Cough, Cough. Obesity Is Contagious

Fear the Smoking Man

An interesting historical note about the anti-smoking movement. The Nazis used fake science attributing severe health effects to smoking and 'passive' or second-hand smoking to justify intrusions into the personal habits of the German people.

“Brother national socialist, do you know that our Führer is against smoking and think that every German is responsible to the whole people for all his deeds and emissions, and does not have the right to damage his body with drugs?”

Did the Nazis care about the health of the general public or did they have other motives? For some more information on the Nazi anti-smoking activities please read this article.

It is important to draw the parallel to how governments of today are using the fear of smoking to further regulate many, formerly private, aspects of individuals' lives.

Does your government care about you more than the Nazis, or do they have other motives?

Fear the Fat Man

My issue here is not with the health effects of smoking or obesity. People can make their own decisions about their own lifestyles, be it emissions or food intake. My concern is how governments and their do-good control freak helpers attempt to regulate everyone’s life. The result being a government with increased power and the precedent to regulate minute personal behaviour. Smoking (or obesity) is healthier than Fascism.

One of the favourite methods of linking smoking to the detriment of our money-obsessed society was through health-care costs. The exact same thing is now being done for obesity.

Read the full article here.

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