A Letter to the U.K. Prime Minister
A heartfelt letter to the U.K. Prime Minister , Mrs Theresa May MP. Well worth watching this 7.30 minute video.
Cook County to lay off more than 300 workers
Soda tax delay leads Cook County to lay off more than 300 workers<br />
More than 300 Cook County employees have been laid off after a proposed county soda tax was indefinitely stalled by a lawsuit, county officials said Friday.
Doctor’s Diary
Passive smoking myths leave me fuming<br />
Campaigners are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the ban on smoking in pubs, restaurants and other public places. Two recollections of the crusade against passive smoking might explain why I will not be joining them.<br />
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The obsession by Andrew Dickens
The obsession with telling people how to live their lives<br />
It seems to me that personal freedom is coming under more and more attacks in modern New Zealand.<br />
And it’s coming from all sides. Not just from the social engineering left but also the conservatives. You know the ones. The people who are fond of shouting that the world is going to hell in a handcart because of political correctness.<br />
The Michael Russell Oration
In Warsaw at GFN last month, the keynote speaker was Ethan Nadelmann, founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance. He has worked for a very long time in the field of harm reduction in relation to illicit drugs so his expertise is very much transferable to the tobacco and nicotine debate.
The Pleasure Principle
David Dorn (UK) explains The Pleasure Principle which global Public Health refuse to recognise in their quest for global dominance.