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"Robert Broughton" <rbronews@brou8ghton.ca> wrote in message news:951jdo$41u$2@venn.bc.ca...
> In article <NNLc6.2363$lM.620562@news.uswest.net>,
> "Open FleshWound" <not@dont.email.me> writes:
>
> > What a depressing outlook for you pathetic tobacco addicts ....
> >
> > Tobacco Addiction
> > Epidemiology And Natural History
> >
> Here's more. I guess this is an example of the "job losses" we've
> been hearing about:
> -----
>
> National Smokers Alliance to Cease Operations

Haaaaaaaaaaaahahahhahhahaha!


>
> Source: National Smokers Alliance, Thursday, 1/25/01
>
> Date Released: 1/25/01
>
> ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The Board of Directors of the National Smokers Alliance
> (NSA)
> has voted to dissolve the organization.
>
> Thomas Humber, President of the NSA, issued the following statement:
>
> "For almost eight years, the National Smokers Alliance has defended the rights
> of adult smokers with an intensity that has replicated dozens of simultaneous
> political campaigns.


And they finally discovered, 8 years too late, that smokers have NO RIGHTS,
to smoke in public places .....hahahahhahahahhhaaaaaaaaa!

>
> "We began as a grassroots political organization, believing that the political
> process was the answer.  However, the courts have supplanted the political
> process as the ultimate arbiter of most controversial public policy issues.

Duh ...?

> While we don't like that, we are realists,

... nope, you're wretched junkies in pathetic denial of your addiction.

> and the reality is that the social
> war over smoking has changed drastically since we began.

Because you obnoxious, putrid smokers are foul smelling, obnoxious
sub-humans.


> We have had more
> than
> our fair share of victories politically,

Delusional ....

> and in the courts, where the rule of
> law supercedes the rhetoric.

Lies ...


>
> "I have no doubt that the decision to discontinue operations will be
> misconstrued.  The NSA is neither out of money nor are we defeated.

Junkie talk.

>  Yet the
> long-term financial reality is quite simple:  The continuation of our
> activities would require too large a professional structure

Which smokers pendant to their addictions cannot muster ...

> and a massive
> diversion of energy and resources to fundraising,

See above ...

> making effective commitment
> to our primary mission secondary.

Interesting ......

>  That would serve no one, least of all the
> adult smokers of America who have endured more than a decade of the
> anti-smoking movement systematically taxing, regulating and banning tobacco
> products wherever they can.

Yeeeeeeeee Haaaaaaaa. Tax. Restrict. Humiliate!


>
> "The NSA has many members and friends who became politically active and
> organized through our programs.  We appreciate their support, and we know that
> their activism will continue long after this organization is gone.  As with
> most controversial issues, this is not one that will end.  We regret that the
> NSA, as an organization, must end, but that does nothing to diminish the
> commitment to individual freedom that has driven the NSA.

As they rush *outside* the building to fix their junkie cravings .....!

>
> "The effort to disenfranchise and marginalize smokers is, in reality, only one
> facet of a much broader assault on individual freedoms that has begun to
> infuse
> this society.

Nope, it is entirely directed at you putrid, disgusting tobacco addicts ...
no matter how often you attempt to drag others into your death spiral ...

>  Consequently, upon dissolution, the NSA will contribute some
> remaining assets to the Center for Individual Freedom, a 501(c)(4) corporation
> that supports the constitutional freedoms that all individuals must enjoy."

Bzzzzzzzt! Wrong answer. You never did have any constitutional freedom to
fix-up your obnoxious, offensive drug addiction in public places .... never will either!


>
> The National Smokers Alliance was a non-profit grassroots

Tobacco roots ...

> political
> organization

Schill for  http://BigTobacco.org

> of adults

Junkies, addicts, low-lifes and miscreants ...

> from across the country dedicated to fighting
> discrimination against smokers

Smokers should be discriminated against, they are
foul wretched offensive drug addicts.


> and to supporting business owners who wished to
> make their own decisions about their businesses without unnecessary government
> interference.

Supporting non-smoking restruants ...?

>Founded in 1993, the NSA became the primary voice for adult
> smokers

Pathetic tobacco addicts ....

> and was comprised of over 3 million members.

Deluded junkies....

>  Financial support over
> the years came in the form of contributions from Philip Morris, Brown &
> Williamson and Lorillard,

Duh ....!!?!!

> from hundreds of small businesses and corporations
> and dues and contributions from our members.

More "taxes" upon the addicts, this one was a stupidity feel-good
tax ....


>
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> Bob Broughton
> mailto:bob@brou8ghton.ca (remove "8" to reply)
> http://broughton.ca/
> Vancouver, BC, Canada
>