A Smoking Report Indicating a Remarkable Tolerance for Smoking Tobacco
The smoking news in this old report on smoking tobacco is obscure and humorous but positive indeed. After reporting that "in men small doses of tobacco smoke excite the intellectual faculties," under the heading "Tolerance of Tobacco," in the Year-Book of Nature and Popular Science for 1872, John C. Draper, M.D., also pointed out that
"A remarkable instance of tolerance by the human system of the excessive use of tobacco is afforded in the case of Mr. Klaes, of Rotterdam. This gentleman, who was known as the 'king of smokers,' has just died in his eightieth year, and is said to have consumed during his long life more than four tons of tobacco.
[A MUSLIM HYPOCRITE!] [A POPULAR & COOL CAT]
The ruling passion was apparent in the will of the deceased, and in his eccentric request that his oak coffin might be lined with the cedar of his old cigar-boxes, and that a box of French caporal and a packet of old Dutch tobacco might be placed at its foot, and by the side of his body his favorite pipe, together with matches, flint and steel, and tinder."
We wonder if his thoughtful request was the result of so much tobacco smoke stimulating his brain?
Nevertheless, he is not to be blamed.
We know this because in its description of the Lord, the Bible tells us in 2 Samuel 22:9 that "there went up a smoke out of his nostrils."
This is written above the beginning of the red line in the text of the Amended King James Version of the Bible above.
If God (Yahweh) smoked, then smoking is a holy thing.
(If Yahweh is GOD, he wouldn't need a name. He'd simply be GOD)
In fact, unlike the Introduction states in the first line of the Amended King James Version pictured above, according to Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, the original King James Version of the Bible says; “In the beginning God (Elohim) created the heaven and earth.” The word used in Hebrew for “Elohim” actually means “gods”—and not “Yahweh,” nor is it spelled in Hebrew like Yahweh. Elohim is the plural form of El, a plural of the name of the god (El) seated in the ancient artifact pictured below.
In other words, the Hebrew of the Bible really says in the first line of Genesis: “In the beginning the gods created the heaven and earth.”
Nevertheless, Yahweh must have known the therapeutic effects of smoking and nicotine. And beside Dr. Draper's smoking report, the benefits of smoking tobacco have been pointed out by other authorities for several centuries now.
"From sharpening mental acuity to maintaining optimal weight, the relatively small risks of smoking have always been outweighed by the substantial improvement to mental and physical health," maintains Forces International.
"Now the same anti-tobacco enterprise that has spent billions demonizing the pleasure of smoking is providing additional reasons to smoke. Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Tourette's Syndrome, even schizophrenia and cocaine addiction are disorders that are alleviated by tobacco. Add in the still inconclusive indication that tobacco helps to prevent colon and prostate cancer and the endorsement for smoking tobacco by the medical establishment is good news for smokers and non-smokers alike. Of course the revelation that tobacco is good for you is ruined by the pharmaceutical industry's plan to substitute the natural and relatively inexpensive tobacco plant with their overpriced and ineffective nicotine substitutions. Still, when all is said and done, the positive revelations regarding tobacco are very good reasons indeed to keep lighting those cigarettes."
After you finish looking at all of this page's pictures and animations and clicking the links in the *NOTES below, please be sure to come back here and click http://www.forces.org/evidence/evid/therap.htm for more detailed information on the benefits of smoking and http://www.smokersclub.com/ for many more smoking reports.
Here are three posted warnings from the Web site publishing The Property Rights Newsletter, which keeps smokers comprehensively updated on the Neo-Nazi attacks against one of their favorite pastimes:
The Mid Ohio Health Department is an outstanding example of a pseudo-official government attacking poor West Virginia smokers. I am sure its obese Neo-Nazi organizers who have given up smoking for pigging out on fat food would not be pleased with these posters.
Beware smokers! The pleasure police are still on the prowl!
NOTES:
The United States Supreme Court has upheld the Constitution's establishment of the separation of Church and State. Since the Jewish and Christian God of the Bible smoked, then this is a religious issue that is an important element to be reverently observed as an important ceremony in Judeo-Christian religious worship. No government serving under the U. S. Constitution has a right to tax or regulate smoking in any way since it is a Church issue immune from State jurisdiction. 
If the American Civil Liberties Union would challenge in court the illegal taxes and discriminating laws heaped on smokers, all would probably be quickly defeated, and smokers could once more publicly practice their religion. Smokers should get off their silly guilt trip, bring some sharp smoking and religious lawyers on board to challenge the injustice imposed on smokers by Federal, State, and local governments, and immediately begin to light up again!
Allow God to show us the way, and put the overeating hypocrites, the hospitalized obese ex-smokers, on the defensive instead—especially since a 2004 study of American adults reported that from the early 1970s to the mid 1990s the smoking rate declined from 37 to 23 percent and the obesity rate increased from 15 to 31 percent. A lack of physical exercise due to sitting for many hours in front of personal computers did not become all the rage until well after the study.
Furthermore, the Nicotine Nazi's fantasy about a second-hand cigarette smoke hazard is nothing but smoke. My father smoked two to three packs of Camels a day for well over forty years in front of my mother. She is eighty-eight and still going strong.
Ignorant & ungrateful Americans Tax the Hell out of their Fighting Men
And the house and car full of cigarette smoke for over 40 years have caused her children absolutely no problems! How do the health departments explain this?
“In the early 1980s," wrote David W. Kuneman, "the vice president of epidemiology and statistics with the American Cancer Society published two huge studies finding no health risk from secondhand smoke.
In 1995, the Library of Congress reviewed all studies published to date and concluded the risks were small to nonexistent. In 2002, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration declared that secondhand smoke was such a minor risk that it was not worth regulating.”
More Recent Notes
The actor Charles Lane died at the age of 102 in July of 2007. Associate Press writer Bob Thomas reported that Lane's "son noted that his father smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for 70 years." How will the Pleasure Police explain this one?
On August 29, 2007, I heard Dr. Dean Edell, the host of America's second most popular syndicated radio talk show, speak about a hundred-year-old woman celebrating her birthday while lighting up a cigarette. She had been smoking since she was seven years old, before World War I, and continuing to enjoy her pastime ninety-three years later.
There are many more examples. How are the Nicotine Nazis going to handle this?
Here's a more recent example of how smoking cigarettes and longevity agree: On July 18th 2009, the New York Post, which Senator Shumer should read, reported on the death of Henry Allingham, a 113-year-old man, with these headlines:
WORLD'S OLDEST MAN DIES AFTER LIFE OF 'CIGARETTES,
WHISKY AND WILD, WILD WOMEN'
This newspaper report certainly attests to a remarkable tolerance for smoking tobacco. How do the obese ex-smokers explain this one?
Furthermore, Henry died from "natural causes." This is certianly not unusual since we know that only one out of ten smokers die of a smoking related disease. How many obese people die from health problems generated by their habit? Many more! Why don't they have to pay for their addiction and growing hospital bills with heavy taxes like cigarette smokers? Why aren't they run out of restaurants like smokers?
It's because soccer moms are better with dumping out their anti-smoking propaganda than Joseph Goebbels ever hoped to be in shoveling out Hitler's anit-smoking and "above all" diarrhea in the Nazi campaign.
Yet, ruthless governments and greedy anti-tobacco lawyers are allowed to continue to pig out on a poor man's smoking solace. The tobacco industry is right when arguing that government should share in any responsibility for damages won by those piggish lawyers because they were "partners" in the sale of tobacco by keeping it legal and collecting tax revenue from it. But the two-faced Federal government and state governments exempt themselves from any responsibility and continue to reap their profits from smoking. Wow, if this is justice, there is none!
Yet, today's smoking cowards are afraid to thwart this theft, and meekly hide out in harsh weather to endure unjustified guilt trips instead.
Don't allow obese ex-smokers to continue to put you out in the cold while they lounge inside gobbling down calories while stealing your hard-earned money to pay for their fat hospital bills. Tell'em you're mad as hell and ain't going to take it any longer! At least, make the hogs pay for your health costs, with a hefty tax to clean out their troughs! Beware cowed smokers, if you don't fight back soon,
Respect them!
Show today's anti-smoking Nazis and other pleasure police who's boss!
"In Germany, they came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and
I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me, and by that time, no one was left to speak up."
Rev. Dr. Martin Niemoeller, July 1,
1937; arrested by the Third Reich
Now the Neo-Nazis come for 50,000,000 U.S. Smokers, Next, for America's Millions of Obese People!
The fathers of our Constitution must have known the great danger this country would be in if a foreign born creature was allowed to rule this country from the Presidential Chair.
Hitler was born in Austria, and look what happened in Germany. Obama was apparently born in Kenya, and look at what is happening to America.
But the blind are leading the blind in this country, so we'll likely see a replay of the disaster the Nazis generated in Germany, if the usurping maniac isn't stopped soon! Hitler also had his crooked cronies rig the election, just like sleazy ACORN did for Obama. There are so many similarities between the two, great speakers, great liars, etc. It's deja vu!
U. S. Representative Joe Wilson from the great state of South Carolina put his truthful description of Obama mildly when he called him a liar while speaking before the United States Congress.
Here is merely one small example of the great liar's diabolical talent. “I can make a firm pledge," Obama vowed in Dover, N.H., on Sept. 12, 2008. “Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes!”
The lying chain-smoker repeatedly vowed, “You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime!”
On April Fool’s Day of 2009, smokers were stunned and stuck with an anti-smoking bill passed by both their Democrat as well as Republican Representatives, which Obama had happily signed.
Even George Bush had the heart not to go along with taxing poor smokers anymore. Not Obama, the wealthy chain-smoking hypocrite is ruthless and uncaring.
The vampire earmarked much of the revenue sucked out of poor American smokers (most of whom make far less than $250,000 a year) to the health care of illegal aliens.
These are, for the most part, Mexicans (those with no U.S. birth certificates) who freely cross the U. S. southern border, dumping tons of their trash on the way.
Ironically, the validity of Obama's own birth certificate has been and is currently being challenged in U. S. courts, by the likes of Pennsylvania Deputy Attorney-General Philip Berg, Orly Taitz, and others.
Yet, he still had the audacity to brag publicly about giving poor Americans' cigarette-money to illegal aliens, and his no-tax promises went up in the smoke from his cigarettes that the millionaire can easily afford.
The egomaniac
rewarded the masses of poor smokers who voted for him with a 62-cent-a-pack kick in the butt.
Strangely though, the butt-head seems to set aside his ego when he meanders around the world bowing and apologizing for America
—shamelessly showing in the process a great disrespect for its proud freedom fighters who honorably lie in so many foreign graveyards.
There's no wonder now why foreign haters of America gave Obama the Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing to further peace while indecisively adding to American war casualties instead.
The photograph below verifies the usurper's blatant disrespect for dead American soldiers and their families. He was born in Africa, according to his grandmother, and raised a Muslim in Indonesia during his tender years, when his fragile mind was easily molded for a lifetime by his Muslim parents. So, it's understandable that he seems to hate America, ignores Christian beliefs, those of Jews especially, and denies that we are even at war with Muslim Terrorists in general. Parents' indoctrinations of the tender minds of their children with their inherited religions are hard to shuck off, and sometimes take a lifetime of searching for the truth to accomplish. Of course he has paid some positive lip service to radical Reverend Wright to enhance his election prospects among the naive, but every indication now points to the fact that he is apparently nowhere near there.
Regardless of his shortcomings, we must admit at least that chain-smoking Obama is not obese. Obesity is an addiction that affects approximately 60 million people in the United States, where women are especially affected. Over one-third of women between the ages of 20 and 74 are obese.
With obesity, comes the increased risk of diseases such as high blood pressure, Type II Diabetes, heart disease, and breast, colon, and prostate cancer. Smoking can also cause cancer and heart problems. But which habit is worse?
A recent survey showed obesity was seen among nearly 50% of ex-smokers. There is currently an estimated 50 million smokers in the United States. Judging from these figures, if all U.S. smokers quit now, there would be another 25 million obese persons in the U.S. Would we gain anything health wise by such a mass action? Would the loss in tobacco taxes and increased hospital bills for obesity justify the aggressive Neo-Nazi campaign against smoking to substitute one habit for another?
People have a natural tendency to do something with their hands to keep busy, so which is worse, lighting up a cigarette or gulping down fat food? Shouldn't people have a right to choose their addictions? Then why is the government interfering? Why are those better-than-you hypocrites trying to take away smokers' rights? The Holy Bible says people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones! Are you cleaving to this proverb?
Nevertheless, regardless of these statistics and questions, added to Obama's negative and positive attributes, good Christians and Jews, keep standing by the Holy Bible. The next time some munching maniac tells you to put it out, tell the heathen: "Go to hell, it's my religion. If God can smoke, so can't I!" 
Use the Bible as the source for your inspiration—an important reference for this rare smoking report.
Regardless, however, of the holy words, smoking is apparently not good for everyone, and experience has shown that one should proceed with this enjoyable pastime with CAUTION. Some human constitutions have proven not to handle nicotine well. The reasons may be explained by the type of genes one inherits and in one having positive and productive mental attitudes, which seem to enhance their bodies' defenses against the negative effects of smoke. A case in point might be the famous CBS news reporter Edward R. Murrow.
He smoked every day two to three packs of filterless Camel cigarettes, like "the doctors' choice" in the ad below the flyer above and those exchanged by the U. S. Army physicians in the advertisement on a page from an old Journal of the American Medical Association reproduced below.
This award-winning World War II reporter died at 57, two years after his cancerous left lung was removed.
The journalist's early demise may or may not have been connected with his smoking habit that he enjoyed so much, if we consider that many non-smokers die of lung cancer. At least two of my relatives serve as examples.
Nevertheless, during the old TV show See It Now, covering the possible connection between smoking and cancer, Murrow reported, "I doubt I could spend a half hour without a cigarette with any comfort or ease."
Fortunately, I have made it to 66 with excellent health and the same three-pack-a-day habit and attitude since I was 14 years old. I have been inhaling cigarette smoke for over 50 years now with no side effects whatsoever—except for my anger over having my rights stolen by a bunch of hypocrites and obese pigs who have failed to find any smoking enjoyment in life. How do the anti-smoking Nazis explain this one? We know now that the "Global Warming" craze is a huge conspiracy to enhance the prospects for World Government, and the "Anti-Smoking Campaign" is an even bigger one to rein in our rights and pay off the anti-smoking company lobbyists.
I, like many of America's 50 million smokers, damn well don't intend on continuing to allow anybody (including that chain-smoking hypocrite "Obama") to step on my God-given right to enjoy smoking cigarettes by trying to tax me to death!
We will be at the voting booths in 2010 and 2012 and B.O. (AKA B.S.) and his minions will feel our wrath!
And this is not the only reason for our presence there, which the photographs of the protest signs above and below adequately point out:
A NOTE ON "OBAMA" OR WHATEVER IS HIS REAL NAME?
I received this interesting email on October 12, 2009:
THE MEDIA WON'T LET THIS BE KNOWN
OK EVERYONE, WE KNOW THIS MUCH TO BE TRUE, BUT HAS ANYONE HEARD ABOUT THE COURT ACTION THIS PAST WEEK?
EVERYTHING IS VERY QUIET FOR SOME REASON. OCT 5 WAS TO BE A FED COURT HEARING....WUS-UP? ANYONE? OK, I WILL GO BACK IN MY CORNER
ROB
Meet The Soetoros
Indonesia
Left to Right:
Lolo Soetoro, Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, baby Maya Soetoro, and 9 year old Barry Soetoro
This registration document, made available on Jan. 24, 2007, by the Fransiskus Assisi school in Jakarta, Indonesia,
shows the registration of Barack Obama under the name Barry Soetoro made by his step-father, Lolo Soetoro.
Name: Barry Soetoro
Religion: ..... Islam
Nationality: ..... Indonesian
How did little INDONESIAN, Barry Soetoro, (A.K.A. Barack Obama) get around the issue of nationality to become president?
Someone who tells lies is a L __ __ r?
PART 2:
In a move certain to fuel the debate over Obama's qualifications for the presidency, the group
"Americans for Freedom of Information" has released copies of President Obama's college transcripts
from Occidental College.
Released today, the transcript indicates that Obama, under the name Barry Soetoro,
received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia as an undergraduate at the school.
The transcript was released by Occidental College in compliance with a court order in a suit brought
by the group in the Superior Court of California.
The transcript shows that Obama (Soetoro) applied for financial aid and was awarded a
fellowship for foreign students from the Fulbright Foundation Scholarship program.
To qualify, for the scholarship, a student must claim foreign citizenship.
This document would seem to provide the smoking gun that many of Obama's detractors have been seeking.
Along with the evidence that he was first born in Kenya and there is no record of him ever applying for US
citizenship, this is looking pretty grim.
The news has created a firestorm at the White House as the release casts increasing doubt about
Obama's legitimacy and qualification to serve as president.
When reached for comment in London , where he has been in meetings with British Prime
Minister Gordon Brown, Obama smiled but refused comment on the issue.
Britain 's Daily Mail has also carried the story in a front-page article titled, "Obama Eligibility Questioned,"
leading some to speculate that the story may overshadow economic issues on Obama's first official visit
to the U.K.
In a related matter, under growing pressure from several groups, Justice Antonin Scalia announced
that the Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear arguments concerning Obama's legal eligibility to serve as
President in a case brought by Leo Donofrio of New Jersey.
This lawsuit claims Obama's dual citizenship disqualified him from serving as president.
Donofrio's case is just one of 18 suits brought by citizens demanding proof of Obama's citizenship or qualifications to
serve as president.
Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation has released the results of their investigation of
Obama's campaign spending.
This study estimates that Obama has spent upwards of $950,000 in campaign funds in the past year with eleven law
firms in 12 states for legal resources to block disclosure of any of his personal records.
Mr. Kreep indicated that the investigation is still on-going but that the final report will be provided to the
U.S. attorney general, Eric Holder.
Mr. Holder has refused to comment on the matter.
LET OTHER PEOPLE KNOW THIS NEWS
THE MEDIA WON'T LET IT BE KNOWN!
THE MEDIA WON'T LET THIS BE KNOWN
To let this page’s readers know that I am very serious about questioning the eligibility of Barack Obama to be our President, I will post two recent emails below:
Email from Senator Rockefeller to me:
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From: senator@rockefeller.senate.gov
To: larrybrianradka@hotmail.com
Subject: Letter from Senator Jay Rockefeller
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:54:53 -0500
Dear Larry,
Thank you for contacting me with your concerns about President Obama's Constitutional eligibility to serve as President. I always appreciate a chance to hear from a fellow West Virginian.
Since the election there have been people who have questioned whether Barak Obama is eligible to serve as President on grounds that perhaps he is not a natural born citizen. However officials in the state of Hawaii, where President Obama was born, have clarified repeatedly the President's birth certificate is genuine. Several lawsuits seeking to enjoin the Electoral College from proceeding or prevent President Obama from being sworn in, all of these cases were either dismissed or the court ruled in favor of the President. The Supreme Court has rejected appeals of these cases.
The 111th Congress sat in a joint session on January 8th to count and certify the votes cast by the Electoral College. No member of Congress objected to certifying Barak Obama as our 44th President.
While I appreciate your concerns, I am confident that President Obama has met all the constitutional requirements for the Presidency.
Thank you again for sharing your thoughts. I appreciate the opportunity to discuss this matter. As always, I wish you the best.
With Warm Regards,
Jay Rockefeller
My email response:
RE: Letter from Senator Jay Rockefeller
From: Larry Radka (larrybrianradka@hotmail.com)
Sent: Wed 11/18/09 8:33 PM
To: senator@rockefeller.senate.gov
Senator Rockefeller:
Thank you for your response.
I understand the chairman of the Electoral College did not follow protocol and failed to ask for any objections to Barack's eligibility to be President, and not one representative in the 111th Congress appears to have had the guts to challenge his qualifications. American voters will remember this in the upcoming elections, if Barack is not cast out of office and locked up before then.
Senator Rockefeller, surely you are smart enough not to take some bureaucrat's word in Democrat Hawaii saying he has a legitimate birth certificate, but who produces none?
When I applied for Social Security, I had to produce a valid birth certificate? Just about anyone else would have to produce a birth certificate to assume an official position in government or anywhere else of any importance.
Why doesn't the president have to do so before assuming office?
Why did Congress investigate McCain's birth credentials but not Obama's? Surely you must smell a rat.
Has the FBI made a careful background check on Barack, like it did when I joined the Army Security Agency? Have you checked with the FBI on its results, if it even bothered to check the background of a person assuming the most important position in the world?
Why has Barack Obama (AKA Barry Soetoro) supposedly spent around a million and half dollars now in the courts to keep from producing a valid birth certificate? He is certainly hiding something, and I like millions of other Americans suspect it's that he is indeed ineligible to be holding the Office of President of the United States according to its Constitution.
These are but a few logical suspicions and unanswered questions among many more. But in case you are not well informed on the matter of his ineligibility, I suggest you start with reading my Web page at http://einhornpress.com/ParkersburgWestVirginiaTaxDayTeaParty.aspx like a multitude of others and continue your research in more depth from there.
Sincerely,
Larry Brian Radka
P.S. If you have followed the numerous court challenges concerning this issue of Barack Obama (AKA Barry Soetoro), you'll find that the birth certificate is hardly the only matter that would preclude his eligibility to be sitting now in the United State President's chair. Judging from the results so far, it looks like all the ruling U.S. court judges so far are protecting the biggest usurping scam in history for fear of losing their bread and butter.
However, Senator Rockefeller, if you won't do anything about the situation, the American voters will when the truth comes out, and a lot of U. S. senators, representatives, and judges are going to have hell to pay when it does. And the truth will eventually prevail!
And when it does, the scary Muslim Trojan horse in our midst—who has had a complete disregard for our Constitution that requires that he born in the United States to be elgible for its Presidency—will be revealed as one who is "extremely dangerous."
Orly Taitz, who has challenged B. O.'s birth credentials and roots in court, said, "I am extremely concerned about Obama specifically because I was born in Soviet Union, so I can tell that he is extremely dangerous. I believe he is the most dangerous thing one can imagine, in that he represents radical communism and radical Islam:
He was born and raised in radical Islam, all of his associations are with radical Islam, and he was groomed in the environment of the dirty Chicago mafia. Can there be anything scarier than that?"
We have a Trojan Horse in our midst! And as in anient times, we have unknowingly invited and been invaded by our enemy right before our own eyes and don't even recognize him! If you don't think so, then click the animation above and listen to what Dr. Manning has to say. "Wake up America!" like the Colorado billboard above warns us—before it's too late!
Dr. Manning should convince any honest American that Obama is "a fraud," to use Dr. Savage's words, and for the first time in U. S. history, a sitting president's elgibility with reference to his birth is finally seriously being questioned by nice little old ladies, and even by one of the few honest members of Congress.
Nevertheless, too discuss a few more points and add some more appropriate pictures related to the anti-smoking and obesity issues mentioned so far, I would like to say:
The federal tobacco tax on cigarettes previously amounted to 39¢ per pack. Chain-smoking Obama’s new federal tax rate on cigarettes increased the tax to $1.01 per pack. That is a hike of 62¢ per pack, or what amounts to a tax increase of 159%, even though he promised in his presidential campaign not to raise taxes on a family making less than $250,000 a year—another convenient lie!
But for Obama and his Muslim faith, this is not a problem since the sacred book of Islam, the Koran, teaches that Muslims have the right to lie, cheat, deceive and murder in order to advance the Muslim faith.
To add insult to injury, not unlike her other artrocious actions, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refused to have an open debate on the bill, which denies Obama’s repeated campaign promises of transparency and openness in government legislation—and sets America in a new direction, albeit the wrong one!
Nevertheless, wealthy Obama happily signed the cigarette tax bill, which was linked to the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), a convenient way to make it appear that if people opposed the tobacco tax increase, they did not want to help children in need—including illegal aliens—as if Americans should pay for the health care of any and all who cross its borders illegally! So if you indeed love these little creatures, smoke and proudly pay Obama's 62-cent-per-pack cigarette tax.
Paying the tax, however, may be a little difficult for poor smokers to boast about. According to the Center for Disease Control, 20.8% of all American adults smoke, but 30.6% of adults below the poverty line are smokers. This means that this massive tax increase disproportionately impacts the individuals who are least able to afford it. Lower-income individuals also have the greatest difficulty in reducing their use of tobacco because they cannot easily afford products like nicotine patches that might help them overcome their addictions—so they are caught between a rock (cigarette addiction) and a hard place (anti-smoking drug prices).
Furthermore, the National Taxpayers Union noted that tobacco taxes take a 50-times-larger share of income from those earning less than $20,000 than those earning more than $200,000. Put another way: Families making less than $30,000 per year pay more than half of all taxes paid on cigarettes, while families making more than $60,000 pay only 14 percent. The federal and state governments worldwide have seen fit to rape poor tobacco users without so much as a welcoming kiss for years now, and smokers internationally have begun protesting.
Yet cold-hearted medical groups inspire tax increases right in the middle of a worldwide recession and see them as a great incentive to help persuade smokers to quit. Their big argument is that the cost to the governments to pay for increased health care for smokers gives them the right to tax them heavily. If valid, then the governments should surely start taxing their grossly overweight people, soldiers, and everyone else who participates in an action that leads to increased health care costs.
The widespread obesity epidemic in the United States is now their target. The campaign has already begun by attempts to ban trans fats in some states and by commercials about diabetes and unhealthy fats. Fat people will soon become taxed as heavily, if not more, than smokers because the health care costs for obese people are already becoming the greatest burden on society. Our governments are already figuring out what the appropriate weight per person should be and planning to tax a person per pound rate for anything above that. Can you imagine the tax these impulsive creatures will have to pay for their habit?
A press release issued by the Governor’s office in New York on December 16, 2008 confirms that New York will be among the first jurisdictions in the world to impose an obesity tax in the form of a tax on non-diet soft drinks—even though the ingredients in diet drinks are cancer suspects. The new budget measure will add an 18 percent sales tax on non-diet soft drinks to “combat obesity and related diseases.” The city of New York has already banned smoking and eliminated trans fats on restaurant menus. It is also going after salt. Where does it stop? The Neo-Nazis are winning their war against smokers and now starting to combat fat people.
This is just the prelude to the upcoming war against those who like to eat so much. Now is the time for fat people to band with smokers reading this rare smoking report to stop the reckless rampage of unhappy pleasure police!
