The More Things Change…
<p>Smoking bans, tobacco taxes and gobs of money delivered by Chinese bagmen. Sound familiar?</p>
Observations from the past all too true today
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;">The success of prohibition is not solely the fault of corrupt institutions and pharmaceutical marketing schemes. It is also largely the fault of the victims – although this is not something that the victims like to hear.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
Exciting news from the world of "science"
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Freud’s passé. All too many people have never had the benefits of a wise grandparent, and far too few of today’s grandparents are wise. That means, notwithstanding the advent of Prozac and its cousins, that there is a market out there for psychology "lite" — and where there’s a market, there’s a research opportunity! Here’s a delicious bit of claptrap that we missed when it was first reported. Summation of "study"? Dwelling too much on your problems tends to make them seem worse. </span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Thank God for modern research!</span></p>
Jesus smoker, Jesus antismoker
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Poor Jesus Christ. He has been recruited for almost anything else. Why not pull Him into the smoking issue? <em>Pronto!</em> Here he is!…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
Pavarotti is dead
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="">The man who many would say was the greatest opera tenor of our times, Luciano Pavarotti, died today at </span><st1:time minute="0" hour="5"><span lang="EN-GB" style="">5:00 AM</span></st1:time><span lang="EN-GB" style=""> Italian time in his house in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB" style="">Modena</span></st1:place></st1:city><span lang="EN-GB" style=""> at the age of 71.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
The awards of Michael Siegel
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Although Siegel is a proponent of smoking bans and he seems to believe a good chunk of the epidemiological trash science of antitobacco, he is still hard to dislike. Why?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
Customer spies and $1,000 a week in lost business
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">In Ohio, the hospitality industry gets slapped around by the government as the first wave of smoking ban fines is issued.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
Barbarity good, smoking bad
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">This European perspective on the US addiction to capital punishment is a must-read for everyone in the US. With imprisonment rates at a level that any tyrant would envy, execution methods that pet lovers and responsible veteranarians literally wouldn’t permit to be used on a dog, and ample evidence that innocent people end up being executed, the US persists in medieval sentencing practices.</span></p>
Jews marked with J. Smokers with X
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="">Jews’ passports were marked with a J. Smokers’ property is marked with an X. More world-wide “progress” in hate against smokers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
Cut off health care for sinners
<p>Conservative politicians in the United Kingdom want the government to refrain treating those who refuse to change their "unhealthy" lifestyles. Incredibly this healthcare proposal appears in a document entitled Restoring Pride in Our Public Services.</p>