<p>The CLBA (Colorado License Beverage Association) and the CER (Coalition for Equal Rights) will be having our annual Conference in Idaho Springs the last weekend of this month, October 26-28. Everyone should attend.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt; color: black">Here we go again with the “under siege” paranoia of recent times. This piece is indeed a good example of that.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">We hate to agree with Philip Morris which, for all intents and purposes, has turned into a division of the antitobacco propaganda machine, but this time we must.</span></p>
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<p align="justify"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" align="left" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/video_button.jpg" alt="" />We are delighted to present four great videos produced by "Hairy Chestnuts" of England. The short videos are great satires, and capture perfectly the essence of the antismoking movement – its way of thinking, its ideological roots, and its sordid nature – all in the great tradition of British humour.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">It is all a matter of beliefs, science has nothing to do with it. The latest incarnation of that belief is the prohibition to smoke in one’s own car if a person under 18 is present. The “base” (read: the excuse) for the prohibition this time is a trash “study” published by the Harvard School of Public Health, stating that ‘smoke in cars can be up to 10 times more of a health risk than secondhand smoke in a home’.</span></p>
<p align="justify">Call your congressmen! The SCHIP veto override vote is Thursday!</p>
<p align="justify">Public Health 2007: smoking bans? Absolutely! Hospital hygiene? Don’t count on it.</p>
<p align="justify"><img alt="" align="left" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/video_button.jpg" />We are pleased to present three videos on thought control in American universities. A common statement is that universities represent "the marketplace of ideas." Perhaps that was so at some times in the past. Not today.</p>
<p align="justify">There is no genuine consensus on secondhand smoke, of course, just a lot of shouting to drown out reason, just a loud attempt at enshrining a pseudo-scientific political fraud notably promoted by the US Surgeon General. What we have here is mindless parroting representing a serious problem of institutional corruption.</p>
<p><span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">At the end of "Evil: Part II" I wrote: ‘In Evil: Part III, I’ll attempt to address an idea that is popular amongst Collectivists; that knowledge of Emergent Patterns is a sign that we should start creating them ourselves by creating centralized, governmental methods of imposing them on society.’</span></span></p>