California: Land Of Smoke-Easies - The California Tobacco Nazis have a serious problem when even the rabidly anti-smoker San Francisco Chronicle confesses that the 'smoke-free' agenda, relentlessly pursued for years, has encountered a serious road block. Smokers are standing up and proudly proclaiming they will not take the anti-smoker foolishness any longer.

Quebec Like English-Speaking Canada Or California?... Naah! - Antismoking Cartel-controlled Quebec Health Minister Jean Rochon tabled tough new anti-tobacco legislation. Under the bill, Quebec smokers would face much of the BS that is going on in the rest of the English-speaking Canada. To justify the tough measures, Quebec's Health Department says at least 10,000 deaths a year are linked to smoking - more than all those from alcohol, drugs, AIDS, traffic accidents, suicide and murder. Of course, these figures are so exaggerated & manipulated, they will not go far beyond the political platform. So, will the Anglosaxon-based antismoking nonsense make it in Latin-based Quebec? Perhaps not... find out why inside.

HA, HA, HA! HOW DOES IT FEEL? THE LEECHES GET LEECHED! - ANOTHER FLORIDA IN THE MAKING? - After Blue Cross has managed to steal money from the US smokers with the help of the antitobacco Cartel, now it gets sued by policy holders for a share of the loot. Remember Florida . . . there is no honour among thieves! The Minnesota greed-fest confirms once again the unspeakable moral corruption of antitobacco and its supporters in a country where suing and looting has become a way of life. Blue Cross Members Suing To Recover Tobacco Deal --- Yum - Yum!

Republicans Attack Tobacco Bill"A key conservative senator is joining the movement to kill Congress' leading tobacco bill because, he says, it contradicts the conservative principles on which the GOP won control of Congress. `` This bill is nothing more than a big government boondoggle cloaked in the language of 'protecting children,'' Sen. John Ashcroft, R-Mo., said in a statement Tuesday. "

Let's Talk Plainly About Tobacco - Though we strongly differ with some of the usual "obligatory disclaimers" of this article, Linda Bowes nevertheless summarizes the current antitobacco crimes very well: "What we have in view are proposals that have very little to do with curing the ills of tobacco. What we see is a scheme by government autocrats to takeover a private industry, plunder its wealth, raise taxes -- and look like heroes in the process. It is a scam."

Hiking Cigarette Taxes Is Good For (Illegal) Business - North America is the centre of the universe. Didn't you know? We do not need to learn from the experience of others, for we are "more advanced"... Countries that do not adopt repressive regulating measures such as absurd speed limits, safety belts, health propaganda or antitobacco at the expenses of constitutional and personal freedoms are "still behind", and need to be "educated". It is this kind of arrogance stemming from an ever darker popular ignorance that prevent us from learning from other countries' mistakes, such as raising taxes on tobacco.

Judge Rejects Request For Tobacco Interviews - Calling the proposal ''grossly inefficient and impractical,'' a Middlesex Superior Court judge ruled yesterday that the tobacco industry cannot interview thousands of Medicaid recipients who allegedly are victims of smoking-related illnesses. ''I do not see that the inordinate expense and delay that would be involved is at all warranted'' - Of course is not warranted. Actually it is useless, and dangerous. Useless because in Massachusetts -- like almost everywhere else -- the purpose of these BS trials is to loot smokers and tobacco companies, not to get at the truth. And dangerous because it may be actually possible to reveal the fact that smoking is MUCH less related to disease than the propaganda says. It is therefore much safer to rely of false statistics and false science to create the pretence of legality necessary to extort the money.

Letters Of The Star Tribune - Here are letters from the readers of the Star Tribune in Minnesota about the "landmark settlement" that has established the elimination of scientific free speech and opinion on tobacco, as well as reinforcing the position of the antitobacco mobs to loot and exert social control. As you can see, much of the public is not thrilled with the outcome of yet another crime against freedom and due process perpetrated by gangsters who have made it to the state.

Survey Shows Americans Do Not Support McCain Bill - "A just-completed survey by The Tarrance Group and KRC Research reveals that Americans today are not supportive of the main legislative initiative now before Congress -- the McCain bill -- regarding tobacco. ... 'As the public receives more information about the bill,'' said The Tarrance Group's Ed Goeas, 'their support for the legislation falls.' "

Smoking Isn't A Public Health Issue - Another excellent short article from Jacob Sullum. "The incantation of the term "public health" preempts all questions and erases all doubts. It tells us to turn off our brains and trust experts like Shalala to think for us. ... There is no end to the interventions that could be justified in the name of public health, as that concept is currently understood. This audacious claim of authority should send a chill down people's spines."

Police Fear Future Black Market - History repeats itself because people never learn. The enormous increase of the price of cigarettes in the USA will unleash an unprecedented black market. Once again, the errors of the First Prohibition WILL be repeated. The politicians are aware of this, of course, but unwilling to act because blinded by greed. Politicians and lawyers have discovered the formula for looting the private sector by using health as an excuse, and law as a means. They cannot let this opportunity pass -- never mind petty objections like civil rights and science. But in the final analysis, this may be all to the good -- for smuggling and crime are what brought down Prohibition, with its bathtub gin and gangland kingpins who ruled whole cities.

Laws Increasingly Target Right To Light Up In Open Air - The criminal antitobacco junta is out to kill the right to smoke even outside. In California the level of paranoia over ETS fuelled such endless propaganda and false information as to out-darken the gloomy predictions for independent thinking in "1984". "I'm a little surprised at the attention this has received,'' says an antitobacco operative, feigning surprise over people's objections to what the health-control freaks want us to believe to be a "done deal" over secondhand smoke.

Tobacco Tyrants Suffer A Setback -- Hey It's A Start - "Without scientific evidence indeed, against the best scientific evidence, the Nicotine Nazis have turned brothers against brothers, sisters against sisters. In work places, smokers are forced into the streets to fight pneumonia." "The justification is "public health." This was Hitler's excuse for banning smoking in the Third Reich. The Germans, who happily followed the Fuhrer's order to burn Jews, refused to stop lighting their cigarettes. But Americans keep going like lemmings to the dictates of the Clintons of Washington and the Giulianis and Vallones of New York."

Canadian Owner Of Inn Fights Antismoking Bylaw - As the social cancer of fascism permeates Canada from the United States, British Columbia's tilt to totalitarianism and false science gets stronger. But there are pockets of resistance by courageous people who defy state-instituted intimidation and harassment. Our congratulations and support to Don Rittaler, owner of Sooke River Hotel who upholds the Charter of Rights in the face of oppression and misinformation. The torch of truth and liberty always finds a carrier.

Will Swastika Take Marlboro Man's Place? - The frightening path to fascism disguised as health is vividly described in this article by David Harriman of the Business Journal of San Jose : "Legislation to rein in the tobacco industry has been described as a "historic change." That much is true--but not in the sense its proponents intended. This legislation represents a frightening, unprecedented violation of individual rights. Under its proposed terms, the government will become the de facto owner of all the tobacco companies; the nominal owners will just follow Washington's orders, as their property is effectively expropriated."

Why Is Nicotine As Addictive As Heroin -- Or--Electrodes Have Been Placed In The Wrong Brains - "Scientists reckon they have solved a puzzle about nicotine addiction: why, if it gives the brain less of a buzz than drugs like cocaine or heroin, does it generate comparable withdrawal symptoms?", asks the journalist, parroting a common antismoking cliche. The answer is simple, and it does not require the indubitably large funding that taxpayers paid for this "study": IT DOESN'T generate comparable withdrawal symptoms! Ask smokers who have quit, and were also addicted to cocaine, or heroin. They will dislocate their jaws due to excessive laughing. We believe that electrodes MUST be installed in the brain of those politicians and other fools who believe any antismoking absurdity fantasy is capable of. It would help to solve the puzzle of how the antitobacco liars can get away with all this. Another puzzling question comes to mind, though: assuming that nicotine is that addictive, why then do we find the drug company-financed antismoking cartel pushes nicotine patches?

US Smokers, Here Is How The Antitobacco Gangsters Are Gagging Free Speech, Lie To Your Children, Make Lawyers Rich, And Rip You Off In The Process - We called them liars, gangsters, mobs, mafia, a fraud, cartel, fascists, and many other names, all utterly appropriate. But perhaps the most accurate name for the antitobacco operatives is the simplest: criminals. And they have made it to power, to boot. Only criminals in power can extort money from a legal industry, and create laws to support that. Only criminals can spread false information to the youth, and create laws or force agreements to make any opposition illegal. The ultimate dream of Al Capone was to corrupt the nation to the core, but not even Al conceived the creation of a system that could morph into legal extortion while gagging any voice against it. Antitobacco criminals have achieved that -- and more, and they get away without any of the harsh punishment they deserve. Rather, they seem to enjoy the support of a "majority" conditioned by false press. Capone must turn in his grave with envy.

THE MINNESOTA SETTLEMENT The Social Scavangers Are Celebrating - Smokers, lovers of liberty and pro-choicers, don't get too mad about this. It is possible because of YOUR lack of action in fighting the looters... How does it feel to be the powerless spectators of your own looting and defeat, to watch the destruction of freedom and institutions, and still say: "What can I do about it", or even justify this shame by thinking: "Maybe this will make me quit smoking??" As Usual, Smokers Will Pay For The Looting, Not The Tobacco Industry - The smokers will pay for the Minnesota settlement, not the tobacco industry, which will be unharmed. ...Still convinced that there is any good in antitobacco? Statement Of The Tobacco Manufacturers On The Minnesota Settlement - "``We agreed to the settlement because we concluded that it would be extremely difficult to reach a fair outcome, based on what we believe are a series of incorrect rulings by the court favoring the state, which in essence placed a loaded gun to our head." - While critical of the tobacco industry, we do not have any problem in believing that, considering that in many cases laws and legal procedures have been modified to force the tobacco industry to lose. In other words, the trials have been fixed to insure the "correct" outcome. Fixing trials is in fact an historical mark of fascism. Related topics: TOBACCO INDUSTRY SUPPORTERS DECRY CHANGES PROPOSED IN BILL MISSOURI TRIAL: THE TEMPTATIONS OF TOTALITARIANISM