The latest anti-smoking campaign
is not about health, drugs, or children ...

It is about JURISDICTION... They want it!

Politics of Division
Today, the primary tactic is to "divide and conquer" - to heap guilt on smoking parents making them out to be the villain who doesn't care for their children. In the place of parents, Hillary's "Village", trial lawyers, and big government made its entrance as the savior of the children.

You are told, for example, that cigarette smoking is the most preventable cause of premature death and that smokers have a greater risk of developing various diseases including clogged arteries, cancer, and pulmonary disease. Beyond the loss of life, they are quick to point out the alleged economic consequences of smoking: $50 billion in direct medical costs related to smoking, added strains on already overburdened health-care systems, losses stemming from such factors as absenteeism from work, reduced productivity, fire losses, and lost income because of early death. Indeed, they claim that smoking is responsible for approximately 7 percent of total U.S. health care costs.

So, Americans blindly accept higher taxes to pay for more failed government programs, increased government intrusion into American businesses, and higher insurance premiums to line the pockets of insurance industry CEO's.

The liberal propagandists who want your money understand that one of the first milestones they must achieve is to turn public opinion away from the ruthless capitalist tobacco companies and look to big government and socialist programs to protect you.

In that effort of turning public opinion, in January, 1998, Congressman Henry Waxman revealed some secret memos of the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company where in 1975 one executive allegedly wrote, 'The Camel Brand must increase its share penetration among the 14 - 24 age group -- which represent tomorrow's cigarette business.' He was clearly presenting evidence here making the tobacco companies out to be the villain. "For decades, the tobacco industry has ruthlessly controlled the public health agenda in this country," said Charles Romaine, Executive Vice President for the American Heart Association, Ohio-West Virginia Affiliate. "Since the release of the first Surgeon General Report on tobacco 33 years ago, the tobacco industry has been responsible for more than ten million tobacco-related deaths. If there is anything we have learned in the last four decades, it is that the tobacco-industry cannot be trusted." Yeah, sure ... and don't forget to send in your contribution!

But, "government studies prove..." you might say? Have you ever looked at these studies objectively, or do you just take their word for it? Take for example the EPA report that mentions carcinogens found in smoke. Why do you suppose they listed them in a chart, without explanation? Why? So the unsophisticated could draw the false conclusion that this somehow answers the question which science cannot.

The American public is expected to trust those who brought us "dancing condoms" to our television screens encouraging teens to engage in "protected sex", have made AIDS the first disease in history to be endowed with civil rights, and have called the wholesale slaughter of millions of babies in their mothers womb "freedom of choice."

Insurance companies surely can't be wrong. They spend all that money on those actuarial studies that prove a connection between smoking and disease. The insurance salesmen tell us we pay higher premiums because smokers have a higher risk of contracting disease and their health care costs are higher than the non-smoker. What they don't tell you is that their insurance plans cover "domestic partners" (that's politically correct jargon for homosexuals) whose risk of contracting AIDS and other sexually transmitted disease is astronomical and their health care costs are out of control. No double standard here!

Imagine the uproar if insurance companies wanted to charge homosexuals more for their insurance. Homosexuals cost the federal and state government enormous dollars in healthcare. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, given today’s life expectancy rates, the years of potential life lost due to AIDS are 24% more than the years lost from lung cancer.

The Current anti-smoking propaganda is anti-family and is designed to drive a wedge between parents and their children.

World Government Control of Your Children

Tobacco money sends children to college and feeds families, but the federal government believes it (a.k.a. the "Village") should send children to college and feed families. Children are indeed the target of many in the tobacco debate, but it's not childrens health they are concerned with. What they want is to control your children through expanded government intrusion into your home.

In California, for example, a new cigarette tax created the nation's largest pot of money for early childhood programs bringing government social workers right into infants' homes.

Quite simply, Hillary Rodham, Donna Shalala, and other modern statists believe they can raise your children better than you can. That's what they mean by "children's rights" - the rights of children to be liberated from the shackles of their evil parents.

Hillary Clinton argued, "Children should have a right to be permitted to decide their own future if they are competent." "Decisions about motherhood and abortion, schooling, cosmetic surgery, treatment of venereal disease, or employment, and others where the decision or lack of one will significantly affect the child's future should not be made unilatrally by parents."

Hey, Hillary, if you think it's okay for kids to have children out of wedlock, kill babies in their womb, drop out of school, get breast implants, and choose designer drugs for venereal disease, why do you not think they can make their own decisions about smoking? Hillary Clinton and the rest of the current crop of socialists are nothing more than disingenuous "scumbags" talking out both sides of their mouths while they rake in YOUR cash!

Hillary Rodham Clinton was an active radical during the 1960s, when she formed friendships with other student radicals who have now become key Clinton advisers. In the 1970s, the then -Ms. Rodham wrote several articles that suggested children should be free to sue their parents, and implied that parental authority over children was similar to slave masters over slaves, or government over American Indians.

Hillary Clinton, a long-time fierce proponent of the radical Left, chaired the New World Foundation 1987-88, ranked by the Capitol Research Center as "one of the ten most liberal foundations in the United States." While there, she authorized grants to organizations that backed the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Sandinistas. From 1986-92 she chaired the Children's Defense Fund (CDF), which promoted an amoral approach to sex education and other means of destroying the very moral values which most parents want to pass on to their children. The CDF wants to redefine the family and believes government can serve as surrogate parents (the"village"). That means that kids would no longer be primarily accountable to their parents. To whom would they be accountable to?

The answer, of course, is the state. The benevolent state. The "VILLAGE," then, would transcend the Orwellian "Big Brother" role and become surrogate parent. It would grant your children "rights" and be their legal guardian.

Hillary's "village" not only tolerates but encourages crime, drugs, pornography, homosexuality, unrestrained sex, disease, broken familes, violence, disrespect for authority, slothfulness, and a whole host of other destructive but "politically correct" behaviors.

If homosexuals were treated like smokers, no doubt you would hear shrill complaints from liberals and courts would be tripping over themselves to protect their rights. Homosexuals are protected and in many places in society are viewed more favorably than smokers. Cigarette smokers are being replaced on television screens by homosexuals. What perhaps started the trend was an episode of Ellen featuring a woman-on-woman open-mouthed kiss which brought praises from Vice President Al Gore because it "forced" millions of Americans "to look at sexual orientation in a more open light." Few communities in America, says Gore, "care as deeply about ethical and moral issues" as Hollywood. Today, you can't hardly turn on the television without seeing homosexuals being featured.

Selwyn Duke writes, "And the prejudices are like the stars in the sky. Smoking is no longer trendy but homosexuality is; the Boy Scouts are out in San Francisco, but a law prohibiting smoking in private establishments and even outdoor public places is in. Christianity in schools is out, but left-wing indoctrination is in. And what group will be persecuted next week, next month or next year? In Europe, the Ladies Golf Tour is being forced to allow the participation of a transsexual by the European Union anti-discrimination Nazis. Don’t think that we could never be subject to such insane government dictation, and that the casualty won’t be your church, club or some organization close to your heart. With the freedom of association already relegated to the dustbin of history, such tyranny is only a few bad Supreme Court appointments away."