday that contain naturally occurring poisons. The doses are so small, measured in parts per million, that they do no harm.

NICOTINE

Nicotine is a colorless, oily, liquid alkaloid. It is a source of nicotinic acid (Niacin, B Complex Vitamin). Nicotine is generally associated with tobacco products, but there are many other sources. Many of the plants in the Nightshade family contain nicotine. (Potato, tomato, eggplant, etc.)

The ANTI smoking group and the media would have us believe that the nicotine in cigarettes is as addictive as heroin. Many articles imply that it causes cancer. But, it is OK for the various drug companies like SmithKline Beecham to sell nicotine gum, a possible $250 million a year business. Patches are also available, another money making venture. Has anyone noticed that the label on some Nicotine Patch boxes says "Starter Kit"?

Classifying nicotine as a drug will have amusing results.

THE LAW

The ANTI smoking group has siphoned billions of tax dollars, via Federal and State Grant Money, the ASSIST and IMPACT programs are a primary source, and diverted charitable contribution dollars to their coffers under the guise of improving health and saving children, an old propaganda technique. It is a violation of the U.S. Constitution, the American concept as conceived by our Founding Fathers, and the Law to fund and/or support any group with a social agenda with public funds. Funding the "ANTI" smoking group with public funds, or any other social group with "an ax to grind", is nothing more than buying votes and a way to circumvent the laws that prohibit Government employees from using public funds to promote their own social agenda.

DISEASES

There is no such thing as smoking related illnesses. The closest thing is emphysema. Cancer was first reported by the Egyptians over 5,000 years ago. The Romans named the disease "Cancer" about 750 B.C. Circulatory and cardio-vascular problems have been around a long time – Sumerians, Egyptians, ……since recorded History.

There are many diseases that smokers are less likely to get than non smokers, certain cancers and Alzheimers, a very costly disease.

Lung cancer is interesting. The first reported cases occurred in the 1920’s. In the U.S. it is geographic. The Greeks are the heaviest tobacco users in the world and they have the lowest incidence of lung cancer. The Japanese smoke twice as much as Americans and yet have half the number of lung cancers per 100,000 people. There is no doubt that in the U.S. smoking is a confounding factor and if you smoke you are more likely to get lung cancer than a non smoker. Lung cancer generally strikes people in their late 70’s and early 80’s. As cancers go it is swift and less costly than other forms of cancer. Science has known for years that certain minerals, vitamins, and diets can help prevent lung cancer. This brings up a fascinating moral question.

If you are told not to go in the water because you run the risk of drowning but you go anyway and you drown. Whose fault is it? If you go in the water and a life preserver is available but no one gives it to you and you drown. Whose fault is it?

CONCLUSION

One hundred years ago the ANTI smoking group claimed that smoking caused Tuberculosis. That was a lie. Tuberculosis is caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, a known fact in the 1880’s. The ANTI smoking group lied then, they are lying now. There is an old saying, "Follow the Money". The anti smoking industry is a multi-billion dollar a year industry, a real money maker – most of it tax dollars. Would people lie for money?

The above information and more is not difficult to obtain. Why suppress the truth? The media is supposed to tell us the truth. Reporters are supposed to find the truth.

WHO IS LYING?

SOMEONE IS!

SOURCES

American Cancer Society CPS-II study, the Brownson Study and numerous other studies, the CATO Institute, the Alexis de Toquiville Institute, the Niagra Institute,

The National Cancer Institute, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Energy, the EPA, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Congressional Report by Thomas J. Bliley, Jr., Congressional Research Services (CRS), U.S. Vital Statistics, the University of Texas Health Center, Johns Hopkins University, Boston University, George Mason University, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, The Detroit News, The Aspen Times, the Investors Business Daily, Consumers’ Research Magazine, Forbes Magazine, the National Review Magazine, the Vegetarian Times, the Progressive Farmer magazine, the Federalist Papers, the Federal Focus, the Tao te Ching, and COMMON SENSE.