In the wake of his failed policies concerning addictive drugs like cocaine, heroin, and marijuana, President Clinton has again pulled a SLICK maneuver and has successfully "redefined" tobacco as an addictive drug in a deceptive ploy to make it look like he is doing something about drugs.
Focus group studies also discovered some of the "trigger" words that people responded to. High on the list was "CHILDREN," and "KIDS." Government and health officials quickly began incorporating these trigger words into their anti-tobacco messages. Today, you don't hear a anti-tobacco message without children or kids being mentioned and smoking has been "spun" into "pediatric disease" of epic proportions.

When President Clinton was faced with a failed drug policy in 1995, he countered by proposing giving the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate tobacco as a narcotic. Medical Device Approval Letter, which monitors FDA review of medical devices, lists a series of regulatory moves the FDA can make including:

• Requiring cigarettes be "prescription drugs or devices'' that can only be dispensed by doctors. FDA also could require tobacco be dispensed by pharmacists along with smoking-cessation drugs, such as patches. Tobacco firms also may need to pay "user fees" to FDA.
• Declare any ``new'' tobacco products, including filters, investigational drugs or devices, and hence subject to FDA-approved clinical testing.

The true agenda behind the planned enlargement of the FDA is apparent when you look at where the money is going. The 1999 Budget Proposal for FDA suggested raising the FDA budget to include $35 million for compliance outreach, $75 million in enforcement and evaluation, and $24 million in product regulation. Notice that their stated goal is to regulate nicotine, yet product regulation receives the smallest portion of the money. The greater amounts are for "enforcement and evaluation" and "compliance." It is simply funding a stealth "jack-booted" police force with the full power of the Federal Government behind them.

Washington has chosen the tobacco industry to be their scapegoats because they can't explain the increase of illegal drug use in America. Watch for it: Bill Clinton will use statistics from his new tobacco crack-down to "spin" statistics to make him look like he has done something about"addictive drugs".

See ... I told you so:

• In December, 1997, President Clinton punctuated the 23rd annual Monitoring the Future survey of drug use among teenage students that showed a decline by eighth-grade students of marijuana use and tobacco smoking. Clinton said, "This change in attitudes represents a glimmer of hope in our efforts to protect our children from drugs." However, Clinton made it clear that the fight is far from over, calling drugs "the most dangerous enemy of childhood."
• The Clinton Administration has budgeted $195 million for an advertising campaign on television and radio and in print to discourage adolescents from using illegal drugs. The national blitz should get under way early in 1998. "Our goal," Clinton said, "is to make sure that every time a child turns on the TV, listens to the radio or surfs the Internet, he or she will get the powerful message that drugs can destroy your life." Since he included surfing the Net, I'll bet he hopes those kids won't find this web page. I'll be awaiting this campaign to monitor its connection of cigarette smoking to drug use.
• In the wake of the school killings in Oregon, reporters have joined the chorus. "Too many young people face academic failure, violence, suicide, pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, alcohol, tobacco and other drug abuse."
• The U.S. Congress has attached to the National Tobacco Policy and Youth Smoking Reduction Act huge increases in the budgets of the FBI and Drug Enforcement Agency.

"It is illegal for children to purchase tobacco in every state in the country." - Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).

National Drug Policy Director Barry R. McCaffrey said, "We know that the heart and soul of the nation's counterdrug strategy is to keep our young people from using illegal drugs -- particularly marijuana -- as well as drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes. The results of this survey are a sign that we are moving in the right direction."

Clinton has again proved he is a master of manipulating public opinion for his socialist agenda. What politician would stand on the side of this redefined tobacco industry from addicting the next generation of US kids? Opposition to Congress raising taxes on tobacco products make them appear to side with the tobacco industry over the goal of reducing teen smoking.

Anti-Smoking DoubleSpeak
Anti-smoking socialists have gotten pretty proficeint in mindless doublespeak. On the surface, what they say may sound good, but if you consider what they say with an ounce of intelligence you will see their words are meaningless and only designed to get you "emotionally" keyed.

Consider the regurgitated EPA words of chemical dependency counselor, Debora J. Orrick, from the drkoop web site, "Pending legislation (H.R. 3434, S.1680, S. 262) would protect nonsmokers, including children, from secondhand smoke in most public places. These bills would not make the sale of tobacco illegal, bring government regulations into the home nor take away a smoker's right to choose to smoke. They would help improve the quality of our environment and the health of our children and loved-ones." (italics added)
Apparently Ms Orrick considers you complete idiots. Notice the doublespeak, "...protect nonsmokers, including children, from secondhand smoke in most public places," and "These bills would not make the sale of tobacco illegal, bring government regulations into the home nor take away a smoker's right to choose to smoke." Yeah, right! How do you suppose they are going to protect nonsmokers and at the same time not take away a smoker's right to choose to smoke? They certainly have a long history of balancing those two haven't they? The fact is, in the name of "protecting nonsmokers," smokers are already systematically discriminated against for exercising their right to choose to smoke and have been ostracized from most public areas.

Legal Drug Pushers
Americans have become addicted to LEGAL drugs. Doctors gleefully prescribe and Americans swallow a pill for whatever ails them... from headaches to tummy aches, to combat depression or to improve our sex life... we're addicted to a legal drug culture! What hypocrisy to blame our health problems on the tobacco industry.
Perhaps, rather than looking into what influence China may have had in recent elections, maybe we should be looking at what influence pharmaceutical companies had.

Pharmaceuticals Revenues (millions of dollars)

The main product of these companies are drugs! Drugs for whatever ails you. Drugs for headaches, drugs for backaches, drugs for depression, drugs for allegies, drugs for asthma, drugs for heartburn, drugs for nasal congestion, drugs for impotence, drugs to control your child's behavior, drugs for hair loss, and yes, even drugs to help you stop smoking. Their smoking cessation plans include replacing tobacco with legal drugs. Crack cocaine or heroin might destroy your life, but what about drugs like Viagra, Ritalin, or Prozac?

Abolition of Individual Rights
The proposed tobacco settlement between the industry and the government was a massive assault on individual rights. Under its terms, the government would become the de facto owner of all the tobacco companies; the nominal owners will just follow Washington's orders. The tobacco settlement establishes a precedent for totalitarian control over legally functioning businesses. While maintaining a facade of private ownership, the government wants the control over every aspect of people's lives.
With the demise of the agreed tobacco settlement, the U.S. government has stepped forward with their own plan called the National Tobacco Policy and Youth Smoking Reduction Act whereby not only do they intrude into yet another American industry, but they raise taxes on the most vulnerable in our society to pay for it.

“We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.” - Justice William O. Douglas, 1966

To evade charges of violating the companies' freedom of speech, the government has coerced tobacco companies to "consent" — under threat of further extortion — to waive their constitutional rights. Advertising will be censored for content while the Marlboro Man and Joe Camel will be outlawed. The state will forbid tobacco companies from using outdoor advertising, sponsoring public events, imprinting their logos on non-tobacco products (such as T-shirts), or employing any color other than black in their print ads.

They say they don't care what adults do voluntarily as they make these choices as an adult. But they get angry when these things are pushed at children who haven't yet formed their own opinions. Huh?
I wonder where that argument is when the issue is abortion or homosexuality? Feminists and other liberals say a woman should have the right to kill an unwanted baby in her womb, but that same woman does not have the right to smoke a cigarette at work or in a restaurant? Liberal activists would say Little Johnny should have the right to have sex with little Bobby, but neither one of them are allowed to buy cigarettes?
Folks, it's not about your kids health! If you think it is, write me because I've got a bridge to sell you.

The liberal Children's Defense Fund (CDF) supports school-based clinics which shuttle pregnant girls to abortion mills without their parent's knowledge.
Clinton's now resigned lesbian AIDS czar, Kristine Gebbie, who was quoted by the Associated Press as saying, "[The United States] needs to view human sexuality as an essentially important and pleasurable thing. [Until it does so], we will continue to be a repressed, Victorian society that misrepresents information, denies sexuality early, denies homosexual sexuality particularly in teens.
Surely you remember Joyclyn Elders who wanted to teach children to masterbate, or Donna Shalala's dancing condoms on TV promoting to our youth so-called "safe-sex", or Hillary Clinton who said, "Children should have a right to be permitted to decide their own future if they are competent." "Decisions about motherhood and abortion, schooling, cosmetic surgery, treatment of venereal disease, or employment, and others where the decision or lack of one will significantly affect the child's future should not be made unilatrally by parents."
Right! And these are the people who want you to belive they care about your children. I for one don't buy it! They have another agenda besides your children.

Seems like everyone wants to get in on the control. New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani recently supported tougher rules for taxi drivers resulting in a day-long strike. Proposed rules included drug tests for drivers and bans on smoking.

These deceptive politicians pushing this fascist takeover of the tobacco industry says it promotes the "public good." Individual Americans are losing their right to make their own choices, allowing the government to decide what is good for us and forcing us to live accordingly. Smoking individuals don't have a gun pointed at their heads saying smoke or chew. They made the choice, and they should be responsible for that choice.
If we Americans continue to allow our government to justify this, what is next? Any product that can be used, or misused, in any way that conceivably threatens the "public good" could become a candidate for state takeover. Why shouldn't government regulate sunbathing and outlaw ads for beach resorts, on the grounds that sunlight can cause skin cancer? Why shouldn't Washington tell us what to eat, how to dress and when to exercise? Why shouldn't they — in order to protect us against ideas incompatible with the "public good" — dictate the content of books, movies and television shows? Who's next?

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