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Dissecting Antismokers' Brains

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I just finished reading the "Dissecting AntiSmokers' Brains" and I not only found it to be scientifically correct and logical, but also fun to read. In fact, I ordered 10 more to give out to those I know that may be interested.

It was very timely for me as our city (Oshkosh, WI) has recently been pushed into a smoking ban due to a group of antismokers comprised of most of the nine personality types that you describe. Though I do not smoke, I find this threat upon our freedoms truly frightening. The website www.freedom-of-choice.com summarizes this book more extensively with quotes and a more indepth analysis. If the general public knew about this book and how good it is, it would be on any best-seller list.

James P. Siepmann, MD, Editor-in-Chief
Journal of Theoretics

This book has changed my life dramatically. I was deceived by all the misinformation surrounding SHS even though I realized that things just did not add up, I had no proof.

Thanks to Dissecting Antismokers' Brains I now feel totally vindicated and the sense of guilt from this pleasure is pretty much erased. The book is straight forward, thoughtful and well orgnaized. It states all the facts which are easily verified and when you are finished you find yourself wanting more.

When non-smokers read this book they, rightfully so, are outraged to discover that they have been used as pawns in a power stuggle by an elite group of people who are making millions from this. Factor in drug companies making millions from nicotine replacement products and most media outlets threatened with monetary loss if anything positive can be said about SHS and you have the biggest social lie of this generation.

What is happening right now in the free world is nothing short of criminal, akin to organized crime at it's best. Antismoking groups have no real evidence against SHS, just half-truths and outright lies through manipulation. This is racketeering on a world wide scale and most are unaware of this. The newly approved smoking treaty which just came into effect now holds third world countries as hostages who must comply or else. This is extortion and a violation of basic human rights!

We are all victims of these groups whose main goals are power and money but the biggest victims of all are our children. While money, time, media hype and other resources have been wasted on the BIG LIE the use of drugs and alcohol has sky rocketed in young people, STD rates continue to soar and poverty continues to rise. Antismoking groups are apathetic to these REAL problems while continuing to manufacture false data to reap in even more money. These are taxpayers dollars being wasted while freedom of choice is being stripped away.

Finally, for those of you wondering, I am independant of any tobacco companies or other interest groups in this area. I have never met Michael nor have I even had a conversation with him. This book stands on it's own merits, more than I can say for anything published by the antismokers. Read it, you will be amazed and you will even get a few chuckles from his light humour injected throughout. When you are finished send it to someone with some real political clout, someone who will ask the hard questions and expose these criminals for who they really are.

He attacks the spin and propaganda used by those trying to eradicate smoking from the face of the earth and while doing so he takes pains to avoid falling into the trap of using the same methods himself: his style is simple and direct, no fancy pictures or mind-games, just facts supporting his arguments.

Overall his book is incredibly readable for the amount of information it packs into its 370 pages: you'll almost feel at times like you're reading a page-turning novel rather than a serious work of non-fiction aimed at a modern social problem. In an email exchange I had with him while writing this review, Mr. McFadden declared his belief that, if he could get copies of the book into every college course dealing with the social debate over smoking, and a copy sitting on the bar of every tavern threatened with a smoking ban, the outrage felt by those readers would provide the impetus needed to fight what has become a very powerful lobby.

After reading Dissecting Antismokers' Brains I think I would have to agree with the author on that point.

Smokers should read this book so to be able to defend themselves from the antics of the anti-smoking crusade. Anti-smokers should read this to understand what travesties they are forcing upon the world.

McFadden does not let anything slide! This is a piece of heavy hitting FACT based non fiction (thats more than I can say for many other opposing authors). This is such an easy read, in fact, I feel like I am engrossed in a conversation with McFadden whenever I pick it up.

This book says what has been on all rational human's minds for the last two decades.

A year ago I gave one of our local commissioners, a huge smoke hater himself, a copy of Michael McFadden's book "Dissecting the Anti Smokers Brain." Our local politicians, ignoring our predictions of what would happen, passed a local ban anyway. We are now working very hard to over turn our ban.

It took a whole year, but just last week the above smoke hater e-mailed me agreeing to a meeting with the bar owners AND said: "if this debate continues...I will soon be quoting and citing from McFadden's book". After he passed the ban I told him to send my book back or pay me the money for it, full price of course. He has now agreed to pay me for the book as well!

To anyone dealing with elected officials. GO ORDER THE BOOK!!! It was the best investment ever! I wish I would have read it long before I did. I still use if for reference. Save yourself a lot of time, spend the money, give it to your elected officials!!! This book is not just an effective weapon against the smoke haters...it is the BEST weapon
against them. Thanks Michael!
Sue Jeffers

I live in Erie, PA and the smoking ban mania has just invaded the region. I thought there was no one seriously fighting these bans until I ran across Mr. McFadden and his book on the Internet. I've got a strong sceintific background and was very surprised and impressed to see that someone like Michael McFadden who is obviously an advocate of a political position, actually argue and present the science about the subject so well. I wish I had known about this book a year ago and gotten more involved because maybe we wouldn't be in the bad situation we're now facing here. I would definitely reccommend this book to anyone with an open mind who has an appreciation for a well-written expose`.

Jacqueline Sarah Homan, Erie PA

Michael McFadden is one of the most knowledgeable, sincere and prolific pro-choice smoking advocates. His book is terrific.

Expanding a bit on the contents of "Dissecting Antismokers' Brains", written in such a down-to-earth manner, you will find that you have opened a page-turner that sucks you in to learn more about his well referenced subject matter. You begin to feel as if Michael is a friend, talking only to you. This great book reads more like a novel than non-fiction, and holds the reader's attention so well that I have found myself spending hours to re-read "just one more chapter"...then, another and another. Want to find a book that will really make you think, whether you are a smoker, non-smoker or even hate smoke? Read this book...more than once. It will make you think!

Garnet Dawn
Illinois Smokers Rights

Mr. McFadden's book is probably the best single guide to the multiple forces behind the antismoking movement. It is a collection of documented facts, that directly counter the indoctrination practices of the antismoking movement. For anyone seeking the truth about smoking bans, this is a must read. The book is an easy read, without manipulation of the English language, as the antismoking forces use.

Robert Gehrmann

Have read all of your book and now reading the appendixes.
It is a very useful tool with all that information collected and presented thus..well done!
I found it quite a difficult book to put down..so you have a good writing style as well..I do not read books easily!!

I have some personal and professional experience with anti-smoking groups, as the founder of the Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, creator of their American Spirit product, and as the author of several 'If you're gonna smoke it, grow your own!" books, and I can tell you that Michael is right on target with this fact-filled, eminently readable book. None of this movement is about anti-smoking - it is about political and economic power over the masses, pure and not-so-simple. And if anyone thinks that Michael's book is about supporting the so-called 'tobacco industry' they either haven't read it or they haven't a clue about who controls what in America and the rest of the world.

In some ways this book is about far more than revealing the truth about the shrill, confused and self-righteous 'anti-smoking' movement - it is about almost all 'movements' that are created specifically to manipulate people into believing a carefully crafted set of lies in order to exercise mind control over these poor dupes. What Michael has done is to reveal not only the network and motivation behind this movement, and also to document in a clear, calm, almost ironic voice how breathtakingly stupid they actually are in spite of their 'victories', but he has also given us - if you will read between the lines - a vivid picture of how organized criminals go about the process of taking over people's brains in almost every facet of modern life.

Read this to be informed; read this because it will change the way you see the world; and most of all read this book because it is so much fun using Michael's carefully documented facts and arguments to confuse and confound the anti-smokers you know. If you enjoy raising the blood pressure of those who have been turned into idiots by the anti-smoking mob, this is the only tool you'll need. Now if Michael would just write a book on organized religion - oh, wait - all you have to do is to substitute "organized religion" for "anti-smoking" throughout this book and that's pretty much what he has already done.