We, the People, have been grossly hoodwinked by the seemingly "wholesome" and seemingly "anti corporate" No-Smoking crusade. Whether one smokes or not, and despite whatever inherent risks there may be from even the purest tobacco, it remains that the U.S. public is being duped out of enormous fortunes of liabilities and even criminal penalties and asset forfeitures that OUGHT to be hitting the broad cigarette cartel.

This is an attempt to just paint the economic picture surrounding the "anti-smoking" business. This will explain why the World Trade Organization (WTO) and our top corporate media are so intensely hot on this issue. They are NOT doing this For Our Health. It is about money...more money than was even involved with the S & L crisis...more than is involved in the Bush League invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. More than all of that put together.

The smoking deal is no small thing.

Do the math.

* How many bodies in graves NOT because of tobacco smoke but from PESTICIDE, CHLORINE, and RADIATION- contaminated tobacco smoke? Note the subtle difference.

* Regarding corporate liabilities...how much would be an "acceptable" or average payout for causing ONE death? In US dollars...let's say JUST a million.

* How far shall we go back towards the days when tobacco began being contaminated with industrial pesticides? Let's be kind and set it at just 50 years...about 40 years after Dow cooked up chlorine...and loosed its by-product, dioxin, on the world.


So...(to just do U.S. stats.) THEY say that 400,000 die each year from something called "smoking-related illness"... though "smoking" is not a medical or scientific term.

Then...400,000 X 50 X 1,000,000 =
(20,000,000 dead) = $20,000,000,000,000.

That's TWENTY TRILLION DOLLARS (US) saved by the Cigarette Cartel (incl. pesticide, chlorine etc partners & insurers/investors) for ONLY deaths (not diseases)... in the U.S. ALONE, for only 50 years!
Is there that much money in the world?

Is there even a NAME for the dollar number that would result if the entire affected world was calculated in?

The "smoking ban" (that many of us help promote) SAVES the enemy, the very industry it's purported to be penalizing! Funny? Ironic anyway, eh?

This money, to whatever degree redeemable, COULD be used for Public Health care and Schools and Arts and Environmental protection & clean up...and for development of BENIGN crops and technologies....and for prosecution of the perpetrators of this global catastrophe.

IF we never get the 20 Trillion Dollars but just a maximum part Of it...fine. At least the industrial cartel will be stopped from continuing its mass poisoning of cigs and every other damn thing.

Smokers are our Canaries In The Coal Mine. What are anti smokers doing but Attacking the Canaries...while ignoring the Toxic Industrual Clouds that poison canaries and us alike.

The seemingly "wholesome" "anti-smoking" crusade (conducted by the corporate media and WTO and pesticide PR firms, and industry insurers and investors, et ilk) is a MASSIVE evasion of corporate liabilities and prosecution.

Whether one smokes or not, or likes smokers or smoke or not...this is HUGE, and it affects everyone.

Goals:
* OUT the bastards for contaminating the cigs, and failing to warn, and failing to list non-tobacco ingredients...especially toxins and carcinogens and burn accelerants and addiction-enhancers. Especially the many pesticide residues, the chlorine, and the radiation from those still legal phosphate tobacco fertilizers.
* Get proper compensation FROM them to go to unwitting victims AND public health programs and the like.
* Redeem the ill-gotten profits.
* Prosecute for INTENTIONAL mass-poisoning of people, without Informed Consent. (A Nuremberg point, remember?)
* NEVER AGAIN allow PRIVATE industrial interests to have sway in PUBLIC regulatory agencies.
* Only PLAIN tobacco smokes to be sold...unless an additive can pass independent tests for not contributing to safety/health problems.

Please remember that the dioxins and toxins and so forth thar are in cigs are NOT only in cigs affecting those gruffy smokers we all are supposed to hate. They hit EVERYONE. They are in EVERYTHING. Cigs is "only" the worst specific case because of a) the combos of all the things together, and b) the method of exposure....inhalation. The worst.

(IN any case, if a worker, for instance, happens to smoke but is damaged by on-the-job chemicals or rads or bio-organisms ...GUESS what will be blamed for the disease or death. Hint: it will not be the employing industry.)

These cig cartel gangsters are ALSO all over EVERYONE'S food...and air and water and medicines. PHARMS MAKE TOBACCO PESTICIDES. Capiche? To a great degree, they're the same sonsabitches that brought us to "war" on Iraq and so forth for MORE petro-pesticides, etc. This "anti smoke" deal is PART AND PARCEL of Globalization!!... blaming diseases on victims, exempting the industrial perpetrators, cutting funds for public health, extending control over every part of our lives, attacking natural plants in every area, distracting from corporate crimes, and so on.
Do YOU trust this entity, and Big Cig, to be part of YOUR (and your kid's) food, air, water and medicine delivery system? Some folks wouldn't.