|
|
| The most read website on antismoking frauds and politics, with over 4.3 million hits in 2000! |
 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| About us FAQ Help Us Contact Us |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| California Georgia Los Angeles Minnesota NY (em) USA Virginia |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Canada Manitoba (em) Italy New Zealand UK (em) Netherlands |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Flash News Press with Brain News Archive Essay Archive The Absurd Disgusting Eaters Smellers Columnists Bookcase Researchers Science The ETS fraud WHO section Humorous Jackasses Historical files First Prohibition LINKS Art Gallery FORUM |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| How to fight Travel Advisory C.A.G.E Reported to FBI You're Not Alone Cartel ALERT! Translators wanted! |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Smokers' Rights Organizations
Liberty Sites: Organizations and People Cigar Magazines, Clubs & Sites Tobacco Companies & Tobacco Growers Tobacco In The Developing World International List of Fine Restaurants Respecting the Right to Smoke |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Forces, Inc. is a non-profit educational corporation organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Forces, Inc. is in the process of filing an application for charitable tax exemption under Internal Revenue Code 501(c). No ruling on the application is expected for several months. Your contribution may not be tax deductible. FORCES © trademark, logo and original material copyright © 1995-2001 is property of FORCES International, unless otherwise indicated. Original FORCES material may be reprinted or used in any non-commercial form if proper credit is given to FORCES and original intent remains intact. All other material remains property of its creator/owner.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 This
is an antismoking-free site |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
March 30 - And the winner is ......Piggy Thomas! MTV ingénue and smoke nazi wannabe! Fresh from MTV's reality show Road Rules and on her way to a fabulous career in Hollywood, Piggy took a detour to Seattle where she will preside over a "Cold Turkey Weekend Like No Other".
As a former smoker who understands well the coils of tobacco addiction, Piggy's function as a rock to which the addicted youth can cling as well as her non-stop chirpy commentary ensure a powerful video certain to be a box office hit in the tobacco control community throughout the United States and beyond. Her work in convincing new and casual smokers that they are hopelessly addicted could get her great residuals from the pharmaceuticals that are itching to treat teenagers with their nicotine. For buying into the confidence rackets of the tobacco control crowd and wantonly cashing in on her 15 minutes of fame to shill for rigid conformity, Piggy Thomas is an awesome Jackass of the Week.
March 30 - No Touch Policy Bans Playing Tag - What would have resulted in a principal being dismissed 10 years ago, is sadly the norm in the America that futilely seeks to eliminate all risks. By doing so, life as we know is being eliminated inch by inch by our worship of the twin Gods, Public Health and Public Safety. "The reason we stopped tag was because we didn't want them getting hurt. Kids are rougher today, they really are. What we're constantly trying to do is use structured discipline policies and logical consequences to let youngsters know what the rules are." And we entrust our children to the social engineers who don't educate them but waste time on anti-tobacco education, seminars on drugs and condom-on-banana techniques. God forbid they should work off excess energy and get some exercise by a game of tag. Far better they be on Ritalin, sitting quietly and safely.
March 29 - The assault on the tobacco settlement funds continues with a new report that screams we are in an epidemic of female smoking. Those lousy tobacco companies. Not only are the racists but now it is revealed they are sexist to boot. What to do? Send anti-tobacco more money. Meanwhile anti-tobacco sends in a clown to discount the obvious parallels between anti-tobacco and the Nazi Reich. Like all clowns he falls on his face. See INSIDE
March 29 - Where Are The Headlines? - Presumably distracted by the campaign to genderize the war on tobacco, the health hysterics in the media somehow missed some good news for smokers. According to a study from the Netherlands smokers are no more likely to miss work because of respiratory problems than are non-smokers. "Absence with respiratory complaints was not associated with age, height, body mass index, or smoking." Every once in a while good news about smoking is uncovered. The most spectacular was the World Health Organization's massive study that exonerated secondhand smoke as a health risk. The media didn't report that study either. Like Stanton Glantz who won't do a study unless it is guaranteed to produce the results backing up his political agenda, the media will not highlight any good news about smoking. Glantz' biases are understandable since fortunes are being made producing anti-tobacco junk studies but the media is supposed to inform the citizens. When the media report a recycled study that claims smoking causes wrinkles and miss a study that is good news for society but bad news for anti-tobacco the concept of "free" press becomes meaningless.
March 29 - Smoke Crack Not Tobacco - "...researchers concluded that many developmental abnormalities attributed to cocaine exposure ''can be explained in whole or in part by other factors, including prenatal exposure to tobacco, marijuana, or alcohol, and the quality of the child's environment."
To keep the grant dollars flowing, anti-tobacco dictates that every pathology must flow from tobacco. Never mind that there are no quaking, damaged babies born from women who smoke tobacco but eschew cocaine and crack. Never mind that the enormous baby-boom generation was conceived and born when a tobacco-smoking, pregnant mother was hardly a rarity. Never mind that there never was a crack settlement nor is there a crack industry to rape. By its nature, anti-tobacco cannot operate without duplicity but surely this study exonerating crack is a new low for a special interest group that is pure evil.
Building on that corruption of the language, the Centers for Disease Control soon began referring to gun violence and accidents as epidemics and health risks. The drive to subordinate the Second Amendment to the dictates of Public Health is well under way just as smoking evolved from an innocuous pleasure with well-known risks to a personal behavior controlled by an elite that wants to stamp out personal choices. It didn't take long for anti-gun activist medical professionals to incorporate the anti-tobacco techniques utilized for years. Every smoker now expects lectures, overblown scare tactics and constant nagging from doctors. Soon your doctor will include gun ownership in the rapidly growing list of "health risks" that must be eliminated. Jacob Sullum, a perspicacious observer of anti-tobacco coercion, takes issue with the advocates who wish to insert gun ownership issues into medical care. This excellent article spells out the anti-gun doctors' motives and questions just why doctors should be considered experts on every activity that can cause injury.
March 28 - Negative Ruling On Settlement Suit To Be Appealed - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern Division of Virginia dismissed a suit by Star Scientific, Inc. over provisions of the Tobacco Settlement. The judged ruled that the company doesn't have standing to challenge the settlement. One aspect of the settlement that hasn't attracted much notice is a provision that essentially authorizes the four big tobacco companies that participate in the settlement to fix prices which non-participating tobacco companies cannot undercut. This provision was enshrined in each state whereby non-participating cigarette manufacturers must sell their products at the same price charged by the big four even though the small companies owe no settlement payments to the states. The amount that would have gone to the state had the small companies participated is placed in state escrow accounts. Such a provision means that the big four participating companies are now state-sanctioned monopolies. Yet another corruption of the legal and political system by anti-tobacco. Star Scientific plans to appeal and based on comments by the judge it won't be wasting its time in doing so. In addition to continuing its action against the settlement, the company is also working on a cigarette it claims is safer. If true, it is ironic that the same special interests who claim to be so concerned with health threw up huge roadblocks to that goal.
March 27 - New Yorkers Take To The Streets - "Another protester, Joseph Dobrian, a freelance journalist from Manhattan, claimed the current smoking war in New York City is a class struggle between the upper classes and the working class. "The elite feels that it's declasse to smoke," Dobrian said. "They think it's a detestable thing and should be outlawed." "They're [smoke-ban freaks] really not New Yorkers," LoBaido said. "The beauty of New York is it's imperfection. "That's part of the romance of this town," he said. "Hey, this isn't L.A." Great story from the Staten Island Advance about a cross section of New Yorkers marching on city hall to protest Council Speaker Peter Vallone's scheme to turn their city into a vertical Santa Monica. This time the plan to impose a California-type smoking ban on New York is not going as planned. Citizens and politicians realize that the secondhand smoke scar is a scam with no basis in reality. The one sour note from this event comes from an American Cancer Society goon who tells the reporter that secondhand smoke kills 53,000 Americans per year. It's obvious that he is lying since to date absolutely no evidence exits on the planet that secondhand smoke has killed even one individual. Generally unknown is the tidbit that the goon's figure comes from the perpetually discredited Stanton Glantz, the mechanical engineer turned anti-tobacco grant junkie extraordinaire. So outrageous is Glantz' estimate that even the Environmental Protection Agency rejected it. Through persistence and tenacity Wanda Hamilton exposed the American Cancer Society's deceptive use of the 53,000. Read it. It isn't pretty.
March 27 - Rush Limbaugh On The 2nd Hand Smoke Scam - For a great uplift to your day, be sure to check out the comments from the Rush Limbaugh show last week. Limbaugh took on the secondhand smoke fraud and pronounces secondhand smoke harmless. Not news to those of us who have battled anti-tobacco since the release of the Environmental Protection Agency's report on ETS but even though that report has been vacated by a federal judge, many in the public still believe that secondhand smoke is magically a danger to their health. Rush Limbaugh for years has been reassuring the public but his entertaining and informative comments from last week's show are available right now. Check out his website, listen to his comments and enjoy his verbal jousts with those who believe personal freedom ends where cigarettes begin.
March 26 - Anti-smoker
Mayor Pleads Guilty - Under the reign of Mayor Alfred Muller the Maryland village of
Friendship Heights gained international notoriety when smoking was banned outdoors.
Knowing that the secondhand smoke scam couldn't be used to The anti-tobacco enterprise praised the soi-disant progressive mayor, the network talking heads discussed the bizarre law as if it were a serious new step in the War on Tobacco and Muller found himself in the pagers of magazines It's been downhill thereafter for the anti-tobacco mayor and his intolerant village. First a judge prevented the law from going into effect and shortly thereafter Mayor Muller was the subject of headlines he could have done without. On a Sunday in January, Muller, an usher at Washington DC's National Cathedral, found himself alone with a 14-year-old boy who was relieving himself in an adjacent urinal in the cathedral's men's room. The boy was part of a tour inspecting the cathedral. According to the outraged and frightened boy, Muller reached over and grabbed his privates. Exiting the bathroom, the boy told his tour leader about the disturbing incident and security officers attempted to question Muller who refused to halt. The boy told officials that he recognized Muller from a photo that appeared in a People magazine's story about the Friendship Heights outdoor smoking ban. With his guilty plea, Muller is now a registered sex offender and has been dismissed from his ushering duties. A few weeks ago the outdoor smoking ban was overturned and the embarrassed village council announced it would not appeal the judges decision. Incredibly the village of Friendship Heights, so judgmental on smoking, will allow Muller to continue as mayor. Apparently having an infamous child molester representing the village is less of an issue than an honest, law-abiding taxpayer smoking a cigarette in a city park.
March 26 - Angry At American Legacy Lies - A reader writes in about the preposterous claims put forth by the ALF. He takes the con men to task and in so doing concisely enumerates just why the smoking falsehoods are being distributed and just who benefits.
March 26 - The state supreme court dealt a blow to anti-tobacco while an odious legislator aspires to become the most repulsive politician in a state that has completely lost its way. See INSIDE
March 23 - It had to come to this. The health bullies are invading Canadian homes telling the residents how to entertain their guests and relatives. Spewing lies and whipping up hysteria the goons hope to break up friendships and start family feuds. Don't you just love them and aren't they worth every penny of our support? See INSIDE National Cancer Institute
and American Cancer Society give huge sums to a man who advocates political terrorism
against tobacco and its consumers. Hate mongering pays very well.
March 22 - Independent researcher Martha Perske
discovers that over two million dollars have already been paid to Stanton
Glantz for anti-tobacco advocacy, and over 1.5 million is coming. Research money is wasted
in production of junk science, and to enrich the people who promote it. NCI and
ACS actively promote pharmaceutical smoking cessation peddlers, hatred of smoking, and
those who make a mockery of the scientific process for the purpose of antitobacco
terrorism. Stanton Glantz: "...And that's the question that I have applied to my
research relating to tobacco. If this comes out the way I think, will it make a
difference? And if the answer is yes, then we do it, and if the answer is I don't know
then we don't bother. Okay? And that's the criteria." This cancerous philosophy
is what is at the very core of antitobacco everywhere in the world. Does anybody still
believe that antitobacco and its promoters belong to a free and evolved society?
CONFERENCE TOLD GENES INCREASE RISK OF LUNG DISEASE March 22 - "Australian researchers have told a conference in Brisbane that there are genes which increase the risk of lung disease." ... "Professor Michael Abramson from Melbourne's Monash University says knowing about the genetic link is a big step forward in working out what causes emphysema." ... . "I think we've had our picture of the disease distorted by the predominant role of cigarette smoking and I think we need to recognise that as in the case of most human diseases, there's an interaction between genes and the environment," he said." Well, here are the diagnostic options for the patients. If the patient smokes, that's easy: it's all the smoking's fault. If he does not smoke, but he is somehow with a smoker, it is still fairly simple: it's all the fault of your killer companion, and his passive smoke. If the patient does not smoke, and he is not exposed to smoking, finally the truth comes out: we have no idea of what the bloody cause is. Not bad for compensations that may easily reach five hundred dollars per hour. For more on the possible real causes of "tobacco-related" diseases, click here.
DOCTORS
WARN GUNS ARE A HEALTH RISK
CURB
CHILD MOBILE USAGE: EXPERTS
March 22 - Smoking Queen Panics The Anti's - Over the past few years anti-tobacco has become so zany that lampooning its excesses has become impossible. The fanatics are doing such a good job of making fools of themselves that heaping ridicule on them is redundant. From Belgium comes a story of a professor who has published
a theory in the Lancet "As a role model for women, the queen's example could offer an explanation for the unusual mortality in Danish women. Although the negative effect of the Queen's behaviour could be expected to impact on both sexes, it is plausible to assume a greater impact on women. The question arises as to whether Queen Margrethe's behaviour could be a risk factor for population health in Denmark." There is more insane verbiage but the real absurdity is that an anti-tobacco maniac was given money, most likely provided by the taxpayers of the European Union -- the outraged Danes included -- to develop a lunatic theory that despite all standards found its way into a supposedly respectable medical journal. For the laughs it was worth every euro.
March 22 - Anti-tobacco Goes After the Racing Circuit - Proving yet again that state attorney generals just don't have enough to do, a gaggle of them have filed suit against R.J. Reynolds for a tobacco settlement violation. This time the elites are peeved that the cigarette manufacturer, which sponsors the wildly popular NASCAR Winston Cup series, leaves its signs up year round at the race track. The real reason the attorneys general are targeting the race track signs is that they have nothing but contempt for the people who are fans of car racing. The people who know all the names of the Winston Cup drivers do not worship at the altar of public health. They eat too much, they drink too much and they certainly smoke too much. The Surgeon General would be booed at the races and the attorney generals would be reviled for the pointy-headed geeks that they are. On a legal level, RJR and the other participants to the settlement didn't lose their constitutional rights even if they did attempt to sign them away. The attorneys general are guilty of filing a nuisance suit and RJR should tell them to go to hell. Its customers would.
Burning to its own destruction - THE DIMINISHING RETURNS TO TOBACCO LEGISLATION March 20 - In this essay, Pierre Lemieux
explains why a geometrically increasing financial and political effort will be required to
further reduce smoking in the world, and especially in the West
March 19 - "Instant Addiction" Hooking Our Kids On Nicotine - Forces believes that smoking is an adult choice. We also believe that children should not smoke. So it is with both concern and tongue in cheek that we publish a recent letter from Norm Kjono to California's U.S. Representative Henry A. Waxman. Few can forget Rep. Waxman's nationwide publicity stunt on
prime time television a few It should be obvious to responsible parents that teaching kids at school they are permanently "addicted" to tobacco "from the first puff" can only stabilize and expand youth smoking, teaching children they are addicted cannot help them to quit after they experiment. Not to be outdone, Washington State's attorney general Christine, "Queen of Nicotine" Gregoire funds billboard advertisements in Washington State -- just like Joe Camel -- from atop her $200 billion plus stash of tobacco "settlement" revenues, strategically locating the addiction message near schools where kids see it as they travel to and from their classrooms. Looking at the University of Michigan's youth smoking data we at FORCES now question how much lower youth smoking would be today had Henry and Christine not so aggressively sold kids on the idea that they were "addicted" to producing tobacco "settlement" revenues forever. Responsible parents who do not want their children to smoke should write Ms. Gregoire at the Washington Attorney General's Office (1125 Washington St. SE, Olympia, Washington 98504), as well as Rep. Waxman at the U.S. House of Representatives. It seems pertinent at this point to inquire when they will stop selling addiction to kids, in order to assure stable tobacco "settlement" revenue streams for themselves and their special-interest supporters. Then again, perhaps we should not expect an straight answer from Henry or Christine. It was tobacco executives, after all, who said they did not believe nicotine was addictive. When those who tell the truth as they see it are villains, and those who craft false new beliefs in youth addiction to line the pockets of themselves and their supporters at children's expense are heroes, just about anything that rakes in the bucks will do in that political environment. But who would pay Christine's $200 billion-plus tobacco revenue haul five or ten years from now if kids just experimented and then quit smoking? |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Evidence in Your Hands
For the Washington Tobacco Control Bureau gig, Piggy will guide
some lucky teens through the hideous rigors of tobacco deprivation before the all seeing
video cameras recording the ordeal from beginning to end. Should the high school
students eschew tobacco throughout the hellish weekend -- undercover tobacco checks always
a risk -- they will score a passel of goodies presented by Seattle businesses. 
We've all seen
the horrible images of a tiny baby writhing in agony due to the horrors of cocaine
withdrawal. These babies begin life in terrible pain and face daunting obstacles to
their development. You have to have a heart of stone not to be moved by their plight
and angered by the crack addicted mothers who bring their children into the world facing
such odds. Well, not to worry, claims anti-tobacco, it's tobacco, not the crack,
that produces these pathetic babies.
March
28 - 
PROTECTING THE CHILDREN 
justify
a ban on the sooty streets of the urban village, Muller donned the
"for-the-children" halo and proclaimed his ban would protect kids from the
horrible sight of people smoking cigarettes.
medical journal that the Queen of Denmark is responsible for countless and
needless deaths among her female subjects. It seems Queen Margrethe, the beloved
monarch, is an unabashed smoker whose wanton ways are leading her countrywoman astray or
as the professor says:
years ago where he hauled tobacco executives before the House
Commerce Committee, demanding that they concur with his decree that nicotine is is
"addictive'. When we research authenticated youth smoking rate data published
by the University of Michigan, it turns out that Rep. Waxman and his addiction theme have
created more children who persist with smoking after they experiment with cigarettes than
before tobacco control began its self-serving interventions with kids at school. What is
stunning about the University of Michigan's data is that -- thanks in large part to
the efforts of politicians such as Rep. Waxman -- youth smoking persistence has been
restored to levels of the 1970s, creating a perfectly stable youth demand for cigarettes
Joe Camel has not enjoyed in decades.