After doing some "research" I've found that the only things that are written about it are in reference to Micheal Moore's writing.
"I am not a great Michael Moore fan. I almost am – he’s wonderfully talented and funny, and his passion and energy are admirable. But unlike Dave Barry, whose exaggerations and flights of fancy are so wonderfully wild that only the dimmest wit could miss them, my sense is that Michael Moore strays from fairness in ways that the average reader could easily miss. So maybe he’s done that in the passage above. But what’s scary to me about the Bush administration and the long-time influence of the tobacco industry on the Republican Party (with a few tobacco-state Democrats thrown in) is that this story has the ring of truth.
Wouldn’t you be curious to know for sure?"
"Since the events of 9/11 there has been a list of objects banned from planes. We have all had a ironic chuckle as a 60 year old man has his toenail clippers taken from him, or reading about how leaf blowers are now banned (no more gardening at 30,000 feet for you).
Furthermore there has only been one almost successful follow up attack by Richard Reed who tried to light a bomb in his shoe. Reed used a lighter. Lighters are not on the list of banned materials.
So why is the name of everything holy, is the only object used in a followup terrorist attempt, just about the only item not on that otherwise rediculously comprehensive list?
It was. And the Tobacco Industry lobbied the Bush and the administration to let people (who can't even smoke on planes anyhow) take their lighters and matches on board so as they could light up right away upon arrival.
Read more here"
Guess where "here" goes..
I have yet to find any evidence that this is true other than unsubstantiated quote from a "young man" on an idiots website.
"I am not a great Michael Moore fan. I almost am – he’s wonderfully talented and funny, and his passion and energy are admirable. But unlike Dave Barry, whose exaggerations and flights of fancy are so wonderfully wild that only the dimmest wit could miss them, my sense is that Michael Moore strays from fairness in ways that the average reader could easily miss. So maybe he’s done that in the passage above. But what’s scary to me about the Bush administration and the long-time influence of the tobacco industry on the Republican Party (with a few tobacco-state Democrats thrown in) is that this story has the ring of truth.
Wouldn’t you be curious to know for sure?"
"Since the events of 9/11 there has been a list of objects banned from planes. We have all had a ironic chuckle as a 60 year old man has his toenail clippers taken from him, or reading about how leaf blowers are now banned (no more gardening at 30,000 feet for you).
Furthermore there has only been one almost successful follow up attack by Richard Reed who tried to light a bomb in his shoe. Reed used a lighter. Lighters are not on the list of banned materials.
So why is the name of everything holy, is the only object used in a followup terrorist attempt, just about the only item not on that otherwise rediculously comprehensive list?
It was. And the Tobacco Industry lobbied the Bush and the administration to let people (who can't even smoke on planes anyhow) take their lighters and matches on board so as they could light up right away upon arrival.
Read more here"
Guess where "here" goes..
I have yet to find any evidence that this is true other than unsubstantiated quote from a "young man" on an idiots website.
