The politics of health
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 There's an interview with Joe Jackson in today's Independent. As well as promoting his excellent new album Rain, the article mentions his "diligently researched, widely quoted paper, Smoke, Lies and the Nanny State" which you can download HERE from the Forest website.
"I'm fed up talking about it," he says of the pamphlet, "but the argument in a nutshell is that whatever dangers there are in passive smoking are hugely exaggerated. There's no good evidence that second-hand smoke harms anyone, and the reasons why the ban is happening clearly have a lot more to do with politics than they do with health."
Full interview HERE.
Note: inspired by a song on the new album, Joe has written an article for The Free Society blog which we will be publishing very soon. Watch this space.
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The fact that Japan Have Highest percentage of smoking population and at the same time has the healthiest population in the world who have longest life span shows that not only second hand smoke isn’t dangerous for health but as well that moderate smoking is not harmful but it is beneficial for mental and physical health.
On the other side, it is much easier to convert non-smoker to waste numbers of religious cults that more and more on militantly way campaign for new followers.
Religious indoctrination wrapped as health message is most effective strategy to gain new followers.