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03rd July 2009.      View all our past news stories in the News Archive RSS Feed


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Obama Signs Big Pharma/Big Tobacco Subsidy Bill II
1st July 2009
Last week President Obama signed into law legislation that grants the Food and Drug Administration the authority to regulate tobacco.  News media duly reported the event as a positive development for Public Health.
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Bans Delayed in South Dakota
29th June 2009
There will evidently be a referendum vote in November 2010.
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Obama Signs Big Pharma/Big Tobacco Subsidy Bill
26th June 2009
This week President Obama signed the  Johnson & Johnson/Philip Morris Subsidy Bill into law.  No, that's not the public name of the "historic" legislation but that description is more accurate than the hosannas issuing from the mainstream media and their masters in Washington, DC.
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Obama Advances Coburn's Irony Toward Actuality
24th June 2009
Senator Tom Coburn told the Senate days ago that it should ban tobacco entirely.
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The Disenchanted “Winston Man”
22nd June 2009
David Goerlitz was once a model for Winston cigarette ads.
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Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain
19th June 2009
Like the Wizard of Oz the health ‘n’ safety machine relies on its cheap illusion of bullhorn omniscience and flaming omnipotence.
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Freedom To Choose Press Office

She Will Not Hector Governments
3rd July 2009. Three months after being awarded the British Medical Journal's Lifetime Achievement Award for her services to Tobacco Control, Judith Mackay has hit the news again – although it is not very clear why. This article features her ... Read full story at.... Freedom To Choose News



I Can Help It

Our Betters discussing Morality
Having a half hour to kill before an appointment last night I chose to listen to BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze. Like most BBC programming this starts from the premise that we need the state to do something about something. The usual manipulative ... Read full story at.... Life, Liberty and Proper Tea



Pro Choice Smoking Doctor

Save Our Pubs And Clubs
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Smoking Mad

Court refuses to get involved in tobacco fight
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has refused to get in the middle of a patent fight over a way to cure tobacco that may make it less carcinogenic. The high court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., who is being ... Read full story at.... Smoking Mad



Spiked on line

Labour: the ghost of government past
The Brown regime’s U-turns on Royal Mail, ID cards and education reveals something shocking: Britain currently has no real government. Read full story at.... Spiked




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