Germany’s popular Das Bild newspaper is reporting that a new 31 page report from the European Union (EU) contains recommendations for draconian anti-smoking measures including "sensationalist prosecutions designed to shock the public."<br />
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Much has been made by tobacco control of low birth weights being "caused" by smoking and to back that up they had the fact that birth weights since the 1950’s had indeed been rising while smoking rates had been declining. (B follows A so A must have caused B right?)<br type="_moz" />
The news article we link to here is an odd one; while anti smoking news headlines are more common than snow in the Arctic this one differs because the headline, – "Dreams Of Happy Marital Life Ruined Through Drinking and Smoking" – is so removed from the article it introduces that it is beyond laughable.<br />
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We link below to a wonderful article in the Hong Kong Standard that highlights perfectly the failures of stealth tobacco taxes.<br type="_moz" />
At a time when the western world is moving ever further towards Marxism and falling over themselves to remove freedoms for our own good Forces Columnist Edmund Contoski takes a look at the slide from capatilism to collectivism that this thinking inevitably allows.<br type="_moz" />
Researchers at the San Diego School of Medicine have published the results of a study this week in the journal Cancer Cell, that shows lung cancers grow faster if you expose them to smoke.<br />
First it was ETS. Now it’s EMS.<br />
No, we are not kidding.<br />
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This remarkable piece of junk science comes courtesy of The American Journal of Medicine.<br type="_moz" />
Public health officials in Milan, Italy, have called for urgent steps to reduce the number of health care professionals who smoke after a survey found that 44% of new medical students were current smokers. The urgency was stated because high levels of smoking among health care professionals undermines the credibility of anti smoking campaigns.<br />
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Absolutely right it does! <br />
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It actually tells us that the medical students are fully aware of dose response relationships, statistical correlations and health scare junk science. A smoking rate twice as high as the general population also tells us that anti smoking propaganda doesn’t work on people who are educated in the subject.<br type="_moz" />
A character in James Cameron’s PG-13 blockbuster "Avatar" smokes. Anti-smoking activists claim they want to protect children from portrayals of smoking in movies. Don’t be fooled. <br />
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As Robert Prasker explains, anti-smoking isn’t likely to draw the line at only censoring films marketed to children. <br type="_moz" />