Stogie Video: Fascism Healthier than Smoking?!

Since people who want to tell us where, when, and if we can smoke seem to be a dime a dozen these days, we spend considerable time covering smoking bans and the health fascists who want to impose them on us.

Often, in the course of that coverage, we call the people pushing such bans “do-gooders” – along with other less flattering names – in reference to the fact that while wrong, we generally think that these are sane people who are well-intentioned. That characterization – which in no way is an excuse for their attempts to impose their misguided values on others – was challenged by the video below.

In the clip a group called Bureaucrash organized a peaceful smoke-in outside the doors of the 13th World Conference on Tobacco while wearing T-shirts that said “Smoking is Healthier than Fascism” in an effort to engage in constructive debate and conversation. (As you probably suspect, despite the cool name, the World Conference on Tobacco is not a big party for smokers, but a dry gathering full of doom and gloom about “tobacco control” – the euphemism of choice for deciding how to stop people from being allowed to choose to smoke.)

Without spoiling the ending, lets just say that one conference attendee took issue with the notion that smoking is healthier than fascism. Enjoy.

Click here to watch the video.

-Patrick S