<div style="text-align: justify;">As our own correspondents inform us, a smokers’ underground is forming, here, there, and everywhere. Illegal bars, where one can smoke, are now commonplace on several continents. Occasionally official notice is taken.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Minnesota bar owners struggling with red numbers due to the oppressive smoking ban are standing their ground in the face of threats from state health officials.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">In Germany, on 28 February, a second huge protest of restaurant operators and smokers took place. Continuing and expanding activism is being planned.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Here is an image that well depicts the beleaguered position of smokers in the 21st century.</div>
Very much like Nick Hogan, Tony Blows is a landlord – the landlord of the Dog Inn in Hereford, England, to be exact.<br type="_moz" />
<div style="text-align: justify;">American media personality Glenn Beck recently interviewed three scientists who dispute the religion of man-made global warming. The three were amongst hundreds of attendees at a conference of skeptics and Mister Beck was one of few media representatives who covered the event. We present links to interview transcripts here.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Britain’s oldest employed man, at age 101, has now taken up a new avocation. No, not playing draughts, and no, he’s not taking up knitting either. Buster Martin is in training to become the oldest-ever entrant in the London Marathon, in fact, the oldest ever in any marathon, anywhere. He says beer and cigarettes are what keep him going.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Smoking bans continue to proliferate but so too does anger over the loss of liberty.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">We take good news where we find it. In this era of media laziness and special interest shilling we sometimes find it in the strangest places.<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="" />Visiting North Carolina, where anti-smoker laws remain relatively in abeyance, gives Phil Williams perspective on miserable Great Britain.<br />
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