<div style="text-align: justify;">We have on occasion remarked upon the chronic incoherence of "animal rights" activists who too often align themselves with the tobacco control industry.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">This piece from Mises.org talks about “sunk costs." This may have interesting implications for our struggle against the lifestyle frauds.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">The lunacy sweepstakes among the "civilized" countries to be the first to impose total prohibition on tobacco reached a new level last week. While still neck-and-neck, the Brits appear poised to take the lead.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Another news round-up with yet another epidemiological reader challenge.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><img hspace="4" align="left" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/video_button.jpg" alt="" />Those of us who are engaged against the Fraud of the Century often have a hard time understanding how the epidemiological swindles and propaganda against smoking are so easily bought by John Q. Public. This video highlights the answer: astonishing ignorance.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Life as a grim marathon in which endurance outweighs joy is the prescribed path according to the "health" ethos rampant in the industrial world.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">There is no end to the ailments that smoking causes, didn’t you know? All it takes is a grant and a few crooks, and the sky is the limit.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><img hspace="4" align="left" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/video_button.jpg" alt="" />Fighters on our side are sometimes invited as guests on radio and television shows which intentionally propagate prohibitionist ideology. Here is one such programme from Italian television in 2007.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Shrieks of outrage are ringing throughout New York state as merchandise carrying the "I Love <img alt="" src="../images/smiley/msn/heart.gif" /> New York" logo racks up record sales.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><img hspace="4" align="left" alt="" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/video_button.jpg" />The first Round Table of 2008 is in French. We are pleased to present Iro Cyr from C.A.G.E. Canada (host), Arminda Mota from the My Choice Smokers’ Rights Group also in Canada, and Dan Romano, president of C.A.G.E.<br />
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