April 2008

<div style="text-align: justify;">Remember the big crack-down by state revenue departments concerning online purchases of cigarettes? Well, here it is for everyone.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Health and public safety are such crucial components of personal and public well-being that they are all too often abused by the power-mad to grab yet more power.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">A neighbor is suing a British pub with an outdoor seating area.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Journalist Kerry Diotte of Canada&rsquo;s <i>Edmonton Sun</i> castigates his colleagues for their hypocritical complicity in the smoker pogrom.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Licensing officials had used the old &ldquo;white glove inspection&rdquo; trick to close down one of Scotsman Hamish Howitt&rsquo;s pubs where smokers are respected. The license revocation has been reversed in court.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Events continued to develop in Minnesota at week’s end.<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="" />Our second Round Table with Michael Siegel, this time focussing on the unfair treatment of smokers instigated by Tobacco Control, and also on Tobacco Control’s absolute intolerance of dissent.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">It is not news that the British Broadcasting Corporation is under the thumb of special interests.&nbsp; What is news is how cravenly the BBC will re-write its own news to serve those special interests.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Today’s antitobacco technocrats are in the habit of twisting truth, twisting law, and twisting arms to impose their twisted ideology. Heretics are made to feel antitobacco’s power, under the weight of its vast wealth, under the light of surveillance by prohibitionist agencies including corrupted police, and under the brute force of threats and coercion. Minnesotans are growing wise to all of this, and shining a light on it, for all to see. In Minnesota the Nanny state is now under surveillance.</div>

<div style="text-align: justify;">The scheme to instill hatred against smokers is a blueprint that is proving useful for all sorts of dishonest schemes.<br />
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