The suppressed self-evidence

<div style="text-align: justify">We are glad to publish this letter by Michael McFadden, author of &nbsp;&ldquo;<a href="https://www.forces.org/Library/library_viewer.php?id=67">Dissecting Antismokers&rsquo; Brain</a>&rdquo; in response to an article published by&nbsp; The Guardian, in the United Kingdom, concerning the situation that the smoking ban has created in British mental institutions.</div>

Out in the Cold

<div style="text-align: justify">Standing up for yourself as a smoker is difficult.&nbsp; Smokers have been browbeaten so long that passive acquiescence is almost second nature.&nbsp; Pat Nurse realizes that the desire to &quot;get along&quot; is a loser’s game.&nbsp; Better to stand up, even in small matters, and start the process of gaining self-respect.</div>

Let’s get rid of the ideological statements

<div style="text-align: justify">Those are not exactly the words used in Denmark, but they amount to the same thing. Several Danish parties want the &ldquo;health warning&rdquo; removed from cigarette packs. Why? The reason is simple: they do not work &ndash; actually, they seem to have the opposite effect.</div>

Big Pharma seeks immunity

<div style="text-align: justify">Cigarette manufacturers who never claimed that their product is a panacea for health are sued on a regular basis on the grounds that their products are harmful to health.</div>

Fascist Britain: we “take care” of your pet, too

<div style="text-align: justify">The deranged, foaming-at-the-mouth British public health/environmentalists are not content to defraud you with epidemiology and tell you how to live your life (and that of your children) down to the slightest detail with their self-delusions of knowledge and wisdom.</div>