- Anti-Smoker Talk Show Hosts Censor Informed Smokers' Advocates - "Anti-smoker talk show hosts are well-known to us for deluging anti-smokers with interminable rants of lies, slanders, defamation, libels, and ignorance of the lowest kind. And then they refuse to allow smokers' advocates to speak, to make it look as if everyone agrees and there is no dissent. And they especially try to exclude well-informed smokers' advocates, because we commit the unpardonable sin of winning arguments and making the anti-smokers look bad." - By Carol Thompson

The Anti-smokers' Half-Backed Settlement Conspiracy Theory, Versus the Real Conspiracy - - "The tobacco companies hope to flee the country with their profits intact, when the FDA outlaws tobacco. And all the dumb little moron smokers who didn't fight for their rights will be left standing there, going "Duh, what happened? Why didn't somebody do something?" Including the trusting suckers and dupes in the tobacco industry-funded phony smokers' rights groups, whom they keep in the dark." - Carol Thompson analyzes and explains what may well be the most putrid deal in modern history.

American Heart Association Admits that Chlamidia Pneumoniae Infection Causes Heart Disease - In the American Heart Association's press release of Dec. 31, 1997, AHA president Martha Hill, R.N., Ph.D, has admitted to the possibility that bacteria cause heart disease. (U.S. Newswire OTC 12/31 1410 (1997). And, instead of being in the forefront of this heart disease research, the AHA (like the rest of the anti-smoking establishment) have had to be dragged, kicking and screaming, to address the evidence. - By Carol Thompson

Reflections on the Corruption of the Legal System - - More Proof Of The Antismoker Lynch Law - Carol Thompsonreflects on the corruption of the legal system, and links to the ASH site to document her argument. The ASH gang gloats on the fact that jurors cannot avoid being affected by the antismoking campaigns when deciding cases against tobacco. When corruption and moral inversion were not as widespread as they is now, the inability to find objective jurors would have severely impaired a trial, and nobody would have dared to say they were happy about it. Today, for certain people who should be in jail for spreading hate and lies instead of influencing the politics of nations, tainted juries are a cause for pride.

Surprise! Another Sellout! The Broin EST Settlement - When a sinister political process has taken momentum, it has to follow its natural and logical course. As we predicted in our article "The Logic Of The New Prohibition - (And why the Florida flight attendants trial will be won by the anti-smokers)", the settlement concedes basically another victory to the anti-smokers, and it is bypassing altogether the embarrassing verification that the EST issue is nothing more but a collection of lies, and falsified science. We are the spectators of the largest transfer of wealth that has ever occurred in modern history, and where the two apparently conflicting factions (state and anti-smokers versus tobacco companies) gain much and lose nothing. The wealth transfer is all on the shoulders of the smokers, the real victims of this disgusting charade. Dangers to health? Scientific truth? Forget it. Political collusion? You can bet on it. But like any other persecution, this will eventually self-destroy. Remember McCarthy. Remember prohibition. And hopefully, many anti-smokers will end up where they belong: in jail.

Incompetent Or In Cahoots: The Tobacco Industry Pay-Offs To Mississippi And Florida - - Why didn't the US tobacco companies fight back with their best weapons on phony health cost methodologies and flawed studies? "...they have let the anti-smokers get away with this Big Lie for over 10 years, never bringing a single libel suit, nor demanding action from their vaunted stooges in Congress." - By Carol Thompson

The Edgerton Tobacco Fest - - The little town of Edgerton celebrates "Tobacco Heritage Days" every year, and there was supposed to have been a tobacco spitting contest. But the organizer caved in because of criticism from the media and their allies in the usual anti-smoking groups. Evidently it did not occur to him that the anti-smokers already own the media.

Benzo(a)pyrene And The Pseudo-Science of Stanton Glantz - - There is a future threat to American industry and society in general which is far greater than anything regulators have yet done. It is no less than the regulatory threat from hell.

There Is No Tobacco Allergy - ...Ever noticed that in the last few years we have witnessed the appearance of allergies to tobacco? Tobacco allergy claims are classic junk science. There is no tobacco smoke antigen. It seems that the lies of the anti-tobacco industry are capable of transcending even nature. Hey antismoker "scientists", what about asking for a few million dollars as a grant to induce Nature to create a new antigen? - By Carol Thompson

EST Does Not Cause Otitis Media - In light of the most recent release of another manipulated EPA report (concluding -- how did we guess -- that more funds are required to create further evidence - more on that report on future issues of FORCES Canada, Carol brings forward and comments on uncorrupted studies demonstrating that EST does not cause otitis in children, or adults. The two-faced, double-talk and schizophrenic misrepresentation of facts is becoming a trademark of the EPA when dealing with the smoking issue. We cannot help but wonder what is the financial and political contribution of the antismoking industry to this institution. - By Carol Thompson

Deconstructing The Anti-Smoking Movement - Excellent arguments -- and some strong rhetoric -- from a US veteran fighter against the anti-smoking crusade. -By Carol Thompson of the Smokers' Rights Action Group.

Concealed Evidence - It has become obvious that those who supposedly share smokers' interests in winning the Medicaid lawsuits are grossly failing to defend themselves, and thereby us. The tobacco industry has never contested the libel that smokers' health costs are an economic burden to society. They merely offer that cigarette taxes cover the alleged costs, and quibble over peripheral issues without challenging their foundation.

Lying To Congress: SAMMEC Is a Fraud - Anti-smoker propaganda about the supposed costs and mortality of smoking actually comes from a computer program. The program is called SAMMEC, for "Smoking Attributable Mortality, Morbidity, and Economic Costs," and all they do is enter demographic data and then shriek hysterically about the phony figures it generates. Their media patsies solemnly tell us, "A new study has found..." etc., when there's been no such thing.

SomeThoughts On "Nannyism"... And How Supposed Friends In The Media Betray Us - My fellow smokers are pitifully eager to pass around any piece of dreck from the professional media establishment that has the slightest appearance of being sympathetic to our cause, and lauding it as a triumph for our point of view. They are especially fond of those opinion pieces which limply accuse the anti-smokers of being paternalistic, or "nannies." Anti-smokers are not "nannies." Their actions, from EPA corruption, to fraudulent smoking cost "studies" and malicious lawsuits, to the systematic libel of smokers as "addicts," have shown that they are ruthless, psychopathic criminals.

Sell-out - The so-called tobacco settlement is the most massive and corrupt conspiracy against the rights of the American people in history. This is what we in the smokers' rights movement have on the crimes the anti-smoking movement has committed.

How the Anti-Smokers Twisted Our News About C Pneumoniae and Heart Attacks -This is further evidence that it is not that other factors "combine" with smoking, but that the anti-smokers falsely blamed smoking for heart disease caused by HP and CP. And they cannot deny it on the basis of their studies, because those studies considered neither infection. So, they have no right to keep pretending, as Fuster does, that the claim that "smoking causes heart disease" is written in stone.

Private Enterprise Truth Versus Official Lies About Asthma - The study referred to is "The role of cockroach allergy and exposure to cockroach allergen in causing morbidity among inner city children with asthma," by DL Rosenstreich et al. NEJM 1997 May 8;336(19):1356-1363. In this study, "smoking status of the care giver" and "number of smokers in the household" were considered for covariates, but dropped for lack of effect on risk. Clearly, we smokers have a direct interest in helping to spread the word to the public.

Recycled Garbage Only Produces Trash - Reanalysis of systematically defective studies is nothing but recycling old hate propaganda, not scientific research. The studies are defective because they fail to consider the effects of infection by Helico-bacter pylori and Chlamydia pneumoniae. Smokers are more likely to be infected because of lower socioeconomic status than non-exposed non-smokers, as are passive smokers.

The Document Lies: Who Do They Think They Are Fooling? - Remember that those corrupt Congressional inquisitors have refused to allow any input from smokers' advocates to refute the anti-smokers' health lies. But they have allowed the anti-smokers to impose their moldy old Surgeon General reports, which have been discredited by new discoveries and developments in methodology, as the gold standard of science.

Pentagon Seeks a Share of the Tobacco Deal Take - Recently, a new study came out in the New England Journal of Medicine, showing that smokers' health costs are not an economic burden to society. In fact, smokers have been reducing health costs from four to seven percent every year. It was reported in The Washington Times on Oct. 9, from the account by the Associated Press.

Dorothy Rice's Psychopathic Lies About Smokers' Medicaid Costs - The methodological frauds of the anti-smokers' smoking cost claims have been exposed numerous times. E.g., Manning et al, JAMA 1989;261:1604-1609; Raynauld & Vidal, Canadian Public Policy 1992;18:300-317; the 1994 Congress Research Service Report, "Cigarette taxes to fund health care reform"; Berendregt et al, New England Journal of Medicine 1997;337:1052-1057; and Viscusi, The Brookings Review 1998;16:14-19.

TOBACCO WARS - Smoking Under Siege At What Cost? - The CRS report reviews the methodology of smoking cost studies. Most importantly, it specifically exposes as fraudulent the OTA report which the state attorneys general cite as the basis of their Medicaid lawsuits. The same criticisms apply to their other prime source, the Centers for Disease Control's SAMMEC, and to Dorothy Rice's study as well.

Inside the Beltway - ". . . how many times has this newspaper discussed the methodology of the anti-smokers' smoking cost claims? How many times has this newspaper mentioned the Congressional Research Service report on "Cigarette Taxes to Fund Health Care Reform"? How many times has this newspaper referred to the Willard Manning RAND study? When has this newspaper ever spoken of the magnitude of non-smokers' Medicaid nursing home costs? Never, never, never, and never."

The Washington Times: Helping the Tyrants - "It is thanks to cowardly, slack incompetents like Walter Williams that the anti-smokers have not only gotten away with brainwashing the public with the vicious Big Lie that smokers are an economic burden to society, but also with filing fraudulent lawsuits based upon this lie, using what is probably the most easily refutable case, namely Medicaid costs."

The Washington Times: Foresaking Responsibility - "While Roberts and his ilk slept on the job, the US Centers for Disease Control and the Office of Technology Assessment deliberately, willfully, and knowingly concocted fraudulent smoking cost claims purporting that smokers are an economic burden to society."

Judge Harold Cohen: Poster Boy for Lynch Law - This was a trial in which the evidence for the defense was never presented. And not, as the tobacco lawyers pretended, because the Florida legislature passed a law depriving them of their rights to do so (although this was clearly the lawmakers' intent), or because of Judge Cohen's rulings based on that law, but because the tobacco lawyers themselves withheld the truth.

Another Phony Expose of the Tobacco Industry, By Those Who Are the Real Criminals - Here are the biggest predators on the planet, trotted out by the media to tell us how "disturbed" they are by elementary facts of political life, namely other groups coming out like jackals and hyenas to steal their prey from them, and to blame the tobacco industry for spoiling their make-believe Garden of Eden where lions lie down with lambs.