November 2007

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<p>Siberia&rsquo;s Lake Baikal is the world&rsquo;s deepest lake. It contains more water than all five of North America&rsquo;s Great Lakes combined.</p>
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<p>A translation from Romanian.</p>

<div align="justify">A fat man has gone to great lengths to be allowed into New Zealand. The question is why.</div>

<div align="justify">We would say the Philip Morris Company was comical, but it&rsquo;s hard to laugh, while throwing up.</div>

<div align="justify">Massachusetts doctors are telling kids to open wide and spill their guts.</div>

<p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">&hellip; and he does not even smoke … but pub owner Hamish Howitt understands the very dangerous precedent that &ldquo;public health&rdquo; is establishing in politics and society. He is defying the British smoking ban because he is a man who believes in right and who recognizes wrong.</span></p>

<p>What kind of hard-harded politicians would hold up funding health care for uninsured children?&nbsp; Answer:&nbsp; anti-tobacco Democrats whose intransigence is putting kids at risk.</p>

<p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">On </span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">January 2, 2007</span><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> we published a comment entitled &ldquo;The confessions of a stupid smoker&quot; which you can find <a href="http://forces.org/Archive/index.php?s=3090&amp;q=&amp;order=alphabetical">in our archives</a>. Our comments criticized a letter which had appeared in a Canadian newspaper. We are now told the letter to the newspaper was intended to be sarcastic. We are glad the newspaper letter was not sincerely intended, but it does seem so intended, thus we stand by that criticism while welcoming clarification presented here. </span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Dr. Michael Siegel continues his relentless challenge of the antismoking gangs’ scams, and he is getting more media attention. These two pieces confirm that.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><font face="Verdana"><img hspace="2" align="left" alt="" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/audio_button.jpg" /></font></span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Correspondent Jim Blogg gives us his first, entertaining report from the state of </span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Illinois</span><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> about the squalid parade of &ldquo;experts&rdquo; testifying in favour of the state-wide smoking ban.</span></p>