Pharma Created the “Second Hand Smoke Myth,” Bribed the Public Health Community and Academia, and the money started Pouring in.
Grant spongers in public health, in our universities, our once respected non profits, and our government, have to eat. They eat grants. The pro ban, individual freedom killing dog, has a long pharmaceutical tail and a ravenous appetite to expand their power and get more money.
When the CDC Foundation? was created to promote pharma interests, and give them control over deciding what public health risks are, and then to fund the studies, and promote government paying for their cures, (through the CDC) we lost any link between reality and public health.
When pro ban money comes into a town or a university, it devours common sense and common courtesy. It creates enemies, where there were none before. It alienates and isolates people. It funds bias from our media and researchers.
It demands that you believe their junk “studies” and “polls”. It demands that the City Council believes that there is a “health emergency”, which only they can stop by police action. That’s what a smoking ban is, a police action. The police will swarm into private businesses and ticket or arrest smoking adults and close small locally owned businesses who resist.
This isn’t just in bars and casinos, this will include privately owned auto repair shops, and old folks homes, where the elderly will be forced out into the snow and rain.
The tail is wagging the dog in St Joe. The tail reaches all the way to Atlanta and New Jersey and Washington. These places are where the money originates to keep that tail wagging. And to keep those pro ban tongues wagging! Those who received the money are making the noise.
Local advocates don’t even read the garbage they spout. They don’t care what the truth is. They are not paid to tell the truth, they are paid to get a smoking ban passed. And the truth does not fit into that agenda.
Most people do not know about how much the “private” business sector, is running our “public/private partnerships”. Public entities (health departments, state treasuries) who receive tax money, our tax money, to operate on our behalf, and in our interests, are now so completely mixed with drug company money, that it is almost impossible to tell WHOM these people are working for!
And our tax paid employees certainly don’t care where money comes from. ALL money is good money to them, it seems. We will never be able to pay them what they think they are worth! And the more laws they push, the bigger they get. Like a blood filled tick on the pro ban dog. Only this tick NEVER gets enough, and it NEVER falls off!
