Sucking The Air From Lungs Of Freedom
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Sucking the Air from the Lungs of Freedom
A recent Drug Policy Alliance/Zogby Poll posted on Zogby.com (2006), finds 45 % support making cigarettes illegal. This poll does not surprise me at all and I hope that it will alarm other Americans. With all the smoking bans and anti-smoking propaganda going on the masses will eventually be biased enough to support an outright ban on cigarettes.
We are in a position now to repeat our past mistakes. An informed citizen can examine this countries history during the alcohol prohibition and be reminded of what a miserable failure that was. Americans do not like to be told what they can and can not do. During prohibition, people went to jail and even died smuggling alcohol to willing patrons enthusiastic to consume the banned substance.
The anti-smoking groups are never satisfied, citizen can give these groups an inch and they will take a yard. The smoking witch-hunt started with business that had smoking and non-smoking areas which eventually graduated to outright indoor bans, and it is escalating even further. Now these radicals target is to ban smoking in cars and public areas. Some outdoors beaches and parks have already banned smoking outdoors! Automobiles and corporate smoke stacks pollute more than any cigarette ever could! Where does it all end?
Even apartment buildings have started banning smoking. An old friend from high school is being kicked out of their current apartment because the corrupt town in Cliffside Park New Jersey, where he resides has decided to take about a block and a half under eminent domain to give the land to a rich land developer
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who will build high rise luxury condos. Baran, Hunt, Knight (2006). In the meantime, he has been looking for an apartment and three he has investigated have told him that no smoking is allowed. Do we live in America, the same America that champions freedom and democracy?
I am sorry, but I no longer recognize the country that I live in. Freedom is but an illusion, a coat of fantasy that we wrap ourselves in only to discover that the coat is merely a loaner that can be stripped away at our governments will. Where does it all end?
I will tell you where it ends. It ends with prohibition. History is doomed to repeat itself unless people start waking up from their state of unconsciousness. As history tells us with past social control experiments, such as alcohol prohibition, the radicals tobacco prohibition experiment will be a miserable failure. The politicians and anti-smokers want to ban indoor smoking because it is for your own good and it saves lives, but what about all the other things that supposedly kill people? Why is nothing being done? Why the double standard? Why are we not protecting the “children” from other harmful concerns?
On Asthma.com an annual poll lists the top reasons people have died and the reason are informative. The number of people that die due to everyday surrounding is disturbing, but the causes for the deaths are apart of everyday life.
Essay 4 These statistics bring to light the genuine reason why the government desires to limit its citizens freedom. Veiled behind the reason of protecting its citizens from harm, the government in actuality hungers for control.
Researchers have identified tiny soot particles from diesel exhausts – 30 times smaller than the width of a human hair – as the chief culprits in 9,000 fatal heart attacks in the US annually (p. 1). Why is the government not banning diesel fuel? Air pollution from coal-fired power plants causes about 24,000 premature deaths a year nationwide (p. 1). Why is the government not banning coal fired power plants? On average, 4,000 people in the USA die from drowning each year (p. 2). Why is the government not banning swimming? Car accidents kill an estimated 1.2 million people worldwide each year (p. 2). Why is the government we not banning cars? In 2004, the American Association of Poison Control Centers reported 24,180 exposures involving toothpaste with fluoride (p. 4). Why is the government not banning fluoride which is found in toothpastes and in some drinking water?
A recent report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that murder was