<div style="text-align: justify;"><img hspace="4" align="left" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/audio_button.jpg" alt="" />In this Round Table, host Gian Turci presents a story that has nothing to do with smoking, or even with lifestyles, but it still has very much to do with the corrupt institution of Public Health. The story is at once moving and telling. It is the story of Kathleen Stenson and her son William.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">An article in the <i>Irish Independent</i> faces facts.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">Once ambitious politicians promised to put a chicken in every American family’s pot. In our brave new world, however, the political hack promises to put a surveillance camera on every block.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">Novartis and Pfizer have recently opened their wallets once again to pay off their Smokerfree Partnership salesmen and marionettes to find the way to suppress contraband and increase cigarettes taxation, thus ensuring more and more control of the nicotine market, worth billions of dollars, to the pharmaceutical multinationals.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">It is a given that Big Pharma manipulates the state (and particularly public health institutions) as its personal property and marionettes. It is sufficient to look at what they have done with smoking: transform scientific and statistical frauds into cultures.</div>
There is a simple rule for Tobacco Control advocates in particular and for fanatics in general. A rule that our side should learn to detect, and to use against them.
By restricting sales of tobacco and requiring registration of tobacco sellers, Scotland aims to be the first smoke-free nation.<br />
<div style="text-align: justify"><img alt="" hspace="3" align="left" src="https://www.forces.org/newimages/fistsmall.gif" />The Nazification of North Dakota received a resounding setback last February 20. People will still be able to smoke in bars. That is good news, but it’s not enough. Smoking is still forbidden almost everywhere else, and that is not acceptable.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify"><img alt="" hspace="3" align="left" src="https://www.forces.org/newimages/fistsmall.gif" />"A ticket to victory" could have been another title of this piece. Not all sides of our movement are in agreement with FORCES when we state that, in order to defeat smoking bans, we have to make smoking more popular, that is, increase the number of smokers.</div>
A bill to ban smoking in so-called public places has been passed to the Alabama Senate for consideration.<br />