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Quote by: gela  I thought you gave up on this conspiracy theory after I pointed out that all countries have the same stance on smoking. Even the ones without big oil companies. |
Once the anti-smoking policy got popular here then the snowball effect took over and it spread through out the world like a virus.
Just like when we started protesting here in the USA, Martin King then the hippies, people all over the world started doing it. Even way over in China. the snow ball effect.
The reason I cannot agree with you that it is a phoney conspiracy is because I was there, I saw the memos being sent around to the industrial gaints. I worked in an industry that was involved as a manager of the security/safty department. Part of my job was to file away those "company private" papers. But no point to mention that because I cannot prove that I saw anything.
The whole idea was to shift attention away from protesting industry by shifting attention to what each person can do their self. Recycle cans, plant a tree, seperate trash so that oil cans do not end up in the city dump, join a car pool, cut down on energy useage, make sure you use and store household products that are toxic in a correct way, give up smoking, and so forth. Thousands of things that "you can do to save the environment" so that you will be too busy to protest industry, and still feel good about "doing your part". All that was pre-planned by those industies that wanted to avoid being regulated. So they could claim that they are self-regulated and that they do things to help out nature or to co-exsist with nature.
The harmful industries were smart... they knew that if they could not defeat the environmentists that they should pretend to join them. That was the plot.
To join or subscribe to the organization it would cast a company about one million bucks. You get experts to make advertisements that would show our envirnomentally friendly your company is. Plus, IBM had a program to seach the internet so that if the name of your company popped up they could check it out, if someone was planning a protest they would let you know, so the company could be prepared with a nice sounding speech to give when the news cameras arrived to cover the protest. The fee also covered the lobby that would influence the government each time someone wanted to regulate your company or others in that group.