Joe Camel Is Innocent! - "Somebody seems to have declared open season on cigarette smokers and their suppliers. On behalf of the 25 percent of the adult population that smokes, may I offer a few words in defense of smoking?" - By Joseph L. Bast, president of The Heartland Institute.

Doctors' Orders - A government empowered to maximize "health" is a totalitarian government. - By Jacob Sullum

The War On Drugs Is Lost - A February 1996 symposium from William F. Buckley, Jr.'s NATIONAL REVIEW Magazine. Prohibition simply doesn't work.

Dysfunction Junction - "Welcome to the horror at the end of the line, the logical terminus for a culture in love with its own dysfunction: the Recovery Network, a 'round-the- clock media showcase of addiction and anomie. Currently available only in test markets, this proudly pathological cable channel will go national on April 23. The concept behind cable's newest offering is simple: all recovery, all the time." By Ruth Shallit, in the New Republic.

"This Country Is Hooked On The Notion Of Prohibition" - By Charles Whitebread

Smoking Animals - By Lauren Colby - An excerpt form the book In Defense of Smokers, by Lauren Colby (link provided in this page), describing the pathetic (and inhumane) attempts of the anti-smokers to induce lung cancer in animals through forced smoking. Notwithstanding over 40 years of desperate attempts, they were never successful, not even when the poor animals were exposed to smoke inhalation equivalent to 1,280 cigarettes per day. So far, in spites of lies and propaganda, there is still no direct link between smoking and lung cancer -- other than statistics, the manipulation of which much of this site is about.

Tobacco On Trial - From The Economist - ... The urge to blame someone else for a sorrow you have brought upon yourself is human, but it is irresponsible. It should not be indulged. When their choices do not harm other people, adults must choose for themselves; and, enjoying this choice, they must face its consequences. - From The Economist

The Facts About a New Study on Tobacco and Lung Cancer - Wanda Hamilton of The Sun Network writes a short article to put in perspective the "new" study linking Benzo[a]Pyrene ("smoking") to lung cancer.

When they came for smokers... - A former smoker describes how he has become a "political smoker" in reaction to the New Puritanism. - By L. Neil Smith

In the trenches of the municipal tobacco wars. Smoking Out The Health Nazis - A first-hand report on the public scuffle in Toronto over the city's tobacco ban. In an article published in June, Peter Kuitenbrouwer shows how spirited business owners are giving the health paternalists a run for their money. >From Eye Weekly, Toronto's Arts Newspaper (http://www.eye.net).

The Blunders of SAMMEC - 400,000 Killed by Smoking!? - A former U.S. government mathematician and scientist charges that scientific blunders and a lack of integrity have allowed the anti-smoking lobby to abuse science for political ends. Does smoking cause 400,000 deaths annually? Read on... - By Rosalind B. Marimont

A Nation Of Meddlers - Wonderful article about the social phenomenon of anti-everything - By Prof. Charles Edgley and Prof. Dennis Brisset

Hygiene, Health, Genocide, Kids, and the Digital Revolution - by Dennis Quinn, Ph. D. - Examines how "data-dredging" has been used to spawn an epidemic of public health concerns.

In Defense of Smoking - "In Los Angeles for example, children grow up with a 15% diminished lung capacity, so there must be something in the air other than first-hand smoke. According to the Air Quality Control Board, 1% of the pollution can be traced to cigarettes, which leaves a whopping 99% to other pollutants." - by Otto J. Mueksch, Vice President of the Californians for Smoker's Rights organization.

Pandora's Box: the Dangers of Politically Corrupted Science for Democratic Public Policy - "...The "science" supporting the claims about tobacco's risks to non-smokers is corrupted science, science that has been politically laundered, science that because of its corrupted status actually ceases to be science" - by Dr. John C. Luik, a nonsmoker, Senior Associate of the Niagara Institute.