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“What
would you try to do if you knew
you couldn’t fail?”
I’ll bet you to the man that the answer will always be the
same. Quit smoking. Let’s face it. Every smoker wants to do it. We know
it’s
not a smart thing to do and we are all afraid of what will happen if we
continue to do it. Yet the people who make and market the cigarettes
know that
the human mind will rationalize fear and logic as well as our actions
or inactions. That is a
very important thing to know about the tobacco industry. They think
we’re
stupid, unmotivated people. Fear and logic will not motivate us. And
they know
that.But, as I finally discovered after 40 years, anger will. Get mad and you will develop the will to act. To do something. Here are some exaggerated examples: The Japanese attack Tobacco
is the only product that is legally marketed today
that will
kill you if used as directed!
Any
reasons the governments give
us for
allowing
this to happen are rationalizations if not outright lies. Let’s face
it,
when it comes to politics and business it's really only all about
politics and business. We are
just
the poor schmucks who vote, pay taxes and spend money. Any reasons the
governments give for treating the tobacco companies as good corporate
citizens
are simply not acceptable. The tobacco industry has killed far more
people
than Hitler and Stalin combined yet all the government does is punish
the victims
and reward the perpetrators by treating them like good corporate
citizens. Legitimate businesses that are allowed to write off their
marketing expenses
and their addiction research. It lets them create health costs that
non-smokers must pay for. It lets them recruit our children into their
customer base. That's crazy!Neither the government nor the tobacco industry will feel one bit of your pain. They will not help you when you get cancer or die too young. They did nothing for Johnny Carson when he died of emphysema except say, “Gee, isn’t that too bad. And he was such a great entertainer too." The tobacco industry lost a customer and the government lost a taxpayer. The plain simple fact of the matter is that the tobacco industry must ‘recruit’ young people to take up the habit. They must get them before they turn 21 because if they don’t get them by then the odds are that they will never get them. Think about it. How many people do you know over the age of 21 who started smoking? The only guy I know who did was in prison when he started. If the tobacco industry's marketing plans to capture the youth market did not exist, the smoking problem would disappear in twenty to thirty years. The tobacco industry cannot and will not let this happen and they will go to incredible lengths to stop it. (Watch the movie, "The Insider.") Telling the truth about their plans is something that will never happen. Smoking cessation products don’t work by themselves. The actual statistics are not published because they would not encourage you to buy their products. I have only heard vague numbers like: 95% of all the people who try these products end up still smoking. The smoking-cessation business is a billion dollar a year business. Pretty soon people will be spending more money trying to quit smoking than they will be spending on the actual cigarettes themselves! Knowing the information that is in my book; Free At Last! and deciding to continue to smoke is not the action of a sane person. That’s tough stuff to hear but I'd rather say these things and make you uncomfortable than not say them and see you and your children suffer at the hands of these horrible people. As the guy in the movie "Network" said, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore." What are
you going to do?
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