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Tag Archives: nazis
Does 30 sec Microwave Fix FSC?
A bit of an assortment today. H/T Jackiec06 in the comments a day or two back for this video, which seems to suggest that 30 seconds in a microwave neutralises the chemicals used to make Fire Safe Cigarettes. Regular … Continue reading
Revolution From Above
Back to plain packaging again, this time in response to a comment by Junican: If fag packets, by law, are standardised at ‘regular king size’ to start with, and then, in, say, two years time, are reduced in length by … Continue reading
Antismoking Nazis
Back to Simon Clark, and his remark in the comments here: As I have said many times, repeated references to a totalitarian regime that slaughtered six million Jews is inappropriate and embarrassing in relation to tobacco control. In terms of … Continue reading
The 100-year War
…on football fans. Or to be exact, the 100-year war against football fans’ freedom of speech. …like all of today’s intolerant snobbish football-watchers, Hawkins collapsed the age-old, Enlightened distinction between words and actions and argued that football fans’ chanting – … Continue reading
Imaginative with Numbers
One of the most enigmatic figures (for me at least) in the smoking controversy is the historian Robert N. Proctor, author in 1999 of The Nazi War on Cancer, which became one of my must-buy books when I started to … Continue reading
More Defamations
Another hat tip to the Moose. He’s got a whole bunch of them. I suppose these bastards must think they’re untouchable or something.
Siegel’s Lessons Unlearned
In recent days, a few people have been pointing me to Michael Siegel’s Rest of the Story for some comments about smoking bans on university campuses (which I’ve been hearing about on and off for years). I hardly frequent his … Continue reading
Catholics and Protestants
I thought I was the only one who compared the smoking ban with global warming and the EU. Well, here’s Christopher Booker in the Telegraph, doing at least two of them: When the EU’s economic and monetary affairs commissioner, Olli … Continue reading
It’s Not About Health
The more I think about smoking bans and the War on Smokers, the more I think it’s got nothing to do with health. I’m very far from being the first person to say this. Quite a few people seem to … Continue reading
Pull the Plug Next Time
H/T Cage Canada, for this Australian op-ed by someone called Michael Smith. It begins: Obesity is not a right The obesity epidemic provides one of the greatest challenges of political philosophy for governments since the birth of democracy… Hold on a … Continue reading
