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TobakkoNacht -- The Antismoking Endgame, is a frontal attack on the misuse of science and language to promote unjustified levels of smoking bans and taxes.
The author, trained in statistics and propaganda analysis at Pennsylvania's Wharton School, "dissects" the scary antismoking studies that have made headlines over the past ten years. He shows clearly in each case how the data and language have been juggled to reach and promote the conclusions of those handing out the grant money and backs up his arguments with solid science clearly explained at a level that will satisfy both laymen and professionals.
The book isn't all business though. It opens with a dystopian future tale of an "Endgame" in which the antismoking movement has gained full power and smokers are generally treated as near-criminals. The author explores the roots that could bring such a fiction into being and looks at the world that could be created... a very sad world indeed.
The pseudo science used to push goals like outdoor smoking bans is also attacked with satire and with short essays taking the form of "Letters To The Editor" focusing on all the microarguments used by antismoking crusaders playing with their "scientifical" instruments and by fanatic who'd happily apply the same methodology to reducing automobile and alcohol use. A few more formal communications showing how to approach local and national governmental bodies are also offered, again with the benefit of exposing false arguments while showing how to effectively attack the "authoritative sources" that seek to silence the opposition with their prestige while pushing for ever wider bans and ever higher taxes.
The book concludes with a strong section painting a path toward a winning endgame for those in the Free Choice movement, pointing to the weaknesses of the current crop of smoking prohibitionists and suggesting how they can best be countered.
TobakkoNacht can best be summed up like this: It shows how the denormalization of smokers has warped science and ripped holes in our social fabric while transforming a worthy public health effort into a destructive social force assaulting our lives, our families, and our communities -- and it shows how to fight back!
- Sales Rank: #2321463 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Aethna Press
- Published on: 2013-10-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.21" h x 1.07" w x 6.14" l, 1.62 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 530 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
From the Author
"TobakkoNacht -- The Antismoking Endgame" is intended to be a followup to the more introductory level "Dissecting Antismokers' Brains." The two books are meant to complement each other, with "TobakkoNacht" being the better choice for those who've been previously involved in smoking ban battles and who are familiar with most of the basic arguments and strategems used by antismoking organizations in pushing for bans, taxes, and other programs designed to eventually reduce the number of smokers to the point where they can be simply eliminated (or close to it) through outright Prohibition laws. If you do not have such a background, you might still get a lot out of reading "TobakkoNacht" as you will see both the motivations for opposing antismoking measures and detailed analyses of the tactics, misdirections, and lies used to promote the achievement of a "smoker-free world." In particular you will find careful examinations of the claims and studies that have been held up and often produced and promoted in the media by antismoking organizations themselves. You'll also find analyses that show the tricks used, sometimes statistical, sometimes linguistic, and sometimes simply emotional -- that appeal to our basic biological instincts of caring for our young or reacting to fears for our own lives. People can be easily manipulated in both their actions and their thoughts if they are consistently and repeatedly exposed to only one side of an argument, and, unfortunately, that's been largely the case in the smoking arena. "TobakkoNacht" and "Dissecting" are meant to provide a balance for that, and anyone who finds their job, their housing, or their personal relationships at risk due to antismoking pressures should most definitely consider arming themselves with both books under their belts. For those who'd like a larger sampling of the thinking that serves as background to these books, I'd recommend my writings on Quora, my excerpts on the TobakkoNacht website itself, and my record of several thousand postings available for reading in my disqus profile.
About the Author
Michael J. McFadden's "Dissecting Antismokers' Brains" has served as an inspiration and handbook for the Free Choice movement in its battle with antismoking forces and their never-ending efforts to raise tobacco taxes and implement more extreme smoking bans. "TobakkoNacht - The Antismoking Endgame" complements his earlier work by providing a toolbox, armory, and map for carrying the fight into and through the second decade of the 2000s. Mr. McFadden grew up in Brooklyn, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Manhattan College's Peace Studies and Psychology programs, and won a full fellowship to the Wharton School's doctoral program in Peace Science to study statistics and propaganda analysis. He left Penn after two years of work toward a doctorate to host a Quaker training center in non-violent activism and has worked at various levels in the areas of peace activism and social change ever since. His activities have ranged from ecologically-friendly transport advocacy to being formally commissioned by Queen Elizabeth II to plan and conduct nonviolence training workshops in Canada. He has worked as a lab tech, peace canvasser, online conference coordinator with CNN, and a free-lance book editor. He serves without compensation on the Boards of Directors of both The International Coalition Against Prohibition and FORCES International, and works with many grassroots Free Choice groups. He currently lives and bicycles in West Philadelphia where he shares a small row house with a psychotic cat, a quiet squirrel, and assorted other creatures.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Solid Myth-Busting Research on Second-Hand Smoke
By R. Schultz
If the cover and the first chapters of this book seem a little off-beat and over-the-top to you – keep reading. You’ll soon get to a solid core of research that shows up the weakness of most of the arguments that have been used to support widespread smoking bans. Any of the author’s seemingly misplaced playfulness only serves as satiric counterpoint to the sheer silliness of the arguments of others claiming danger from second-hand (and third-hand) smoke.
McFadden’s academic background puts him in a position to analyze statistics and to see through the lies they are often used to buttress. He is able to communicate his findings clearly and entertainingly to readers who have not majored in statistics. He knows what questions to ask about the premises of the many experiments that claim to have found “there are no safe levels” of exposure to second-hand smoke.
So for example, McFadden points out the reality behind many of the alarmist figures generated by smoking ban advocates. If a baseline of four people per thousand can be expected to contract lung cancer at some point in their lives, then it sounds truly alarming to be told that some condition, such as exposure to cigarette smoke in taverns, will increase lung cancer rates by 25%. But even accepting that such exposure will indeed generate a 25% increase in cancer rates (which of course McFadden does not accept, for good reason) – that would mean that five people per thousand would then get some form of lung cancer in the course of their lives.
In the same vein, an alarming report of a 50% increase in atmospheric arsenic in bars that allow smoking as opposed to smoke-free bars might translate into an increase from 1 part per ten billion to 2 parts per ten billion – which is way less arsenic than is conveyed by that olive in the martini being drunk in either bar.
But McFadden goes on to expose other statistical tricks commonly used by smoking ban advocates. So much depends on the conditions of the experiments done to generate certain results. Were four people crammed into a smoke-filled Volkswagen for an hour with the windows closed to make a point in favor of banning smoking in cars? The answer is often “Yes.” However, the experimenters frequently resort to more subtle manipulations. McFadden goes back to original experimental documents to unearth false premises. Who got qualified as a “smoker” at the start of these experiments? In many cases, it turned out that people who had smoked as little as 5 packs of cigarettes IN A LIFETIME were classified as smokers and therefore whatever ailments they suffered were attributed to smoking. More subtly still, who got classified as an “employee” in a bar or restaurant? What jockeyed sets of time frames were used? The answers are revealing.
Sometimes the manipulation is in the very language used to frame the issue. Experimental results are reported as proving the dangers of “second-hand smoke” rather than the less inflammatory “secondary smoke.” Inflated scientific terms are used. Watery eyes become “lachrymal hypereffusion” and wisps of smoke become “microplumes.”
But as interesting and accessible as these lessons in statistics are, McFadden goes on to make other points that never feature in the sound bites issued by TV anchors. As much as Big Tobacco might rightly have been accused of using their substantial resources to get skewed messages across – advocates of smoking bans, presumably motivated only by public spirit, turn out to be equally backed by and influenced by Big Money. Tax funds, grants, and funds from the Master Settlement Agreement continue to flow to anti-smoking projects only as long as experiments done under these auspices generate the “right” results. McFadden names names, citing cases in which researchers were thus pressured/motivated to guarantee to funding agencies the results of their experiments - BEFORE they performed the experiments.
TobakkoNacht ends with an impassioned, articulate, and quotable plea in favor of allowing freedom of choice in the pleasures we pursue – as long as our pursuit doesn’t harm others. And by this time, McFadden has convinced, at least me, that smoking can in no way harm others in most of the venues where it is now being banned or under consideration of being banned.
Finally, there’s a section on how to most effectively fight any perceived irrational curtailment of freedom – even if one is a member of an underfunded, dispersed minority. McFadden points the way to books, blogs, and websites that can be helpful to anyone taking up the cause of freedom.
Overall, this book goes a long way toward penetrating the smokescreen that has been sent up by anti-smoking forces. It’s a masterly indictment of their statistical legerdemain, and of their often tyrannical impulse to curb other’s enjoyment.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Mr M does it again
By BA SUNYAB '68
Mr. Michael M.has done it again. Both of his books are important and admirably well researched.
Exposing the shenanigans of TPTB is most often left to those with a passion for Truth.
(4 stars, not too enamored of cover illustration. )
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Wonderful book!
By Anonymous
Mr. McFaddens book is an amazing, insightful and eye-opening experience for both smokers and non-smokers. A must read for all who hate the divisiveness and hatred being promoted in a world wide Endgame.
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