May 2008

<div style="text-align: justify;">We see yet another consequence of antismoking insanity in this powerful <i>Wall Street Journal</i> article entitled &ldquo;Cigarette Taxes Are Fueling Organized Crime.&quot; The more smoking prohibition progresses, the more it resembles US alcohol Prohibition of the ’20s.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">… this piece from the notably uncritical <i>San Francisco Examiner</i>.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Lots of stories of interest are in the news. I present a few here in the &ldquo;news and quiz&rdquo; format you&rsquo;ve seen at FORCES before (featuring a quiz on the final news item listed.)<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="" />No intelligence allowed!<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Yes, it is true: our headline is nothing new. Yet, there are still a lot of people out there who believe that the &lsquo;public health&rsquo; institutions tell us to quit smoking because they are concerned with our health. Na&iuml;vet&eacute; is hard to overcome, but reality is there nevertheless: they tell us to quit smoking because they are paid off by the pharmaceutical multinationals.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Friends in Hawaii send us voting indications on Hawaiian state legislators.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">We re-introduce this long-suppressed document at our new Scientific Portal.</div>

<div style="text-align: justify;">This author visited Minnesota in February, 2008 and gained some insight from her trip to that state.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">When antitobacco passes you a tip, recall how antitobacco earns its tips, then tell antitobacco where to put its tips.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">We update this recent article including access to the study itself which has been newly added to our Scientific Portal. Read and weep. Public Health will kill us all in the cause of humiliating smokers if it has to.<br />
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