October 2008

<div style="text-align: justify">School kids may be banned from eating hot dogs.</div>

Remember when New York City was tough, exciting, brassy and self-confident?&nbsp; No?&nbsp; Don’t feel bad, neither do New Yorkers.<br type="_moz" />

<div style="text-align: justify;">And hopefully the anti- tobacco bubble will follow.</div>

<div style="text-align: justify">Following&nbsp;the footsteps of FORCES International, four American groups have now filed misconduct complaints against the US Surgeon General about <a href="https://www.forces.org/Scientific_Portal/evidence_viewer.php?id=131">the infamous 2006 report on passive smoking</a> with the Office of Research Integrity.</div>

<div style="text-align: justify">The fight against the passive smoking fraud and the cultural engineering continues in the UK.</div>

<div style="text-align: justify">We are glad to publish this obituary, recently published by <i>The Times</i> of London. The obituary concerns Mr. Common Sense. Unfortunately the writers forgot a <i>cause of death</i>: junk science epidemiology, in its thousands of manifestations, most notably with regard to passive smoking. Perhaps the writers forgot this in their grief at the loss of Common Sense, or in fear of being sued by very culpable parties who are also left unmentioned in the epitaph: public health authorities.</div>

Only a utopian idealist who is completely bereft of reason could believe in the fairyland of a &quot;smoke-free world.&quot;

<div style="text-align: justify">Iowans for Equal Rights (IER) met with the director of the Iowa Department of Public Health on October 7, 2008.</div>

<div style="text-align: justify">Barack Obama says, &ldquo;I need to cut myself a little slack,&rdquo; and therewith endangers the entire populace and democracy as we have come to know it.</div>

<div style="text-align: justify">We have to say that the quality of the trash generated by Tobacco Control all over the world is getting worse. Actually, it is going beyond the beyond. Michael Siegel agrees.</div>