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<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">This piece from The Moscow Times shows how the pharmaceutical lobby is working hard to get </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Russia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> on board of the world antismoking fraud. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Along with </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Indonesia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">, </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Russia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> is still relatively free from the antismoking epidemic. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">If you had any doubt left in your mind that &ldquo;public health&rdquo; is by leaps and bounds more important than the constitutional guarantees of liberty, this decision from </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Canada</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"> should erase it.</span></p>

<p>On this side of the barbed wire there are the drinkers, on the other side the fatsos. Smokers are in a separate camp, to prevent them from threatening the health of the other addicts with their exhausts. Of course the camps are not camps, they are cessation centres.</p>

<p>We have received this letter from a reader in Canada. We believe that this letter is significant in understanding the futility of certain actions against antitobacco, and the need to concentrate on what works instead.</p>

<p>Yet another case of hospitaly industry realizing that there will no freedom for guests and enterprises as long as the passive smoking fraud is unchallenged.</p>

<p>Forces Netherlands goes houseboating against the threatening smoking bans. Forces NL president Wiel Maessen directs his ship (a houseboat with a huge flag saying &quot;Stop paternalism! Stop smoking bans!&quot; [Link: Telegraaf 20.06.07 Kreuzfahrt Bild]) through Dutch canals.</p>

<div>Here we link to an article about how the state of California has introduced a Bill to eliminate mixed breed animals entirely from the state and allow only purebreds to exist.&nbsp;</div>

<p>Fighters are on the move in the UK as the energetic activist group Freedom2choose and&nbsp;some brave publicans start kicking back against the smoking ban.</p>

<p>In this piece designed to wash your brain &ldquo;smoking is bad for you&rdquo;, &ldquo;stop smoking&rdquo; and &ldquo;give up&rdquo; are repeated like a broken record. Don&rsquo;t believe it: smarter people do not.</p>

<p>Every once in a while, we source a song of defiance against smoking bans. This one is from veteran British rock band The Pretty Things, which is offering the song All Light Up&nbsp;as a download, accompanied by</p>