They're Lying About Smoking (As Usual)

The web site, www.smokefree.gov is a thinly disguised effort BY THE GOVERNMENT to get people to stop smoking. They run ads on TV lying about illnesses “caused by smoking.” There is NO PROOF that ANY of those stories are true. Like the obese woman lying in her bed being bathed by, supposedly, her son, who says she’s there “because of smoking.” . . .NOT! She’s there because of being way too FAT. She must be all of 400, maybe 500 pounds. She may have smoked in the past, but I doubt it caused her problems. Another man shows us his open heart surgery scar and blames THAT on smoking. I doubt it. I have a similar scar and I quit smoking 25 to 30 years ago. They SAY you get immediate relief after quitting, then later attribute many illnesses that have nothing to do with smoking to smoking. It’s a scam to con people into quitting. But, like most of their scams, when you do, tobacco tax revenues go down and they get all “worried” and increase prices, as the water company does when we respond to their pleas and reduce our water use. Then they raise our water rates “because of lower revenues. It’s a common ruse the government uses. (Smoke Free)