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Highlights

• Policy based on epidemiology is not based on scientific evidence but on statistical probabilities open to interpretation according to the agenda du jour.

• Much of the tobacco science has been manufactured to suit the tobacco control agenda.

• The tobacco control industry practices social engineering and indoctrination of the masses through emotional blackmail.

• After having exercised bullying control over the tobacco industry, tobacco control now targets the smoker.

• Tobacco Control advocates tout that it's all about the children but they never advocate for a legal smoking age for possession and use of tobacco. They curtail adult freedoms and choices instead .

• Tobacco Control advocates support and spread absurd notions such as third hand smoke and outdoor smoking being harmful to bystanders.

• Tobacco Control advocates believe and spread that 30 minutes of exposure to second hand smoke can cause a heart attack, when it takes at least 20 years, if ever, for a heavy smoker to get any disease suspected to have been caused by smoking.

• While underground mines, indoor parking garages and highly contaminated hospital rooms can be made safe through state of the art ventilation, the Tobacco Control industry spreads the notion that no ventilation system can effectively dissipate environmental tobacco smoke.

• The anti-tobacco industry consistently opposes any harm-reduced product unless it is marketed by Big Pharma.

• They keep perpetuating the belief that nicotine alone is what causes dependence. This hinders any serious research for many other possibilities on what makes people crave for tobacco.

• After a steady significant decrease in the last three decades, smoking prevalence has stagnated and even increased in some places ever since inane tobacco control campaigns and smoking bans replaced honest and respectful education.

• The Tobacco Control advocates have no problem throwing old, sick and frail people out into the elements... ‘’for their own good’’ .

• The Tobacco Control advocates support discrimination of employment for smokers even if they only smoke on their own time.

• The Tobacco Control Industry lobbies property owners and condominium boards to forbid smoking in one's own home.

• Many Tobacco Control advocates believe that smokers are not worthy of state funded healthcare.

• The Tobacco Control industry pushes for ever increasing taxes that serve in part to sustain their careers.

• The Tobacco Control industry violates private and intellectual property rights.

• The Tobacco Control industry believes they know what is good for business better than the business owners themselves.

• There are benefits to smoking.

• Tobacco Control advocates who don't agree with any or all of these tactics, become accomplices through their silence.

• What’s needed is a return to healthy skepticism, honest science, fairness, and common sense.