BAN IRRITATES FEDS - At the same time frantic bar owners are urging the legislature to modify the state's radical anti-smoking law to permit smoking in taverns and gaming establishments, the Federal Government is blaming the poor financial shape of some property it owns in Los Angeles on the same anti-smoking law. It's not often during the Clinton years that the US government is willing to admit that smoking bans mean lost income. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that kicking 30 percent of the population out of restaurants and bars will screw up a business' bottom line. It's about time the politicians realize this as well.

AN 'OOPS' ON HATRED: ANOTHER RESULT THE ANTI-TOBACCO CARTEL SHOULD BE PROUD OF-- SCHOOLBOY RANT ON SMOKERS BACKFIRES - ' "Maybe the school should open a section for smokers, or maybe you should all be shot. That's right: Shot!" ... "It may be radical but you're going to die anyway," he continued. "It may not be an instant death, but it will be a slow painful death. ... emphysema, lung cancer, mouth cancer. . . a slow painful death." ... "We could make it easier and shoot you all" '

These are the printed words of the co-editor of the school newspaper "Megaphone" in Philadelphia, parroting the lies, false information, and hate propaganda of the anti-tobacco cartel.

These are the results of the criminal anti-tobacco campaign sponsored by the equally criminal anti-smoking organizations with the blessing of the even more criminal and irresponsible United States Administration.

This is what, through our ignorance and political inaction, we are allowing the cartel to do to our youth. We are allowing the cartel to get away with lies, propaganda, murder, violence and hate, while getting rich on our money.

The unproven social cancer of smoking is being replaced with a proven, and much greater and permanent social cancer: hatred and discrimination.

The only cure for this type of cancer is the total ERADICATION of its causes.

SOFTWARE CODE BAN REJECTED - The intrusive USSR (Unites States Smoking Repression) communist government has suffered another defeat, this time in the area of privacy. The USSR government not only wants to tell us what's good for us and it regulates us to believe it if we don't agree, but it wants to see and hear what we have to say (and what we are going to do about it) in our private encrypted conversations -- for our protection, of course! But this time the Clinton Administration failed in yet another one of its criminal intents.

' A federal appeals court -- wading into the colliding worlds of technology, free speech and government regulation -- on Thursday struck down the Clinton administration's ban on posting encryption codes on the Internet with a warning that such restrictions ``strike deep into the heartland of the First Amendment.'' '

Great. All we have to do next is to make sure that this kind of justice applies to the anti-tobacco cartel and its frauds, and we will be home free -- and very busy building new prisons!

ANTI-TOBACCO CARTEL LOSES MAJOR LAWSUIT... AND MOST OF THE MEDIA ARE SILENT -- OF COURSE - The anti-tobacco cartel has lost another major lawsuit in Tennessee. The jury cleared the tobacco industry of liability in the deaths of three smokers whose families claimed the companies and their cigarettes were responsible. All the deceased were past 60, and one was 71, already above the average life expectancy. As usual, with very few exceptions, the corrupted, irresponsible media are silent.

Good for the tobacco industry -- and congratulations to the jury. A victory for common sense is always welcome. The smokers knew that smoking was "bad" for them. But -- hold: where is the evidence of causality that proves beyond reasonable doubt that smoking causes cancer? Relax: there is none.

Soon, it is quite possible that the anti-tobacco criminals will be relentlessly taken to court themselves. And with all the money they managed to steal, only God knows how big restitution will be.

THE DECADE OF 'JUNK SCIENCE' - "The 1990s will be remembered for many things. None may be more important to the United States than the "Decade of Junk Science." The purpose of tort law is to compensate those who are injured through the negligence of others. It is necessary to prove that both the plaintiff was injured and that the defendant was at fault.

Unfortunately, skillful lawyers hire experts who say anything and torture statistics to confess to everything. The result has been a rash of dubious mass torts. Bendectin, Norplant, silicone breast implants, among others -- yielding huge damages for nonexistent harms.

Indeed, the incentive to use junk science is overwhelming. " - by Doug Bandow

EL GOBIERNO PROMUEVE LA CIENCA-FICCIÓN - "Primero se propuso un aumento de 55 centavos en los impuestos federales a cada cajetilla de cigarrillos y luego en su informe anual al Congreso, el presidente Clinton anunció que el Departamento de Justicia prepararía una demanda para recuperar los costos de salubridad relacionados con el cigarrillo. No importa la aparición de mercados negros ni de impuestos regresivos ni que se debilite la responsabilidad individual. Cada vez que Clinton quiere más dinero, procede a utilizar una fórmula segura -aunque totalmente deshonesta-, cualquier iniciativa política es vendible si se presenta como beneficiosa para los niños. Antes que Clinton se salga con la suya, bien vale la pena examinar el asunto, especialmente lo que tiene que ver con el cigarrillo y la salud de nuestros niños."

STATES SHARE BLAME FOR TOBACCO LAWYERS' GREED - 'How would you like to work for $7,716 an hour? That's a long way from the minimum wage. But it's less than what each lawyer who negotiated the recent Florida tobacco settlement is scheduled to receive after a panel of three arbitrators got through with the case. Private attorneys in Texas, Mississippi and Florida made out like bandits, fleecing tobacco companies, smokers and taxpayers for $8.2 billion in legal fees. "Incomprehensible!" said former federal judge Richard Renfrew, the dissenting voice on the panel. "These excessive fees will undermine public confidence ... in our profession and in our civil justice system," he added.' - by Robert A. Levy

BIG LIES ABOUT TOBACCO - 'A newspaper ad, full-page. Stark background. Large type. ''Cigarettes kill more Americans every year than car wrecks, plane crashes, AIDS, alcohol, drugs, suicides, and homicides combined.'' It's a terrifying statistic. Good thing it's not true.' - By Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe Columnist, 05/10/99

CCCP MEDIA - We report a thank you note that was written by an American POW to his Serbian guards. It was amazing that every word of his note was reported by the United States media -- except the last sentence. More and more petty and revolting..

THE ROTTEN FACE OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION -- DOCTORS: THE NEW TOBACCONISTS? - Our feelings about the WHO are no secret: it is a corrupt, sold out organization, using and spreading junk science as well as distorted, if not totally false, medical information for political purposes. This organization is serving the interests of the international anti-tobacco cartel that is headed and financed by the United States. And those who are associated with this organization and still have an ounce of integrity, should disassociate themselves at a speed faster than light. Having said that, what the WHO is proposing now is appalling even us: doctors have to become dispensers of cigarettes!

It is no coincidence that these marionettes make this statement just when the US Supreme Court is to decide FDA's role over tobacco.

The anti-tobacco gang of which the WHO is a vociferous moppet is really preparing a disaster for itself, as it is now quite clear that the total outlaw of tobacco is in the sick agenda of these control freaks. And if this would happen, the explosion of crime would inevitably lead to the defeat of the anti-tobacco cartel the same way alcohol Prohibition was defeated, but this time on a world scale. It really seems to be the case to say: "the harder they lie, the harder they fall!"

HAVE YOU USED A KID TODAY AS A POLITICAL PAWN? - This article by Walter Olson highlights on the tendency of politicians to restrict everyone's liberty using the excuse that it's "for the children". Though the article only talks about smoking in the last few paragraphs the principles are obviously applicable to tobacco and its users.

"One of the most curious moments in the late campaign came when President Clinton proposed to force states to withhold driver's licenses from teenagers who do not submit to drug tests. A few years ago such a step might have been seen as unthinkably coercive and invasive, but Bob Dole's only response was that it didn't go far enough: 'Too little, too late,' he called it.One of the most curious moments in the late campaign came when President Clinton proposed to force states to withhold driver's licenses from teenagers who do not submit to drug tests. A few years ago such a step might have been seen as unthinkably coercive and invasive, but Bob Dole's only response was that it didn't go far enough: "Too little, too late," he called it.

CANADIAN TOBACCO INDUSTRY PROMISES TO FIGHT BACK: CAN WE BELIEVE THEM? - "Imperial Tobacco (IMS), [Canada's] dominant cigarette maker, is going to be more proactive in getting its point of view across instead of just reacting defensively to charges by anti-smoking groups, the chief executive of parent company Imasco Ltd. said Thursday. "

Could this be true? The tobacco industry actually fighting back? Mmm... We have to see that to believe it. That would be a most welcome change of direction, of course. But how far is the Canadian tobacco industry willing to go? They have proven some seriousness by suing the criminal British Columbia government, which is already one step ahead of their American counterpart, but much more radical action is to be taken. The tobacco industry must aggressively prove that the anti-tobacco cartel and its mouthpieces in the Ministries of Health are LIARS, basing their claims on JUNK SCIENCE. This must be done in SIMPLE ENGLISH through media like television. We always said that the tobacco industry has the financial power to turn the situation around and get rid of the anti-tobacco parasites. And in doing so, it will gain back the respect and loyalty of its best and only customers: the Smokers.

HEALTH DEPT UNDER INVESTIGATION - "These are just more examples of what we perceive to be a real problem within the department," said Assemblyman Scott Wildman, D-Los Angeles, chairman of the audit committee, "a department that has put more obstacles in the way of making legislation rather than making it happen."

Better late than never, Assemblyman. The California Department of Health Services has caught the attention of legislators worried that recent activities confirm reports that the powerful department has suppressed information crucial to the legislative process. The latest flap concerns a survey showing that cancer rates around a rocket propulsion plant are higher than normal. The department never released the survey and an anti-nuclear group obtained the survey through freedom of information requests.

The buried cancer survey echoes the suppression of a survey taken last year regarding the unpopular law that prohibits smoking in bars.

Last year the National Smokers Alliance unearthed a companion survey to one commissioned by the Health Department to back up its claims that the ban on smoking is supported by Californians. Although it's open to interpretation whether the ban enjoys popular support, the shocker was that the companion survey was deliberately suppressed to mislead the legislature while it was considering whether to overturn the ban. The hidden survey shows that bar owners and their employees are overwhelmingly opposed to the smoking ban.

For more than a decade, the state's health department's aggressive anti-smoking agenda has garnered the support of many policy makers. As its tactics become increasingly extreme and unjust, the department has found itself enmeshed in a web of falsehood so obvious it can no longer be ignored.

HEALTH DICTATORSHIP - "But we were hoping for higher fines," she said. "In San Mateo and Santa Clara counties it's $100 bail for the first time, $200 for the second and $300 for the third. Of course, we're glad there's an increase. Two-hundred and seventy-one dollars is close to $300. Generally, it's good news." So says a stooge from the American Lung Association commenting on the Health Department increasing the fine for smoking a cigarette.

What happens when the anti-tobacco cartel meshes with the Department of Public Health in a major American city? Escalating repression of the taxpayers who provide the thugs with their jobs. Early this year the American Heart Association threatened to sue the city and county of San Francisco for not enforcing the obscene ban of smoking in bars. Rather than arresting the goons at the Heart Association for terrorism, the city capitulated and began citing smoking customers.

In spite of this anti-American repression, smoking in bars continues as it has since the Forty-niners arrived last century. Faced with an actual rebellion against Health Fascism, the Health Department knocked the City Attorney around to come up with a scheme of higher fines. Does anyone remember when the American Lung and Heart Associations and the gestapo squad at the Health Department were voted into office? And where the hell is the American Civil Liberties Union?

JUSTICES TO DECIDE FDA'S ROLE OVER TOBACCO - '...Government lawyers say the FDA rules restricting teenagers' access to cigarettes and preventing tobacco companies from promoting their products to young people offer "an unparalleled opportunity to curb tobacco use by children." '

Chief gangster Bill Clinton, of course, applauds what is happening. The reality is simple: if "children" decide to use a drug, they simply go to drug dealers. By the same token, if they decide to smoke, they simply go to smugglers -- and smugglers will go to them. But this decision will have far greater implications, for it will decide if a criminal government such as what is now ruling America has the right to change the rules to suit its dirty agenda.

But the FDA gives the key to the whole war itself: "...The sudden withdrawal from the market of products to which so many millions of people are addicted would be dangerous." And THIS is exactly what the tobacco industry should do. STOP PRODUCTION, and make the wish of these bastards come true overnight. This is the only way to break the backbone of the largest form of organized crime of the 20th century.

SMOKING BAN IN TROUBLE - It's an old story. A handful of anti-tobacco activists pressure the politicians to enact a smoking ban. They spout the line that secondhand smoke is dangerous and that banning smoking will not harm business. It's such an old story that the falsity of these claims are now becoming well known and the politicians are finally getting the truth. Secondhand smoke is not a hazard and a federal judge has ruled the claim a fraud. A study that claims banning smoking in restaurants and bars by mechanical engineer Stanton Glantz has also been discounted as a shoddy excercise in special interest book-cooking.

In Chautauqua County, NY., the truth, along with a strong showing of freedom loving citizens, is putting the pressure on the politicians to listen to their constituents rather than the anti-smoking lobby. The politicians do listen but we must show up and make our voices heard.

GRAPE PANACEA - A press release issued by the Concord Grape Association provides some much needed amusement for smokers who think they've heard it all. The press release touts the benefits of drinking purple grape juice to combat the ill effects of secondhand smoke. Considering that there is absolutely no proof that secondhand smoke has any ill effects on non-smokers, the press release perfectly fulfills this culture's need to pile lies upon previous lies to obtain financial profit. The Grape Association cites the American Cancer Society's assertion that secondhand smoke kills 53,000 Americans per year. Perhaps the association is unaware that the ACS was caught with its pants down when it tried peddling that figure in one of its silly anti-tobacco ads in Florida. Citing an organization that is incapable of telling the truth is hardly the way to persuade people to use your product.

ANOTHER VICTIM BITES THE DUST - It's with extreme sadness that we report the sad demise of Wencelao Moreno of a smoking related illness. Mr. Moreno, better known as "Senor Wences" of the "Ed Sullivan Show" was 103. During the benighted era when ash resided in ash trays rather than dictating policy in Washington, Senor Wences joked, drank and smoked with his puppets on T.V. All his puppets died of secondhand smoke decades ago. Although his premature passing is sad, his death is warning to us all that smoking kills.

PROPAGANDA MACHINE CRANKS UP - Last week San Francisco hosted the American Society of Newspaper Editors who were in town to ponder the reasons why the American public doesn't buy their product any more. A primary cause of the public's distrust of newspapers, according the the editors, is the perception that the media are highly biased.

Two stories from The San Francisco Examiner provide text book examples of anti-tobacco bias and newspaper advocacy of the anti-tobacco agenda. Robert Salladay first reports on the California propensity to hector that unhappy state's citizens into behaving as the state wishes them to behave. What could have been an entertaining expose on the innumerable exhortations pumeling Californians on a daily basis, actually turns out to be a forum for Stanton Glantz to tout the state's expensive anti-tobacco media campaign. Salladay treats Glantz' self-serving utterances as gospel, cites University of California studies without informing the reader that the university receives millions to produce anti-tobacco studies and slams Philip Morris' anti-smoking campaign without soliciting a response from that company.

A few days later the paper again does Stanton Glantz' bidding by running a piece by Robert Salladay that transparently pressures Governor Gray Davis to run the state's anti-smoking campaign exactly as the anti-tobacco cartel dictates. Salladay provides Glantz and his creation, Americans for Non-Smokers Rights, valuable print in which to berate the governor for not running some ads that viciously attack a legal industry.

Stanton Glantz appears to be the reincarnated J. Edgar Hoover, the former FBI head who bullied president after president to do his bidding. Like Hoover, he uses the media to keep the politicians in line. His weapons of fear and smear have polluted the state ever since the tax for tobacco education was passed in 1988. What Governor Davis needs to realize is that under Glantz' authoritative facade is a mass of hot air, as insubstantial as are his studies. Governor Davis needs to deflate him.