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by tnsmoker
on Wed Jun 28, 2006 5:27 am |
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Maryetta, THANK YOU for providing this information.
Now, is this information--that you're willing to become a united voice for smokers and believers in choice--on the forces.org website? I have looked and looked and can't find anything there that says FORCES wants to become a political force. Maybe I'm overlooking it or misreading it. If so, I apologize. Please point me to the page.
All I understand from exploring the FORCES website is that it's a repository of knowledge (studies, money trails, reports, articles, etc.). This is a good thing and an important function! But if FORCES wants to be the voice, that needs to be stated on the main page in clear English! (Again, if I'm overlooking or misreading, please let me know.)
I will gladly support FORCES if I know that it can and will be a force to be reckoned with in the political arena.
How many members does FORCES have at present?
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by DC
on Wed Jun 28, 2006 8:48 pm |
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Maryetta:
Am ready to join your effort.
Please get my email address from Bill or have him send yours to me. Have an urgent need for some info for a response project to Carmona's presentation yesterday.
Hopefully, we can help each other. |
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DC
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by ericblair2084
on Wed Jun 28, 2006 10:00 pm |
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Maryetta, you already have my e-mail address. I donated $200 a few months ago. You sent me an e-mail regarding my idea of getting a site going for NJ. I see you have one now.
I have your e-mail too and I will e-mail you right now.
Please look for it.
Also, while we're at it, can we get a link to smokinglobby on Forces? |
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by smokin
on Thu Jun 29, 2006 9:20 am |
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Press release
June 29, 2006 - The anti-prohibition group FORCES International is challenging claims made by the US Surgeon General this week that passive smoke presents a risk to the public and that the evidence is “indisputable”.
In a succinct two-page document, FORCES addresses the shortcomings of passive smoke risk studies and concludes that “independently or combined, these considerations negate the credibility of claimed ETS risk for lung cancer, and are equally applicable to ETS studies of cardiovascular and other diseases.” Instead, a proper interpretation of the evidence can only yield the conclusion that it impossible to determine whether passive smoke is in the least harmful.
FORCES, an independent organization that fights junk science and the trend toward government control of properly private behaviours in the name of “public health”, has long criticised the anti-smoking movement and its backers for misrepresenting the significance of ETS studies.
“This new document is intended to make our argument clear and easy to understand for the common person,” said FORCES President Maryetta Ables. “That’s not an easy job, because we’re trying to simplify something rather complex. The anti-smoking movement doesn’t bother to explain anything – they just pump out emotion-laden slogans. That’s why they get away with frightening the public.”
“The ETS scare isn’t about health, it’s about politics of social control,” added FORCES CEO Gian Turci. “Public health is making a big power play right now, stepping into a role that goes way beyond its traditional and legitimate responsibilities. That’s the real issue -- one with considerable consequences for a democracy -- and it’s time people took notice. ”
FORCES is active against the “lifestyle police” public policy model that is increasingly condoned by governments, supported with public money or money originating from the pharmaceutical industry as it seeks new market opportunities, and stimulated by prospects for novel and lucrative litigation. FORCES condemns junk science, hatred and intolerance toward smokers, the overweight and other citizens targeted for common self-regarding lifestyle choices that have recently and falsely been claimed as harmful to others.
For the FORCES document, see:
www.forces.org/passivesmokefraud.htm
Contacts U.S. and Canada:
http://www.forces.org
FORCES, Inc.
Maryetta Ables
PO Box 533
Sutton WV 26601-0533
Telephone: [001] 304-765-5394
e-mail: media@forces.org
Contacts Europe:
Gian Turci
FORCES Italiana
CP 2501
16147 - Genova
Italy
Telephone: [0039] 339 463 4051 |
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by naptownKrabbi
on Fri Jun 30, 2006 6:48 am |
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by Torquemeda
on Fri Jun 30, 2006 10:31 am |
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| As I said in another thread, I sent you an e-mail...so as I said when I lost my virginity, "I'm in!" |
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