Smokers want To Quit But can't? Are Smokers Addicts?
November 18, 2004 (Press Release) --
If smokers want to quit, they do. Anti-smokers use a recent Gallup poll to assuage the consciences of those who realize it's wrong to force people to do something they're unwilling to do "for their own good." One question on that poll asked "Would you like to quit smoking?" and a majority of respondents said "Yes."
What anti-smokers fail to mention is that another question in the same poll asked "Do you think you could quit smoking of duty free cigarettes if you wanted to?" and 77 per cent of smokers said "Yes." There are nearly as many ex-smokers in the country now as there are smokers, 48 million to 55 million, and the vast majority quit without any help from "smoking cessation" aids or products or from someone coercing them into it.
Premature death?
Slick, professional anti-smoker snake oil pitchmen would have you believe that everyone who smokes will die a horrible, untimely death. Every year in the US, more than 70,000 elderly smokers pass their 85th birthdays, many of them in excellent health for their age. In truth, the estimates of "premature" death for smokers is only a computer program set up to determine percentages of the 2-1/2 million people who die of all causes each year, not actual provable deaths.
Internal documents
Internal documents from the tobacco industry prove that the companies--or at least some people in those companies, mainly lawyers and select scientists--DID know decades ago that tobacco use is dangerous. So did the people; the term "coffin nails" was used to describe duty free cigarettes by O. Henry in 1906. Other documents prove that the United States government knew everything the tobacco industry knew, and knew it as early as the 1950's. They still put cigarettes in soldiers' rations until 1976.
Even now, while demanding that the industry pay billions of dollars to the government as "punishment" for their lying ways, the government doesn't attempt to make smoking illegal--it simply jacks up the price and fills its coffers. During the Waxman hearings, seven tobacco company executives stood and said, under oath, "I don't believe nicotine is addictive," after which the Clinton administration and Janet Reno spent 5 years and 20 million dollars trying desperately to find a way to charge them with a crime. They couldn't find it because no crime was committed. They stated their opinion which many people share.
What anti-smokers fail to mention is that another question in the same poll asked "Do you think you could quit smoking of duty free cigarettes if you wanted to?" and 77 per cent of smokers said "Yes." There are nearly as many ex-smokers in the country now as there are smokers, 48 million to 55 million, and the vast majority quit without any help from "smoking cessation" aids or products or from someone coercing them into it.
Premature death?
Slick, professional anti-smoker snake oil pitchmen would have you believe that everyone who smokes will die a horrible, untimely death. Every year in the US, more than 70,000 elderly smokers pass their 85th birthdays, many of them in excellent health for their age. In truth, the estimates of "premature" death for smokers is only a computer program set up to determine percentages of the 2-1/2 million people who die of all causes each year, not actual provable deaths.
Internal documents
Internal documents from the tobacco industry prove that the companies--or at least some people in those companies, mainly lawyers and select scientists--DID know decades ago that tobacco use is dangerous. So did the people; the term "coffin nails" was used to describe duty free cigarettes by O. Henry in 1906. Other documents prove that the United States government knew everything the tobacco industry knew, and knew it as early as the 1950's. They still put cigarettes in soldiers' rations until 1976.
Even now, while demanding that the industry pay billions of dollars to the government as "punishment" for their lying ways, the government doesn't attempt to make smoking illegal--it simply jacks up the price and fills its coffers. During the Waxman hearings, seven tobacco company executives stood and said, under oath, "I don't believe nicotine is addictive," after which the Clinton administration and Janet Reno spent 5 years and 20 million dollars trying desperately to find a way to charge them with a crime. They couldn't find it because no crime was committed. They stated their opinion which many people share.
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