Reply #44: THE SMOKESCREEN OF LIES [View All]

[Royal Oak Rog]

THE LIE: Non-smokers are intolerant of smokers rights.
THE TRUTH: This is one of the most used misrepresentations of the truth. This is propaganda promoted by the tobacco corporations. Every so-called smokers’ rights organization is a front created by the tobacco industry. They accumulate names of smokers by offering free cigarettes when smokers send in coupons. The smokers then become part of the bogus membership list of smokers’ rights advocates. The concept of smokers’ rights is ludicrous. Smokers can go to non-smoking environments, they simply have to leave their lighted cigarettes behind. A non-smoker becomes an involuntary smoker when in a smoking environment. The lie of intolerant non-smokers is perpetuated even more by drawing ridiculous parallels to other addictions. "Why not ban alcohol then?" they will say. The truth is that tobacco is the only unregulated drug in terms of harm to non-participants. It is illegal to consume alcohol and drive, for example. Smoking in public places is comparable to a heroin addict injecting heroin into other people on the street.

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