September 2007

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">The phrase &ldquo;I hate that!&rdquo; used to be a way to speak figuratively to indicate a dislike. Times have changed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p>As we are in times of pathological delusion, someone seems to believe that making apples look like French fries makes apples taste like fries – just along the lines that ‘attributing’ deaths to smoking makes smoking the cause of death. Not so – and kids know that too. We give the word to one of our readers.</p>

<p>To combat the metastasizing obesity epidemic, the wise people that make up the Los Angeles City Council contemplate cracking down on the poor folk.</p>

<p><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS" color="#993300">Bubba wants legal advise…</font></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">This short piece from S&oslash;ren H&oslash;jbjerg describes well the feelings of a smoker when he steps into a &ldquo;smoke-free&rdquo; place.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Remember when, a few years ago, pro-smoking groups used the approach of pointing out that there where other ‘wrong’ lifestyles that ‘public health’ should go after rather than smoking, instead of combating the generalized adoption of junk science and fighting the notion that smoking itself is ‘wrong’?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">The hypocrisy has gone beyond any imagination: the British government’s chief scientific advisor has set out a universal 7-point ethical code for scientists &ndash; and he violates four points while he is moving his lips!<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p>Smokers who use the drug varenicline to help them stop lighting up may discover it also reduces their urge to drink.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">The shame goes on, and nobody cares: we are too busy complying with Nazi laws</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> in the name of &lsquo;public health&rsquo;</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Yes, it is true: if it wasn&rsquo;t for the rivers of pharmaceutical and public money they get, antismokers would not go far, because they are so often really dumb. To be more exact, antismokers are very much like sharks, without the charm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>