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Tag Archives: Tobacco Control
Killjoy Moral Crusaders
Taking :Liberties: A leading Labour-run council has banned staff from smoking at their desks if they are working from home, in what campaigners say is an emerging “moral crusade” by local authorities against tobacco lovers. Hammersmith and Fulham council, which … Continue reading
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Tagged agw, Coronavirus, Politics, smoking ban, Tobacco Control, Trump
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The Forgotten People
Something Michael Moore said (10:00 minutes): “I can say that from my end of the political spectrum, we don’t forget people. We’re actually about remembering the people who are forgotten, and fighting for them… The real forgotten people, the people … Continue reading
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Tagged antismokers, medicine, morality, NHS, Public Health, Tobacco Control
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A Marginalized and Underrepresented Population
Steve Turley on new Oscars guidelines: The first requirement includes hiring “at least one of the lead actors or significant supporting actors” that belongs to a marginalized population… Similarly, 30% or fewer “secondary or more minor roles” must be occupied … Continue reading
Distrust and Disbelief
Anti-vax protest placard in Daily Mail: Regardless of Covid-19, as a general injunction for our times, this might even be good advice. I think the Covid scare is overblown (even though I suspect it’s what I came down with back … Continue reading
A Separate Reality
A couple of days ago I watched Forest’s latest Zoom webinar on The Nanny State of the Nation. It featured two people from Public Health. Both wanted more nanny state. I’ve been calling these kinds of people bullying bastards (and … Continue reading
Complete Contempt
Something Rose drew attention to: WHO LAUNCHES PARTNERSHIP WITH THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY TO HELP SMOKERS QUIT Read that again:To help smokers quit. They do it to help smokers quit. That’s their moral justification. They’re helping people. They’re helping people do … Continue reading
One Day
They never stop, do they? Taking Liberties: Lib Dem peer bidding to extend smoking ban to outside areas thanks ASH for its “assistance” People like MP Mark Pritchard and Baroness Northover never stop working to completely exclude smokers from society. They … Continue reading
Accelerating Loss of Faith?
It’s the Tobacco Control playbook. You hype up the dangers of tobacco. And then you hype them some more. You keep on hyping until everyone’s terrified of tobacco. Then you do the same thing with something else. Global warming, Coronavirus. … Continue reading
Unthinkable
Breitbart: Study: Smokers Appear Less Likely to Be Hospitalised with COVID-19 There’s a certain incredulity expressed: It makes intuitive sense that smoking ought to exacerbate a respiratory infection such as coronavirus. Indeed, earlier reports in the mainstream media reflected this view when … Continue reading
The Ever-Turning Wheel Of Fortune
Courtesy of Roobeedoo: During the ‘Great Plague of London’, which was part of the same Eurasian pandemic that began with the ‘Black Death’ 400 years earlier, 100,000 people or 20% of the population of London died. Strangely, authorities are said … Continue reading
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