I can understand your frustration TV. I certainly have gone through periods of banging my head a bit to hard.... Repeatedly.
One thing I did was get involved. Not a massive involvement but doing what I can. Smoke free Wisconsin, one of the true anti-fanatics anything tobacco and reduced harm, has a
website blog where you can leave comments. Some months ago they had an article on E-cigs and got a lot of negative responses. Since then they don't except any critical comments on their blog. I found a way around that by leaving comments on there
Facebook page.
It's not much but it gives me some amount of satisfaction. The anti-tobacco activist, and now anti-reduced harm activist, have gone unchallenged for decades. Its time to get in their face and challenge them. When they talk about the children talk about the 45 million adults who smoke. When they put out bogus numbers give-um the real numbers. At this point I think it has to be grass roots, and I think the movement is picking up steam.
The real kicker is all you have to do is tell the truth. I have some hope for the CASAA. This is the kind of an organic grass roots organization that formed out of necessity. Hopefully they'll get up and running soon. I think once the public at large is educated about reduced harm things can change. They've been at this for decades, and except for a very few leaders in the field of tobacco reduced harm we've been at it for a very short time. It's not the time to give up hope.
Pep talk over. Back to being melancholy and moody and somewhat anti-social. My normal self.
The Wiz!
. I'm glad you linked it.....,dang it.
