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<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Somehow, elected representatives in both the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">U.S.</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> and the Canadian federal governments have got it into their heads that it is safer for pregnant mothers to be forced to receive a newly developed and expensive Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) than it is to allow her to decide for herself if she will quit smoking, reduce her smoking, or continue.</span></p>

<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Wouldn&rsquo;t that be a newspaper header many would like to see? But fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on the take) we are not talking about the American FDA, but the Chinese one.</span></p>

<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Persons who smoke often complain about election results for proposals that affect them such as smoking bans or cigarette tax initiatives.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Yep, drinking is good for you. &lsquo;<em style="">New research presented at the annual European Congress of Rheumatology on Friday showed drinking at least three units of alcohol a week had clear protective effects and 10 units brought more protection still.</em></span></p>

<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Don&rsquo;t believe the <a href="https://www.forces.org/News_Portal/news_viewer.php?id=112">Swedish junk science you read above</a>. Here is British junk science to disprove it<em style="">.</em></span></p>

<p>Curiouser and curiouser, as Alice in her Wonderland might say.&nbsp; Last week Norman Kjono exposed some curious research that exonerated some heavy-duty anti-depressants from any negative role in foetus development.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Robert Wood Johnson is now funding,&nbsp; with $500 million, a childhood anti obesity campaign.&nbsp; They will be weighing and measuring the children of the poorer folks in our society.</p>

<div>The UK Telegraph informs us that the passive smoke fraud is all done with &quot;smoke and mirrors&quot;.&nbsp; Well, it’s a little late as the smoking ban went into effect on July 1st.&nbsp; The UK Telegraph should have informed us of this monumental lie a long time ago.</div>

<p>Whether you like it or not, what happened on Sunday 1st July when thousands of smokers the length and breadth of Britain defied the smoking ban was democracy at work.</p>

<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Smoking could kill a<strong> billion</strong> people this century!&nbsp;So screams the headline just out of the World Health Organization. </span></p>