Smoking ban High Court challenge
<p>"A group challenging the legality of the smoking ban has given the Government a ‘last chance’ to consider amendments or face them in the High Courts.</p>
If you act you get
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><strong> <span lang="EN-GB"> </span></strong></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Once again, the moment smokers act instead of whining and stop telling each other how bad it is they get what they want. </span></p>
Son of a smoking ban
<p><strong> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">As England will have a smoking ban in a few days, one lawyer is “warning” (read: he’s trying to lobby for) </span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">smoking “exclusion zones” to address the “problems” expected to arise because of the congregation of smokers outside buildings. </span></p>
BBC report damns its ‘culture of bias’
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><strong> <span lang="EN-GB"> </span></strong></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The Romans used to say<em> “asinus asinum fricat”</em> (the jackass talks back to the jackass) to indicate the hypocrisy of those who badmouth shortcomings in others that they themselves have. That sure seems to be the case of this BBC report done on BBC itself. We read: </span></p>
From Michael Siegel’s Blog
<p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">We apologize to our readers who follow both FORCES and the Michael Siegel blog for having neglected his important postings. To make amends, we publish here a collection of his latest postings. For the purpose of not cluttering his opinions with our blurbs, we have reduced our blurbs to telegraphic comments.</span></p>
Chubby smoker prevails
<p><strong> </strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: maroon;"><!–webbot bot="PurpleText" PREVIEW="http://www.data-yard.net/10b3/cabrera.pdf" –></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Angel Cabrera won the U.S. Open by one stroke over Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk, becoming the only golfer in the tournament to shoot below par twice. Cabrera, who had never won a tournament in this country, is a resident of Argentina, which could explain why he puffed away unabashedly between shots. While golf is not known for the stringent physical regimen associated with other sports, it is never the less inspirational that a man whom anti-tobacco teaches us to hate aced out the hyper physically fit Tiger Woods.</span></p>
Anti-tobacco operative dies young
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">It’s with a great sense of irony that we report the death of an anti-tobacco operative who made a very good living suing tobacco companies. Judith D. Wilkenfeld died last weekend of cancer. She was 64 years old and did not smoke. </span></p>
Next target on the list
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The</span><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">slippery slope argument never </span><font size="2"> <span style="font-family: Arial;">gets the respect that it deserves. The reason people dismiss it is could be due to the inability of decent people to link disparate behaviors into a chain of escalating oppression. Perhaps it is just too abstract for busy people to spend much time fretting over as they busy themselves with the business of living. Of course the crack down on various politically incorrect activities really isn’t so much about behaviors as it is about controlling individuals as an end itself. <br />
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Ending our fraud addiction
<p><em>"The sharp decline in the prevalence of smoking over the past four decades shows signs of slowing while the death toll from cigarettes remains disturbingly high."</em></p>
Turning the tide
<p><strong> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">A small step towards decency and sanity occurred in Wales as a health authority allows the erection of smoking shelters for hospital patients and visitors. Although such a step falls short of the goal of reintroducing smoking sections <strong>within </strong>hospitals, the Welch are to be congratulated for recognizing that in the real world people smoke, including patients of the tax-payer financed hospitals. The compassion shown in Wales is in marked contrast to health authorities in Scotland who are demolishing shelters and forbidding the construction of new ones.</span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.freedom2choose.co.uk/news_viewer.php?id=219"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><strong>Link to original article</strong></span></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.data-yard.net/10b3/welch-shelter.pdf"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><strong>Link to stored article</strong></span></a></p>