About Smokers Rights

Most great adventures start over a few beers at the pub, and this is no different. A few freinds gathered round a table dicussing the demise of our ability to make our own choices. We laughed at how the nanny state ruled our lives, and we were treated as bystanders by governments. After considerably more beer, one idiot stood up and said "lets fight it" . Normally, the following day would consist of regret about what was said the night before, but not this time, the simmering anger ran deep in all of us. So Australian Smokers Rights was born, and although a number of people helped get this site off the ground, they prefer to sit in the background for obvious reasons, I understand their fears, and thank them for their ongoing help. We are from varied backgrounds and walks of life, but all share the same anger at being conned. We are older Australians, and remember the time prior to health industry lobby groups and their hatred.

We did a lot of research, found hundreds of other groups around the world fighting the same nanny state intrusion into their lives. We felt the only way to fight the smoking bans is to counter the insane lobbyists propaganda, lies and spin, with some truth, in the media.

We understand that to achieve this goal will require the financial help of many smokers, and others that agree with our cause. We are not professional lobbyists, and our strategy will look unorthodox in some respects, but it will get results.

Although smoking bans were our intial concern, drinking bans and tax on foods deemed to be unhealthy also feature in our fight against over regulation and loss of personal choice.

Australia in the 21st century, has become an over regulated nanny state, at times feeling more like an open prison, and we wonder what the next lot of rules and regulations are going to be. We wonder how Australia (the land of the free) has come to this. During the last thirty years or so, we have felt very uncomfortable with governments making laws that protect us from ourselves, using spin and outright lies to justify their actions We have seen those that shout the loudest, such as the health industry, virtually determine how we live our day to day life, through their lobby groups forcing the government to legislate.

We have watched stupid laws enacted to pacify the World Health Organization and influential health lobby groups, as we lose our freedoms bit by bit.

Australians are renowned for our easy going ways, with both state and federal governments taking advantage of our apathy. We're very easy to control, particularly if you have media onside, and when all levels of government spend hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising, who do you think gets the final say ?

We are not pro smoking, and feel it’s up to the individual, based on honest information provided by many groups on the effects of smoking.  We are pro freedom of choice, and as a member of my own family departs to fight for the freedom of Afghan’s to choose, it’s time some of us here stood up for our rights, and fight on home soil. 

So what can a small group of average Aussies do to confront the fundamentalist temperance movement within government and health industry, where does one start ?

This web site is the start, where smokers can express their anger and frustration, understanding that smoking virtually anywhere will be banned. This site will detail some of our strategy, but as you will understand, not all, for obvious reasons.

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