<p><font face="Verdana" size="1">FORCES USA President Maryetta Ables gives us the background on the Freedom to Breathe Act in Minnesota and tells how this relates to anti-smoking activities nationally and internationally.</font></p>
<p align="justify">A government-backed marketing campaign to reassure Japanese tourists that they can still smoke in Hawaii has lit up a public health row in the US islands.</p>
<p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 8pt">The trash science-based smoking ban in </span><span style="font-size: 8pt">England</span><span style="font-size: 8pt"> has several challengers, but few with the intelligence of Nick Hogan.</span></p>
<p align="justify">As expected, President Bush has vetoed the children’s health care bill known as SCHIP, and as expected the Democrats vow to override, a political posture with little chance of actual success.</p>
<p>Some good news from Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada for a change. A proposal to ban smoking on patios has ended. For now. We report the take of a reader.</p>
<p>As the presidential election heats up the lockstep unity of the Democratic contenders in their hatred of smokers could negatively affect Democrats nationwide, especially in the mountain states, where the party has made recent gains.</p>
<p>As we predicted long ago, right along with smokers and “fatsos”, imbibers are the target of prohibition and junk science – once again.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Interesting thoughts of a non smoker who does not like the scent of tobacco but is against smoking bans.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><img hspace="3" align="right" alt="" src="https://www.forces.org/images3/bog_small.jpg" />FORCES International is pleased to present its new Multimedia (MM) Section. The links to the Multimedia portal are now activated everywhere.</span></p>
<p align="justify">When FORCES was made aware of the John Nuttall case of surgery being denied by the British National Health Service, a decision was made to contact Mister Nuttall and ask for his permission to do a "John Nuttall Fund Raiser" on his behalf to pay for his ankle surgery privately.</p>