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== Claims about the opposition == | == Claims about the opposition == | ||
| − | The Tobacco Control industry believes in a Go(o)d called "physical health". Serving their God requires | + | The Tobacco Control industry believes in a Go(o)d called "physical health". Serving their God requires accepting the belief that "the end justifies the means". Any other issue that affects physical well-being (social, economic, mental) is subject to their God and subordinate to it. |
| − | + | The basis for coherence within the TC sect is similar to that of dictatorial regimes and totalitarian religions throughout history (e.g. Soviet insistence on Lysenkoism in Stalin's era, or Catholicism in the time of the Inquisition): create an outside enemy, a "Devil" that threatens your group and gives you an excuse to demand unquestioning acceptance of your actions and principles. Once you have declared someone or something as The Devil, you don't have to argue anymore. | |
===External Devil=== | ===External Devil=== | ||
| − | Every religion | + | Every religion has its personification of Evil, a devil. It's written in their bible, written in blood: it's the truth, the whole and only truth about any opposition. The Devil appears in many disguises, but true believers recognize the Devil immediately, even if they have never met that disguise before. |
| − | In this | + | In this manner, Tobacco Control shows the same behaviour as a religion: everyone who is against them MUST be a personification of the Devil and is supported by Evil, even if you cannot prove it. |
| − | So bar owners are an | + | So bar owners are an embodiment of the Devil, smokers are the Devil in disguise and dissenters within the Tobacco Control movement are expelled as being tobacco industry dupes or stooges. |
| − | If you smell like | + | If you "smell" like the Devil, you ARE the Devil. |
| − | And for | + | And for Tobacco Control, the Devil is the tobacco industry, commonly known as Big Tobacco BT). |
===Internal Devil=== | ===Internal Devil=== | ||
| − | Religions also have their internal Devils, sect members | + | Religions also have their internal Devils, sect members whose faith in essential doctrines of their Bible or Red Booklet have been shaken because they have started thinking for themselves and arrived at their own contrary conclusions about the real world. And these internal Devils always need to be expelled from the coherent core group before others might listen to their voices and doubt the word of the Bible. |
| + | Dr. Michael Siegel, a well-known and respected Tobacco Control advocate throughout the 1990s, devoted an entry on his blog site to describing how expelling dissenters works in TC:[http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.nl/2006/11/anti-smoking-groups-hone-their-tactics.html]: | ||
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| + | #Accuse the Dissenter of Supporting the Tobacco Industry | ||
#Accuse the Dissenter of Being Paid Off by the Tobacco Industry | #Accuse the Dissenter of Being Paid Off by the Tobacco Industry | ||
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#Accuse the Dissenter of Helping to Kill People | #Accuse the Dissenter of Helping to Kill People | ||
#Implore All Anti-Smoking Groups and Advocates to Ignore the Dissenter | #Implore All Anti-Smoking Groups and Advocates to Ignore the Dissenter | ||
| − | #Censor the Dissenter by Removing Him from All Internet and Email Listserves and Discussion Forums | + | #Censor the Dissenter by Removing Him from All Tobacco Control Internet and Email Listserves and Discussion Forums |
Revision as of 03:44, 13 June 2012
Claims about the opposition
The Tobacco Control industry believes in a Go(o)d called "physical health". Serving their God requires accepting the belief that "the end justifies the means". Any other issue that affects physical well-being (social, economic, mental) is subject to their God and subordinate to it.
The basis for coherence within the TC sect is similar to that of dictatorial regimes and totalitarian religions throughout history (e.g. Soviet insistence on Lysenkoism in Stalin's era, or Catholicism in the time of the Inquisition): create an outside enemy, a "Devil" that threatens your group and gives you an excuse to demand unquestioning acceptance of your actions and principles. Once you have declared someone or something as The Devil, you don't have to argue anymore.
External Devil
Every religion has its personification of Evil, a devil. It's written in their bible, written in blood: it's the truth, the whole and only truth about any opposition. The Devil appears in many disguises, but true believers recognize the Devil immediately, even if they have never met that disguise before.
In this manner, Tobacco Control shows the same behaviour as a religion: everyone who is against them MUST be a personification of the Devil and is supported by Evil, even if you cannot prove it.
So bar owners are an embodiment of the Devil, smokers are the Devil in disguise and dissenters within the Tobacco Control movement are expelled as being tobacco industry dupes or stooges.
If you "smell" like the Devil, you ARE the Devil.
And for Tobacco Control, the Devil is the tobacco industry, commonly known as Big Tobacco BT).
Internal Devil
Religions also have their internal Devils, sect members whose faith in essential doctrines of their Bible or Red Booklet have been shaken because they have started thinking for themselves and arrived at their own contrary conclusions about the real world. And these internal Devils always need to be expelled from the coherent core group before others might listen to their voices and doubt the word of the Bible.
Dr. Michael Siegel, a well-known and respected Tobacco Control advocate throughout the 1990s, devoted an entry on his blog site to describing how expelling dissenters works in TC:[1]:
- Accuse the Dissenter of Supporting the Tobacco Industry
- Accuse the Dissenter of Being Paid Off by the Tobacco Industry
- Accuse the Dissenter of Helping to Kill People
- Implore All Anti-Smoking Groups and Advocates to Ignore the Dissenter
- Censor the Dissenter by Removing Him from All Tobacco Control Internet and Email Listserves and Discussion Forums
