When recently taking a pause that refreshes, I thought this was a Health Canada promotion.But no, it's actually an ad for Player's cigarettes, taken over by our nanny state.
Recently a newspaper columnist (from the Toronto Star, no less! - a smoker though) railed against increased attempts at social engineering by the Ontario Government in that they (...we) will now fund smoking cessation products.
Their message: Smokers are addicted - and generally bad people - and must be made to quit.
She said, essentially, just give me the cash and enough already with virtually criminalizing smokers. If smokes are that bad, then make them illegal.
Ahh....but that's where the government is addicted. And extremely hypocritical.
The Ontario government, she says, is even worse than the Roman Catholic Church; "the...Church, on the subject of homosexuality, always says condemn the sin, love the sinner. The reverse is true for us: Condemn the smoker but don’t criminalize the smokes."
To show the absurdity of our attempts to further demonize smokers, she says the government "can charge an adult for smoking in the car with minors present but can’t charge the minor for smoking in the same car." The minimum age only concerns the purchase of tobacco, not use. Ha.
One more from her. She said if she'd been smart, rather than a smoker, she would have become a dope fiend or an alcoholic. "The nanny state loves drunkards and smackheads. Their addictions support throngs of intervenors — doctors, nurses, social workers, cops, judges, lawyers and posh detox facility staff." You go, girl!
She ends with a flourish; "The argument that smokers put undue strain on our health system has no traction with me, not until universal medical care is denied to piehole-stuffing fat people, the promiscuous, the bareback riders, the booze-hounds, the drug addicts and anyone else whose lifestyle choices put them at risk. Do you really want to go down that road?"
Right on.
So when do I see gory warnings on Big Macs?
5 comments:
WOW Rosie got you all riled up?? The fact is it doesn't matter what you put on packaging ... when your an addicted smoker your firing it up. Some smokers (not to mention of names) act like its almost good for you. Even tho we know its certain eventual cause of death. I would assume big Mac attacks have a similar result and those that pound them likely wouldn't care what the wrapper said. Similarly if your going to eat one, you have made that decision by buying one. I wouldn't expect a fat man to slow down to read the fine print. Nor would I expect a smoker to read anything in a craving frenzy...and that is why my friend we are all climbing the stairway to heaven.
or tripping down the escalator to Hell.
Exactly, Joe. These scare tactics are all a bunch of crap. Let the Average Joe decide - not the government - if he wants to aim for heaven or hell.
Either the bad habit kills you or the stress of worrying IF you have bad habits (what isn't these days?) kills you....it's a no win situation. So pick your poisin, pardner!
They are just trying to balance the endless pro-smoking/drinking/doping/bad eating/sex focus of all the media - movies, TV, music, advertising, newspapers, magazines, books, blogs, facebook, etc. - pathetic as their attempts are...
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