<div style="text-align: justify;">Years ago, Nancy Regan famously advised youngsters to "just say no to drugs". Since then, society has responded with a contrarian and increasingly noisy "yes!" –</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><img hspace="4" align="left" alt="" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/video_button.jpg" />"Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs," saith Shakespeare’s pithy Romeo. Tobacco Control, on the other hand, just keeps spewing.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">There is nothing left in California which has not been deemed carcinogenic by state authorities.</div>
“Do you ever wonder how something <i>that isn’t true</i> becomes a truism – something everyone ‘knows’ to be so?”<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify">We are pleased to announce a fine addition to our columnists and correspondents: John Dale Dunn, MD, JD. John has jouned us in the fight against junk science and institutional corruption, and he will illustrate for us the incredible dangers deviating from orthodox science represents for all of us.</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify">We frequently bring you stories about <a href="https://www.forces.org/static_page/oldest.php">centenarians and post-centenarians who smoke</a>.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">The line between researcher and pharmaceutical shill has been narrowing steadily during the past decades as the anti-smoking ideology accelerated.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Here is another episode of violence (a murder, this time), once again from the United Kingdom and, once again, the product of the hate campaigns against smokers bestowed on the population by criminal public health authorities.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">The International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association joined in supporting Opponents of Ohio Bans and three other groups in their fight against key elements of the Surgeon General’s 2006 Report.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">"<i>Unless we announce disasters, no one will listen</i>." — Sir John Houghton, first chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and lead editor of its first three reports.</div>