QUESTION:

A question from T.M., in North Carolina. He writes: "Being from North Carolina, the nation’s number one tobacco growing state, there is much speculation about the future of this cash crop, in light of the snowballing anti-tobacco public sentiment and government actions. Although I don’t smoke, I have been shocked by the recent momentum of the anti-tobacco movement. Just a generation ago it was suave to smoke, and now it’s repulsive. There is no doubt in my mind that within a few years it will be outlawed. Setting aside the emotional feelings many anti-smoking people have about the issue, is it possible that there could be a hidden agenda here? Maybe an experiment by the government in determining how easy it will be to take away an individual’s freedom to decide about smoking? Or, could it be a double conspiracy by the tobacco industry which wants the government to ban tobacco and give the companies an easy way out of future liability suits? After all, the tobacco companies are vastly diversified now. Then they could export it to naive Third World smokers and avoid legal entanglements here and push their other products in the U.S."

COSMIC AWARENESS:

This Awareness indicates that the world wide consumption in other countries of tobacco products is on the increase, a very rapid increase, even as it is diminishing in this country. This Awareness indicates that your questions in regard to the hidden agenda are those that tend to have some credibility in light of the situations that are developing in this country.

This Awareness indicates that it will not be long before tobacco will be made illegal, except by prescription, or will have some kind of new regimentation involved. This Awareness indicates that it may also develop that entities wishing to smoke will need to have approval, particularly if a health program is initiated that is funded by government or insurance companies, so that neither the government nor the insurance companies funding a health care program will have a liability for entities who indulge in smoking because of their illnesses resulting from that smoke.