Noor's exhibition “Glamour Is Myth” began as a simple message intended to provoke reflection on the act of smoking. Glamor Is Myth was never really intended as an anti-smoking vehicle, despite the anti-smoking moniker. Instead, Glamor Is Myth was actually conceived as a provocative entry, intended only to provoke enough thought for an individual to make an informed choice about whether or not to smoke. When Noor first embarked on the presentation of this exhibition in 1989 we could not have foreseen that the anti-smoking movement would reach this far. Nor could we have known that it would be driven by the seemingly fascist machinations that would essentially work to brainwash a country into submission to a philosophy. Sure, the philosophies behind the anti-smoking movement are noble at their core, but once that core has been tampered with and equipped with a propaganda steamroller assigned to subjugate everyone, then you end up with an animal infinitely more dangerous to society. of tobacco. could ever become. That animal is the cultivation of “groupthink,” which is an indispensable principle of fascism. Apparently when the word “fascist” is used the listener conjures up images of Doc Martens, brown shirts and mass graves. The foundations of fascist thought are infinitely more subtle in its mechanisms and its core. Fascism is primarily concerned with cultivating uniformity among the masses and is fundamentally dictatorial. Indeed, Noor would be betting that brown shirt imagery is conducive to submission as it serves as a functional distraction so that fascist propaganda can go forward largely unhindered and without resistance from the masses who remain largely ignorant. .. half of the paper ...... I was successful. This same person vehemently denied that there is anything remotely fascist about the anti-smoking movement or the way it has been conducted. This is an archetypal behavior of individuals who do not wish to confront or deal with the possibility of not having understood how the cultural mass of which we are all part, has been led along a path and sold a list of goods that are not necessarily Good. The inherent insidiousness of this lies in the blindness that is a byproduct of the zealous actions of those who would be altruistic who lack a basic understanding of the domino effect that, once set in motion, will eventually rebound and require sacrifice of the rights that these same zealots assume are indisputably theirs. Ultimately one has to wonder if perhaps we haven't simply had smoke blown in our collective faces.