Germany: antismoker exposed for corruption

<div style="text-align: justify">Former minister of environment for the Nord Rhein Westfahlen region and rabid antismoker B&agrave;rbel H&ograve;hn&nbsp; has been accused of peculation. According to the accusation, H&ograve;hn received unapproved financing without any oversight by the appropriate government agency.&nbsp; There is, in fact, no official record of the money transfer.</div>

Killer prevention

<div style="text-align: justify">We are glad to present to our readers this addition to our Scientific Portal (in the &ldquo;<a href="https://www.forces.org/Scientific_Portal/category.php?section=37">The Cost of Non Smokers to Society</a>&rdquo; section) of the study &ldquo;Lifetime medical costs of obesity: prevention no cure for increasing health expenditure&rdquo;, that covers both obesity and smoking.</div>

Decades of Deception

<div style="text-align: justify"><img alt="" hspace="4" align="left" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/video_button.jpg" />Our readers are sure to appreciate this 1986 clip from the <i>David Susskind Show</i>, a popular US national TV program that ran for decades, which presents some debate on smoking policies.<br />
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Death to Daubert, Death to Truth

<div style="text-align: justify">One of the most important achievements of American law was the 1993 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals &mdash; a landmark decision that allows judges to set up scientific review panels in federal litigation to keep junk science out of the courtroom. One Daubert panel played a pivotal role in stopping silicone breast implants litigation in federal courts.</div>

Miracle Plant

Tobacco Prevention is one of the sobriquets the anti-smoking crowd dubs its agenda of prohibition and smoker vilification.<br type="_moz" />

More on the killer drug

The latest actions of the US FDA against Chantix are well justified, but insufficient. For those who are not yet aware, Chantix is a killer smoking cessation drug <a href="https://www.forces.org/evidence/kill/kill.htm">no different than Zyban</a>. It just kills in a different way. It should be removed from the market as it is an unnecessary drug to treat a non-existing disease.