Pete Robinson: Truth or consequences

Meanwhile any tobacco related item which could be detrimental to their cause is carefully censored. To read their garbage you'd think pubs were currently enjoying an unprecedented era of prosperity with their thronging customers ecstatic at the new state of affairs.

But it's the junk science and distorted statistics that truly defy conventional logic. Unless you happen to be an anti of course, in which case you'll believe anything they tell you.

For example new 'research' from Hawaii confirms that smoking gives you "both colon and rectal cancer". But smoke filter-tipped ciggies and you'll get "rectal cancer but not colon cancer". Hence filters apparently filter out colon cancer.

Yes, it's too absurd for anyone but an anti to believe, yet ASH preach such daft beliefs as if they were gospel.

ASH's latest report carries the story of a big rise in lung cancer in Australia. Despite Australian smoking rates falling to record lows, lung cancer rates have soared 21 per cent for women and 24 per cent for men in just five years.

Oh dear. Lung cancer up a fifth despite smoking bans as bad as ours? How do ASH explain that one away?

Simple. ASH says it's the "deadly legacy of an era of few restrictions on sales of cigarettes and where they were smoked." In other words it's non-smoking people who used to smoke a decade or more ago that are now turning up their toes en masse.

The report goes on to state: "More than 80 per cent of lung cancer cases are caused by smoking, and the disease takes about 20 years to develop."

Now I'd strongly argue with both those figures and can provide enough genuine medical evidence to back it up. But let's pretend for a moment that it's true.

Elsewhere on ASH's website they extol the virtues of quitting the evil weed, saying that the health benefits begin "within 20 minutes". Rather significantly ASH further states that after 10 years your "risk of lung cancer falls to about half that of a smoker."

So we have quite a contradiction there. Both here and in Australia lung cancer cases have, in fact, been rising disproportionately over the past 35 years while over the same period the number of smokers has more than halved.

Why? Because the stats are a put up job. Twisted, exaggerated and falsified to scare people out of their wits.

We wouldn't be human if we weren't concerned about our health but there's something wrong in a society that deliberately sets out to frighten the population with falsehoods and lies sponsored by the state.

Even worse is the way research grants all go to support this bunkum, so nobody is looking into possible alternative causes which might cause some embarrassment.

Like the fact that since WW2 there's been enough plutonium dumped into the atmosphere to give everyone on the planet lung cancer 155 times over. Plutonium has a half-life of around 25,000 years so it won't just fade away anytime soon. Inhale a single invisible, microscopic particle and lung cancer is inevitable.

Britain, incidently, conducted nuclear test explosions across Australia all through the 50's and well into the 60's, leaving behind thousands of tons of contaminated waste. Just imagine the potential compensation claims if the emphasis on smoking were to be disproved.

It's no secret that I have a very low opinion of Government politicians and even less of government scientists. The two enjoy a symbiotic relationship to force 'their' will and their control over the rest of us. They rarely tell us the truth so why do so many people continue to believe anything they say?

For the last 10 years we've been sleepwalking into a kind of quasi-democratic state control, meekly accepting thousands of new laws and 'thought crimes' without protest. To this regime pubs and social clubs could be seen as a threat. If that is true then the answer would be to do away with pubs as we know them.

The smoking ban is the most worrying example of what a cunningly contrived mixture of lies, politics and junk science can achieve. This socially devisive, unfair law will have dramatic social consequences and financial repercussions for many years to come.

Now they're after your wet-trade, and if the past year or two is anything to go by they are going to get away with it.