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Smoking ban in Germany spurns crafty workarounds {Gadling}
Dec 24th 2007 1:48AM Does not journalism at the very least entail a fiduciary duty to readers, listeners, watchers, to be given all the sides and facts and contrary opinions so that the public is as informed as possible to decide for themselves ?
When asked plainly, without reference to any specific story or issue, I believe most people would agree it does, regardless of what the story or issue is.
Then, I ask, why is the world's entire news mediae and journalists refusing to report all sides of the second hand tobacco smoke issue ?
Why is the entire global news industry refusing to inform the public that there are many researchers, scientists, even doctors and politicians, and millions of tax paying voters who do NOT believe the anti-smoking claims about second hand tobacco smoke ?
It's not like most journalists and news sources are not aware of that fact. They simply deliberately refuse to inform the public of it.
And, by not doing so, the news industry deliberately and knowingly violates it's Fiduciary Duty to the public.
Some day, there will be an accounting for this deliberate act of suppression of information.
Steve Hartwell
Toronto, Canada
www.reducedriskcigarettes.ca
Smoking ban about health protection, not rights trampling {That's Fit}
Dec 19th 2007 1:04PM To fellow smokers - Stop apologizing for Second Hand Smoke. All news mediae are refusing to inform their readers, listeners, and watchers, that there are researchers, scientists, doctors, politicians, and millions of voters, who do NOT believe the anti-smoking false claims about Second Hand Smoke - SHS is NOT a Statistically Significant Health Risk to others.
The average Smoker exhales less than 500 milligrams of Second Hand Smoke per day, - the average Car exhales at least 2.2 MILLION milligrams of Second Hand Smoke per day, and it definetely seeps inside the vehicle to poison all the passengers. The exhaust systems on Cars only 'trap' most of the visible particles so we are not aware our cars are poisoning the entire planet, us, and our kids, every day. Car poison is invisible which makes it all the more deadly than tobacco smoke. It's Cars that need banning Not tobacco smokers.
Anti-smoking is a very slippery slope from hatred of second hand smoke, to Hatred of Smokers. Anti-Smokers are teaching kids to hate smokers and 'anything goes'. I truly fear 'what next' will mean smokers' ghettos and drive-by shootings of smokers. Don't Sneer at that ! In Toronto kids are shooting each other almost every day, and, get away with it. I was recently chased along the city highway by a car of recklessly driving teenagers screaming "CANCER STICK MURDERER", like a Jew being chased by Hitler Youth. Which is all the more bizarre because their one car exhales the equivalent per day of 11,000 tobacco smokers !
Anti-smoking is now being used as a template for many other anti-something campaigns too. Stop apologizing for SHS, Stop Anti-smoking, or else, you could be the next one being hunted for something somebody else hates.
Steve Hartwell
www.reducedriskcigarettes.ca
Michigan says "No" to smoking ban {That's Fit}
Dec 13th 2007 12:57PM "While the effects of secondhand smoke are undeniable"
What is undeniable is the fact that all news mediae frontpage the anti-smoking false alleged claims about second hand smoke, butt refuse to frongtpage also that there are many scientists and researchers, even doctors and politicians, who do NOT believe the anti-smokers' false alleged claims about second hand smoke.
THAT is deliberate suppression of information and an undeniable violation of freedom of speech, as well as a few other constitutional rights.
Steve Hartwell
Toronto, Canada
www.reducedriskcigarettes.ca
California bans smoking in cars with kids {ParentDish}
Oct 19th 2007 2:53PM I thought I understood what bizarre is.
I was recently driving home on the 401 -- smoking.
I passed a small car full of older teenagers, which suddenly sped up, over the speed limit, to 'lodge' behind me, so close I could not see their car's front grill. I could see them waving arms and hopping up and down excitedly, weaving, driving recklessly, and very dangerously distracting me.
I went around a slow truck, and the car quickly followed me. Right after that was my exit, I took it, with the car of kids still sniffing my bum. On the street the car sped up beside me, I could hear the kids yelling something, and they were all putting 2 fingers to their lips, and forcefully gesticulating at me.
Just as the car of kids made to turn left and leave me, with one fellow thrusting his head out the window, I heard what they were all screaming at me,
"CANCER STICK MURDERER"
and then they turned and sped off. I almost lost control of my vehicle from the shock of it.
It so made me think of Hitler Youth chasing a Jew, and I now am totally frightened of 'what next'.
Children are Not just being brainwashed to hate smoking, they are also being brainwashed to hate
smokers.
So, I ask you, 'what next ?'
Drive-by shootings of smokers ?
And, For What ?
Second Hand Tobacco Smoke is NOT a Statistically Significant Health Risk to others.
CARS on the other hand - are.
The average car exhales over 11,000 times per day what the average smoker exhales.
One car taking children to the beach is the equivalent of over 11,000 Smokers !
Ban CARS, not smokers.
Steve Hartwell
Toronto, Canada
www.reducedriskcigarettes.ca
