Then There Are Pictures !!
Longer term readers will know that I believe Smokers are the unsung Heroes of our Society.
Not only do they die younger than non-smokers thereby sparing the Health System - but over the course of their reduced life-span they pay way more than their share of taxes through the totally obscene revenues governments take in from the sale of their addiction.
So they are true Heroes.
And when I come across Smokers these days - and admittedly it is getting harder and harder to do - I often shake their hand in gratitude; not for their premature dying nor for their enhanced payments of tax but because they are in the vanguard in the fight against the Politically Correct (aka The Do Gooders).
These Do Gooders tend to be of the Left Wing persuasion and never pass up an opportunity to tell the Rest of Us (ROU) how we should live and behave.
Recently, this fine group of Busy Bodies, came out with new horrific pictures to grace the pack of each and every cigarette deck. You've no doubt seen them.
The most attention getting (read obnoxious) is that of a poor 42 year old woman on death's door from cancer. The picture alleges she contracted her cancer from smoking cigarettes which probably was the case. It shows a skin and bone skeleton as being all that remains of this poor lady. (As an aside, I would not want to see a family member appear in such an offensive advertisement in the same way I would want to see a close relative play the role of the Circus' Fat Woman. Call me compassionate).
But let's for a moment pretend the Do Gooders really care about the health and welfare of smokers and pray for them to have the strength to kick their habit.
So if pictures work - what the heck - it is all done in a good cause.
But this scenario breaks down when one considers the Plight of the Unborn Child.
Right to Life also uses Pictures - and they too are often quite graphic since it is hard to cut up a baby to pieces and have the pictures look tame.
But when Right to Life attempts to show these pictures in public - the Do Gooders go into their Morale High Road Dance of how can anyone display such horrible photos. Many DGers claim the pictures of such innocent dead have caused them emotional pain but fail to realize that it is nothing to the physical pain these young ones have had to endure while under the knife.
And is it not convenient for them to claim emotional pain and damage caused by these types of pictures when at the same time, graphic pictures on cigarette packages are A-OK?
The Difference?
That's easy - The Do Gooders want to stop Smokers from smoking - so anything goes - including horrid pictures.
But the Do Gooders do not want to stop Abortion - so pictures that have as their goal the encouragement of life must be blocked at all cost.
Hypocritical? You be the Judge.
As I see it....
