The aim is not to encourage others to smoke, but to sort out fantasy from fact in the great debate of the freedom of adult individuals to smoke - always with courtesy and consideration for others. The authors acknowledge smoking as a risk factor in cancer; but as only one among several leading predispositions, including heredity, diet, personality, lifestyle, social class and location. They expose the exaggerations and deceptions of the medical mafia and the cancer establishment, and for the first time, show 'passive smoking' to be a totally bogus invention designed to stigmatise smokers. (The bumbling questionnaires on which such mischief is based are here mocked as an elaborate joke.) And for the so-called 'smoking-related diseases', it turns out that most of us are doomed to die of them anyway -- smokers and non-smokers -- generally in our 70s or 80s. Ralph Harris is a life president of the Institute of Economic Affairs. He was created a life peer in 1979. He is a director of Times newspaper, and chairman of FOREST. Judith Hatton was the youngest censor at the Ministry of Information during the Second World War. Since then she has pursued a lifetime of research on a variety of subjects from Ancient Egyptian chronology to cancer and lately, for FOREST, on smoking. W. F. Deeds has been a journalist since 1931 with the Morning Star and Daily Telegraph (Editor 1974-86). He was made a life peer by Margaret Thatcher in 1986 as Lord Deedes of Aldington. _______________________
"This book is a 'must-read' not just for the Smoker's Rights activists, but for the layperson. It is loaded with information useful for our fight against oppression. And it's an invaluable primer to help readers understand that they are the target of the largest avalanche of lies -- promulgated at an unprecedented planetary level -- ever to be foisted on the general public." -- FORCES
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