"A Message..."

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"A message to the tobacco companies, from a nondualist"

 

Dear Sirs:

 

You have been right all along. Tobacco and nicotine are completely

harmless and nonaddictive substances. The U.S. Government and other

pressure groups have been wronging you and misleading the general populace.

In their attempts to "educate" all that tobacco is dangerous, they do more

harm than good.

 

Tobacco is nothing but a plant with some chemicals in it. We who are

dispassionate and unattached to things of a physical nature may choose to

ignite it and inhale the burning smoke of the dried leaves of this plant

without harm, if we wish to do so, although many of us see no reason to do

such a silly thing. "Addiction" is simply ego-attachment, sometimes

combined with physical attachment. Most of us believe that both types of

attachments can be released easily with the proper knowledge of what is

real and what is not, and that the physical body is simply a manifestation

of individual mind, which in actuality does not exist. Thus, with proper

control of the mind and a dispassionate and non-attached nature, tobacco

and nicotine are nonaddictive, because we believe there is no such thing as

addiction. Addiction is illusion.

 

Furthermore, the "harm" that tobacco may do to the body is in truth,

meaningless. Who is to care if a substance part of the world of maya

(illusion) may affect a physical body also part of the world of maya

(illusion). Those of us who realize our True Nature know that we are

already At-One with Everything, and that harm to the physical body is in

truth harmless, because there is no individual physical body. It is only

in attachment to such things that the idea of "harm" to that which is

illusory holds any meaning.

 

In conclusion, you are truly not responsible for the affects of tobacco

upon the populace. The populace, in their various ego-attachments to all

manner of physical substances, harm themselves through their own delusions

that such things are real or have any meaning. Since it is the

responsibility of each person to realize this for themselves, it is not you

who are responsible for anything. As far as this person is concerned,

there is no problem with continuing to sell tobacco, even to 'minors,' and

all taxation on tobacco should immediately lifted, the pressure to

"illegalize" tobacco should be removed at once, and freedom of choice for

all should be restored.

 

Sincerely,

 

A nondualist.

 

 

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