I have not focused on the health issues from tobacco for a while and it is time to climb back on the soapbox. Allan Bonner and I work together and it is great to see hiim using this issue on his iChannel TV program. I publish some of his books through Sextant a subsidiary of Cambridge Strategies Inc. Email me if you want details.
Why don't we place a ban on flavoured tobacco in Alberta to start? This is obviously designed to hook kids.
ReplyDeleteSome smokers who express a desire to quit are not motivated as much by concerns about health as by a desire to escape Tobacco Control's punitive measures. Does that concern you, at all? It ought to.
ReplyDeleteDecades ago, most ex-smokers I encountered were fervent evangelists for the anti-smoking movement. In recent years, I've encountered many ex-smokers who express anger and resentment toward anti-smoking groups and the punitive measures that made life so difficult for them they felt they had no choice but to give up smoking.
In your brief for Volunteer Alberta, on Bill 1, you expressed that increased cynicism toward "public good" organizations was a disaster for society. Can you not see that Tobacco Control's aggressiveness is generating this cynicism. I'm a case in point. As you know, I was once such a "true believer" in "the public good" that I've been a life-long bicycle commuter ( among other long-term committments). It was punitive Tobacco Control tactics that made me a cynic about "public good" movements & groups. Now, I'm even sceptical of environmental protection organizations because I know they have ties to Tobacco Control...