January 2008

<div style="text-align: justify;"><img hspace="4" align="left" alt="" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/video_button.jpg" />A correspondent from England shares his perspective on anti-smoking.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">For a while it looked like coffee had been let off the hook. More recently has come a barrage of junk science &ldquo;attributions&rdquo; based on risks as ridiculously low as those of passive smoking (and with the same trashy data gathering methodology) that attempts to paint java as &mdash; yikes! &mdash; the new tobacco!<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">If somebody still believes that government-driven antitobacco policies are good or smart, he should really read this piece, as the utter stupidity of the Canadian government and its criminal antitobacco policies cannot be better described.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">A French bar owner has gone on a hunger strike to protest the country’s new smoking ban.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Only ministries of &ldquo;health&rdquo; and antitobacco activists can be corrupt enough to say something like that nowadays &ndash; and in fact they do in spite of squashing evidence.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">We can see the results at the link below. If the votes are off, to me that means the system is fishy, and we cannot know how far off things may be.</div>

<div style="text-align: justify;">As per centralized strategic directions of the international antismoking Gestapo, any suffocation of the right to smoke, drink, and eat (and the consequent economic and social damage) is never put in the political or economic sections of newspapers and magazines; it is always sitting in the &ldquo;health&rdquo; section.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><img vspace="2" hspace="4" align="left" alt="" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/video_button.jpg" />In the Healthist era not a month passes without news of a new &quot;epidemic.&quot; What has actually been created is an epidemic of hypochondria.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Here is an article about the sale of tobacco products being forbidden on Capitol Hill grounds &ndash; and here is the usual grind about smokers being &ldquo;smoking mad&rdquo;.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">We tend to focus on junk science as it pertains to social engineering and assaults on freedom and personal liberty.&nbsp; It can have other, more mundane, purposes.<br />
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