July 2007

<p style="" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Ignored by the mass media all over the world because they have to cater to the antismoking fraud, <em>&ldquo;a </em></span><st1:place><st1:placetype><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">University</span></em></st1:placetype><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> of </span></em><st1:placename><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">California Los Angeles School</span></em></st1:placename></st1:place><em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> of Public Health report said<o:p></o:p></span></em></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Researchers Dave Kuneman and Michael McFadden have been submitting an &quot;Anti-Helena&quot; study to medical journals for the past year and getting rejected, seemingly on frivolous or unwarranted grounds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p style="" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Interesting piece from The Telegraph about the epidemic of signs that is plaguing our society &ndash; the most recent ones concerning smoking. There are so many signs ordering people about that, in fact, no one reads them anymore.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Forces is pleased to post the first real time study of statewide economic impact imposed by smoking bans.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Finally somebody has answered Michael Siegel&rsquo;s challenge to prove that 30 minutes of secondhand smoke causes clogged arteries that increase the immediate risk of a heart attack: TobaccoScam.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">When&rsquo;s the best time to fight back against a smoking ban? There&rsquo;s never a better time than when the ban first comes into effect. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;">Once upon a time, you actually had to commit an infraction before being fined for one. That was in the old </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;">UK</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Former U.S. Surgeon General Richard <span class="spelle">Carmona</span> complains to members of a Congressional committee that he was muzzled by White House operatives to support political agendas.</span></p>

<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Staff writer Eric Blair sweetens our weekend with a good shot of humour as he explores the quest on the part of Public Health and its community activist partners to engineer the first-ever fully-documented death from Second Hand Smoke.</span></p>

<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">You would think that someone nicknamed &quot;Johnny Cigarette&quot;, someone capable of saying that contemporary pubs are often a pale &ldquo;corporate imitation&rdquo; of the once idiosyncratic mom-and-pop places that once flourished, and that smoking bans represent &ldquo;<span style="color: black;">a draconian social apartheid&rdquo;, would also understand that there is more going on here than a random bit of bad legislation. </span></span></p>