May 2008

<div style="text-align: justify;">The group Opponents of Ohio Bans reminds us via press release of their online petition demanding US Congressional investigation of antitobacco fanaticism and corruption.</div>

<div style="text-align: justify;">Lynda Farley writes us from Ohio.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">There is no escape: when you start with a lie, you must continue lying more and more, or you get caught with your pants down. Antitobacco went that way and, in short order, it became a criminal enterprise.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">If there is a single good thing that smoking bans and heavy-handed antitobacco tactics have accomplished in Canada, it&rsquo;s that they&rsquo;ve made cigarettes a cheap readily available commodity for smokers and a flourishing industry for natives who earn their living responding to the ever increasing market demand for fair prices. You can&rsquo;t beat the law of offer and demand no matter how hard you try!<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">We link to a paper at our new Scientific Portal.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">The <i>Spectator</i> of London tells us cigar smokers are leading the fight for smokers&rsquo; rights. If they want to lead they had better arrest their own miserably self-defeating tendencies.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><img hspace="4" align="left" alt="" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/video_button.jpg" />A dissatisfied customer speaks out.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Move over booze and cigarettes, a new sin is about to be harnessed for social engineering.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">As the apotheosis of prohibition grows nigh, a peculiar phenomenon engenders hope.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Decades ago, a virtually safe cigarette was under design by an imposing array of specialists in a co&ouml;perative effort between the US National Cancer Institute, and the tobacco industry. This effort was scuttled by burgeoning prohibitionism, which detests free choice and deplores the very concept of improving product safety, in preference for hatred of smoking heretics and a sick ideology of &quot;quit or die.&quot;<br />
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