SANO: Here Is How I Push The Patch On You AND: Now Doctors Say Nicotine May Be Good For Our Mental Health - As pressure from the evidence on the benefits of smoking mounts, it can no longer be ignored. Far from acknowledging their lies that smoking is an "all-out evil", the pharmaceutical wing of the antismoking Cartel now creates products that pump concentrated amounts of the same chemicals in our body, but in this case it is "medicine" -- of course -- and "addiction" no longer matters. In fact, the promotion by SANO talks about elimination of craving, but it says nothing about getting off the supposedly powerful addiction to the nicotine in its patches! Read: "State, give US the money; smokers, buy our patches, and we'll no longer call you addicted, and we'll stop the persecution". Cosa Nostra is now wearing white coats. Up yours in glory, Don Corleone! A footnote: smokers should NOT participate in studies, surveys, and other research that will be inevitably used against them, and aimed at controlling/modifying their behaviour.

Give Me The Money, And I'll Condition Your Child For You! - This article, written by Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, professor emeritus of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, should give you goose bumps if you are a resposible individual, for it is a splendid example of the level of professional prostitution to politics and social control the medical class has reached. After the usual melodramatic prefaces ("After all, millions of young lives hang in the balance") and the usual lies about smoking, this Frankestein of the 21st century proposes the conditioning of the child by inducing the "proper wiring" in his brain against tobacco -- and he mention pictures of a brain properly "wired for success"! Dear readers, THIS is what we have to fight against! What is the next "desirable" thing we have to condition our children for, you irresponsible S.O.B.? The immense danger our species is facing is the development of a technology we don't have the maturity to use.

'No One Addicts You' AND: Vets Who Smoked Protest Loss Of Health Benefits - You know, the naïvete of people never ceases to amaze us. Veterans who supported antismoking lies and scientific cheats and then lined up for their share of the tobacco loot see the funds they expected being diverted for highways. What did they hope for, anyway? Helping a thief to steal only means that he will pick your pocket next. The antitobacco fire burns with dishonesty, and when you play with fire, you get burned. The government's bad faith is summed up by their contradictory claims that "no one addicts you" (when they are asked to pay money out), and "the tobacco companies addict you" (when they're trying to pull money from the tobacco industry).

How Riches Will Filter Down In Tobacco Deal - A British point of view on the despicable hypocrisy of the antitobacco bill presently before the US Senate.

$1.50 Price Increase On Cigarettes Killed - Nazi-Style Rally In Front Of The White House - In a frightening display of force reminiscent of the Youth rallies of Nazi Germany, 700 kids, instrumentalized by a strong arm of the antitobacco Cartel -- this time Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids -- amassed in the South Lawn of the White House to exercise political pressure in support of legislation designed to loot tobacco industry and smokers. 14-year-old figure skater Tara Lipinski sung the party line with a pathetic line to please the regime: "Mr. President," Lipinski said, "in the fight to protect kids from tobacco and save lives, our team is going to win." In the meantime, Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota, a leading anti-smoking lawmaker, asked hundreds of youths at the rally: "Do you want to be targeted by the tobacco industry for addiction?" -- "Noo!" the young people roared. Remember the line about the prosecutor who asks the accused, "When did you stop beating your wife?"

Antitobacco Criminals Lobby For Their Share Of The Loot: There Is No Honor Among Thieves - San Francisco officials are worried that the city could lose tens of millions of dollars under the tobacco bill winding its way through Congress and have dispatched its top attorneys to Washington to push for changes. City Attorney Louise Renne and a deputy are furiously lobbying for an amendment that would allow local governments to either pursue their own lawsuits against the tobacco companies or share in the estimated $500 billion that would be collected under the comprehensive legislation. Like the Nazi Party, antitobacco has managed to turn upside down the parameters of morality, so that what was contemptible is now admirable: plundering is now spoken of openly, and people opposing it are the enemies of the state.

How Much Is A Trillion? - In the US, antismoking gangster Bill Clinton and his administration go around boasting about balanced budgets, and a surplus. More spending is foreseen, the money coming from the looting of US smokers and tobacco industry. Notwithstanding Clinton's gallant adventures, possible obstruction of justice, perjury, etc., the aging Yuppie antismoking generation chooses to neglect useless values such as morality and respect for freedom in favour of expediency and immediate financial gratification, and widely supports the President. But antismoking USA has a 5 trillion dollar national debt, and the Democrat senators happily waste billions of dollar. This interesting article from Rampage gives a dimension of the tremendous waste.

More Violence And Intimidation Against Smokers - The results of the campaign of violence and intimidation against smokers are showing every day, as this article by Walter Williams (from Rampage) clearly illustrates. In Salt Lake City, two smokers are attacked with chains, bricks, baseball bats and pepper spray by the criminals of the antismoking Cartel. In California, non-compliant bars are watched and intimidated on a daily basis. We hold the criminals in the White House, the "public health" organizations and the antismoking activists accountable for these crimes. As much as we are against violence, we exhort smokers to take any measure and carry the necessary means to defend themselves in case of attack. State-sponsored intimidation cannot and WILL NOT force us to quit a habit that has become an outstanding symbol of freedom and personal rebellion against public-health-sponsored violence.

Antismoking Cartel Suffers Defeat In Albany, N.Y.: Let's Smoke To That! - Tougher anti-smoking legislation for mostly upstate New York restaurants was snuffed out by four Democratic state Assembly members from areas downstate where smoking is virtually banned. "This was a big win for the tobacco industry. These legislators voted for big tobacco against the public health," lied Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group, totally ignoring the independent will of individuals. In actuality, this is a victory for free enterprise and personal choice against both fascism, and the lies on secondhand smoke.

Warning: Smoking Can Be Hazardous To Your Job - New vicious attack of the antismoking Cartel on civil liberties in Fairfax, Virginia. Fairfax County supervisors Monday agreed to examine whether the county can require new employees to be non-smokers, force new hires to quit smoking once they join county government or give preference to non-smokers in the hiring process.Even considering such a requirement defines the putrid ideology of these enemies of liberty. This total disrespect for personal choice and intrusion in personal life is yet another confirmation of the contempt for freedom by fascists that must be fought with dedication.

What Are The G8 Leaders Smoking? - "Prohibition does not work and cannot work, and its costs are higher than those of a policy of properly supervised and regulated access to drugs. Given that the elimination of drugs from our society is not an option, the G8 leaders should have been asking themselves how they can minimize the harm that drugs represent. As it is, their policies maximize the damage." - Thank you, Globe and Mail, for a ray of common sense through these dark times of prohibition!

The Fat Tax: Is It Really Such A Crazy Idea? - The Better Living Through Government Behavior Modification people are starting to push the fat tax idea: "If you accept that America is entering a Puritan phase, then regulating fat can actually be a less intrusive policy than regulating tobacco. Eating habits are more flexible than smoking habits. While people can become addicted to nicotine, they can't become addicted to fat (not medically speaking, at least). By that logic, even small incentives to change behavior, such as increasing prices, can have a noticeable effect." Many people still think that taxing and persecuting fat is a far-fetched idea. But so was lying about and persecuting tobacco as early as ten years ago. Every single argument (except, perhaps, "second-hand fat" -- but don't worry, they'll come up with something) brought forward by the antitobacco criminals will be used by the upcoming anti-fat criminals, many of them probably the same physical persons. It is good for McDonald, though, for they were among the first to "proudly go nonsmoking" in their restaurants out of "health concerns". We just can't wait for them to get a dose of their own poisonous medicine.

More On Sullum - "Not since the temperance movement that culminated in the Prohibition era, from 1920 to 1933, has there been such public hysteria about a product as there is now about tobacco. Smokers are hounded worse than Hester Prynne. The cigarette industry is demonized. And a wide variety of people -- ranging from anti-smoking advocates to TV commentator Andy Rooney -- are calling for a new era of prohibition. Can 'smokeasys,' gangster-controlled cigarette black markets, and knocks on the door and a whispered 'Joe Camel sent me,' be far behind?"

Smokers Won't Go Away - It is a well-established fact that the antitobacco cartel labels any opposition to punitive measures against tobacco as tobacco company-funded, the clear implication being that their agenda is so right, nobody in his right mind could possibly disagree, unless he is a nut case, or -- of course -- is on the payroll of the tobacco industry. Fortunately this old line begins to wear out, for just a handful of fools still really believe it. But there is another implication in the cartel's attitude: that antitobacco is a spontaneous, unbiased grassroots movement. Sure, as long as we put the Mafia in the same category!

Who Cares About The Jurors? - Looting and persecuting the smokers has become the national obsession of the United States. Blind to any social cost whatsoever, the antitobacco cartel and its lawyers drag to court anything that smells like tobacco. This article describes the frustrations and the personal costs that jurors have to face when drafted from their private life into the shame of the century.

The Amorality Of The New Antismoking Morality - When gangsters make it to the state, they insolently boast their rotten "principles". Who is going to arrest them, anyway? Here is a sample from Florida: "...Chiles was firm in his insistence that there was nothing wrong in sneaking measures through the Legislature removing many of tobacco's legal defenses because industry lobbyists would have killed it if they had known about it. 'It doesn't bother me a whit,' Chiles said." Related Topics: THE FLORIDA LOOTING ORGY: THE REAL FACE OF ANTISMOKING

The Truth Is Hard To Come By - Idealistic. Naive. Obsolete. Simplistic. There are the adjectives that are used today by the politically correct anti-smoking, anti-everything establishment to define the writer of this article. What kind of absurd things is Dennis Rogers asking for? Honesty. Truth. Consistency. Truly, Rogers is an obsolete character.

The Advancement Of Fascism: Zero Tolerance For Choice - BIRMINGHAM - The fascist state advances according to its ruthless logic. The putrid antismoking agenda cracks down on choice, using the force of the police and the ever-growing lies of the fascist propaganda as means for implementation. "Police have a warning for underage smokers: Put the butts out or face criminal prosecution. ... Tobacco is a gateway drug, it can lead to use of marijuana and other drugs". Without even wasting time to comment on the absurdity of the last statement, we can only observe that tobacco has indeed become a gateway -- for teen-agers and adults alike -- to the intellectual and spiritual freedom and rebellion of indomitable free spirits against and the lies and oppression of the totalitarian state. We also have a warning -- and a statement -- for the police state: F--- you, and the antitobacco Cartel. The more you tighten your grip, the more we'll slip through your fingers.

US Senator Grams Opposes The Tobacco Deal - Sen. Rod Grams, R-Minn., announced that he will oppose the proposed national tobacco settlement, calling it "nothing more than a huge tax increase." " When I ran for the Senate four years ago, I made this one simple promise during the campaign, and that is that I would never vote to increase taxes, " Grams said at a Capitol news conference Wednesday. " Now, the prospects of tobacco legislation would do just that -- increase taxes on those who use tobacco products."