Dear sir:
Many businesses and smokers in Dr. Peter Sarsfield’s “zone” are fuming mad—and fighting back to stop his dictatorship. Dr. Sarsfield is saying democracy be damned because it has, so far, failed to achieve his goals.
Democracy is not the only thing failing its job here.
Public health offices in Canada are failing to fulfill their mandate to protect the public from everything—except tobacco. West Nile Virus, pesticides, Norwalk Virus, hepatitis, chlamydia, mycobacterium abscessus, tuberculosis, toxic dumps, air pollution, depression, poverty, and a very long list of others.
What about unemployment? That’s a really big public health hazard! And what about water!? Two-and-a-half years after the Walkerton disaster, 196 of 405 (or almost half of the water plants in Ontario) still fail provincial standards.
Why? Mostly because health units are all starved for funding, and, the real polluters and the anti-smokers prefer that we all believe the illnesses and deaths are all caused by tobacco smoke.
But instead of doing their jobs on all these other far, far worse hazards, public health offices are waging war on tobacco. Why, and how can they afford to?
First, because the anti-smokers are not succeeding democratically in widespread acceptance of 100 percent smoking bans. They only have convinced 50-60 of more than 4,000 municipalities to dictate smoking bans so far.
So they are using public health offices to eliminate the democratic process, and enact Orwellian “1984” dictatorship.
Second, the local health unit offices, starved for funding, probably are accepting funding from the anti-smokers in basically two ways: unrecorded direct cash transactions, which could explain where the anti-smoking funding goes, and via junk science funding programs (which so many underfunded and otherwise unemployed so-called scientists, researchers, and medical persons are more than happy to say and do whatever the money-sources want them to say and do for the paycheques).
Let’s remember where all that money comes from, eh.
This is not just about tobacco, either. It’s about all lifestyle freedoms. When “they” are finished with us, they’ll come after you! They’ll have to—to keep the money flowing to their paycheques.
Which would be paid very willingly and gladly, if only “they” would fight the real problems we all face.
So, it begs the big question—why don’t they?
(Signed),
Stephen Hartwell
SmokersRightsCanada.Org
1274 York Mills Rd. # 707,
Toronto, Ont., M3A 1Z1
(1-416-447-5728)
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