<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">We realize that this news is no way compensates for the beginning of the British ban, but it is good news nevertheless. One of the oldest spreaders of disinformation on the effects of smoking on health is shutting down. We are talking about Tobacco.org</span></p>
<p><em>"You’re going to see some really serious exposure on the part of companies that are emitting CO{-2}," Mr. Susman predicted. "I can’t say for sure it’s going to be as big as the tobacco settlements, but then again it may even be bigger. We’re not going to know until the regulatory environment becomes clearer." </em></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Anti-tobacco is merely the most glaring example of civil society unravelling. Throughout our modern world the forces of oppression are working over time to bring every citizen under control.</span></p>
<p><em>"At this point, someone usually mentions the evils of "passive smoking" and I’m very glad they do because this is my chance to mention James Enstrom and Geoffrey Kabat. </em></p>
<p>For a hoot, read the "embarrassed" comments of this anti-tobacco operative whose friend from the Big City was appalled that smoking was still allowed in restaurants in benighted Wisconsin. Bear in mind that the entire article drips a phoniness so obvious that the author’s credibility about any subject is in jeopardy.</p>
<p><em>King County Executive Ron Sims took the first step toward limiting greenhouse-gas emissions from new development on Wednesday with an executive order covering unincorporated parts of the county. </em></p>
<p><em>“The night before Tyler DeLeon turned 7, he was so thirsty he ripped a hole in the screen of his bedroom window to eat snow. By the next evening, Tyler was dead. He weighed just 28 pounds, the size of an average 2-year-old. </em></p>
<p class="NormaleWeb21"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">If the UK magazine Spiked sees anti-smoking as some kind of New Labour plot despite its international<span style=""> </span>ubiquitousness, Reason magazine sometimes sounds as if the New Health Totalitarianism was a made-in-California deal or, in this case,<span style=""> </span>the barmy brainchild of New York mayor Michael Bloomberg.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Spiked magazine’s recent round-up piece on the reactions to smoking bans in various cities of the world yielded some great one-liners from disgruntled citizens, like the one quoted above. But very disappointingly, Spiked missed the opportunity to put the issue into a wider political perspective for its readers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">It’is a matter of TRUST, is it not?… This piece by Joe Jackson is our recommended reading today, and it was written in occasion of the onset of the British smoking ban, a very sad day for </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">England</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">.</span></p>