tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post3702041118013317397..comments2023-10-17T15:56:22.827+01:00Comments on Velvet Glove, Iron Fist: A very large risk indeedChristopher Snowdonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15963753745009712865noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-75688154626185163962012-09-02T19:03:10.033+01:002012-09-02T19:03:10.033+01:00A comment posted on another site:
http://nannyingt...A comment posted on another site:<br />http://nannyingtyrants.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/professor-of-prohibition.html<br /><br />Daube, 2012: <i>“Extending restrictions on smoking in any environment so that it essentially becomes a practice only for consenting adults in private.”</i><br />http://theconversation.edu.au/bring-on-the-end-of-tobacco-use-but-not-a-total-ban-tomorrow-8881<br /><br />Godber, 1975: <i>“…but we ought to have reached a position where a relatively few addicts still use cigarettes, but only in private at most in the company of consenting adults.”</i><br /><br />Daube has been with the current antismoking crusade from the early days; he’s familiar with the overall plan – the Godber/WHO Blueprint. Although some are contemplating the “endgame”, the antismoking goal of the current crusade is not to ban the sale of tobacco. Rather, the plan has been to ban smoking in essentially all the places where people typically smoke, i.e., de facto prohibition. That way the zealots can claim that they are not “prohibitionists”; they are not trying to stop people from purchasing tobacco. It’s just that people won’t have anywhere that smoking can legally be undertaken.<br /><br />See the Godber Blueprint (there are also references to Daube)<br />http://www.rampant-antismoking.com<br /><br />In the 1970s, Godber and his buddies would have been happy if smokers were permitted – under force of law – to smoke only in private (i.e., homes). Unfortunately, there has been an addition to the Blueprint – smoking bans in apartments – where people cannot even smoke in private. It demonstrates that once a bigotry bandwagon is out of control, it is difficult to predict additional tangents, further ventures into derangement, onto which it will fling.<br />JohnBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05165051324276559561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-38653353350086837922012-09-02T10:14:54.009+01:002012-09-02T10:14:54.009+01:00A short, essentially one-sided documentary on Roxo...A short, essentially one-sided documentary on Roxon and her anti-tobacco stance. includes short appearances by Crapman and Herr Bloomberg:<br />http://www.abc.net.au/austory/specials/kickingthehabit/default.htm<br /><br />JohnBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05165051324276559561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585028625507474093.post-19780382778955516362012-09-01T13:10:13.684+01:002012-09-01T13:10:13.684+01:00It seems to be a sign of the decadence and exagger...It seems to be a sign of the decadence and exaggerated self importance of our cosseted western society that we obsess about the tiniest risks to ourselves whilst ignoring much more significant issues elsewhere in the world. <br /><br />I suppose that is why the "WHO" produces illiberal, totalitarian frameworks on tobacco /alcohol control and worries about mobile phones whilst diseases like TB and Malaria continue to devastate. Ivan Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18364023294207490403noreply@blogger.com