Concord Times (Freetown)
2 June 2008
World Health Organization (WHO) has urged governments to protect the world's 1.8 billion young people by imposing a ban on all tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship.
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What you said makes no sense whatsoever. Do you believe in freedom of choice at all? It is no ones place to take away somebody's free will. If a person wants to make a decision that doesn't harm a third party, so be it, that is their choice and nobody but them can make it. Even if there was a ban on tobacco altogether, how would one go about enforcing it? In case you didn't know, prohibition does not work, it never has. If this law would pass, there would be an absurd number of people rotting in jail for something that is no crime. During American prohibition, did anyone stop drinking? No, the drinking rates skyrocketed. Did making marijuana and other drugs stop the use of them? Absolutely not. The tobacco companies don't make anybody smoke, its the personal decisions of the masses. Think for yourself.
Do you know the cost to society of all those sick and dying smokers? How much do you think it costs for all of us to pay medical insurance costs for the hundreds of thousands of smokers admitted to hospitals every year? Don't you think every smoker is violating my right to affordable health insurance for my family?
Sick and dying smokers violating Your right to affordable health insurance? The opposite is true but don't let the facts stand in Your way to oppose the use of tobacco by others. The WHO led charge financed by Pharmaceutical Multinational companies directly and indirectly evolved into a witch hunt in Canada against smokers. Also in some parts of the U.S. Please visit; www. Forces International to get an ideal of what is ahead for those who blindly believe the good intentions of WHO.
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Sierra Leone is indeed a world leader for billions of children who have and will cried of pain and loss of mothers and fathers because the tobacco companies disrespect human life on this planet.
If terrorist were responsible for killing as many people as the tobacco companies there would certainly be another world war to end this atrosity against the human race.
The tobacco company CEOs have no shame, they are the demonics of the blue planet. Evil in its highest form as they knowingly produce an addictive poision for profit.
Every major leader on this planet, if they are not doing what Sierra Leone is doing, is a silent partner in killings, i.e., the billions of deaths of the future world's 1.8 billion young people.
Don't feel alone Sierra Leone as millions upon millions of the common folk throughout the world celebrate your brave and honorable decision for LIFE over "death" or legalized and slow killing of innocient human beings. Larry
I have said many times that if the tobacco companies TRULY do not wish to 'hook' young smokers (an obvious lie, since it would eliminate their business), they would support a law I have proposed. This year - no change in the minimum age required to buy/possess tobacco. Next year - the minimum age to buy/possess tobacco increases by one year to 19. The following year - the minimum age to buy/possess tobacco increases by one year to 20, and so on. It is very simple. In no more than 70 years or so, all existing smokers would be dead either from cancer or other smoking related diseases, or natural causes. At that time, tobacco could simply be outlawed. Case closed.