Levels Of Smokeless Tobacco Use Increase Among Adolescent Males
The levels of current smokeless tobacco use increased significantly among adolescent males (aged 12 to 17) from 3.4 percent in 2002 to 4.4 percent in 2007, according to a report based on a series of nationwide surveys.
George Lucas designed 'Star Wars' from 1973-77, when the draft ended and went to an 'all volunteer' army.
Lucas promoted chewing tobacco to children with his 'Chewbacca' character who is a caricuture of masculinity, the tallest and hairest warrior.
Why did Lucas do such a reprehensible thing?
And why is CIA-Voice of America covering for him?
Because Lucas is the US government's best military recruiter and they know some of us are on to him-
Here's CIA-VOA spewing counterpropaganda at the same time studies are showing more young boys are putting these deadly carcinogens in their mouths-
http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/ ... 2007-10-15
Smokeless Tobacco Reduces Smoking Related Death
By Rosanne Skirble
15 October 2007
Spooks like George Lucas have been nudging kids towards tobacco and alcohol for decades to get them on the slippery slope of recruitable risk-taking, a step towards being a soldier.
Besides teaching military values and strategies of power dominance.
Sport is played as war, war is played as sport.
Steven CIA Spielberg followed up Gulf War I with a baseball-and-war-as-life psyops movie called 'Hook.'
The sight of chewing tobacco on TV is common in the mouths of baseball players.
There's been some industry cleaning up of their image. But there are ways around that-
On September 28th, 2005, none other than Chewbacca threw out the ceremonial first pitch prior to a game between the Boston Red Sox and Toronto Blue Jays at Fenway Park in Boston.
Chewbacca of Star Wars fame throws out the ceremonial first pitch as Wicket the Ewok looks on before a baseball game between the Florida Marlins and the Washington Nationals Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006, at Dolphin Stadium in Miami.
Military recruiting research includes the psychology of taking risks and status-seeking adult behaviors among other motivations.
Smoking and drinking are coming-of-age 'forbidden fruit' thresholds dangled closely and relentlessly in front of youth for both marketing and for military recruiting. That first step is easy but significantly increases susceptibility to larger ones.
This gateway path to further risk taking was studied by Howard S. Becker and covered in his 1963 book, 'Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance.'
The first step in most deviant careers is the commission of a nonconforming act, an act that breaks some particular set of rules.
The dual force (pun intended) of
>seeking group belonging (getting 'on the team') and
> crossing adult-behavior thresholds
...has a powerful effect on status-seeking children immersed in conflict and power dominance narratives from birth.
Sports are mock warfare, a ritual of male warrior culture.
It is a short cognitive step from uniform to uniform for an immature young male.
So Chewbacca the W(r)ookie is a caricature of Ultra Testosterone, tall and hairy, and is a homonym (oronym, really) meant to appeal to boys and thus get them in uniform to win the Big Game (see 'Chicken Little') by imitating those tobacco chewers on TV playing with a ball.
Note that the 'Jedi light sabre' is modeled after and held like...a baseball bat...so that kidz have a bridge fantasy from the playground to the battlefield. The target is...a big ball.
"Swing-batta-batta-batta-swing!"
So Lucas designed 'Star Wars' with embedded real military acronyms and doctrines in character names and plot. Lucas emphasized secondary attitudes that reinforce male warrior culture like "weapons are cool, home is boring, mothers must let boys go," etc.
The Pentagon has studied the psychology of risk-taking and so has Big Tobacco. CIA media wedded the two interests when they found that these self-medications allowed only to adults served a useful gateway function for kidz to other risks, like debt and war.
Howard S. Becker wrote up how breaking one social rule makes it easier to break others in his 1963 book, 'Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance.' And psyops movies like CIA-Disney's had already included gratuitous smoking and drinking for the kiddies to desire without product placement payoffs which later, once showing brands was allowed, simply provided cover for the social engineering tactic, a win-win for all involved.
Except those who die.
http://whyquit.com/whyquit/SeanMarsee.html
A smokeless tobacco user since age 12, Sean refused to believe his
mother's warnings that tobacco was hazardous, smoke or no smoke.
After a ten month battle with rapidly spreading cancer that started on his tongue, Sean Marsee died at age 19.
Baseball movies surged in the late Reagan-Bush years to remasculinize and thereby remilitarize American males to purge Vietnam Syndrome, a reluctance to use...The Force.
The primary reason for the 1988 movie, 'Bull Durham,' was a book published that year exposing the FBI's Doug Durham as an infiltrator of the American Indian Movement. The book was called 'Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement' by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall. This is a history of state-sanctioned murder.
But the secondary reason for the movie is a perfect blend of culture war memes supporting military recruiting in the American South.
Know what "Bull Durham" used to be?
Not only did the Bull Durham tags hanging from a pocket somehow distinguish the person as a "real man" many a lonely cowboy's life was made better when he met a visitor on the range and they shared the time with a quirlie.
1907: ADVERTISING: Bull Durham ad shocks New York. In 1907, the American Tobacco Company signed a contract with the operator of a horse-drawn stage line in New York to lease advertising space. One very controversial ad appeared for "Bull" Durham, the nation's leading tobacco brand. "Onlookers were shocked at the sight of the bull's well-endowed maleness so graphically rendered, and had the driver of the first stage that appeared on the street arrested." The City of New York sued the coach company and its client, the American Tobacco Company, to ban the ads. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court in 1911, which upheld New York's ban.
And Bull Durham was also Big tobacco and Jim Crow racism, a perfect combination for embedding a gang mentality.
on edit: This Jim Crow history website seems to not be there anymore...
...another site-
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/scripts/j ... index=6tml
The most recognizable trademark in the world by 1900, Bull Durham tobacco ads and trading cards typically depicted caricatures of foolish looking or silly acting blacks to draw attention to its product. Each ad has a green bull somewhere in the image.
Two silly looking black hunters have all the equipment for the hunt, but no match with which to light their cigarettes. The hunters are exaggerated images of blacks trying to immitate white people at sport. Notice the trademark green bull in the background. The Bull Durham bull together with the stereotypical images of blacks were a standard part of America's popular culture at the turn of the century.
I'm sure that besides creating a decoy for the FBI's weasel of death named Doug Durham, the masculine keywords, "Bull" and Durham" (durable) and the Southern identity of tobacco farming were the movie makers' prime reasons for picking this name for their movie since 50% of US military recruits come of the American South.
But some baggage comes along in plausibly deniable ways.
