June 2008

<div style="text-align: justify">The Minnesotan smoking ban resistance dubbed &ldquo;Theatre Night&rdquo; continues to wend its way through courtrooms and the resistance fighters remain righteously determined.</div>

<div style="text-align: justify">Anyone who thinks the anti-smoking cartel has a goal that is anything less than free admission into our living rooms and bedrooms had better wake up and take a look around.</div>

<div style="text-align: justify">It is a disease. It is an epidemic. It is an orgy of paranoia. A mass-production of epidemiological junk science. A commercial, opportunistic exploitation. No, we’re not talking about Tobacco Control, but its sister perversion: Fat Control.</div>

<div style="text-align: justify">There is no need to subscribe to the Newscientist to understand what is going on. Just read the teaser. Once again, exactly as we predicted.</div>

<div style="text-align: justify;">New Zealand is banning the venerable incandescent light bulb. This cheap and reliable consumer favorite will be forcefully phased out of the marketplace next year. Consumers will have to buy considerably more expensive types of bulbs thereafter.</div>

Apparently the &quot;study&quot; was just too rank for even the mainstream junk science cheerleaders to take seriously.<br type="_moz" />

<div style="text-align: justify">Completely suffocated by the international press is the information that smoking prohibition has steady and devastating economic effects in Germany.</div>

The Smoker is going to race for freedom. This is not a play on words, but an actual fact. A British racing team is endorsing our sister organization <a href="http://www.freedom2choose.info">Freedom To Choose</a>.

<div style="text-align: justify">Healthism hits the jackpot&nbsp;with this Australian proposal, highlighted and commented by formidable Sandy Szwarc of Junkfood Science. This is recommended reading.</div>

<div style="text-align: justify">A reader sends us a link to an article at the <i>Atlantic</i>.</div>