One way to do this is through vilification, which has been practiced by the opportunists since tobacco became popular centuries ago.  A great way to earn a living while doing next to nothing, save for spreading misinformation and fallacies regarding tobacco’s negative health effects.  Nobody’s gonna back a Three Thousand percent tax on Cotton Candy but a couple of them a day will kill you quicker than a dozen cancer sticks.  Ironically, these lazy s.o.b.s. would have to get jobs if they ever got what they’re railing for; a smoke-free America!

Potentially aiding this ever dwindling resource of lies, as science disproves theory after theory created by the antis, comes the introduction of FSC, or fire safe cigarettes.  No FSC application will save the fires caused by an ashtray prematurely dumped into the trash (one of the leading causes of fires linked to cigarettes).   FSC is a chemical cocktail containing Napthalene, Vinyl Acetate and poly Vinyl Acetates legislated on the smoking populace with no adequate safety testing.  This could well end up ensuring the smoking mortality rate remains high and a boon for publicity purposes.  Seriously, no testing and it’s legislated upon us for general human consumption?

This chemical cocktail could just as well end up exaggerating the consequences that smokers face.  These alleged health problems are just not coming to fruition in the numbers the antis have been preaching and attempting to achieve.   Manipulated statistics and a scorned public can only swallow so many lies for so long.   The possibility exists that FSC legislation could subsidize the over-dramatized consequences to cigarette smokers and serve to increase the mortality rate linked to smoking.   Modern science and free thinking people are finding it harder and harder to choke down the anti-smoker’s rhetoric.   With the popularity of anti-smokers at an all time high, politicians are jumping on the bandwagon and making smokers as unhealthy and broke as possible.  Ironically, this could turn out to be an effective way to increase personal profits and kill as many smokers before the ruse is up and the suits begin.

You have to hand it to em, between this, being FSC, and the draconian S-CHIP bill, our govt and Big Tobacco might successfully eradicate a whole class of less fortunate smokers and maybe even a slew of mid income smokers to boot.  One way or another, through quitting due to excessive taxation or maybe even through some creatively incurable “side-effects” of FSC.  Of course these are far fetched and paranoid musings that aren’t even close to the truth, the real reason being profits and payoffs.  A surefire way to keep Big Tobacco rolling in the dough and ensure a reliable flow of income despite declining new smoker rates.  So our current admin didn’t wait 30 days to backpedal on promises and tax the poor, it’s a poor group that the majority couldn’t care less about…… ingenious!  The only good smoker’s a dead smoker.  Kudos to the current admin et al, drinks all around  (until alcohol falls on the legislative table).

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