Smoker Segregation

Segregation: to require, often with force, the separation of (a specific racial, religious, or other group) from the general body of society. 

Discrimination: treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit 

Prejudice: unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, esp. of a hostile nature, regarding a racial, religious, or national group.
Source:  dictionary.com

Segregation, discrimination, and prejudice continue to lurk under the surface of our nation. Prohibition (another word for “ban”), a miserable, disasterous failure in our nation is once again pursued by the anti-smoking nazi’s. Did you ever notice how often it is a very young person pushing for smoking bans in their community?  (See “Who We’re up Against“) Is this part and parcel of the “dumbing down” approach? Do not teach the history of our nation to students, thereby sending minds of mush out into the world so as to easily make them truly believe they are working “for the greater good” of our society when they support these evils?

Anti-smoking proponents are injecting our society with a disastrous and discriminatory attitude by attaching a stigma of inferiority and degradation to people who merely choose to indulge in something totally legal. This is abhorrent. Ignorance runs rampant. Regarded by many as second-class citizens, blacks were separated (i.e segregated) from whites by law and by private action in transportation, restaurants, public accommodations, public activities, recreational facilities, prisons, churches, armed forces, and schools.  Sound familiar?

Smoking ban proponents are also wholly guilty of discrimination, attempting to relegate smokers to second-class citizenship.  This discrimination breeds contempt and even outright hatred.  You see it among non-smokers aplenty.  And some of those non-smokers were once smokers themselves.  I once saw a picture of a line of blacks walking down a public street in protest with signs around their necks that said, “I AM A MAN”.  Would you like to be reduced to having to resort to something of this nature?

In 1917, the U.S. Supreme Court had to intervene in a lawsuit due to an ordinance in Louisville, Kentucky in which property owners agreed to sell or rent to whites only.  Swap out “whites” to non-smokers and you’ll see this occuring again. Many landlords discriminate against smokers just as they discriminated against blacks. At the same time, landlords are told, by law, that they CANNOT discriminate – see how preposterous this is? By not allowing a smoker to rent, THEY ARE DISCRIMINATING!!! Against something legal!  Maybe every landlord who advertises “no smoking” needs to be sued — just like any other minority – by a smoker for discrimination, eh? A smoker needs a roof over their head, too.   Because THEY ARE A HUMAN.

The anti-smoking nazi’s are moving backwards in time repeating failed history…back to segregation and prohibition while encouraging more discrimination, all of which are proven disasterous and have dangerous and harmful consequences.  They breed a society of derision, dislike and discontent.  To every action there is a reaction.  Their actions are negative and breed negativity.  They foster discord. 

Segregation, prejudice and discrmination led to a bloody, deadly civil war. Yet now,oblivious to our nation’s history, the  anti-smoking movement has hand-picked another segment of our society and are repeating these horrors all over again.  Continue with this (and other bans) and eventually we just might see an uprising with equally horrific consequences. We must put a stop to it post-haste. 

Non-smokers beware: Help them win this one and I assure you, something that affects you will be next. Then, “Who you gonna call?”