Tag Archives: nazis

Reparations

Posted on April 8, 2019 by the archivist

I wonder if smokers will ever get reparations: Economist Robert Browne stated the ultimate goal of reparations should be to “restore the black community to the economic position it would have if it had not been subjected to slavery and … Continue reading →

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A Universal Political Crisis?

Posted on November 28, 2018 by the archivist

Following on from yesterday, we seem to be in in something of a universal political crisis. The UK is in a political crisis over Brexit. The USA has been in a political crisis ever since Trump got elected. France is … Continue reading →

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The Nazi Origins of Tobacco Control

Posted on November 19, 2018 by the archivist

I’ve been thinking this morning that the UK smoking ban of 1 July 2007 was the culmination of a very long slow process, and not any sort of new and surprising revolution. For the war on smoking has been going … Continue reading →

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Overkill

Posted on November 5, 2018 by the archivist

Tobacco has been thoroughly demonised over the past century or so. And the tobacco companies that sell it have been thoroughly demonised as well. And so have countless millions of smokers who buy tobacco. Does a point ever come when … Continue reading →

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Is Antismoking as Racist as it is Anti-American?

Posted on November 1, 2018 by the archivist

In recent times I’ve come to regard antismoking as profoundly anti-American. After all, America first gave the world tobacco. And America first got rich from tobacco. So hating tobacco and hating America go hand in hand. And it’s always seemed … Continue reading →

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Green Tyranny

Posted on December 6, 2017 by the archivist

My copy of Rupert Darwall’s Green Tyranny (2017) arrived yesterday, and I’ve begun leafing through it. On the cover it says that it is “Exposing the totalitarian toots of the climate industrial complex”, but it might better have said “Exposing … Continue reading →

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Nowhere To Hide

Posted on September 2, 2017 by the archivist

Some two-year-old Norwegian news: Smokers in Norway ‘like Jews under the Nazis’ A politician from a fringe conservative party in the far north of Norway has compared the plight of smokers in the country to that of Jews during the Nazi … Continue reading →

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Do Not Resuscitate

Posted on March 21, 2017 by the archivist

A passage in a comment by Rhys last night came as a bit of a jolt. I hope Britain is better than Canada, because here paramedics won’t come into your house if you smoke. I hope so too. But I … Continue reading →

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The Hermit On The Hill

Posted on March 20, 2017 by the archivist

Something I came across last week: Vivek Murthy, the surgeon general of the United States, has said many times in recent years that the most prevalent health issue in the country is not cancer or heart disease or obesity. It … Continue reading →

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A Little More Liberal Fascism

Posted on February 8, 2017 by the archivist

After the turmoil of the Trump inauguration, I’ve gone back to reading Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg, and have encountered in it a plausible explanation of why, in America at least, “liberal” no longer means “liberal”. Liberal intellectuals and activists … Continue reading →

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