Senate's Smoke-Free Asylum - "In Ken Kesey's 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, later made into a hit film, the story of the oppression of inmates at an Oregon mental hospital provided a hilarious metaphor for the psychological evils of state control and institutional abuse. Under the authoritarian hand of Head Nurse Ratched, the characters are browbeaten into obedience and submission, subjected to shock treatments and lobotomized if necessary. In Canada, we have no need for fictional stories: Real life is often a not-so-funny metaphor for survival in a mental institution. Consider smoking..." - By Terence Corcoran, columnist of The Globe And Mail

Inside Newport - " Anti-cigarette smoking has reached a fanaticism bordering on hysteria. It could be dangerous to your health. To prove that point, this fearless reporter used one of those smokeless cigarettes made of plastic that look like a real cigarette." - By Pat Michael, a reporter from Newport.

Smoke, Junk Science, Lost Liberty - "As of yesterday, City of Toronto health police have the authority under a new bylaw to fine people who commit the latest health crime. The actual penalty for the crime, smoking in a private restaurant, starts at $250 and runs to $5,000 depending on the circumstances. It's a good bet, however, that the new law will go up in smoke before any significant money is collected, in part because of civil disobedience on the part of smokers and restaurant owners." - By Terence Corcoran,
Globe and Mail

Time For A Sober Second Smoke - "What was true of Bill C-51 seems to me equally true of C-71. In both cases, there are severe restrictions on freedom of expression based on naive and unproven assumptions about what makes people decide to smoke. The harm to tobacco companies, to sports and cultural events, is clear and certain. Their right to express themselves freely to their fellow citizen will be trampled." - By William Johnson, Ottawa Sun

A Spoonful Of Sugar Makes The Fascism Go Down - A FORCES Canada reader sends us this remarkable article about the US FDA's sweeping new rules. Read about the melodramatic statements of the most anti-American president of all times. Totally sold to the antismoking cartel and its falsification of evidence, Bill Clinton and its Administration -- the same who imposed the Communications Decency Act -- do not hesitate to walk all over the liberties and the values of what was once a great Country. For the rest of the world, this is a profound example of how easily social values conquered with blood through the centuries can degenerate into persecution when the wrong people are at the helm.

Smokers Sue US Food And Drugs Administration - "The suit has been filed on behalf of the nation's 67,000,000 smokers, and while it is very similar to the one filed a few weeks ago by the tobacco industry, it is different in one very important respect. As of now, no settlement can be reached without the participation of smokers. No more deals unless OUR interests are served."

Smokers -- Unite! - A reader -- Bayla Pernica, writes: "I am a smoker from Toronto and have just connected to the Internet. I am attaching an article I wrote which I believe expresses my feeling on the subject. I would appreciate receiving any mail or other information from you regarding how to get avid smokers in Ontario to stand up and fight for their right to smoke. Any advice you can give me would be much appreciated. Too many smokers here are embarrassed to admit they smoke and have become 'closet smokers' which of course makes the already 'stacked against smokers' statistics even more stacked against us." Thank you, Bayla. Your letter well represents the feelings of so many who write to us in anger and desperation. We are pleased to publish your views.

Plan Now For a 100% Healthy North America In The Year 2000 - Buy A Plot Dig A Hole And Bury Yourself!!! - "I definitely will move to Europe, Asia, The Antarctic, or anywhere else but 'healthy North America'." - By Bayla Pernica

Letter To Science Magazine - By Rosalind B. Marimont, - This letter, written by Rosalind B. Marimont, a retired mathematician and scientist, is criticizing so-called "scientific" reporting with respect to the smoking issue, and the views of certain scientists as published in Science Magazine. Rosalind fights the dishonest war on smoking which has corrupted scientific research and gravely distorted the nation's health priorities.

Good Housekeeping: Bad Journalism - In its November issue, The Good Housekeeping magazine has launched a ferocious attack against smokers, and secondhand smoke. For self-defining "The magazine that America trusts", we can honestly say that we have never before seen so much B.S. in a single nine-page piece. We publish a summary of the article, and the responses of Martha Perske and Gian Turci, president of FORCES Canada.

Smoking Foes No Match for Cigarettes' Universal Appeal - A student's point of view on the universal appeal of cigarettes and tobacco, confirming once again what we knew all along: SMOKING IS COOL!

We Already Knew The Smoking Secret - "...Nicotine wasn't discovered by twentieth century tobacco-industry scientists. Its existence was known by 1571, less than 80 years after Columbus discovered tobacco along with the New World. Nicotine was purified in 1828, and its chemical formula was determined in 1843. The effects of nicotine on the brain were first described over one hundred years ago in the medical literature by British scientists." - By Brad Rodu

Leave Smokers Alone -- It's Their Choice - By Barbara Simpson of the San Francisco Examiner

Puffers Plight Is No Business To Delve Into - Should high schools ban student "smoke pits"? Community newspaper columnist Chris Foulds comments. Courtesy of the Abbotsford News.

Moral Statistician - An interesting and important comment from a distinguished writer. You will be surprised at who (and when) this statement was issued. Timeless and provocative!