James Oyebola shot in the face over smoking

<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Former Commonwealth Games medalist and British heavyweight champion James Oyebola was in critical condition in a London hospital Tuesday after being shot in the face outside a nightclub where he worked as a bouncer.<!–[endif]–></span></p>

Let’s get rid of the bansturbators!

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">There are many new words that have been coined recently. Some of them, reflecting the times we live in, deserve inclusion in the dictionary. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

Regulation Redux: still a bad prescription

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;">There&rsquo;s a great deal wrong with the latest moves in the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;">US</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;"> to have cigarettes regulated by the FDA, as a recent analysis by John Luik in the Tobacco Reporter demonstrates.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>

Stooge of Big Pharma proposes alternative bill

<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">As an alternative to the FDA regulation of cigarettes, Senator Enzi proposes prohibition. Let’s look at the sick ideological postulations — the ideology here is Prohibition –&nbsp; that have emerged from the ranks of the antismokers while they continue to toil away for monetary gain on the whole fraudulent deal.</span></p>
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Kamikaze

<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">S&oslash;ren H&oslash;jbjerg sends us this interesting piece about a useful act of desperation that business owners who are being bankrupted by smoking bans can do to strike back at the government gangsters of &ldquo;public health&rdquo;. </span></p>

Obesity panic spurs teen smoking!

<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;">Hilarious? Pathetic? Mental? Define it as you want, but here it is:</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>

I am greener than you are!

<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Interesting article about a story that is as convoluted as all hell.&nbsp;Here we have CA’s Air&nbsp; Resources Board trying to get 15 year extensions for some kind of&nbsp; (possibly) polluting industry, but shrieking about outdoor ETS.</span></p>