90% More Suicides
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Dear Editor:
"Now a New Mexico prosecutor has arranged the indictment for murder of Dr. Georges Reding, deemed a longtime accomplice of Dr. Jack Kevorkian. The prosecutor, like up here in Michigan, is professing to be concerned about suicide.
"The truth is that prosecutors know that doctors have long advised how to prevent suicide, at least since 1857!!! People who commit suicide are typically suffering. As the Surgeon General says, smoking is the No. 1 cause of disease, thus of suffering, hence, of suicide. Wherefore doctors have long advised that suicide is 90% by smokers. This data is detailed at http://medicolegal.tripod.com/preventsuicide.htm.
"In 1909, Michigan (Dr. Kevorkian's state) banned manufacture, giveaway, and sale of dangerous cigarettes for reasons including preventing suicide, details at http://medicolegal.tripod.com/michiganlaw.htm.
"The law number is MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216. However, it is widely violated by tobacco manufacturers and sellers, and our prosecutors REFUSE to enforce it. Prosecutors up here prefer people to suffer. So naturally, many people are being seriously injured by cigarettes, and many suffering. When they commit suicide, prosecutors then profess to care!
"In a 1997 Kevorkian case, I filed a citizen petition stating the above in detail, to the effect that tobacco pushers are not prosecuted, only Kevorkian. My citizen petition with this issue of selective prosecution is at http://medicolegal.tripod.com/kevorkian.htm. I embarrassed the prosecutor and the Governor, exposing their hypocrisy, and the result was the court threw the case out!! I am thinking of filing the same type petition in New Mexico, exposing the prosecutor as not taking action against cigarettes, the 90% factor in suicide, sufficient to end the suffering problem to that major extent.
"Readers who sincerely want to end suicides are urged to read those webpages, and then write to officials asking them to adopt in New Mexico a law like Michigan's, in essence a "suicide prevention act," a law banning cigarettes, the 90% factor in suicide.
"I also encourage your readers to write to our hypocritical officials up here in Michigan, demanding that they enforce the suicide prevention law. Let's stop suicides the right way, by prevention."
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Prosecutors intentionally ignore the systemic aspect in suicide. There is no money in it, in prevention! no glory! Much better to see people suffer and die, then act! It's much better to shut the barn door after the horse escapes! Much better to list every trivial drug in the "Controlled Substances Act," list everything except the No. 1 killer, tobacco!
Be certain, that if Reding's name were "Reding Tobacco Company," he would be lauded, and campaign contributions happily accepted. But since "Tobacco Company" is not in his name, he is discriminatorily singled out for selective prosecution.
What this site is asking is your help in dealing with the systemic aspect. We mean, ending cigarette-caused suffering, thereby eliminating the 90% factor in suicide. You can be certain that no prosecutor will take the lead in this systemic aspect. They make way too much money off cigarette-caused effects. Their professed concern for effects, is hypocritical and hypocritical ONLY. Please help us save lives, prevent premature deaths.
To fight this problem, here are two sample letters. Sample Letter "A" is to Governor Gary E. Johnson, pursuant to his Professed Principles, asking him to seek a Michigan-type cigarette control law. Sample letter "B" is different, and is for others also ignoring the systemic aspect in suicide, the cigarette-suicide link. It is to be sent to the President, Congress, other Governors, and state legislators.
Governor Gary E. Johnson
Office of the Governor
State Capitol Building
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87503
This is a request that you take action to get a law passed that will serve as a suicide prevention law. Michigan already has such a law. It is law number MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216. It deals with the cigarette link to suicide.
As you know, a first-degree murder charge was filed by a Sandoval County grand jury with Thirteenth Judicial District Attorney Michael Runnels, against Dr. Georges Reding, a Kevorkian associate. But the prosecutor is doing nothing to deal with the systemic aspect.
The systemic aspect relates to the fact that cigarettes' deleterious chemicals are the No. 1 cause of premature death, thus of the preceding severe suffering. As a "natural and probable consequence,"
Cowell and Hirst, "Mortality Differences Between Smokers and Nonsmokers," 32 Transactions of the Society of Actuaries 185-261 (1980), Table 9, p 200, found a 9-1 smoker-nonsmoker suicide ratio, the same ratio as lung cancer. The cigarette-suicide link occurs because many smokers are suffering, then some end that suffering via suicide, making smoking the 90% factor in suicide. The suicide prevention act, MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216, prevents that smoker suffering leading to 90% of suicide.
The Michigan suicide prevention act, MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216, prevents that smoker suffering leading to 90% of suicide. Please get a copy of that law, which in essence forbids "any person within the state" from action that "manufactures, sells or gives to anyone, any cigarette containing any ingredient deleterious to health or foreign to tobacco . . . ."
All cigarettes are deleterious, their label admits they are, and most if not all are adulterated with additives. Michigan's well-written suicide prevention act deals with the cause of smokers' suffering, not with their understandable resultant suicidal behavior to try to relieve their suffering. Michigan's suicide prevention act puts personal responsibility on those with most knowledge of the contraband substance (manufacturers and sellers who know it leads to suffering and suicide), not on unwary consumers, often children.
As a matter of compassion, all persons suffering from this deleterious and adulterated product need you to take action to get an suicide prevention act adopted. Please take action to copy the Michigan suicide prevention act, MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216, so all of us can benefit from its wise prevention-oriented approach.
Respectfully,
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This is a request that you take action to get a law passed that will serve as a suicide prevention law. Michigan already has such a law. It is law number MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216. It deals with the cigarette link to suicide.
Cigarettes' deleterious chemicals are the No. 1 cause of premature death, thus of the preceding severe suffering. As a "natural and probable consequence,"
Cowell and Hirst, "Mortality Differences Between Smokers and Nonsmokers," 32 Transactions of the Society of Actuaries 185-261 (1980), Table 9, p 200, found a 9-1 smoker-nonsmoker suicide ratio, the same ratio as lung cancer. The cigarette-suicide link occurs because many smokers are suffering, then some end that suffering via suicide, making smoking the 90% factor in suicide. The suicide prevention act, MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216, prevents that smoker suffering leading to 90% of suicide.
The Michigan suicide prevention act, MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216, prevents that smoker suffering leading to 90% of suicide. Please get a copy of that law, which in essence forbids "any person within the state" from action that "manufactures, sells or gives to anyone, any cigarette containing any ingredient deleterious to health or foreign to tobacco . . . ."
All cigarettes are deleterious, their label admits they are, and most if not all are adulterated with additives. Michigan's well-written suicide prevention act deals with the cause of smokers' suffering, not with their understandable resultant suicidal behavior to try to relieve their suffering. Michigan's suicide prevention act puts personal responsibility on those with most knowledge of the contraband substance (manufacturers and sellers who know it leads to suffering and suicide), not on unwary consumers, often children.
As a matter of compassion, all persons suffering from this deleterious and adulterated product need you to take action to get an suicide prevention act adopted. Please take action to copy the Michigan suicide prevention act, MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216, so all of us can benefit from its wise prevention-oriented approach.
Respectfully,
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1. In the Civil War, the War of the Rebellion, the Confederates (confederapists) fought for the right to rape, torture and kill. That right, which underlay slavery, was upheld in court cases in the South during the slavery era, e.g., Commonwealth v Turner, 26 Va 678 (1827); State v Mann, 13 NC 263 (1829); and Neal v Farmer, 9 Ga 555 (1851). Some abolitionists thus diagnosed pre-Confederates as atheists. Abolitionists widely circulated the "right to torture" cases in the North, intending to stop the Confederates' mass torture epidemic that they were perpetrating on a daily basis, on a scale so vast and protracted as to dwarf, for example, the Nazi's atrocities and concentration camps.
2. People of that era, including Michigan's 1909 generation, so soon after the Civil War, knew the Confederate mind-set. They knew that data on how to poison people was widely circulated prior to the Civil War. Tobacco's power as a poison was also well-established in that era.
3. They knew that after the Confederates' so-called "surrender," Confederates immediately murdered Pres. Abraham Lincoln, as a first step in their enraged, vengeful orgy epidemic of continuing mass murder, lynchings and poisonings. The very year of the 1865 "surrender," Confederates were seizing Yankees or Yankee supporters and poisoning them. This fact was reported to Pres. Andrew Johnson by Maj. Gen. Carl Schurz, in "Condition of the South," Senate Executive Documents, No 2, 39th Cong., 1st Sess., especially pp. 7-44. Mass murders, including poisonings by Confederates, were so widespread that America had to send large numbers of federal troops into tobacco country, the Confederacy, to try to restore some semblance of order. Tobacco producers had no respect for law and morality then, and they still don't.
4. Our 1909 ancestors were closer to the fact that the Confederate Army went into tobacco production with a vengeance. The Confederates' chemical warfare department altered the pre-Civil War tobacco formula to add rat poison (coumarin) from Trilisa odoratissima plants. In 1884, Dr. Laurence Johnson issued a warning about their doing so. The Confederates, tobacco farmers, had fought the Civil War for the "states' right" to torture and kill, and now they are exercising it en masse, this time aimed at both blacks and the hated Yankees.
5. When the Confederate Army, tobacco farmers and producers, did rise again and changed the tobacco formula to include coumarin, their intent was, and remains, to cause suffering, torture, and death en masse. They intend vengeance via TSC on Yankees for ending slavery and winning the Civil War, and perceive themselves as martyrs in the continuing War.
6. Trilisa farmers/producers continue to this very day. When vast quantities of Trilisa odoratissima continue to be produced, harvested, processed, en masse, into tobacco products, intent to mass murder via TSC is clear. See the definitions of "murder" and "natural and probable consequence" in Black's Law Dictionary, 6th ed (St. Paul: West Pub Co, 1990), pages 1019 and 1026. Deaths from TSC toxic chemicals such as carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide occur so frequently as to be expected to happen again and again, hence meet the definitions. Poisoning as practiced by Confederate tobacco companies and their accessories in tobacco and trilisa farming and production, continues the Confederate war on America, continues Confederates' exercise of their "states' rights," the right to torture upheld by their state courts--precedents still on the shelf at any major law library.
7. TSC is the No. 1 cause of premature death and suffering. So as a " natural and probable consequence,"
8. Cowell and Hirst, in "Mortality Differences Between Smokers and Nonsmokers," Transactions of the Society of Actuaries, Vol 32, pages 185-261 (1980), Table 9, page 200, found a 9-1 smoker-nonsmoker suicide ratio, the same ratio as lung cancer. No rational person would say that the solution to lung cancer is to criminalize it. The rational solution is to criminalize the TSC cause, not an effect. That's what our 1909 ancestors did.
9. Suicide by suffering smokers is simply one of the many effects of TSC.
"Over 37 million people (one of every six Americans alive today) will die from cigarette smoking years before they otherwise would."Source: Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare, Research on Smoking Behavior, Research Monograph 17, Publication ADM 78-581, page v (Dec 1977). Such deaths are "natural and probable consequences." As such, occurring so frequently as to be expected to happen again, they are intentional. Accordingly, to deal with the beam, not the mote, the underlying perpetrators, tobacco manufacturers and sellers, and their accessories, should be prosecuted.
10. It is a "natural and probable consequence" that their corrupting Michigan prosecutors into mass refusal to enforce the 1909 preventive-of-suffering law, MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216, leads to suffering by smokers, hence, their being the 90% group, pursuant to the aforesaid studies, to commit suicide.
11. Michigan had tried to stop the suicide process from starting, by passing MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216, which serves as a "Suicide Prevention Act," but it is never enforced. The Plaintiff Prosecutor lacks clean hands as he and his accessories, fellow prosecutors, have done, and do, nothing to enforce it. Said prosecutors are thus "accessories during the fact," a legal concept defined on pages 14-15 of Black's Law Dictionary. They actually or impliedly consent to TSC deaths ("consent" is defined on page 305). It cannot be deemed other than "entrapment" (defined on page 532) when prosecutors en masse refuse for 89 years to enforce the preventive-of-suffering law, when the "natural and probable consequence" (suffering) results, and they seek to divert attention off their own beam, personal, immoral, habitual misconduct of refusing to enforce the law, by their hypocritical finger-pointing at the mote Kevorkian.
12. MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216, if enforced, would prevent most suicide. However, the Plaintiff never files any cases re violations of the law, which are rampant. Accordingly, the court should dismiss the lawsuit as frivolous and moot; and/or, in the alternative, and preferably, enter an injunction directing prior mass enforcement of MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216, as a condition precedent to allowing prosecution of anyone other than the Confederate tobacco company perpetrators, with respect to smokers' suicides.
13. The continuing pattern of prosecutorial misconduct, mass refusal to enforce the 1909 law, precludes prosecutions at the latter end of the cause and effect chain. By law, MCL § 750.478, MSA § 28.476, the government (prosecutors) must set an example of enforcing and obeying the laws. Case law to the same effect, e.g., Service v Dulles, 354 US 363; 77 S Ct 1152; 1 L Ed 2d 1403 (1957) and Glus v Eastern District Terminal, 359 US 231, 232; 79 S Ct 760, 762; 3 L Ed 2d 770, 772 (1959), makes clear that a plaintiff cannot rely on its own wrongdoing at the starting point of a process. "[H]e who does the first wrong is answerable for all the consequent damages," Scott v Shephard, 96 Eng Rep 525, 526 (1773).
14. The government (prosecutor) cannot have the benefit of the provisions favorable to its/his side, while ignoring its conditions which it/he is to perform, obey, or enforce. Precedents show that no court should aid such a misconduct-committing party, e.g., BTC v Norton CMC, 25 F Supp 968, 969 (1938); and Buckman v HMA, 190 Or 154; 223 P2d 172, 175 (1950). "No one may take advantage of his own wrong," Stephenson v Golden, 279 Mich 710, 737; 276 NW 848 (1938). If smokers are suffering, then seeking relief from Dr. Kevorkian or Dr. Reding, the wrong is the prosecutors' pursuant to their 90 year pattern in Michigan of refusal to enforce the suffering-prevention law, MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216. Somebody should indeed be prosecuted--prosecutors--pursuant to MCL § 750.478, MSA § 28.476, for their protracted, brazen knowing, refusal to enforce the preventive-of-suffering law MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216.
15. Suffering-induced "assisted suicide," has as its 90% underlying factor, Tobacco Smoking Conduct (TSC), which in turn arises from the illegal manufacture, give away, and/or sale of cigarettes, and poisoning people with vast quantities of toxic chemicals. Posisoning people is already illegal everywhere, even if there is no law per se identifying cigarettes as illegal by name.
16. The reason that cigarettes cause so much disease, death, and preceding suffering is that they contain deleterious ingredients. Cigarettes are inherently dangerous, as shown in the Department of Health and Human Services book, Reducing the Health Consequences of Smoking: 25 Years of Progress: a Report of the Surgeon General, Publication CDC 89-8411, Table 7, pages 86-87 (1989). Examples of deleterious ingredients include but are not limited to:
| acetaldehyde (1.4+ mg) | arsenic (500+ng) | benzo(a)pyrene (.1+ ng) |
| cadmium (1,300+ ng) | crotonaldehyde (.2+ µg) | chromium (1,000+ ng) |
| ethylcarbamate 310+ ng) | formaldehyde (1.6+ µg) | hydrazine (14+ ng) |
| lead (8+ µg) | nickel (2,000+ ng) | radioactive polonium (.2+ Pci) |
17. Judicial notice of cigarette deleteriousness was taken as long ago as 1897, in an 1897 Tennessee law, upheld in Austin v State, 101 Tenn 563; 566-7; 48 SW 305, 306; 70 Am St Rep 703 (1898) aff'd 179 US 343 (1900).
18. Further confirming their ability to cause severe suffering, cigarettes emit deleterious emissions. Due to cigarettes' deleterious ingredients, they emit deleterious emissions. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare book, Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, PHS Pub 1103, Table 4, p 60 (1964), lists examples of deleterious emissions in quantities above the legal "speed limit" set by federal regulation 29 CFR § 1910.1000 (available at your local library), including but not limited to:
| Cigarette Chemical | Emission Quantity | |
| acetaldehyde | 3,200 ppm | |
| acrolein | 150 ppm | |
| ammonia | 300 ppm | |
| carbon monoxide | 42,000 ppm | |
| formaldehyde | 30 ppm | |
| hydrogen cyanide | 1,600 ppm | |
| hydrogen sulfide | 40 ppm | |
| methyl chloride | 1,200 ppm | |
| nitrogen dioxide | 250 ppm |
19. In addition to all these suffering-causing chemicals, cigarettes have a record of having a foreign substance, coumarin. In Mike Moore, Attorney General ex rel State of Mississippi v American Tobacco Co, et al, No 94-1429 (a cigarette litigation case), Jeffrey Wigand, Ph.D., ex-tobacco company scientist, admitted coumarin (rat poison) in tobacco. Tobacco company attorney Thomas Bezanson objected, not as untrue, but "on trade secret grounds." Philip Hilts, Smoke Screen: The Truth Behind The Tobacco Industry Cover-Up (NY: Addison-Wesley Pub Co, 1996), pp 161-3. This was reported likewise in 1884:
[I]t is largely used as an adulterant of smoking tobacco . . . [for its intoxicating, addicting effect]. Hence . . . cigarette-smoking . . . is assuming the proportions of a great national evil." Laurence Johnson, M.D., A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America (NY: William Wood & Co, 1884), pages 170-171. The 1897 Tennessee law upheld in Austin v State, supra, was thereafter passed."[It] has been used commercially for many years--mainly in cigarettes . . . harvest of [it] is expanding . . . . The composition of one flavoring extract that includes [it] was patented in 1961. . . . About two million pounds of cured plants are harvested annually. . . . Because [it] is a perennial and the roots are not harvested, maintaining populations is not a problem. A decrease in plant populations has not been noted." Krochmal, Trilisa odoratissima, 23 Econ Bot 185-6 (1969).
"Leaves of [the plant] . . . are used in the tobacco industry, particularly in cigarette mixtures. . . . It appears that the . . . constituent most desired by the tobacco industry is coumarin." Haskins, et al., Coumarin in Trilisa odoratissima, 26 Econ Bot 44-8 (1972).
"Leaves used to flavor pipe and cigar tobacco and cigarettes . . . and as a moth repellant . . . may cause hemorrhage and liver damage." James A. Duke, Handbook of Medicinal Herbs (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1985), p 491.
20. For explanation of the deleteriousness of specific cigarette ingredients, see
a. Gosselin, Smith, Hodge, and Braddock, Clinical Toxicology of Commercial Products, 5th ed (Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1984). Page II-4 lists toxicity levels of 1-6 (1, "practically non-toxic"; 4, "very toxic"; 6, "super-toxic"). Nicotine, item 772, pages II-237 and III-311-4 is rated a 6; coumarin, page II-257, item 861, is a 4.
b. Robert Dreisbach and William Robertson, Handbook of Poisoning: Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment, 12th ed (Norwalk, CT: Appleton & Lange, 1983 and 1987). Pages 35 and 259-263 cover carbon monoxide poisoning; pages 130-2, tobacco and nicotine; pages 385-7, anticoagulants, e.g., coumarin and warfarin.
c. Sondra Goodman, Director, Household Hazardous Waste Project, HHWP's Guide to Hazardous Products Around the Home, 2d ed (Springfield, MO: Southwest Mo St Univ Press, 1989). Page 99 covers poisoning by carbon monoxide, of which cigarettes emit 42,000 ppm , exceeding the 29 CFR § 1910.1000 average safe limit of 35 ppm).
d. Jay Arena and Richard Drew, Poisoning, 5th ed (Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Pub, 1986). Pages 216-217 cover nicotine; pages 308-312, carbon monoxide; page 999, which lists coumarin, says, ominously, "see Warfarin," page 1007.
21. Due to cigarettes' deleteriousness,
"Over 37 million people (one of every six Americans alive today) will die from cigarette smoking years before they otherwise would."See the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare book, Research on Smoking Behavior, Research Monograph 17, DHEW Publication ADM 78-581, page v (Dec 1977). Such deaths are " natural and probable consequences," a term defined in Black's Law Dictionary, 6th ed (St. Paul: West Pub Co, 1990), page 1026. Deaths from cigarettes' deleteriousness occur so frequently as to be expected to happen again and again, hence meet the definition.
22. Michigan's law, MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216, follows the principle that it is unlawful to provide people the means—e.g., a deleterious substance—to injure or kill themselves, even if death is slow, People v Carmichael, 5 Mich 10; 71 Am Dec 769 (1858); People v Stevenson, 416 Mich 383; 331 NW2d 143, 145-6 (1982); People v Kevorkian, 447 Mich 436, 494-6; 527 NW2d 714, 738-9 (1994).
23. Tobacco company intent and action when unrestrained is shown by this example of smoking--30% of 6 year old boys; 50% of "boys between 9 and 10"; 88% of boys over 11. Dixon, On Tobacco, 17 Canadian Med Ass'n J 1531 (Dec 1927).
24. Cigarettes' toxic chemicals impair impulse and ethical controls. Cigarettes are the delivery agent for nicotine, the gateway (starter) drug on which children are first hooked (average age 12). Alcohol follows, average age 12.6; then marijuana, average age 14. See DHEW Research Monograph 17, supra, page vi; Fleming, et al., "The Role of Cigarettes in The Initiation And Progression Of Early Substance Use," 14 Addictive Behaviors 261-272 (1989); and the Department of Health and Human Services Book, Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People: A Report of the Surgeon General (1994). Page 10 supports law enforcement, saying, "Illegal sales of tobacco products are common."
25. "Smoking prevalence among active alcoholics approaches 90%." Hayes, et al., "Alcoholism and Nicotine Dependence Treatment," 15 J Addictive Diseases 135 (1996). So smoking leads, in turn, to promiscuity ("candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker"), pregnancy, abortion, not to mention drunk driving--as police oft see.
26. Once the foregoing process occurs, tobacco's role in crime results. This role has been cited many times by judges since the Auburn Report (1854).
"Nowhere is the practice of smoking more imbedded than in the nation's prisons and jails, where the proportion of smokers to non-smokers is many times higher than that of society in general." Doughty v Board, 731 F Supp 423, 424 (D Col, 1989).
As smoking impairs impulse and ethical controls, most crime is committed by smokers.
"Nationwide, the [ratio] of smokers [to non-smokers] in prisons is 90 percent." McKinney v Anderson, 924 F2d 1500, 1507 n 21 (CA 9, 1991) affirmed and remanded, 509 US 25 (1993).
27. Tobacco impairs impulse and ethical controls, depresses the immune system, leads to post-gateway-drug drug abuse, so is a triple risk factor for AIDS. See the American Psychiatric Association book, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III), 1980-present); Newell, et al., AIDS Risk Factors, 14 Preventive Med 81-91 (1985); Schechter, et al., Vancouver AIDS Study, 133 Can Med Ass'n J 286-292 (1985); Halsey, et al., AIDS & Smoking in Haitian Women, 267 J Am Med Ass'n 2062-6 (1992).
28. Cigarettes' toxic chemicals, and many of its above effects, cause severe suffering. In fact, due to cigarettes' deleteriousness, smoking is the No. 1 cause of injury and death causing suffering. So as a "natural and probable consequence,"
"smokers have excesses of suicide: risks; thoughts; attempts; and deaths. . . . Suicide [is] strongly . . . associated with smoking. . . independent of age, gender, exercise, cholesterol, race, low local income diabetes, MI [myocardial infarction], etc. [variables]. Ex-smokers had lower suicide rates than current smokers. The pooled dose-response statistic [is] highly significant. . . . Suicide is prospectively, independently, consistently, strongly, and highly significantly dose-response associated with smoking." Prof. Leistikow, et al., Analysis of Association Between Smoking and Suicide, 15 J Addictive Diseases 141 (1996).
Cowell and Hirst, "Mortality Differences Between Smokers and Nonsmokers," 32 Transactions of the Society of Actuaries 185-261 (1980), Table 9, page 200, found a 9-1 smoker-nonsmoker suicide ratio, the same ratio as lung cancer.
29. The record shows that all cigarettes are both deleterious and adulterated. The warning label itself states the deleteriousness. Grusendorf v City of Oklahoma City, 816 F2d 539, 543 (CA 10, 1987). In view of such facts and above-cited effects, the court can easily see why Michigan banned such a severely deleterious product, the No. 1 cause of suffering and death. Once banned, cigarettes with deleterious ingredients are illegal. Cigarettes are not to be here—no manufacture, no sale, no giveaway. Contraband is "any property which is unlawful to produce." Black's Law Dictionary, 6th ed, supra, page 322. Bringing cigarettes into Michigan is "smuggling."
"'Smuggling has well-understood meaning . . . signifying bringing . . . goods . . . importation . . . whereof is prohibited. Williamson v U.S., 310 F2d 192, 195 [CA 9, 1962]; 18 USC § 545-6.'" Black's Law Dictionary, supra, page 1389.
Cigarettes are smuggled contraband. Plaintiff and accessory prosecutors should have been acting against this long ago.
30. When Michigan banned cigarettes in 1909, it followed the nineteenth century concept of criminalizing fraudulent sales, snake-oil sales, etc., not the buying. The concept was that criminalizing buying and use makes too many criminals, promotes disrespect for law, and punishes the victim of the fraudulent sale. This is especially true with children, below the age of maturity and consent to even make contract decisions. We criminalize leaving one's refrigerator outside with the lock on (MCL § 750.493d, MCL § 28.761(4)), not the act of falling prey to it. By banning the gateway drug, not a post-gateway drug such as alcohol, MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216, avoids the error of Prohibition, and puts personal responsibility on those with most knowledge of the contraband substance (manufacturers and sellers), not on unwary consumers, often children. Michigan's well-reasoned law is an example for the nation.
31. WHEREFORE, to prevent or moot most or all suicide, as one of the many cigarette effects, please support getting a law like MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216, specifically, directing prosecution of tobacco company perpetrators of assisted suicide via the illegal manufacture, give away, and sale of the cigarettes prohibited thereby, as a condition precedent to prosecutions of anyone other than same.
"Thank You For Not Smoking," by Gordon L. Dillow, in 32 American Heritage 94-107 (February-March 1981). Page 103 discusses bribery of officials."In the 1800's, antismoking was a burning issue," by Cassandra Tate, in 20 Smithsonian 107-117 (July 1989). Page 115 discusses bribery of officials.
Although both articles also contain pro-tobacco disinformation, making the admissions of large-scale bribery more persuasive, the criminal prosecution and conviction of a sheriff for taking bribes to not enforce another cigarette-related law is objective fact without pro-tobacco hype, United States v Sheriff Goins, 593 F2d 88 (CA 8, 1979).
No ignorance plea allowed: as long ago as 1914, Thomas Edison cited one of the many factors/chemicals causing cigarettes' deleteriousness -- acrolein.
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The safe cigarettes law tells tobacco companies not to discriminate against smokers, don't make them the only group regularly sold a dangerous product that kills when used as designed. The safe cigarettes law, a smokers' rights law, also protects nonsmokers' rights, as the deleterious emissions that nonsmokers object to, arise from the deleterious ingredients.
After reading this material, if you sincerely want to help prevent the No. 1 cause of disease, and its resultant suffering; if you truly want to prevent suicide, please write and send the letters above requested.
You are also invited and encouraged to write to Michigan officials, to get its law enforced as a precedent for all. This will aid to prevent 90% of suicides. Please write to the
(a) Michigan Governor (Sample Letter in the Prevent-Suicide Website) asking him to enforce the law, and
(b) Michigan Attorney General (Sample Letter in the Prevent-Suicide Website) asking her to do likewise.
In addition, ask the State Police and your local sheriff and police chief to have such a law adopted here.
To prevent the cigarette-caused suffering that leads to 90% of suicides, urge officials (legislators and governors) in all states to copy Michigan's law. And urge U.S. Senators and Representatives and the President to do likewise. We don't just need "fires-safe" cigarettes; we need safe cigarettes, period. Cigarettes should be like any other product, safe ones, or no sale until they are. Let's end tobacco company discrimination against smokers.
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