Gore Has Read the Playbook
<p align="justify">Al Gore says the debate is over. He wants things his way. He wants social division. He wants fear and hate. He has read the anti-smoking playbook.</p>
Triple Whammy for Tobacco Control
<p align="justify">Good news indeed from Canada. Here’s something to brighten your day and warm your heart. It’s a report from our correspondent Roy Harrold on the protest against the Canadian national anti-smokers’ conference held in Edmonton last week. Anti-smoking "dignitaries" from all around Canada, and from around the world, met with richly deserved ridicule.</p>
Junk Science Immortalised
<p align="justify">American columnist Andrew Sullivan of the <em>Atlantic</em> (with further reference to the UK <em>Guardian</em>) recently drew our attention to an annual back-handed celebration of junk science: the Ig-Nobel awards, handed out to the most ludicrous projects (many of them scientific) which have managed to make it to publication during the preceding year.</p>
Gardasil
<p align="justify">The Gardasil human papillomavirus vaccine may be implicated in at least ten recent deaths.</p>
Watchdog Group: UK Among Worst for Privacy
<p align="justify">What do China, Russia, Malaysia, Singapore and the UK have in common? They’re all among countries with the worst rating for privacy protection as established by the international watchdog group Privacy International.</p>
Fascism comes to America wrapped in studies
<p align="justify">‘Sinclair Lewis’s bumper sticker friendly maxim, "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross," may be all the rage these days, yet from my New York City perch it seems more likely fascism will come weighed down with studies by self-congratulatory "public interest" groups and carrying a sign reading, "It’s for the children!"’</p>
Know Thine Enemy
<p align="justify"><img vspace="10" hspace="5" align="left" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/audio_button.jpg" alt="" />A second Round Table of FORCES discussions, concerning smoking bans, prohibition and the power of antismoking organizations. How did it all start? When did you first become aware of a smoking ban near you? Is it possible (and credible) that the entire world, all of a sudden, spontaneously embraces prohibition? Who is behind it? Where will it go? And what can be done to stop it?</p>
Conditioning the Foot Soldiers
<p align="justify">Now, comrades, let’s get something really straight here, as there has to be no doubt left.</p>
New Ban for Nursing Homes
<p align="justify">Collaborator Sam Nettles replies to reporter on news of a new nursing home smoking ban in North Carolina.</p>
An Elitist’s View
<p align="justify">Being a member of the elitist ruling class, I ascribe 100% to the concept of Utilitarian Bioethics, now being taught as truth in many colleges around our nation.</p>