August 2007

<p>It&rsquo;s tempting to hum &ldquo;another one bites the dust,&rdquo; from Queen&rsquo;s early 80&rsquo;s funk/disco hit at the news that the home of the fearsome Vikings now trembles before wisps of tobacco smoke.</p>

Impressive salvo of false information in this piece by the Times Herald-Record. “If alcoholics and drug addicts want to kick their habits, they’d better be ready to snuff out their cigarettes. Indoors and outdoors, smoking will be banned at 1,400 recovery centers throughout the state starting next summer. In place Read more…

Even the mighty Kim Jong-il trembles before the mountain of junk science on the dangers of ETS. So spooked is Korea’s Dear Leader that “North Korea has imposed a smoking ban at all venues used by its leader, Kim Jong-il, after doctors told him to stop smoking and drinking following Read more…

Ah, the power of the pharmaceutical industry. After the heavy financing of antitobacco frauds, they’re getting their corrupt stooges in the ministries of health to arrange for tax-free sales of their products: “Ontario Health Promotion Minister Jim Watson, who announced last month the province would drop its sales tax on Read more…

“Despite pleas throughout the 1920s by journalist H.L. Mencken and a tiny handful of other sensible people to end Prohibition, Congress gave no hint that it would repeal this folly. Prohibition appeared to be here to stay — until income-tax revenues nose-dived in the early 1930s.” Most of us tend Read more…

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="">’A kilogram of beef is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution than driving for 3 hours while leaving all the lights on back home…<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p>Rush Limbaugh takes on the latest abuse of power by &ldquo;public health&rdquo; ideology. New York is poised to forbid smoking in cars if there are minors present &ndash; another way to try to regulate smoking out of existence.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="">With powerful people and powerful lobbies now staking their reputations on the &ldquo;fact&rdquo; that manmade global warming is about to wreak havoc around the entire planet, news that the sky may not be falling is hardly welcomed.</span><span lang="EN-US" style=""><o:p></o:p></span></p>

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