Quarterly Report - Smokers STILL Have Rights? Subhuman Cash Cow, NOT equal Citizen!
Association for Smokers Humiliation -
Ostracizing Smokers for More Than 10 Years!
Hello friends:
We have had another great quarter here at A.S.H! We hope this letter finds you all well.
As we have discussed - nobody likes smokers. We don't like anything about them. Nobody does. Their friends, family members, even their own mothers in many cases, have turned their back on them. Jesus did a long time ago.
With how ridiculously 'P.C.' the liberal hippies have gotten this country, it is no longer 'acceptable' to be openly prejudiced, EXCEPT against these dirty, nasty, disease ridden smokers! Hallelula! I can not think of another group of people we are allowed to, no, encouraged to, discriminate against! I feel so blessed when I get to walk right up to a smoker, shake my head, and hiss 'disgusting'. Do I get to do this to one of those weird Canadians? Not anymore I don't! Only smokers. We can pat ourselves on the back for this one folks. We told society that these ash-mounds are soulless demons deserving of respect, and for once society agreed!
We have done a good job so far. The Lord is smiling. But we must remain vigilant.
Here is where we stand on our 'To Do' List-
Strip them of their dignity -
Oh how much do you just LOL when you see them standing out in the rain 40 feet from the building - alone? Boy oh boy, do I ever get a kick out of that!
Make them pay -
Can you say SCHIP my brothers? http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/wm1548.cfm
We have done some excellent work here folks! We have them paying for healthcare but not to help them quit smoking! What a riot! Now we can't have our little cash cow quitting on us, god forbid! They may be subhuman but their money is still green!
Make them pay period. Willy nilly style. Cuz we can! -
MARSHFIELD - People who smoke on the beach can now be fined $25 if caught.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- State employees are facing a $600 surcharge that goes into effect next year for everyone in the employee health system who smokes or has a smoker for a spouse.
Alienate -
We have done a mighty fine job here my friends! The seeds of our labor have sprouted into majestic trees of righteousness! These tactless sinners have been shunned from just about everywhere (and everyone). With the the, 'KEEP OUT YOU FILTHY ANIMALS' list getting longer by the minute, we will have these 'people' (if you can call them that) rounded up 'leper style' before you know it!
SALINA, Kan. (AP) - Salina's tougher smoking ban will begin Saturday, despite an effort by opponents to encourage city commissioners to delay or repeal the new rules.
Deprecate -
Like I previously stated, these vagrants are despised by all. I was over on this new internets web called you tube (if you haven't been there you should check it out!) looking up funny cat videos and I came across something very encouraging. A guy from that American Idol show had a homemade video where he is at a piano singing and he has a cancer-stick set down beside him burning. The encouraging part is the comments that were left for him. One person after another, making reference to that cigarette. From telling him to quit, to how disgusting it is, to how they don't like him anymore. They were doing our work for us friends, letting that nasty smoker know that even if he is of age, in his own home, not breaking the law, not actually even smoking, they do not approve. They are the righteous majority, they are in, he is out, exiled from the group, beneath them.
Here is an example of one the comments - Well done 0Faren! Well done!
0FarenHight (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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I love your music!!!!!!!!!!! but seeing you smoke makes me gag and makes me or every one else not like you... i am sorry but its the truth.
Still To Do -
We have had many successes, in all areas, but we are not finished. They still have some legal rights and WE MUST TAKE THEM BACK! We cannot stop until every last liberty is stripped away from these plagued, stinky, anti-American, sin mongrels!
Until next month.
God Bless,
Kala
Don't forget to mark your calendar for these upcoming events -
6/1
3rd Annual
Gay? No Way! God will help you Straight Away! Spa Night (Men Only Please!)
Pastor Dickies house 7pm
Don't forget to bring your bathing suit!
6/23
Fat People - Our Next Target or just gross?
8pm @ the Denny's off Sprague
I stopped smoking 20 years ago before all the anti-smoking policies started popping up. Even though familiar with the demands of the habit, I remember shaking my head when I first saw some poor sap in twenty below weather puffing away like crazy 40 ft from the entrance. "Why don't they just quit!" I said. Then two days later I found myself scrambling to get to the potato chip I dropped on the floor before the dog got to it first.
We all love our addictions and would do anything for them. :o)
Looking forward to a report on the June 23 event.
April 29, 2009 10:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you for this. While I would much rather be a former smoker, alas I am not....yet. So, thanks for this.
April 29, 2009 12:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
I wish I bought that not wanting to share someone's deleterious habit is somehow discrimination, but it's not. If you wanted to smoke dynamite, I'd be against you getting to do that in public, too.......
April 29, 2009 12:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
What continues to elude me is from where all of the anti-smoking legislation gets its steam.
In states like Kentucky, where over 30% of the adult population can be defined as "smokers" (with some specific cities going over 50%), we still see anti-smoking legislation regularly proposed and passed at city, county and state levels of government.
Particularly with regard to eating and entertainment establishments, how is the concept of business and consumers deciding for themselves whether or not to permit smoking so effectively squashed across all partisan lines?
Do pro-smoking groups simply lack the organizational acumen of anti-smokers relative to the ballot box, or is the health-care lobby really funneling that many dollars to politicians pockets?
April 29, 2009 12:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here is my (conspiracy) theory -
I am from Washington state where a statewide ban from smoking in any public building (must be further than 25 feet from door, I believe it is) went into effect a few years back. That is any building EXCEPT for, the huge, conveniently located (you can find one within about an hour drive of any major city in the state), drum roll please...
Indian Casinos!
Hmmm? I wonder if the casinos rake in more money if they have the only bars, only restaurants, only dance club, etc., only anything, that allow people to smoke?
Are there quite a few Indian casinos in Kentucky?
April 29, 2009 7:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Especially nice touch at the end:
6/23
Fat People - Our Next Target or just gross?
8pm @ the Denny's off Sprague
Unfortunately, it's the health Nazis who most need to get your sarcasm, and they won't. This is coming from a lifelong skinny person: disgusting humiliation of the overweight and labeling them as morally inferior persons grows everyday.
The part of that that really bugs me (among the many things that bug me about it) is how it has infiltrated too many in the medical profession who use it as an easy way out of figuring out illness and wholistically caring for human beings, i.e., they say: quit complaining fatso, come back after you lose weight, if you still have pain/problems, then we'll talk. As a smoker, I know, have had health problems that doctors blamed on smoking, only to find a cure later without stopping with the help of less lazy medical professionals.
People do not gain too much weight or smoke because of moral failings, full stop. Actually quite the contrary, in many cases, they may actually do so because they are self-medicating for problems that medicine has no answer yet.
April 29, 2009 8:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, and that SCHIP and state health programs cash cow thing? I'm pretty sure the party is over for the governments, Obama pushed the envelope too far with the last $6 per carton national tax increase. They are not going to see the money they are betting on. Sin taxes have to be carefully calibrated not to go too far lest they see quickly declining revenue. In addition to enormous drops in revenue from people cutting way down, they are likely to see increased expenses associated with a growing black market.
Very simply, short term, what the increase in national cigarette tax is going to do is cause a big shortfall for states that have been depending on income from cigarette tax for their own health programs. Many of those who are still determined to smoke will smuggle cross-state from states with lower tax, to make up for the increase in Fed tax. It's all a shell game. To be clear: the SCHIP funding via cigarette tax is going to steal from state's health care funding via cigarette tax, and cause the revenue of both to go down. It's mostly working class people paying that tax, and they can only be pushed so far, you can't get blood from a stone, even an addicted one.
Hopefully, it will all be moot with a national health care system, but I am not betting on it, right now things still look like a mishmosh of Medicaid, Medicare, SCHIP, employer-provided, not employer-provided, tax deductible, not tax-deductible, and a thousand myriad other systems that have to be funded a thousand different ways.
And save it, I don't buy the "making them quit will save a bundle of health care dollars" argument short term. People who quit are still ex-smokers, many health related issues (which I think are exaggerated, cost-wise) will not disappear until they die. And, as I said before, the reason many still smoke may be self-medication for other underlying issues that will not disappear. Blaming so many things on smoking is much more irrational than smoking itself.
April 29, 2009 8:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
People do not gain too much weight or smoke because of moral failings, full stop. Actually quite the contrary, in many cases, they may actually do so because they are self-medicating for problems that medicine has no answer yet.
This is such a good point and one that does not get anywhere near the attention it deserves. Running the gamut from overeating to drug addiction it seems our society would rather judge than help heal. I don't know why. Maybe for some people empathy takes all the fun out of feeling superior?
April 29, 2009 10:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't buy the "making them quit will save a bundle of health care dollars" argument short term.
Why just short term, there are numerous studies that have found that in the aggregate their health care costs average out cheaper because they die younger.
(Warning non-pc study link).
April 29, 2009 8:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
I kinda agree with arta. Smokers get the last laugh, because they will have spent more of their funds for good, and then died young, sensibly, rather than being a burden on society.
It's funny, really.
April 29, 2009 9:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dear Kala:
As a new member to your group - I just wanted to let you know that I've finally had some success at shaming and humiliating smokers. WHEW! It's about time - I was starting to wonder if I had a conscience or something!!! Not to worry - I do not.
My post is titled "I may make German "shiza" video's - but at least I'm not a filthy smoker". It can be found here.
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/crazedandconfused/2009/04/i-may-make-german-shiza-movies.php
April 29, 2009 11:53 PM | Reply | Permalink