MORE DISCRIMINATION: SMOKERS BUTT OF HIRING RULE Added February 3 - ORLANDO -- Help wanted. Smokers need not apply. "Doesn't that sound a little fascist?" responds Ray Sasso, president of a San Francisco-based group called Forces International, which advocates smokers' rights.

Finally a fair coverage of the issue by this journalist. For those who want to write to her a few lines of congratulations, here is her address: slundine@amcity.com

ANOTHER SMOKING BAN BITES THE DUST Added February 2 - "I think this will eventually lead to the City Council repealing the ordinance or the state Supreme Court declaring the entire ordinance unconstitutional.'' 

Ruled unconstitutional is the eventual fate of all smoking bans affecting private property.  The anti-tobacco enterprise has been quite successful in bullying elected officials to turn their back on the Declaration of Independence and other documents passed down from our founding fathers.  Workplace smoking bans are by their very nature anathema to the American way of life and could only come into being after the Environmental Protection Agency violated its own rules by altering established methodology to create the falsehood that secondhand smoke is a health hazard.  The Federal Courts have vacated the EPA's attempt to foist that lie on the American public.  

Cities such as Tucson that relied upon the testimony of anti-tobacco operatives are facing the well deserved resistance of those they govern.  Tucson would be well advised to save the taxpayers some money by removing its unneeded and unwanted smoking ban.  In the long run smoking bans on private property are destined for the trash bins.

HOME INVASION Added February 1 - The opponents of Proposition 28 would have us believe that the $700-million dollars they have collected from Rob Reiner's tobacco tax have immeasurably improved the lot of California's children.  The reality, however, is that the massive bureaucracy set in place to spend the tax has not managed to implement any programs during the year in which the tax has been collected.   We are grateful for their incompetence.

Now that their slush fund is in danger of being returned to the people, the various county commissions are scrambling to con the voters into believing that the loss of the Reiner tax will be a disaster for kids.

In a report from a taxpayer in California, we find that these commissioners are so out-of-touch that they are touting something called "home visitation" as the centerpiece for their ambitious social engineering experiment.  Recently the Federal OSHA arm of the Labor Department reaped national scorn for its proposal to bring the private home under its jurisdiction.   The utopian fanatics running Reiner's tax have no qualms about inserting themselves into the private lives of Californians. 

Freedom loving Californians, whether smoker or non-smoker, must turn out in mass March 7 to make their voices heard.  Vote Yes on Proposition 28.

ANOTHER ATTACK AGAINST VEGETARIANS: JUNK SCIENTISTS AND HEALTH CARTEL EXPLORE NEW FRONTEERS FOR FRAUDS AND PERSECUTION Added February 5, 2000 - VEGETARIAN DIET IN PREGNANCY LINKED TO BIRTH DEFECT - Galvanised by the success of the frauds and lies about tobacco and disease, the junk scientists "explore" new fronteers for frauds and persecution. The attack on fat people, fat food and red meat is well on its way, while a new wave of junk science seems to be directed against vegetarians (also, see The Theatre of the Absurd). While the US government wants smokers and the tobacco industry to pay if it fails in its campaign of lies and frauds against smokers and the tobacco industry, new avenues of financial exploitation and individual persecution are explored and implemented by governments and the medical associations, pharmaceutical companies, and "health" organisations that seems to have achieved a firm control of those governments, now reduced to nothing more than parroting marionettes of the health operatives.

FLORIDA SMOKERS FIGHT FOR THEIR RIGHTS BY DESREGARDING SMOKING PROHIBITION Added February 5, 2000 - BINGO PLAYERS HOLD SMOKE-IN AT MOBILE HOME PARK - ' "This is not so much about smoking as it is about our rights," said park resident Teresa Morgan, who helped organize the smoke-in. "They can't just take privileges away from us without asking what we think."

Callahan said he didn't try to stop Tuesday night's protest. "We let them have their smoke-in," he said. But residents shouldn't expect to continue violating the park's new policy, he said.

"We will take the appropriate action at the appropriate time," Callahan said. He declined to elaborate. '

The behaviour of those courageous Florida citizens should be an example for all our readers. The patronising and insolent arrogance of park manager Jim Callahan should also be an example of what the rush of power granted by a corrupt system does to the otherwise insignificant small man. Indeed, Teresa Morgan is an example of how America was, while Callahan represents what America has become.

CLINTON'S NEW PLAN TO ROB BIG TOBACCO (AND AMERICAN TAXPAYERS) ON BEHALF OF BIG PHARMACEUTICALS Added February 4, 2000 - CLINTON'S NEW BLAST AT BIG TOBACCO - The was a time when it was said that America was ruled by the oil companies. That time is gone, and America is now ruled by Big Pharmaceuticals, the new American mobs.

Clinton plans a new assault on the pockets of American smokers, and at the same time plans to enrich Big Pharmaceuticals by nationally mandating that the taxpayers pay for worthless cessation products via Medicaid/Medicare.

The health cartel, financed by the pharmaceutical industry, pulls the strings of American politics much more than meets the eye. The plans for the monopolisation of nicotine distribution by Big Pharmaceutical is becoming clearer evey day.

HOW MANY TIMES WE HAVE WRITTEN A HEADER LIKE THIS? WE HAVE LOST THE COUNT...Added February 4, 2000 - SMOKING BAN IGNITES DEBATE - Yet another ban, yet another debate. Again, we congratulate the valorous fighters, and look at the oppressors with contempt. But yet again, the problem is seen (and fought) when prohibition is literally at the doorsteps and by then, it is usually too late. Because of this attitude, and the refusal to accept that antismoking IS prohoibition, and it IS totalitarianism, smokers who fought for their rights to smoke indoors just a few short years ago, are now fighting for the right to smoke IN A PARK!

England and other European countries were as much responsible for WWII as Germany was, since their blindness gave Hitler the time he needed to consolidate his power and capture the continent. Different times, different and certainly more important issues. But the common denominator is the same: lack of vision, cowardice, indifference, and the complacent hope that the problem "will take care of itself." Motions in society are just like motions in physics: a body propelled by a force maintains motion until an equal and opposite force terminates the body's motion.

A LETTER FROM THE FIRST PROIHIBITION? NOT SO. Added February 4, 2000 - CONTEMPT FOR BAN, CONTEMPT FOR PEOPLE - We link to this letter to the editor because, more than any other example, it describes the resurgence of Puritanism and Prohibition in the words of the prohibitionist himself. Indeed, this piece could have been written in 1928. If there is still someone out there who does not think that this is prohibition, that Carry Nation and her spirit are a thing of the past, this article should convince him/her otherwise. Carry Nation lives.

Gian Turci, our CEO, could not resist the temptation of writing to the editor as well -- something every reader of FORCES could do in this case. Junk science is a new name for an old invention: a tool for the legitimisation of the repression of choice and a justification for the hatred of joy already used to support the First Prohibition, and now used again to support the second one.

Here is a link to the FORCES section PROHIBITION, PAST AND PRESENT. Also, check STATEMENTS ABOUT PROHIBITION IN 1928.

NEW PROPAGANDA FROM CDC ON YOUTH SMOKING CONFIRMS THE FAILURE OF ANTISMOKING EFFORTS Added February 1, 2000 - 1 IN 8 IN MIDDLE SCHOOL USE TOBACCO - U.S. AGENCY - This new piece of propaganda from CDC says that "...The first nationally representative survey of students in grades six through eight found that 12.8 percent of them use tobacco."

My oh my! Such a terrible thing... perhaps it is better if the youth goes towards crack cocaine, alcohol, and other substances that are certainly "less harmful" than tobacco...! The beauty of youth, to the surprise of the anti-tobacco operatives, lies partly in its irrepressible urge to experiment, and anybody who isn't either corrupt nor insane would prefer that the youth experiment with tobacco rather than heroin. And the smoking youth seems to be smart enough to understand that.

It would be interesting, by the way, to have some (serious - ha!) study to establish how many of the nonsmoking youth are addicted to real drugs. No, no, this will not happen: the probable truth may actually come out, that is, that the experimentation with a low-risk substance (tobacco) prevents the experimentation with really high-risk drugs, and that nonsmokers are prevalent users of illegal drugs.

It is by now clear that 50 years of research could not prove causality for any "tobacco-related" disease - not that this matters to CDC or the rest of the sold-out media. The folkloristic belief that "tobacco is no good for you" has been turned into dogma by the systematic corruption of science and institutions.

And (what a coincidence!) in perfect sync with the CDC's latest informational twist of reality here comes the latest "study" from the international antismoking cartel. This study deserves a special place in the bottomless trashcan where antitobacco "science" belongs: