Perspective on Free Speech

Bob and All Supporters of Freedom of Death by Smoking. 

 

I have long proclaimed the Human Race to be insane!  This latest ad fight proves it.  The FDA is going to battle to the finish for the right to force tobacco companies to put horror pictures on their cigarette packages. 

Something is wrong with this picture.  We're talking about a product that has no redeeming value and contains known addictive drugs, and more to the point it kills people who use it over long periods of time. 

The real issue here is not whether we are curtailing freedom of speech, it is whether or not we are failing to protect our children from an addictive poison.  Wouldn't one wonder if we shouldn't be forcing such poisons off the market rather than decorating the packages with gross pictures? 

We go to great lengths to be sure no harmful contaminates are in our food, but we turn around and look the other way when folks light up and suck poison into their lungs?  And we say, "it's their choice."  Bull!  Once addicted it's no longer their choice.  It's their compulsion, their craving that must be satisfied. 

I spent too many years as an addict not to know all the little defenses we addicts put up to protect our habit. 

These tobacco companies are not to be compared with the likes of Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck.  They are not just slinging mud and behaving like crude 10 year olds.  They are Drug Dealers!  They are promoting death in little white cylinders.  They spent many years lying to Americans about their product, even showing Santa Clause puffing away.  They bribed stars to push their death and they sponsored many family radio and TV programs. 

And shame on the states that took the dirty hush money from the tobacco pushers, and excused themselves by saying the money would pay for treatment centers and ads warning people about the hazards of smoking.  We took their money and allowed them to continue spreading their death.  We are either mentally ill or really stupid. 

End of rant. 

Curious Carl