Interview by Smokers Against Discrimination
In October 2013 Michael J. McFadden, the author of 2004’s “Dissecting Antismokers’ Brains,” published a followup book, “TobakkoNacht — The Antismoking Endgame”. Mr. McFadden has been a long-term smokers’ rights (or, as he likes to phrase it, “Free Choice”) activist, and is the Mid-Atlantic Director of the Citizens Freedom Alliance and active in many volunteer groups around the world.
On Friday, December 6, 2013, Chris Sorochin of the State University of New York and its radio station WUSB, invited Michael J. McFadden, author of “TobakkoNacht — The Antismoking Endgame,” to speak on his weekly radio broadcast, “If This Be Treason.”
Leaping from examining published scientific studies, to personal observations, to individual stories of harms done by exaggerated fears of wisps of smoke, Sorochin and McFadden spend an interesting hour, with no commercial interruptions, exploring various facets of the social engineering “Endgame” being pursued by today’s Tobacco Control movement.?
Anyone who’s enjoyed reading Mike McFadden’s books and internet debates will want to take advantage of this opportunity to hear the author as he engages in a friendly and animated back and forth discussion of regulating outdoor smoking by students who are old enough to drive cars, carry guns as police officers, or even fly nuclear bombers over foreign countries, but who are not deemed to be old enough to make their own decisions about smoking tobacco.
Anyone interested in reading excerpts of McFadden’s writings, including over 10,000 words of excerpts from his newly published and critically acclaimed book, should visit his new site at
Jonathan and Christian, thank you for all the resurrecting of Smokers Club files! When the above article was written, Samantha and I did not have the site address set for TobakkoNacht, but it is now at http://TobakkoNacht.com if anyone reading this would like to visit. The file excerpts mentioned are under the image of the front cover at the Book Selections tab.
– MJM