Denying cancer patients surgery because they smoke
Shows to what lengths zealots are prepared to go
Smoking ban divides cancer capital
April 13.
This doctor, who is prepared to let people die if they cannot quit smoking, should be run out of town on a rail. Especially when it turns out that, not only is he the only person in town who can perform lung surgery, but he is also the town's medical officer of health.
We are fully aware that the province's medical officers of health are on a carefully orchestrated holy crusade to stamp out smoking. We also know that they are using the subterfuge of the alleged major hazard of second-hand smoke to force their way into the workplace and introduce 100 per cent smoking bans in pubs and bars.
While the Pub and Bar Coalition of Canada is neither for nor against the consumption of tobacco (a legal substance the last time we checked), we are vehemently opposed to implementing smoking bans in pubs on the pretext that one micron of second-hand smoke poses a major health hazard to anyone within 50 feet or more.
Whatever the risks of second-hand smoke — and studies, including that of the World Health Organization, are extremely ambivalent over this — it can be easily evacuated from premises by the same process used to clean up the air in laboratories and other workplaces where chemicals, many far more hazardous than second-hand smoke, are present.
This same technique can also be incorporated into ventilated, designated smoking rooms, such as were approved by Toronto City Council in 1999. However, these solutions are vigorously opposed by the zealots, as they would not make social criminals out of smokers as is achieved through 100 per cent bans, nor would they "denormalize" their environment. "Denormalize" is a term often used by the zealots, one with a nasty ring of Stalinism to it.
The decision by Dr. Claudio de la Rocha to let smokers die if they do not succumb to his incredible brand of blackmail just shows the extent to which these people will go.
If they are prepared to let innocent people die in order to achieve their agenda, then they obviously have no qualms whatsoever in needlessly bankrupting hundreds of small businesses to achieve their ends.
Whatever became of the Hippocratic oath?
Barry F. McKay, General Manager Pub and Bar Coalition of Canada Ottawa
SOURCE: http://web.archive.org/web/20061116182621/http://www.pubcoalition.com/html/articles_rx_blackmail.htm
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