Comments on: Tobacco industry will fight anti-smoking proposals http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/tobacco-industry-will-fight-anti-smoking-proposals/6039/ Breaking News, Alternative News & Media Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:32:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Bob http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/tobacco-industry-will-fight-anti-smoking-proposals/6039/comment-page-1/#comment-275821 Bob Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:48:26 +0000 http://rinf.com/alt-news/?p=6039#comment-275821 These smoking bans will probably go down in history as one of the greatest marketing scams ever by using tax exempt political action committees calling themselves "charities". They want to "hurry up and pass the bans" before people find out who is paying the lobbyists pushing for them by using our tax money. Here's the beginning of the ban movement in the USA. www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?ia=143&id=14912 Here are the instructions from Johnson and Johnsons' (makers of cessation products) RWJ Foundation for their tax exempt political action committees. They are getting enough money from the RWJ Foundation, plus using MY tax money. They aren't getting any more money from me. www.no-smoke.org/pdf/CIA_Fundamentals.pdf These smoking bans will probably go down in history as one of the greatest marketing scams ever by using tax exempt political action committees calling themselves “charities”. They want to “hurry up and pass the bans” before people find out who is paying the lobbyists pushing for them by using our tax money.
Here’s the beginning of the ban movement in the USA.

http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?ia=143&id=14912

Here are the instructions from Johnson and Johnsons’ (makers of cessation products) RWJ Foundation for their tax exempt political action committees. They are getting enough money from the RWJ Foundation, plus using MY tax money. They aren’t getting any more money from me.

http://www.no-smoke.org/pdf/CIA_Fundamentals.pdf

]]> By: kathryn http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/tobacco-industry-will-fight-anti-smoking-proposals/6039/comment-page-1/#comment-275707 kathryn Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:42:30 +0000 http://rinf.com/alt-news/?p=6039#comment-275707 So, the "tobacco companies" will try to dilute the crazy laws of anti-smoking and ASH specifically? Interesting. I see that shop owners are not in favor of this latest round of zealotry. Is that because they want to stay shop owners? Who designed the surveys, administered them, then interpreted them? Did the surveys come from ASH, or were they properly taken from a disinterested group with no funding from anti-smokers? Were the questions properly designed with no bias to get a simple yes or no? Did they say, "Do you favor a ban on tobacco displays" or did they read, "Do you favor further restrictions on shop owners to protect 'the children'"? The answers would be very different. If the tobacco industry had framed the question, it might have read, "Do you prefer the taking of liberties from private business to promote a heavily funded political agenda?" Who did ASH survey? Was there a proper mix of smokers and non-smokers, or was it taken amongst ASH supporters? It's time to parade the practices of ASH and anti-smoking right out there for all to view alongside those of Big Tobacco. Do that now before this goes ANY further. So, the “tobacco companies” will try to dilute the crazy laws of anti-smoking and ASH specifically? Interesting. I see that shop owners are not in favor of this latest round of zealotry. Is that because they want to stay shop owners? Who designed the surveys, administered them, then interpreted them? Did the surveys come from ASH, or were they properly taken from a disinterested group with no funding from anti-smokers? Were the questions properly designed with no bias to get a simple yes or no? Did they say, “Do you favor a ban on tobacco displays” or did they read, “Do you favor further restrictions on shop owners to protect ‘the children’”? The answers would be very different. If the tobacco industry had framed the question, it might have read, “Do you prefer the taking of liberties from private business to promote a heavily funded political agenda?” Who did ASH survey? Was there a proper mix of smokers and non-smokers, or was it taken amongst ASH supporters? It’s time to parade the practices of ASH and anti-smoking right out there for all to view alongside those of Big Tobacco. Do that now before this goes ANY further.

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