March 2008

<div style="text-align: justify;">Antitobacco is a hateful retrograde movement.<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="" />Do you know what &quot;revenge&quot; means?<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">The so-called obesity epidemic provides an excuse to rip children from their parents in Scotland. We present here commentaries from two of our contributors referencing an article from the <i>Scotsman</i>.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">At the risk of being perceived as a bunch of grumpy cranks we expose the waste of tax dollars spent on a study that, despite its inanity, at least provides a degree of light entertainment.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><img hspace="4" align="left" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/audio_button.jpg" alt="" />We present a radio broadcast featuring an ostensible opponent to smoking bans.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">We present perspective, amidst late reports, on the Minnesota movement which takes advantage of a smoking ban exemption for theatrical productions, such productions now occurring nightly in bars across the state, with all patrons thus free to smoke as designated actors in a play.<br />
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To antitobacco, destroying economy is just fun, along the way to destroying liberty and civility.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Kansas City residents will vote on banning smoking in April and for a change have a choice: they can uphold a bad law or embrace one that is far worse.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">In Georgia, students may be forced to step on scales twice a year &ldquo;in order to track the state’s population of overweight pupils.&rdquo; Are they of the &ldquo;right&rdquo; weight to belong to the Healthist Master Race?<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">British pub owner Hamish Howitt has had another day in court and hopes for more.<br />
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