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1 ve
HE DECISION by
hat gang in Victoria to
jake it easy for people
y suc the tobacco
ompanics is typical of
iW Kingdom of the
absurd,
a ‘Here they go again, pro-
Paes ctivig, people 1 from them:
shes. And ignoring the fact
Mahar sinokers have only them:
maclves to blanie if they get a
acdngh,

_ Strangely enough, the
uige crowds that attended:
he Benson’&- Hedges fire:

Bvorks displays: didn t seem
Bon wortied about the sinis-
jer influences iat work, Good
forthem,

I. speak.as one who has .
prover ‘tasted the weed. And if

ave gotsthis-far without it |
i make the final mile,

But'Glen’ Clark & Co.
Bic me off, They object to
pmoking bur don’t mind
bodomy, © =,

A. That smoking is bad for

health | do not doube,

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B plus oil & filter change,
includes’ all materials

So are ator of other
things.

Like hang wliding, skiing,
mountain climbing, jogging,
hiking on Seymour, feeding
bears in the woods, and
crossing the road when
lunatic drivers are on the
faose,

The answer to all those
dangers is to have a cop at
every point, making sure that
no-one does the wrong
thing.

In short, the police state,

The NDP would
like nothing better,
of course, [t's their
idga of heaven.

If smoking is
bad, so is liquor,
Why not make it
sossible to sue the
iquor companies?

Every drunk in
the country could

_ then be sent ona
_ happiness course,

It wasn’t my fault, cir. It
was the Bronfnans. They:
didn't tell me that iff sucked
back enough of that sauce it
would ruin my liver, :

Gimme some compensa-

.. tlon so T ean get some more |
“of that stuff.

The arguments that are

applied against smoking can_,

be applied to practically any

thing. .
For years we were told

that butter was bad for you.

adit the dairy industry?

Ditto with caftee, teis
sail to give you a faster heart
beat and can even make some
people dizey,

How about suing the cof:
fee merchants?

Hithere, Mr, Murehie.
Any day now you may be
geting a visit fram the
NDP's health Nazis,

Their principle is chat
people are not responsible
Jor their own mnisfortune,

Some aren't, Bad luck is

“ .. if you choose to drink
yourself to death, or smoke
yourself to death, or for that
matter jog yourself to death,

that’s your business.

part of the human condition,

© But if you choose to drink

~ yourself'ro death, ar smoke

yourself to death, or for that
matter jog yourself to death,
thar’s your business,

Enter Glen Clark and his.

frowners, They don’t fike
~ personal choice, Personal

choice is bad for you, Far
better to rely on the nanny
state,

We'll look after you, they:

say. ‘Trust-ts,
They are particularily con-

Should we have a class action cerned about the young. But

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number-ane killer of wens is
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erash}

All kinds of bilge is put
out by the anti-ssmoking
lobly,

It produces “statistics,”
Believe them if you will.

As was shown recently | in
Saturday Night magazine,

the risk of getting
lung cancer through
saturated fats 1s far
higher than the risk
of getting it through
the so-called second
hand smoke side-
stream effect,

. Both of my parents
smoked like the
proverbial chimneys.:
If sidestream efteet is

what the lobby claims it is, |

should have died at an early
age instead of living to be
the bane of the Canadian

Jewish Congress and every

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the South Pole. My parents“
smoked and every newsroom

1 was ever in was filled with

smoke.

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{his criti¢s are right, acts
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he took up smoking,

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