Welcome to Prohibition Flash News Report. With the caving in of the tobacco industry and the unlimited amount of money supplied to the antitobacco cartel, smokers and their suppliers are the target of the largest-scale persecution in recent history.

The resulting sunami of prohibition is reported in these flash news items, mainly courtesy of the Tobacco Merchants Association.

It is now clear that any proof that the "negative" health effect of tobacco on people are an immense exaggeration and that most of the science damning tobacco is actually junk science is basically useless. The antitobacco cartel no longer pretends to dialogue with those who are opposing its campaign of lies and frauds. Scientifc integrity, truth and honesty are quicky dying along with freedom of choice and political integrity -- if there was ever such thing.

On the other hand, the masses seem to be mainly indifferent to the lies of the cartel which, supported by politicians and obtuse media, are used as an excuse to overtax and persecute smokers in many countries -- and this cancer is spreading. In many ways, this is astonishingly similar to the onset of the First Prohibition of the 1930s. Will it take organised crime to defeat this new Prohibition? It sure looks that way. The bottom line is that it takes criminals to fight criminals. Decent people, for their own nature, usually don't have what it takes.

As prohibitionists are tightening their grip, smoking rates increase in many areas of the world, and even in the US among the youth.

This section of FORCES is a spot documentation on the evolution of the Second Prohibition.

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