<div style="text-align: justify">The intrepid Michael Siegel discovered that the U.S. Surgeon General’s office and the CDC colluded on the release of the 2006 Surgeon General’s report on passive smoking.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">There’s a certain poetic justice in this article. Perhaps folks are truly getting fed up with California’s Pristine Clean? Every person complaining in the article sounds like a smoker who has been ostracized. Oh my, this is good!</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">“Health Nazi” and “Ignorant Pig” are two very appropriate definitions for all Tobacco Control advocates, but they are particularly fitting for the <a href="http://forces.org/News_Portal/news_viewer.php?id=1554">proponents of the denial of foster care to smokers</a>.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify"><img alt="" hspace="3" align="left" src="https://www.forces.org/newimages/fistsmall.gif" />We are exceedingly pleased to report that defiance of the smoking ban law is successful in Hawaii. “Smokers’ advocates say there are about 100 Hawaii bars that continue to allow smoking to some degree within their establishments while at least a dozen bars defy the law outright.”</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">Do you want to know why the World Health Organization <a href="https://www.forces.org/Scientific_Portal/">knowingly cons the population and all the governments of the Earth on the so-called “dangers” of smoking</a>? Just look at the picture below, and it will give you all the answers you need.</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Since a smoking ban was introduced in the Netherlands on July 1, a real rebellion in the pub sector has emerged. It’s organised and powered by emotion and the sincere fear of losing business. Over 1,000 pub owners (out of 10,000) have joined their interests under the umbrella of "Stichting Red de Kleine Horeca-ondernemer (KHO)" (save the small pub owner) and have set up a smart legal escape to defeat the fines of €300 to €2,400 that are waiting for them when they flout the ban. The number of pub owners joining KHO is growing every day.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">We welcome our readers to a new and important section of our Scientific Portal. This section tackles an issue that, with the incremental march towards prohibition, has become increasingly taboo. Can cigarettes be made progressively safer and still be cigarettes?</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">From the <a href="http://www.NISS.org">National Institute of Statistical Sciences</a>, S. Stanley Young, the Director for Bioinformatics, comes this timely piece, which in laymen terms, explains what the challenges of epidemiological research are and why it is so prone to be junk science.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Some scientists skillfully utilize the news media to promote a view of carbon dioxide and global warming that ignores contrary evidence or pretends it doesn’t even exist. The media suck this up, puke it all over the airwaves and the newspapers, and the public, not knowing any better and awed by these scientists with Ph.D.s, believes it must be true.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">The more that musician Joe Jackson learns about the crazy and hateful antismoking movement the more he feels the urge to light up.</div>