<div style="text-align: justify;">Yep, effective now, it is forbidden for teachers to refer to parents as mom and dad in California. Soon this proscription will be effective in England as well. The reason? Mom could be Bill and dad could be Bob or they might be a pair named Myrtle and Mary.<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" />This has nothing to do with smoking. This has everything to do with smoking. The subject of this video is surrender of the right to own firearms. This has to do with metastasizing state control: recommended viewing for anyone who values liberty and personal dignity.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">“Single-room bar owners without employees can ignore the ban scheduled to take effect on Feb. 15 until a final ruling, the Constitutional Court of Rhineland-Palatinate in Koblenz said in a ruling posted on its Web site. The bars in the meantime will have to post a sign designating them as smoking bars.”</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Michael Siegel reports that “A U.S. District Court judge for the District of Massachusetts ruled last week that there are sufficient legal grounds for a lawsuit filed by a smoker against The Scotts Company to proceed. The plaintiff — Scott Rodrigues of Bourne, Massachusetts — was fired by Scotts after failing a urine cotinine test.”<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" />In conversation with a representative of the hospitality industry, a Hawaiian legislator describes bills she is proposing that would permit some accommodation of smokers, what we shall call beginner steps toward sanity.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">In a culture where everything is illegal shame takes a holiday.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Jon Hemminghaus has got the right idea.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Accusing those who disagree with antitobacco of being daemonically possessed by Big Tobacco is an antitobacco industry standard.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">We present another news round-up including a quiz on the final story.<br />
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