To the most
effective marketing campaign in history:
The
Anti-Smoking Campaign
ENJOY
If you smoke, are you;
Tired of the hassle? The long walks outside? The snubs? The stares? The questions? The
lectures? The enabled bullies! The Health-Nannies!
We can help.
Hey, we're smokers. Which means we like to "DO" stuff; take chances; poke around in odd places; all those things that scare the hell out of the Anti-Nannies and the Politically Correct. You know, the folks who struggle to think outside the box while we're sitting here going "Damn, there's a box?" More on that else where.
In the meantime, if you're ready to start taking a stand, take a look at our product page. You might find exactly what you need.
Interested in some ideas to write letters; finding contact resources; learning more about junk science and how to recognize it? Please take the time to look over the Rebel pages, Free My Ass and In My Opinion. You will feel better.
Thinking about buying smokes online? You'll find cigarettes, cigars, pipes, roll your own supplies and more on our page Buy Smokes Online.
Looking for other smoking related sites? Maybe a group in your state? Look at our Smokers Friends page and then check out the Smokers World Web Ring on the bottom of this page.
The SmokersTees Challenge
"The progress of the tobacco trade�is certainly one of the most curious that commerce presents. That a plant originally smoked by a few savages, should succeed, in spite of the most stringent opposition in Church and state...... to increase with the increase of time, and to end in causing so vast a trade and so large an outlay of money; is a statistical fact, without an equal parallel."
F.W. Fairholt, "Tobacco: Its History and Associations", 1859.
Some people's views on tobacco are much the same now as they were in the 1850's.
The above quotes are from the British American Tobacco New Zealand website. Go to the history links if nothing else. Worth the read.
British American Tobacco New Zealand
You will notice as you look over these pages, I hope, a sense of history. Both sides of my family go back to the 1500's. All through school, every year, the teachers would dutifully ask "Tell us your country of origin" and every year we would explain that we were mongrels. A little bit of everything except Black or Mexican with no guarantees on that. Very few ladies in our lineage, a lot of strong independent women. History is part of our family culture, along with an absolute belief in respect, tolerance and acceptance towards lifestyle, religious, ethnic and cultural differences. The only thing to fear are those who try to impose their beliefs on others.
An international group of political and social elitists, funded by pharmaceutical companies and various non-profit health associations, willing to impose on smokers social isolation and ridicule for their own good is an excellent example. The current global warming campaign is another. 30 or 40 years ago, those same statistics were used as dire warnings of a new ice age beginning in the next 100 years as a result of the over use of freon in everything from auto air conditioning to hair spray, or so they claimed. Freon was outlawed. Thank God they need tax money! Keeps tobacco safe for now.
For smokers the problem is all the accepted evidence is based for the most part on junk science. What we need is:
1. Find and organize funding for an objective study.
2. Find a large group spanning decades containing smokers and non-smokers
I believe the answer to problem 2 is in the State of Michigan. Some 30 odd years ago, when the hate campaign was just starting, the United Auto Workers union got language put into their union contact with General Motors granting smoking rights to the workers. Now, General Motors has been in Flint a long time, I would guess at least 60 or 70 years? The work force, smoking and non-smoking, very likely numbers ten's of thousand's. Looks like a good sized study group to me. The SmokersTees Challenge is solving the first problem. Organizing, funding, and conducting the Mother of all Smoking Studies.
The American Cancer Society need not apply.
Smokers AND Non-Smokers
Do you know:
How many cigarettes it would take for the Arsenic in second hand smoke to become toxic?
375,000 Per Hour!
How many chemicals are contained in an average meal? 10,000
Do you think the anti-smoking campaign looks like a hate campaign? I do
Are You Looking For
A guide to help you understand how a small group of "Concerned Citizens" gained control over your life and your choices.
Answers that help you decide just how safe smoking or second hand smoke actually is.
If you eat meat or junk food, drive an SUV, ride a Harley, own a gun or enjoy a beer now and then, what has worked
in the anti-smoking campaign will work against you. We need your help and support. Please consider yourself a Smokers Friend.
We need to remember that smokers are found in all walks of life, at every economic level. We need to remember that Freedom of Choice requires tolerance for the choices of others, and includes the right to make bad or wrong choices.
It seems to have become OK over the past 30 or 40 years to blur the lines between ethics and morals, character and lifestyles. Ethics have been deemed irrelevant or outdated concepts at the same time elitist social democrats in both major political parties legislate moral and lifestyle choices for the "common good" of society.
As you read the content on this site you need to understand that I define ethics as the basic choices of personal conduct or character; those decisions concerning honesty, integrity, and personal responsibility.
It has been my experience and I suspect the experience of most smokers that there are a large number of non-smokers or ex-smokers who are afraid to take a stand. They like to hang out with us because we're more fun. Empty bars make the point. Led by the health Nazis the social democrats have gradually brought us to a point where an authoritian state can be imposed in the name of safety, good health, social acceptance and proper lifestyle choices. Campaigns like the anti-smoking campaign have enabled bullies every where.
Now, if you are a smokers friend, but you are not comfortable taking a stand, could you do us a favor and refuse to participate.
It really is easy. Next time an enabled bully starts in on a smoker, if you could just say "I don't challenge the decisions of others. It's none of my business." Then walk away or refuse to engage in any further conservation on the subject. Thank you.
With you, we can make a difference.
Feeling less and less comfortable, maybe even socially unacceptable as the Smoking Bans grow and grow?
Bans grow, Smokers go On-line!
On-line Shopping from the comfort of your home, coffee and ashtray near, is an excellent alternative. You can shop at well known reputable companies such as Hickory Farms or Spiegel, browse new stores, find products possibly not available in your area, all from the comfort of your home.
Think of the links on the Party Food, Party Drinks, Leisure, Travel and Home Sports Bar pages as an extensive world wide shopping mall without the hassle.
Check them out and see what options you really have. You may be surprised.
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