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War, War, War See other War, War, War Articles Title: Big Cig Benefits Because Smoke Bans Are Frauds Big Cig Benefits Because Smoke Bans Are Frauds by theava.com Though advertised as aimed at "protecting workers," the planned Massachusetts (etc.) ban on smoking in public establishments is quite something else. It is about protecting the cigarette industry from maximum penalties and liabilities for, among other things, many decades of harming workers with secretly-added toxic, cancer-causing, addiction-enhancing, and fire-causing non-tobacco cigarette ingredients. In any case, where else do we see any official concern for workers' health and safety? Or workers' benefits? Or workers' jobs? For that matter, where else do we see concern for public health in general, such as regarding auto and industrial pollution, product contamination, product safety, or even having health care at all? Just what is this so-called "big tobacco" industry? The phrase "so-called" is necessary because, according to hundreds of US patents, cigarettes may contain no tobacco at all but, instead, various kinds of industrial waste cellulose (or blends thereof) made to "simulate" tobacco. That is, these materials lie by their appearance, smell, taste and texture about being tobacco. Look at many cigarette packages. The word "tobacco" isn't to be found. How can there be laws relating to "tobacco smoke" when, to an undetermined degree, no tobacco or tobacco smoke exists? To qualify the terms here would open up a can of worms that would indict the involved industries and the public officials who serve them so well. The "tobacco" industry is not just a handful of cigarette manufacturers. It consists of many pesticide firms, both oil and pharmaceutical. We are talking about Dow, Shell, Exxon/Mobil, Novartis, Aventis, Bayer, Uniroyal, duPont, Rohm & Haas, and on and on. The US General Accounting Office (GAO) last year condemned lax government oversight of tobacco pesticide residues in cigarettes, tobacco being the sixth most pesticide-drenched crop in the country. Oddly, this slam on the hated cigarette industry was nowhere to be found on virtually all "anti-smoking" sites, and was barely mentioned in the "anti-smoking" corporate media. These pesticide firms have not faced any bans on supplying cigarettes with known toxins and known human carcinogens. Industry-serving legislators, however, backed-up by industry-linked "doctors," prefer to place the legal burdens onto the victims, the unwitting, unprotected, insufficiently-warned smokers, and on non-complicit bar/restaurant owners and others. This is patent injustice. It is scapegoating; an evasion of legal liability (and perhaps criminal) responsibilities. That so many business proprietors willingly bear this cross for the cigarette industry is a mystery. The "tobacco" industry is also Big Chlorine by way of the many chlorine pesticides and the chlorine-bleached cigarette paper. Burning this stuff produces dioxin, a US acknowledged Known Human Carcinogen, and the worst of the "Dirty Dozen" persistent organic pollutants (POPs) facing a global ban mandated by the Stockholm Convention, a treaty that was signed even by the US. That it is still permitted in cigarette smoke, arguably the worst possible delivery route, is a crime of great enormity. No corporate or government officials can explain their way out of this one. Unfortunately, even tragically, none are asked to try. In cold deference to the chlorine industry, of Agent Orange and Love Canal fame, there isn't so much as a chlorine/dioxin warning label. This crime becomes more clear when one notes that many, or most, so-called "smoking related" diseases cannot possibly be caused by any natural plant, even evil tobacco, but are already well-known effects of dioxin. Dioxin and the pesticides and bleaches aren't blamed for the health catastrophes. The victims, the smokers, are. Even "healthful" corporate-fighting, leftie/progressives, sadly, join the attacks. In this case, inconsistently, they believe the corporate media. "Big tobacco" is also the paper, logging and pulp industry, not only with its chlorine-bleached paper but also the fake tobacco. Loblolly pine and "carbon-filled paper" are just two cellulose sources for "tobacco substitute material," or, fake tobacco. Go to "US Patent Office," click in Patent Number 3,993,082, and enjoy scrolling around that area. Incidentally, the timber industry is also the source of acetate, the material of beach and highway littering cigarette filters. "Big Tobacco" is also Big Agriculture, as many substances on lists of the thousand or so non-tobacco cigarette constituents are farm and food products. None have been tested for this use. Chances of this stuff being pesticide-free are roughly zero. "Big Tobacco" is Big Sugar. The Wall Street Journal itself noted once that a Marlboro can contain a whopping 12.3% sugar. No wonder the kids like them. No one's talking about how much of this sugar is cane, corn, or beet, and no one's mentioning that, to all-the-better attract those kids, there's also artificial sweetener included from as-yet unnamed pharmaceutical firms. With so much "concern" for the kids, it's of more than passing interest that no "anti-smoking" group has yet to complain about this, to question the safety of smoking these additives, or to demand instant removal of these kid-baiting ingredients. Could it be that "anti-smoke" groups are Pretend Enemies, part of the cig cartel and its PR agencies, with the job of keeping attention away from the real criminal and liability areas? How not? "Big Tobacco" is the citrates and phosphates industry which supplies cigarette makers with burn-accelerating substances to keep the products from self-extinguishing when untended. Despite thousands of so-called "smoking related" home and forest fires, injuries and deaths, the burn-accelerants are still permitted. To remove them would indict the cigarette makers all the more, would extend the indictment to the citrates/phosphates industries and their allies in government, and undermine the "wholesome" crusade to dump blame onto the victims. To remove these fire-starting things would also lower cigarette consumption too much, something not exactly wanted by regressive tax-hungry officials. "Big Tobacco" includes the chocolate industry. Chocolate and cocoa are common cigarette additives. Coffee is in there too, despite popular condemnation of addiction. "Big Tobacco" includes the phosphate mining industry, a large presence in Florida, that contributes tobacco fertilizers that are contaminated with uranium tailings, thus sending cancer-causing radiation to the furthest corners of an uninformed victim's lungs. There's no ban on this even though no-less than Surgeon General C. Everett Koop once warned that this radiation is the cause of most upper respiratory "smoking related" cancers. Not "radiation related"? All of this is more accurately the Cigarette Cartel, or, better yet, the Contaminated Cigarette Cartel. Above all of these coalition members stands Big Insurance which has already been outed for being a huge multi-million dollar investor in cigarette makers. Likely it invests in most or all of the other members. Further, there may be no end of business insurance links. It's easy to see why such insurers prefer to blame the victims for "smoking," rather than the cigarette cartel for their manufacturing crimes. Since most lawmakers are economically beholden to part or all of this cartel (excluding the too-obvious cig makers themselves), it's easy to see why they prefer the "smoking ban" route to one that protects consumers from secret product adulteration and helps victims receive proper information and compensation. Privatizing, post-Reagan officials do not want to spend a cent of public money on public anything if they can help it. Cutting funding for public health is just one goal. This helps explain why the World Trade Organization (WTO) pushes smoke bans. The thought of saving lives and protecting health by removing the known deadly non-tobacco cigarette components isn't tolerated. To do that would return vast fortunes to the public (for health programs and otherwise) and do great (deserved) damage to some of the most health-damaging and environmentally-destructive industries on the planet. Whether or not one likes smoke, smoking, or smokers, and despite whatever natural inherent risks there may be from smoking even the purest tobacco, it remains that this "anti-smoking" crusade is a healthfully-packaged, "for your protection" fraud that benefits the very industries that are and have been responsible for damaging the health of every person on earth (through contaminated cigarettes and otherwise), not to mention effects on wildlife and entire bio-systems. It is a fraud that has undermined our medical, scientific and legal system, through the endemic conflicts-of-interest. It's a fraud, not unlike "Reefer Madness," that aims at taking from the public another "sinful" public-domain plant, and creating another Prohibition. It's a fraud aimed at keeping many billions, if not trillions, of dollars in compensation, penalties and forfeited profits from the general public and from victims. Think of typical cigarettes not as "coffin nails" but as "Dioxin Dowels," "Pesticide Pegs," or "Radiation Rods." Certainly do not think of them as "tobacco." Mother Nature is not the villain here. Think not about "smoking" (by victims) but of manufacturing processes (by the perpetrators). Just these language adjustments can work to derail this campaign to really get at the cigarette cartel which now enjoys illegitimate exemption from enormous penalties and liabilities. The seemingly punitive "tobacco settlements" provided barely a slap on their collective wrist, and were, in any case, ultimately paid by price hikes on the victims — with money actually relayed back to parts of the cartel.
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The reason for posting this is that I believe that cigarettes have been doctored to be more dangerous than they originally were in the 19th and early 20th Centuries (when the rates of lung cancer and heart disease were actually very low despite the fact that the various cowboys, miners, farmers and the like were always puffing or chawing on something tobacco related.) to aid the NWO types in depopulation just as soda pops are being used for this purpose with such additives as high fructose corn syrup and Aspartame now. Consider this a trailor to my next post on this subject to be called the Tell-A-Lie Vision and Depopulation coming soon. (It will be consisting mainly of YouTubes of old TV commercials for cigarettes, soda pops and processed meats (carcinogenic nitrites) and my comentary about them).
looking forward to it, thanks. I have recently heard that soda/ corn syrup contains , what was it, mercury? doesnt sound right.
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