<div style="text-align: justify;">It is a fact that the antitobacco industry feels the pressure of its opponents, although it would rather die than admit it. Many things are becoming clear — and they are now repeated from the four corners of the world, in all languages, from all cultures.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">No entity on Earth — not even the Vatican — seems to be immune from the epidemic of childish stupidity, reversed priorities, and addiction to junk science, nowadays.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">This thoughtful piece by Sandy Szwarc highlights once again a serious and fundamental problem of our times, one that needs close and immediate attention because of the danger it represents for society, freedom, and culture: <i>the role of public health</i>.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">A couple who were investigated by their local council for smoking in their own home have been told that it’s the fault of the neighbour who complained.<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 are glad to present to our readers this new session of the FORCES Round Table. Gian Turci’s guest this time is Michael Siegel. As most of our readers know, Siegel is a tobacco control advocate who has become, shall we say, the Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn of the movement. We don’t believe that the parallel is an exaggeration.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Our crazy Anti keeps roaming far and wide, swinging her overweighted pocketbook, bashing truth and civility everywhere she goes.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">If allowing smoking is bad for business, as prohibitionists declare, why do so many business owners think otherwise? A court concurs that allowing smoking is good for business.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">We live in an anxious and confused era where sweethearts are reduced to disposable "significant others" and where the bother of compassion and companionship can be dismissed by substitution of quick ‘n’ easy "tough love."</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">They say fascism makes atrocity conventional.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">While there have been plenty of law suits against various smoking bans, to date not one has been completely successful. There is a reason for this poor record.<br />
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