On Thursday, November 10, Airspace Action on Smoking and Health will join Occupy Victoria to draw attention to the BC Investment Management Corp.’s $346 million investment in the tobacco industry. (Read all about it at Alberta Moves to Dump Tobacco Shares.)
We will start at Victoria City Hall Centennial Square in the 1600 block of Douglas Street, at noon, and walk from there to the BCIMC office at 2940 Jutland Road. We should arrive at BCIMC about 1 PM.
Bring a placard, a drum or other musical instrument, and an imaginative costume is OK, too.
Click here for a map of the route.
Sometimes the truth comes out. This time, Philip Morris got some help from the Billboard Liberation Front. Here’s the story: My Life, My Death, My Billboard
Here’s Grim’s favourite part: “All former Marlboro Men, Wayne McLaren, David McLean and Dick Hammer, were unavailable for comment due to their rugged, manly choice of death by lung cancer.”
Greetings from Grim…aka, Osama bin Tobacco.
On the 9th anniversary of 9/11., Grim would like to remind everyone that when it comes to killing, nobody — NOBODY — even comes close to his good friends at the tobacco industry.
3,000 people died on September 11, 2001. In the U.S. alone, tobacco industry products (TIPs) kill that many people EVERY 3 DAYS! Globally, TIPs kill that many people EVERY 5 HOURS!
It took my dreaded Taliban fighters 7 years to kill 123 Canadians…IN A WAR ZONE! TIPs kill that many Canadians EVERY SINGLE DAY!
Speaking of wars: With the exception of the combined 10 years of the two World Wars, TIPs have killed more people, globally — each and every year over the last century — than any/all wars!
On September 11, take a moment to think about those who died on 9/11; then take 5 moments to think about the 15,000 global citizens who die, EACH AND EVERY DAY, as a direct result of using TIPs.
And think about this, too. Most of the victims of the 9/11 “terrorist” attacks died instantly…or within minutes/hours of the attack. For most smokers, on the other hand, death is very long, slow and agonizingly painful process.
And you wonder why I fired the Taliban…and love tobacco so much!?!
TOBACCO IS WONDERFUL!
That’s why I warn anti-tobacco activists: Do not interfere with my #1 source of dead bodies! And remember: The tobacco industry does not target kids, it does not want kids to smoke, it could survive very nicely if nobody started smoking until they were 19 and, last but not least, NICOTINE IS NOT ADDICTIVE!!!
A video about Errol Povah’s Journey for a Tobacco-Free World: