Do cigarettes cause health problems?

Photograph depicting a cigarette
By Philippe Goulet

Do cigarettes cause health problems?
Sunday – October 26, 2025

In my view the supposed link between cigarettes or perhaps more accurately put, the link between smoking, and cancers, other diseases, and health issues, is a giant fraud perpetrated by an assortment of evil pressure groups who seek to advance their own authority and the authority of the state over the individual and really the beastly agenda. Yes, allow me to be very libertarian today: why should the state dictate to me how I should live my life? Well that's easy, statist will simply point to the supposed costs associated with smoking cigarettes that "society" has to pay for and therefore it's entirely legitimate for the state to restrict the sale of cigarettes and to tax them. Look, the state does this with everything already, but I felt that it was important to specifically focus on cigarettes today for the reason that this issue highlights everything wrong with the modern world. Is it not true though, that people who smoke cigarettes have a higher risk of suffering from cancers and heart diseases? Well, if that's true then you should prove it; I don't have to and I will not disprove your positive claim. Besides, even if it is the case that cigarettes harm people's health, you should be free to harm yourself in this supposedly "free" society. Also, there should be no such thing as a welfare state anyways to begin with, and even if you live under the tyranny of a welfare state, you should not be held responsible for the laws issued by other people. If it is the case that other people have to pay for your healthcare, somehow your taxes don't matter, then that's their problem and if they don't like it, then they should abolish the welfare state. There are no legitimate and freedom respecting arguments in favor of any kind of restrictions, and from a spiritual and metaphysical perspective, these things take care of themselves: if people are evil, then nature will punish those men. But I believe that cigarettes are NOT bad for your health and in fact I believe that there's a case to be made that cigarettes are good for your health, but I will not make that case here today. But why do some people lie about cigarettes then? Well, as I stated previously, they lie because they want to gain attention and status and most of these people hold all sorts of incestuous relationships to the state, which then helps both them and the state, a win-win situation. I also believe that the claim, the false claim, that cigarettes cause health issues is a psyop, a psychological operation, that is meant to cause mass hysteria, in order for the revolutionary elite to gain further control over the masses, the plebeian hordes. Why do you think that they choose cigarettes and really any product that can be used to calm down the senses? Well, that's also simple: they have targeted cigarettes in particular, but many other products as well, for the purpose of, as I previously monitored, gain control over your mind, but also to make you subservient to disease. See, by linking products such as cigarettes to bad or adverse health outcomes, the state can instill both a sense of fear and hysteria, and a feeling that while these things will cause disease you can avoid these diseases by taking actions in the material domain, which in my view could be construed to be a form of blasphemy. The same can be said about the causes for climate change, which I have covered in the past. So moral panic and hysteria is used by the serpent and the revolutionary elite to control your mind and really your actions. Why do you believe that smoking causes cancer? Do you know this? No, you BELIEVE this because you've been told to believe this, because you've been fed lies and you've been manipulated your entire life. At this point I'm sure that you're laughing, but really you should be crying because you're one pathetic being, lower than the most primitive animal. So should you be smoking? You do you man. Well, no but not because smoking causes disease, but because you don't want to fund the government and because you don't want to uphold the material order. I never claimed that cigarettes were good; I just claimed that the supposed "health effects" by cigarettes are giant lies. Well, I believe you should smoke for this reason: if you seek to rebel against the oppressive and paternalistic tendencies of the state, you should smoke, but again remember that you keep funding that state for every smoke you buy. Do not fund the state! But hysteria and moral panic is how they keep you under control. Democratic governments tend to be far more totalitarian in this regard than autocratic governments, for democratic governments keep you successfully under the illusion that you have autonomy and "free will". The same goes for alcohol or other "addictive" substances. In my view, there is no such thing as an "addiction": people become "addicts" because they choose to consume something, and the consumption of this something has really only been made a problem by the state and the populist horde. When a man grows out of his "addiction" he hasn't improved, he has simply decided to do something else with his time, and this happens all the time. A man does not require rehabilitation, as if there was something constitutionally and structurally evil and distinctly separate about this man that made him so sick that he had to undergo what essentially is a form of reeducation. If that is not totalitarian, then I do not know what the meaning of totalitarian is.

    I again, do not encourage people to smoke, mostly because that would mean that you would be funding the state, but I do need to make it clear again that I completely reject all of this junk that claims that smoking causes disease. Let's unpack what really causes diseases: moral failure causes disease and disease arises when the scales of the celestial order are out of balance, which I recently pointed out in my "Personal Note VIII" post. A diseased and sick man is a man without good standing, without good and sincere conscience, and the world is filled with them. In fact, all men, yes all men, are fundamentally sick and depraved and they are ripe for disease and decay, such is the fundamental condition of life: disease, corruption, decay, and death, something I've covered in the past as well. In the end, disease will destroy your body and your flesh will rot, because you are fundamentally depraved and sick, you were born this way and you may not escape that fate.

Reginald Drax – October 26, 2025.