Tax

Here is one of the best examples I can offer in what your taxes are purchasing.
Just because you smoke
Indefensible in any perspective you can imagine.
Do you really know what they are selling you with a Government seal of approval?
Chlorinated parts of typical cigs.
· The paper.
· About a third of the 450 tobacco pesticides...about two doz. pesticide residues per cig...about a third of them, one estimates, are chlorinated.
· Any of the many agricultural products in the list of non-tobacco additives.
· Likely ALL of the non-tobacco cellulose materials used to make fake-tobacco. This includes the Loblolly pine, which may be contaminated pine waste. (I thought they just ground up trees to make the paper-like stuff they...and our media and officials AND phony "anti smoking" groups call "Tobacco".)
This study was cited by Lois Gibbs in her book, “Dying from Dioxin”. The Environmental Protection Agency’s 1995 “Re-evaluating Dioxin” cited this study as well. Both pointed out that studies are scarce. This could be due to widespread influence of chlorine industries. The EPA, in “Re-evaluating Dioxin”, acknowledged that dioxins are not considered likely in nature (i.e., not in tobacco) but are from man-made (Dow-invented) chlorine. Note also that, according to Green peace dioxin experts, inhalation of incinerated dioxins presents a health risk over a thousand times greater than other exposure routes. Still legal in cigarettes.
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Don’t you believe for a moment the Government is not profiting handsomely for your “Sin taxes”. More appropriately coined special billing for healthcare according to the politicians illegal if you respect the rules of the Canada Health act which all parties in Canada swear are sacred. A sin used to refer to an immoral or illegal act not simply purchasing and under the tort contract in the agreement to purchase the legal product a right to use it. Many who smoke started when it was normal everywhere anyone could smoke without restriction. Now the rules are changing for lifetime smokers with a very difficult habit to break and for many a habit they do not wish to break after all the government as a majority partner in cigarettes making the most profit from selling them to you never indicated at some point they would punish you for using this legal product. Now they want to change the rules and ally themselves with another industry and stab their own partner in the back. They will not punish the partner in fact they will punish you. Demanding you use the other companies product or mercenaries will be paid your own tax contributions to make your life miserable. For 6 Million Canadians your own government has chosen you, to be the focal point of a hate and smear campaign. Teaching your own children in school to look down upon you as you harm others, smell like dog crap and kill defenseless babies, with only theoretic proof to substantiate the claims. The reality is theoretic or no proof at all, they never cared if any proof would ever be found, they committed to the US industry controlled World health Organization in a contract. A commitment to undermine Provincial authority and through three general elections since, hid the fact that contract existed, denying the public a chance to decide a major issue and a campaign to divide us once again in a promotion of hate. The opposition parties do not walk away from this clean it was their responsibility to inform you as well they too held their piece apparently amused in league with the give the smokers another kick mentality popular among the media groups. All parties amused apparently by the inappropriate hate campaign of a government against their own citizens.
Show me the money
Believe it or not on your dime they provide prospective lobby group partners the tools to organize and finance lobbies of their own so Government can pay them to lobby against you in the ever growing Health scam network all paid for with your taxes. If this is not criminal what ever could be, in respect to a government at war with the population they have sworn to serve. It gets confusing here can you see this as an effort of service, or a turn of the tables.
Training the partners in organized crime
If hospitality workers demand protection, make them wear safety equipment like any other trade where a danger is perceived to exist. Steel toe boots and hardhats are acceptable precautions why did we not ban sharp objects or the forces of gravity? As for the general public if they wish to avoid cigarette smoke, placing a sign on the door will suffice in warnings where smoke may be encountered. When larger dangers exist in outdoor air the futility of smoking bans becomes laughable. Simple ideas do serve well if common sense and credible science were allowed to prevail. If smoking does cause such a degree of death and destruction, why has the government not banned it decades ago? Pot smoking was banned although no such dangers have been claimed allowing for the profits of organized crime to flourish while the cost of policing and incarcerations soared. Perhaps in keeping with the stability of government; respect needs to be maintained. In that light how could a government admit the causes of cancers and smoking related diseases might be actually more strongly related to other causes and Government actions. The identity of those causes might prove expensive to those really producing the devastation and to political support of those holding the bulk of the wealth and favors owed through philanthropy. If people started to realize how little control governments really have, many would question why should we continue to pay taxes or listen to the rule of law, when those laws are seen to be products for sale to the highest bidder.
Smokers need to wake up, the answer to their plight was there all along; start asking politicians how you could possibly defend such inhumane attitudes toward law abiding friends and neighbors in self gratuitous promotion of sin taxes and industry protections. If smoking is to be seen as not normal so too should government be forced to break a lot of their bad habits. It is time Political parties were sued for misleading advertising and be made to pay for the mishandling of Trillions of dollars over the years lining the pockets of their friends and reinventing the rules as they go. If they are not stopped and punished the problem will only grow regardless of who is at the helm. The Human rights commission refuses to acknowledge complaints have been made and by ignoring those complaints, they avoid what they know to be an indictable offense. Join the chorus and demand action keep up the pressure long enough and they will be forced to act, put the Canadian government on trial in front of the world.
Smokers beyond the value of theoretic research can show real sound evidentiary proof Tobacco plays a small role in what are claimed to be smoking related diseases despite what the current witch hunt slogans and ad agency preparations have inspired. For evaluation of the present, we can look to the proof in historical context to illustrate the huge inconsistencies in what is being promoted.

In the 1950s in the UK and later by the American surgeon general the claims Tobacco is the root cause of all major diseases in the industrialized world. With this in mind why was the industry allowed to grow while little complaint or restrictions of ingredients were established for the following 55 years? Has the Government been negligent in their duty to protection of it’s citizens or are they already aware the public perception in harm assessment is dead wrong? With the invention of smoking bans, no common sense or degree of intelligence can explain; with the levels of concentrations consumed, how can the danger to non-smokers be greater than the danger to smokers without considerable manipulation of scientific opinion? Too many inconsistencies with too little explanations beyond the attack of the curious as an industry, advocate while the ban fans consistently direct themselves to the benefit of the Tobacco industry while punishing the victims.

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