Patricia Hewitt Is Politically Incorrect On Smoking Turney
Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt’s splenetic take on the Iran hostage situation and Faye Turney is now a matter of record - “It was deplorable that the woman hostage should be shown smoking. This sends completely the wrong message to our young people.”
Was she being politically correct? Don’t think so. This is from the Geneva Convention:
Article 26. “The basic daily food rations shall be sufficient in quantity, quality and variety to keep prisoners of war in good health and to prevent loss of weight or the development of nutritional deficiencies. Account shall also be taken of the habitual diet of the prisoners.
The Detaining Power shall supply prisoners of war who work with such additional rations as are necessary for the labour on which they are employed.
Sufficient drinking water shall be supplied to prisoners of war. The use of tobacco shall be permitted.
Prisoners of war shall, as far as possible, be associated with the preparation of their meals; they may be employed for that purpose in the kitchens. Furthermore, they shall be given the means of preparing, themselves, the additional food in their possession.
Adequate premises shall be provided for messing.”
Collective disciplinary measures affecting food are prohibited.
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April 10th, 2007 at 11:58 am
I’ve seen some people suggest that the quote was satire planted in the middle of a larger story, but Hewitt’s obsessiveness isn’t all that unique among antismoking in the crazy world of the Antismokers. When Richard Reed (The Shoe Bomber) was stopped from blowing up an airplane, he bit the stewardess who’d leaped on him.
Afterwards, the courageous stewardess exited the back of an emergency vehicle at a hospital and news cams zoomed in on her bravely joking with medical personnel on the tarmac… until she made the fatal mistake of reaching in her purse to pull out a smoke.
After that, virtually EVERY major US Network except MSNBC edited the 45 seconds of video coverage of this heroine to a 10 or 15 second snippet. Saving a few hundred lives evidently doesn’t mean much compared to the crime of smoking.
And just last week the University of Winnipeg confronted the crisis over students possibly getting mugged, raped, and killed while going off-campus to smoke because of their ban. The crisis raised however was the threat to the lives of campus security officers who might be near those deadly smoking students while warding off gun-toting muggers and drug-dealers.
Smoking bans are built upon lies and fueled by insanity. The inmates have rushed out of the asylum and are dancing wildly in the daisy fields, and their media money has convinced far too many of us to dance with them.
Winnipeg reference: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/story/3929762p-4541387c.html
Michael J. McFadden
Author of “Dissecting Antismokers’ Brains”
http://pasan.TheTruthIsALie.com