It can NEVER "completely succeed", as long as Native Americans still hold to traditions involving it!
Dear Fellow Pipefans:
Data's Calabash here once more...I don't know IF any of the World Health Organization folks involved with the movement for such a "holiday" has ever had any dealings with either one or more of the Native American tribal councils that still have a cultural use for tobacco in their particular culture(s), or even more importantly with any of the UN agencies that are in existence to protect the rights of any indigenous human cultures/ethnicities anywhere on Earth...
...if they HAVE been, one or more of those WHO human health personnel involved in the "anti-" movement is, sooner or later, going to HAVE to recognize that "World No Tobacco Day" simply REPEATS the potential for the sorts of sad deprivations of native cultural practices that have been going on for so long worldwide in human history...AND have been so destructively visited on indigenous Americans for half a millenium.
Such a "World No Tobacco Day" will NEVER be practically achieved, as exactly that sort of forced conformity would be no more welcome than the Trail of Tears, having their native languages silenced, or any other sort of abrogation of their civil rights that they've already suffered.
Some tribal groups have been able to start reviving the use of their native languages in recent years, as one sign of a reversal of such destructive "priorities"...why should anyone, or any agency of any type, be allowed to go "all the way" with taking the tobacco-based traditions of any indigenous American ethnicity away from them, anyway?
It makes absolutely NO sense whatsoever to attempt such a thing...and out of the roughly 560 Federally recognized tribal ethnicities in the USA, a significant number of those ethnicities who live in the "lower 48" states AND east of the front range of the Rockies, ARE likely to still have a long-standing (since North American prehistory, in many cases) set of tobacco-based cultural traditions in place, and would most likely not tolerate any interference with those, from local-level, state-level, national level OR international level "health authorities".
So, the very idea of a "world no tobacco day" is a potential violation of the civil rights of certain indigenous Americans, and has no ethical reason to exist.
Thank you,
Data's Calabash
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