January 2008

<div style="text-align: justify;"><img vspace="2" hspace="4" align="left" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/video_button.jpg" alt="" />Lucy and Ricky Ricardo tell us how to avoid &quot;cigarette hangover&quot;!</div>

<div style="text-align: justify;">Since we’re in Paris let’s slap on a beret, pour a glass of Pernod, light up a Gauloise and do some deconstruction.&nbsp;</div>

<div align="justify">Beware the ides of the hour. Always, every day has been doomsday, to paranoiacs. Our day is a heyday for hysterics so conflicting dooms cast their shadows on their opposites.</div>

<div style="text-align: justify;">The panic industry in the San Francisco Bay Area is all aquiver over a new, sinister threat to good health.&nbsp; It’s &quot;d&eacute;j&agrave; vu all over again&quot; but it ain’t about smoking.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Ministers in the United Kingdom are planning to implant microchips under the skins of thousands of offenders.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">International anti-smoking is printing little red books for Chinese indoctrination. The Chinese don’t want them, but do not doubt, the presses will keep rolling. Billionaire New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg sprang for all the necessary ink.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">The Pfizer Company, hoping to avert lawsuits, is increasing the prominence of warnings that using its drug Chantix to quit smoking may lead to psychosis and suicide.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Waivers to the smoking ban are dribbled out in some areas of New York state. Naturally Anti wants to put an end to sanity by special permission.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">If anyone has ever wondered if FORCES’s accusations regarding Big Pharma were the maniacal materialization of an enemy to fight, like Don Quixote’s windmills, read the following news:<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">The US Congress has found the rationale for smoking bans invalid in investigations past. Nevertheless, the smoker pogrom rolls on, with considerable support from federal legislators.<br />
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