Smoking – On Ethics
Some three months or so ago I received an email from Dick Puddlecote.
He had been having lunch or dinner or breakfast or something with a chap from London, and somehow my name cropped up in conversation [I didn’t dare ask how the hell that happened]. Now said chap said he would love to get in touch with me as he would love to buy me a pint next time he’s in Ireland, and Dick asked me if he could pass on my email address. With the smell of a free pint in the air, I of course said okay.
In due course, we started mailing each other. In the course of those emails he happened to mention a paper he had written on the subject of the Tobacco Industry and the haze of misinformation surrounding it. He sent me a copy of the paper. I was impressed [to put it mildly].
Anyhows, I considered uploading the copy onto this site for general consumption, but there were two little obstacles. The first was that he wasn’t sure if his company would approve and the second was a little more daunting – the file was a very large PDF one.
Now PDF files have two drawbacks in my book. The first drawback is that people tend to read the first page or two, and then realise that there is a ton more pages to be read so they leave again. That’s not counting the people who are just plain scared of opening files other than web pages. The second drawback is that search engines tend to just ignore such files and just treat them as a black hole.
I pondered this problem and mooted the idea of sticking the whole thing on a web site, transferring the chapters into web pages. And so the project began.
Over the past weeks the project has been a somewhat stop-start affair as I had other pressing engagements, such as feeding Herself and bringing the dog to the village for mugs of coffee.
Yesterday I moved the embryonic site to its new home –
“Smoking – On Ethics“
I used the old domain name that I had lying around, but I may change that. Or I may not. I don’t know. Thoughts anyone?
There are still some tweaks I want to make to the site but the content is all there.
And I’m still waiting for that fucking free pint…..
That is a really good realistic read, nice to see something honest for a change.
Considering it is researched by a non-smoker, it’s extremely well balanced. It deserved its place on the Interwebs!
I’ve only scanned through it so far but it *will* get the serious reading it requires. Nice one!
I know there is a comprehensive index bar, but would a search facility also be useful?(I’ll get my coat!)
Sorry, I see the magnifying glass now!
That’s all right. And spell your email address properly next time? [Gamil.com has a nice ring to it though?]
I have a sort of dyslexia when it comes to typing ‘a’ and another letter!
Ah. My problem is with ‘l’. Maybe I should start typing using an upper case i instead?
Excellent work, Grandad, have written about it as it should be shared widely IMO. Good luck with the free pint. 🙂
Indeed it should be publicised as much as possible [and thanks!]
“Good luck with the free pint.” Ya can’t beat a good old touch of sarcasm! 😀
I’ve just read it. It’s good, easy to read, took me about half an hour. Thanks for your work!
It is easy to read which is one of the reasons I wanted it “out there”. It was a pleasure to work on [apart from the images and graphs!].
Thanks for posting this. It is important that the truth on the persecution of smokers gets out. The tobacco control cult has spent decades suppressing dissent and hiding their fraud.
The more information that’s out there, the better. People are losing trust in the Mainstream blatherings and are turning more to the Net for their own research.
Wonder how long it’ll take before you join the infamous on Tobacco Tactics. http://tobaccotactics.org/index.php?title=Pro-Tobacco_Bloggers Get on that Sir and you’ll know you’ve hit them hard.
I have been trying my hardest to get my own entry but they stubbornly refuse. Possibly it’s because they cannot find any links between myself and “Big Tobacco” [their favourite tactic]? Or maybe they know I’m right?
I see they found Dick Puddlecote’s real identity. I loved their old entry along the lines “claims he’s a company director but we can find no record of a Dick Puddlecote in the Companies Register“. That entry always gave me a laugh.
I found the old Dick Puddlecote entry thanks to Wayback Machine –
http://web.archive.org/web/20171012235123/http://www.tobaccotactics.org/index.php?title=Dick_Puddlecote
“Cullip’s attacks have often focused on individuals that played a key role in exposing and resisting tobacco industry interference ”
I reckon DP should get that sentence on a t-shirt.
How about something on the lines of
public health experts and advocates are “vile, disgusting”, “cretins”, “irretrievable morons”, “cranks and charlatans”, and “parasitic junk scientists”, and “health nazis”
Mind you, it would need to be a big t-shirt?
Very interesting read.
Next on the ban-it list? Nicotine “is also present in low quantities in tomatoes, potatoes, cauliflower, aubergines and green peppers.”