Freedom of choice, what a joke

The smoking ban that was enacted by the Work Environment Committee and the Academic Senate that took effect this semester, has little to do with how environmentally aware we are. but what is on the minds of those who enacted the ban.

The WEC and Academic Senate are comprised of like-minded individuals with a totalitarian agenda to get you to stop smoking for good.

Why did the anti-smoking zealots do it?

Hounding students at a very early age about the dangers of smoking isn’t enough to the anti-smoking zealot because when students grow up they still choose to smoke.

Because you only take their advice into consideration, they have to figure out how to force you to stop smoking.

But why the coercion?

Even though the examples are multitudinous, here are some examples of how far the anti-smoking zealots go to get you to stop smoking:

In 1999, the U.S. Postal Service thought about releasing a stamp depicting the influential abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock. The photo they chose was taken from a Life Magazine cover that showed Pollock with a cigarette in his mouth. Before the release of the stamp of Pollock, who loved to smoke, the cigarette was digitally removed from the photo.

In 1982, they doctored a photo of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was famous for his trademark cigarette holder.

In 2000, the re-release of Disney’s 1948 film Melody Time removed the cigarette from the cartoon character Pecos Bill.

They have banned smoking in bars, in work places, on sidewalks and in whole cities.

They punish people with a tax for smoking.

In my earlier examples in my last column, we do not ban sports; Activities where individuals can cause injury or harm to other individuals and even collateral harm to others.

Therefore, it is an outright lie to call peoples attacks on smokers and smoking a result of some ones regard for health.

I can only conclude that if it’s not health than it is their own self importance and power over others that would lead them into rules and regulations that would reduce liberty and freedom.

If given the chance I would say directly to each and every person who exerts control over individuals lives for their own cause; you aren’t God, you aren’t our parents, you are not better than we are and you are not smarter than we are. Just knock it off.