The dangers of tobacco were known even then, but health and prevention did not hold the prominent place they do today. Why, in just a few decades, has the average person been turned into a patient needing re-education? Has health become our sole horizon, our ultimate utopia?
Some of the nicest people I have ever met have been smokers. Hitler was a non-smoker, and very anti-smoking, so I can confidently conclude that he was no ideal model for the anti-smoing campaigners! Further, Trump is also a non-smoker. He is another, who is no icon for the non-smoking campaigners! Then we have Lenin. He was a militant anti-smoker. All this should tell you all you need to know!
This anti-smoking fervour has caused nothing but loneliness, distress, and paranoia.
In this video, they say that all the focus now is on the body. Yes! And what a mess they are making of it, too! Nothing but ugly tattoos and piercings, here, there, and everywhere! Whilst I am all for encouraging people not to smoke because of the health hazards, I am NOT for coercion. If a person derives pleasure from smoking, and very many people do—I was such a person before quitting—then so be it. I can think of many, far worse, far unhealthier pleasures than smoking a cigarette.
By the way, since people smoke less, their health has not improved. Not at all! Obesity, which was kept under control when more people smoked, is now the cause of many early deaths. Furthermore, cardiovascular disease has shown that it is not in decline.
One more thing: There is nothing more life-enhancing than a little joie de vivre, something which these killjoys totally ignore. Much of the anti-smoking rhetoric is nothing but prejudiced bollocks.
America is the source of so many evil ideas and so much stupidity! And "passive smoking" is a load of bullshit! — © Mark Alexander
