Dear Editor,
July 18th’s article on Madison’s smoking ban carried no surprises for those of us around the country fighting the hugely powerful lobbying force of Anti smoking extremists.
One bar may close after 32 years in business, another has their revenues down 60%, two others complain about the nonexistent surge of nonsmokers that they were told would suddenly pour into their establishments.
Anyone with internet access who visited the Ban Losses section of SmokersClubInc.com over the past year or so would have seen hundreds of similar examples in communities where big money and TV advertising forced bans on local bars and restaurants.
The promises made by the Antismoking Lobby about the aftereffects of bans are simple lies designed to discourage resistance until it’s too late. Then once local bans are in place they tell another lie: the pain will all be gone once you have the “level playing field” of a statewide ban.
The lies extend beyond the economic effects though: most of what people are being told about the “dangers” of normal exposures to secondary smoke are lies as well.
To this date there has never been a single study supporting the concept that the low levels of smoke encountered in modern, well-ventilated businesses has killed ANYone, much less the thousands that are claimed.
Studies condemning secondary smoke are almost always based either on decades of concentrated and relatively unventilated exposure or upon experimental chamber conditions with unrealistically intense smoke levels and the measurements performed are of “biomarkers” that have little literal health meaning.
Madison’s Antismokers and the big groups funding them funding them have destroyed the lives and businesses of real individuals for the sake of a social engineering goal guised in the cloak of “protecting workers’ health.”
Those workers will find themselves distinctly less healthy as they try to support their families on unemployment checks unless Madison does something about an extremist and unnecessary ban law.
Sincerely,
Michael J. McFadden
Author of “Dissecting Antismokers’ Brains”
