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Forces was founded before the majority of households had personal computers. Now we have smart phones, ipads and high speed Internet service to the majority of people in the United States and Europe. We have 24/7 - news cycles, Facebook, Twitter and Google, we have truly entered the information age. Thus we have decided to de-emphasize our focus on serving as a news feed while still working to bring about a new age of peaceful coexistence of smokers and nonsmokers.

There are now a good number of high quality and dependable newsletters, email lists, and blogs that produce new, reliable, and thought-provoking material on daily and weekly bases. Our News Page will largely serve to direct FORCES visitors to those resources while still featuring contributions from our own core group of writers. You can also continue to join us on Forces Tavern or Facebook.

FORCES will be concentrating our efforts to the Free Choice 2020s: a decade in which ventilation, air filtration and tolerance will largely take the place of today's more unreasonable prohibitions. It's now 2013, and over the next seven years we will lay the groundwork for that new decade and help move the world to a place where the rights of all people, smokers and nonsmokers alike, are considered and respected.

We still need your help and support to continue to keep the website open to all, with updates on the latest anti-smoking research. The anti-smoking establishment has a great deal of money to continue to spread their misinformation campaign and while all of us are volunteers we still need your donations. Please be generous and donate now, your donations are tax deductible.

Top Stories Explaination of FDA deeming regulations 13th April 2016 From Clive Bates blog, The counterfactual. A good explanation on what's going on with FDA and e-cigarettes, a must read. Link To Original Article »» Vaping products banned on airplanes? 13th April 2016 From the MOTHERBOARD. S.A. 3547 is an amendment to an amendment (isn’t bureaucracy fun?) on the Federal Aviation Authority’s reauthorization bill, which is currently being discussed by the US Senate. It includes a short provision that would ban vaping devices from being brought on board, even in carry-on luggage. Vaping devices were banned from being packed in checked luggage or charged onboard by the Department of Transportation last October, but this would extend the law to prevent vapers from flying with their gear at all. Good grief, talk about getting hit from all sides! Write your Senator today! It is time we bring jobs back home, there were never issues when lithium batteries when they were made in AMERICA! Link To Original Article »» Why the UK takes a positive postion on e-cigs 13th April 2016 From Medpage Today, good read highly recommended. America is great on banning things that are recommeded by the health community, Prohibition was really sucessful - not!  When will we learn?  The obvious answer is NEVER! Link To Original Article »» England 7th April 2016 Public Health England (PHE), the UK governmental body the equivalent to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), says that its review of the evidence has found that e-cigarettes are 95 percent less harmful to health than combustible cigarettes and they should be recommended for smoking cessation and harm reduction. This is the opposite stance taken by anti-smoking activists who have morphed into anti-nicotine activists, and demand that cigarette smokers engage in "abstinence only" when it comes to nicotine, an approach that works with almost nothing. Public Health England (PHE), the UK governmental body the equivalent to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), says that its review of the evidence has found that e-cigarettes are 95 percent less harmful to health than combustible cigarettes and they should be recommended for smoking cessation and harm reduction. Need we say more? Link To Original Article »» New York 7th April 2016 "When the Yankees and Houston Astros took the field in the Bronx on Wednesday night, they were the first players to be prohibited by law from using smokeless tobacco for a regular-season game. And the ban covers everyone else in the ballpark, too". How do they plan to enforce this law? Are they really going to arrest the player's for chew tobacco, think not. Link To Original Article »» Look for Previous Top Stories »»

Bloggers' Feeds Anti-prohibition news from over the world Collected live from our allies' blogs. Note: All opinions expressed below are those of the authors only, not necessarily those of Forces International. Warning: DOMDocument::load(http://www.rauchernews.de/news/feed/): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error in /home/forces/public_html/includes/rsslib.php on line 102 Warning: DOMDocument::load(): I/O warning : failed to load external entity "http://www.rauchernews.de/news/feed/" in /home/forces/public_html/includes/rsslib.php on line 102 The Endless Demonisation of Industry Published on 2016-04-12 23:14:12. Website: Frank Davis Full article The Customer Is A Nuisance, Not Always Right Published on 2016-04-12 20:15:00. Website: Dick Puddlecote Full article ATS: "Un référendum contre les écoutes téléphoniques" Published on 2016-04-12 13:29:55. Website: Accueil Full article Vaping Opponent's Bias Revealed in Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Published on 2016-04-12 09:54:00. Website: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary Full article Regulation junkies Published on 2016-04-12 08:26:00. Website: Velvet Glove, Iron Fist Full article "Les fumeurs ont plus de mal à se faire embaucher" Published on 2016-04-12 01:27:50. Website: Accueil Full article Self-Fulfilling Prophecies Published on 2016-04-11 23:23:54. Website: Frank Davis Full article Vaping Opponents Can Miraculously Read People's Minds Published on 2016-04-11 10:03:00. Website: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary Full article Unwelcome at the Welcome Inn Published on 2016-04-10 23:12:35. Website: Frank Davis Full article The Canonisation Of Clive Bates, Part 3 Published on 2016-04-10 20:51:00. Website: Dick Puddlecote Full article #PanamaPapers : le « journalisme d’investigation » du Ctrl+F, par Viktor Dedaj Published on 2016-04-10 13:31:49. Website: Accueil Full article A Change of Perception Published on 2016-04-09 23:47:36. Website: Frank Davis Full article Slip sliding away Published on 2016-04-09 13:42:00. Website: Velvet Glove, Iron Fist Full article Breaking Eggs To Make Omelettes Published on 2016-04-09 09:02:00. Website: Dick Puddlecote Full article Ukip Vows to Roll Back Pub Smoking Ban in Scotland Published on 2016-04-08 23:10:21. Website: Frank Davis Full article L'Hebdo: "Suisse romande: la justice paralysée" Published on 2016-04-08 02:01:01. Website: Accueil Full article Sheila Duffy Cheesecake Published on 2016-04-06 20:57:00. Website: Dick Puddlecote Full article Look What We've Deprived You Of Published on 2016-04-05 21:26:00. Website: Dick Puddlecote Full article Australia goes full wowser Published on 2016-04-05 10:47:00. Website: Velvet Glove, Iron Fist Full article Last Orders podcast Published on 2016-04-04 17:06:00. Website: Velvet Glove, Iron Fist Full article American Cancer Society Supports E-Cigarette Tax to Keep Youth Smokers from Quitting Published on 2016-04-04 10:40:00. Website: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary Full article Pick And Mix Published on 2016-04-03 20:13:00. Website: Dick Puddlecote Full article RTS: L'intrusion totalitaire, rançon de la liberté sur le Net Published on 2016-04-03 13:41:32. Website: Accueil Full article "Just Leave Us Alone! Just Get Off Our Backs!" Published on 2016-04-02 20:23:00. Website: Dick Puddlecote Full article Link Tank 02/04 Published on 2016-04-02 09:30:00. Website: Dick Puddlecote Full article Nothing To See Here Published on 2016-04-01 17:01:00. Website: Dick Puddlecote Full article Endless obesity babble Published on 2016-04-01 15:12:00. Website: Velvet Glove, Iron Fist Full article The 2016 Nanny State Index Published on 2016-03-31 11:36:00. Website: Velvet Glove, Iron Fist Full article Reminder: Tobacco Harm Reduction Conference - April 21, 2016 Published on 2016-03-30 20:20:00. Website: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary Full article TdG: "L’affichage en ville censuré par une commission opaque" Published on 2016-03-30 13:26:52. Website: Accueil Full article Let's Discuss Angels On A Pin Published on 2016-03-30 11:01:00. Website: Dick Puddlecote Full article Truth To Power Published on 2016-03-29 19:26:00. Website: Dick Puddlecote Full article