May 31 2006
Smoking, Smokers and the tobbaco industry…a rant
I really hate the smell of cigarette smoke and the way it gets in eerything I took some time of work and during that time i spent a week with family, the time i spent with my brother was smelly and yuck because he is a smelly chain smoker the week at my parents place more smoking inside again and ick thanks mum!
I was watching a docco tonight on SBS about the tobbacco industry “CUTTING EDGE: THE TOBACCO CONSPIRACY” those guys are real bastards, the knew about the health risks for decades and lied to the public bribed researchers and spread misinformation to get more people hookedjust for $$$. Every goernment in the world should outlaw the growing of tobbaco and the production of cigarettes as well as making the damn things illegal..but they wont and you know why? because the governments make shitloads of money from taxes on tobbaco products so much so that the tobacco companies even use this fact to establish themselves in some countries where they do not presently exist. They pay people to smuggle cigarrettes in on the sly of course then once there is an abundance of cigarettes in the country the companies approach the governments and point out the revenue they are missing out on and ask for help establishing a presence in that country so the country can profit from slowly killing people.
The companies have had people researching was of delivering nicotine that are less harmful yet they dont use the research the sit on it or they produce products that could very well deliver peoples nicotine hits without the addtional dangerous chemicals found in cigarettes, hell the bastards even denied nicotine is addictive and tried to blame other things for the diseases smokers and unfortunate victims of smokers the passive smokers. The damn bastards know they are selling death in a stick, the goernments in countries know they sell death in a stick yet they are allowed to operate nearly unabated
You know what else shits me, I think I have written about it before is the fact that despite we in Australia have laws prohibiting advertising of smoking any time you flick on the tv you can see a tv show or a movie with someone smoking, you goto the movies and see people smoking. Hollywood (the collective) is paid to advertise cigarettes and they do so willingly despite the fact its common knowledge the fucking things kill more people each year than murder, natural disaster, alcohol, aids, cancer, car accidents and drug over doses combined.. this shit needs to stop.
In NSW we dont get cigarette ads, we have no smoking in public or enclosed places enforced by law and as of last july designated smoking areas inside pubs and clubs all of which are great things with one minor exception, the designated smoking areas are almost always where the pokies are as a result anyone who wants to play the pokies (or has to service those playing the pokies) is subjected to passive smoking in large quantities because the smokers are all around the pokie machines as well its most unplesant.
fucking tobbaco companies, fucking smokers I would say burn the lot of them but that would just mean more air bourne death for the sane people.So instead the product should be made illegal and the companies dissolved with their current net worth sunk into cancer research.