| There are 14 million smokers in Britain. If only 250,000 (less than 1 in 50) donated £10 each our target would be almost met. If each pub or club would donate £100 we could keep the dream alive. Please do not put off. Make a donation now! |
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| BRITAIN'S 14 MILLION SMOKERS CAN FORM A GOVERNMENT AND REPEAL THE SMOKING BAN |
| Derek Platten Founder & Party Chairman |
Do you enjoy smoking? Do the new anti-smoking laws reduce your enjoyment of life? I believe in CHOICE and I want Britain’s 14 million smokers to act TOGETHER and unite behind the We Can Smoke Party. If we do we can make political history and win EVERY SINGLE SEAT at the next General Election. When I began this campaign I was astonished to discover how easily 14 million people can win an election. I began this campaign because I was fed up with listening to fellow smokers bemoaning the forthcoming ban but not actually DOING anything about it. In my travels I had encountered “smokers huddles” outside hospitals, ballrooms, theatres, cinemas, government buildings and the like. It brought it home to me just how much of a second class citizen the SMOKER had become and I thought “Enough is enough.” If the treatment handed out to smokers over recent years had been visited upon any other minority section of society such as blacks, gays, the disabled community, Muslims or Jews, the PR and media backlash would have stopped it in its tracks. Yet here are we- smokers- enjoying a perfectly LEGAL activity, which generates billions of pounds through taxation, having our social lives ruined by a nanny state which tells us that smoking can kill but will not ban the sale of tobacco products. The government will tell you that the reason for the ban is to protect non- smokers from second-hand smoke. (Now) scientists will argue with one another till the cows come home about the dangers of second-hand smoke and one set of unreliable statistics will be held up against another. I am no scientist but I will accept unreservedly that second-hand smoke to a non-smoker can be dirty, smelly and unpleasant. The We Can Smoke Party have no desire at all to inflict our smoke on anyone who does not wish to be in a smoking environment. We have no intention at all to ban no smoking venues – smokers will simply CHOOSE not to use them. No – what we are advocating is that any venue which CHOOSES to be a smoking venue will have the right to do so and non-smokers will be able to CHOOSE not to use THEM. I am prepared to admit that smoking probably doesn’t do me any good. But I ENJOY smoking – it adds to my enjoyment of life. Drinking alcohol probably doesn’t do me any good but I CHOOSE to drink because – yes – it adds to my enjoyment of life. I am more likely to die driving a car or flying in a plane than not doing so but I CHOOSE to do both because – yes – they add to my enjoyment of life. I enjoy scuba diving and am therefore more likely do drown than a non-scuba diver but I CHOOSE to do it because – YES!! – it adds to my enjoyment of life and I am a human being not an amoeba. I have higher life expectations than exist, procreate and die. Under the new law, for example, we find it incomprehensible that a private members club, whose members have voted in favour of smoking in the club, should be prevented from operating such a policy. The solution seems obvious – if you CHOOSE not to smoke don’t join the club!! When we are elected we will repeal all unjust anti-smoking legislation and make discrimination against smokers an equal offence to any other form of discrimination. Among other things, we will amend civil aviation regulations and allow the introduction of smoking flights and allow smoking at any open air venue such as a football stadium. The manufacture, distribution and sale of tobacco products is a perfectly LEGAL activity and we will repeal all restrictions on responsible tobacco advertising and sports and arts sponsorship by tobacco companies. We are a single issue organisation and once we have implemented our pro-choice policies, we will resign. We have no views at all on health, education, foreign affairs, economics or any other government issues. We will rely on existing civil servants to implement existing policies until we resign and a new government is elected – a government who will be aware that any attempt to re-introduce smoking restrictions will result in another successful WCSP campaign. In order to do this we need funding to the tune of £2.5m. Sounds a lot but it’s just 25p per smoker or, more realistically, £10 per internet-using smoker. £2.5m to Govern the country. Sounds ridiculous but absolutely feasible. £2.5m not to make anyone rich but to set up a National Party Infrastructure and pay for proper publicity, 650+ candidates deposits and campaigning expenses- less than £4,000 per constituency. Make it happen – Make a difference - Make a donation |
| WE CAN SMOKE PARTY REPRESENTING BRITAIN'S 14 MILLION SMOKERS |