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The text
of the EU advertising ban decision
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October 8, 2000 -
"Last Thursday's
decision by the European Court of Justice, annulling the 1998 EU Tobacco Ad Ban Directive
was not only correct , but is a reminder of the importance of the Rule of Law , and of the
Principle of Subsidiarity. It should also serve as a lesson to those who would knowingly
try to circumvent the law that it is not acceptable to attain their desired goals, by
claiming that the 'the ends justifies the means'." For further information about
the decision,
click here.
The decision of the United States Supreme Court on the FDA authority to
regulate tobacco - March 21, 2000 -
The American people won a major victory when the United States Supreme Court upheld the
Constitution by ruling that the Food and Drug Administration does not have the authority
to regulate tobacco. The 5 to 4 decision is a stinging rebuke to President Clinton,
who hoped to include the FDA's regulation of tobacco in his rapidly evaporating
legacy. The ruling is also a huge disappointment for the Pharmaceutical Industry
which wants tobacco to be regulated and ultimately prohibited, thereby rendering the
nicotine market a monopoly for the big drug corporations.
The satisfaction over this ruling must be tempered with concern that four of
the nine justices sided with the Clinton administration and have no problem with
un-elected bureaucrats hijacking the government. With the next president likely to
appoint at least three members of the Supreme Court, the election this year takes on an
added importance. Al Gore was a party to the FDA's intrusion into legislative
politics and was a cheerleader for the agency's rules and regulations. The prospect
of this shameless demagogue appointing new Supreme Court justices is ominous for the
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The complaint of the United States cartel
- Not satisfied with the over 200 billion dollars stolen from the pockets of
American smokers, anti-tobacco gangsters want to rob much more:
"U.S. Plans Massive Tobacco Civil Suit" The Washington Post reports,
"The Justice Department plans to file a mammoth civil lawsuit against the major
tobacco companies as early as today, alleging that cigarette smoking costs the federal
government billions of dollars annually in health-related expenses and seeking to recover
those funds on behalf of taxpayers, sources familiar with the matter said yesterday."
' "They are trying to do in the courts what they weren't able to do through
legislation. They tried to impose burdensome tax increases on the sale of cigarettes, and
Congress rejected that effort. Now, they are trying to use the court system to essentially
impose a tax," said Gregory Little, associate general counsel of Philip Morris USA,
the nation's largest tobacco company. '
"The true reality is this will be a difficult case. The charges are serious. And
the claims have substantial merit. But no one knows how this lawsuit's going to come out.
For the tobacco industry, this is Russian roulette. If they lose, they lose big,"
says an anti-tobacco gang operative.
True, for a change. But if the industry wins, will the anti-tobacco scum be wiped off
the face of the US, and will its operatives face trial and jail for their endless and
unspeakable frauds? This document requires Acrobat Reader.
The Australian Federal Court: Justice Finn's decision on ETS - The total silence of major North American media on
virtually any information that could be used against the political agenda of the
international anti-tobacco cartel is truly astonishing. The Australian National Health
& Medical Research Council was taken to task by the tobacco industry for deliberately
suppressing scientific evidence. Justice Finn's findings were eloquent. Justice Finn
made subsequent orders that the recommendations contained in the draft report on the
estimated costs to the community of passive smoking, and for the elimination of
environmental tobacco smoke in public places be taken out, as those
recommendations could not be inferred from the evidence contained in the report. For
more comments & info,
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The assault upon liberty and dignity
- In this passionate address, history professor Alan Charles Kors strikes out against the
repressive and destructive official "group-think" that prevails on American
campuses today, a trend that "has entailed a denial of the only authentic meaning
of liberation: the right to individuate free of external coercion and impositions. It has
intruded upon the sanctity of self-definition and private conscience."
Charlton Heston's 'culture war' speech at Harvard
- Among the most powerful speeches on freedom since the 60s.
The Agreement of Shame - The text of the
agreement between the tobacco industry and the anti-tobacco cartel.
The full text of the US Federal Court decision on FDA's authority to
regulate tobacco - The historical decision that dealt a
great blow to the anti-tobacco cartel.
The Osteen decision
- The U.S. federal court judgment that struck down the infamous EPA report on secondhand
smoke.
Transcript of the speech of Mr. Goldstone at the National Press Club on
April 8, 1998 declaring the tobacco deal "dead" - Unrevised speech of Mr. Goldstone from RJ Reynolds on
April 8, 1998. This is the date when the historical tobacco "deal" was declared
dead, among the relief of many industries, smokers, and politicians.
The tobacco deal
- We link with the site of USA TODAY to give you access to the text of the now dead
original US tobacco "settlement" the most shameful deal in the history of the
United States. It represented both the ultimate betrayal of the tobacco companies to their
bread and butter -- the smokers -- and the most appalling triumph of a predatory system on
a private industry. This deal was also the ultimate triumph of a line of politics based
largely on false evidence on smoking. It constituted a precedent for preying on other
industries, and provides the terrible evidence that who uses defamation, perjury, and
misrepresentation in North America makes it to the top, instead of going to jail where he
belongs.
Three Articles from The National Center for
Policy Analysis
The National Center for Policy Analysis is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research
institute, funded exclusively by private contributions. The NCPA originated the concept of
the Medical IRA (which has bipartisan support in Congress) and merit pay for school
districts (adopted in South Carolina and Texas). Many credit NCPA studies of the Medicare
surtax as the main factor leading to the 1989 repeal of the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage
Act.
It is clear that the NCPA, among many other very authoritative voices, warned the
Clinton Administration about the misinformation and twisting of reality performed by the
antismoking junta. Notwithstanding that, and totally blind to any evidence, the White
House & gang decided to proceed with the extorsion of smokers to implement their dirty
agenda to balance the budget with the money of the lower classes.
Cigarette arithmetic (1997)
Do Higher cigarette taxes make sense?
(1994)
Cigarette taxes outweight cost of smokers
(1997)
Thomas Bliley's, 1993: EPA and Environmental Tobacco Smoke: science or
politics? - US Rep. Tom Bliley, R-Va, seems to have
recently switched side, and jumped on the antismoking bandwagon. Has Mr. Bliley decided
that it was time to jump ship and subscribe to the sick antismoking agenda and philosophy,
or is it just a political maneuvre with a hidden agenda? We do not know. His past record
has always been on the side of reason, as this powerful piece demonstrates. In fact, it
denouces with unescapable logic the famous Report on Passive Smoking, so much used by the
antismoking cartel.
The testimony of Gray Robertson, president Healthy Buildings International
Inc. before the subcommittee on health and the environment committee on
energy and commerce U.S. House of Representatives - In 1994, the
president of a company specializing in indoor air quality addressed the U.S. Congress to
take issue with the skewed assumptions of the anti-smoking lobby. In this testimony, he
challenges an EPA claim that $8 billion in building maintenance costs would be saved if
smoking were eliminated. And he puts smoking into the context of general indoor air
quality concerns: "...smoke, from the perspective of a ventilation engineer, is a
relatively easy component of the indoor air to manage. Microbes, with their incredible
capacity to reproduce, coupled to their ability to lie dormant over long periods, are much
harder to control. Furthermore, for every building where we have encountered tobacco smoke
problems we have experienced tenfold that number of buildings with microbial
contamination."
The testimony on global warming from Dr. Richard Lindzen - Lies and junk
science not limited to the tobacco issue - Read the
testimony of Dr. Richard Lindzen (one of the world's foremost experts on climate
science) which he presented before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works,
June 10, 1997. He shows how the "Union of Concerned Scientists" (an
environmental outfit) misrepresented a report, and also how Dr. Lindzen's name was used on
this report "against my expressed wishes." It was made to appear that
2500 scientists "all agree with whatever it is that the environmental advocates
are claiming." For example, Dr. Lindzen says the global warming document was "deeply
biased insofar as it took as its task the finding of global warming rather than the more
objective approach of determining whether it is indeed a significant problem."
Exactly what the EPA did in its 1992 report on ETS! They decided a priori that ETS is
harmful (and therefore used a one-sided instead of a two-sided test) -- instead of looking
to see IF it is. In other words, EPA set out to prove that it was.
House
Committee on
Energy
and Commerce
- Health and
Environment
subcommittee - Statement of Hon. Thomas J. Bliley, Jr. July 21,
1993
- "EPA's willingness to distort the science in order to justify its
classification of ETS as a "Group A" or "known human" carcinogen seems
to stem from the Agency's determination early on to advocate smoking bans and restrictions
as a socially desirable goal." "...Not surprisingly, therefore, the process at
every turn has been characterized by both scientific and procedural irregularities."
"...The ETS risk assessment is far from an isolated example of EPA's approach to the
use of science in policy making. The Agency's propensity to scare the public first and ask
scientific questions later is both notorious and well-documented."
THE FARCE OF THE FLORIDA TRIAL:
THE SENTENCE ESTABLISHED BEFORE THE BEGINNING
In Florida, the antismoking mobs have used the power of the state to stage the most
false trial in the history of the United States. The selection of the jurors? Non-smokers
only. The line of defense of the tobacco industry? Eliminated by altering the law... No
smoker knew that tobacco had the potential to harm your health, didn't you know? No one
except the tobacco companies, that is! When our great-grand fathers were saying that
"tobacco may be bad for you", they were obviously dreaming!
The level of prostitution of both politics and judicial system in North America have
reached such a level, they can no longer guarantee fairness and justice. The citizen and
the corporation is totally unprotected, and one can only hope not to fall into the
system's "disfavour". The European and South American dictators used to stage
trials in which the verdict was already established by the politicians to
"prove" the guilt of their opponents, extort their assets, and convince the
population that their position was legitimate. No difference here, except one: at the
time, very few were stupid enough to believe it.
July 31, 1997:
Florida judge bars evidence state knew of tobacco risks; rules that state need
not prove essential elements of its case
August 1, 1997:
Confirmed injustice for the business community: Florida's business community
goes on trial, says associated industries of Florida |
