August 2007

<p>Seen the latest pharma commercial and just know you must have the latest and greatest Rx?&nbsp;</p>

<p>When the Ft. Greely troops were surveyed in 2005, our troops reported to those asking what was good, bad, or missing from their Meals Ready to Eat (MRE).&nbsp; &quot;Add Tobacco Products&quot; was ranked #16 in the responses, with 16 pages of responses.</p>

<p>The pharmagological benefits of smoking have been acknowledged for centuries.&nbsp; Those Indians weren’t smoking because of a Joe Camel ad.</p>

<p>The unfortunate Canadian nation is continuing its march towards repression, oppression, total control and fundamental moral inversion. Here are the latest examples – and warnings to other countries. Part 1 of 3.</p>

<p>When vehicles plunged into the Mississippi River three weeks ago as a bridge in Minneapolis collapsed, focus turned to the nation’s bridges.&nbsp; When two years ago the levees crumbled in New Orleans the focus turned to the state of the nation’s flood control system.&nbsp; Bottom line:&nbsp; What is the state of America’s infrastructure?</p>

<p>In spite of every effort by mass-media,&nbsp; pushing, as always, the antismoking fraud, it is clear that the Rolling Stones intended to smoke on stage during their last concert in London. The effort of making it look as if what Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood did was some sort of &ldquo;oversight&rdquo; that &ldquo;unfortunately&rdquo; a cameramen picked up and threw on the big screens (was he fired?) is quite clear in this article &ndash; as is the intellectual paucity of those who have to kiss ass for a living. Why is it &ldquo;unfortunate&rdquo; to show a celebrity smoking?</p>

<p><span>A class-action lawsuit against Philip Morris USA has been rejected by the Illinois Supreme Court, for a second time, putting the future of the $10.1-billion case in serious doubt.</span></p>

<p>In a monograph recently released by the Washington Legal Foundation (WLF), social science and public policy analyst <a href="https://www.forces.org/Forces_Articles/columnist.php?columnist=John%20Luik">Dr. John C. Luik</a> injects a compellingly researched and argued dose of reality into the debate over whether food and other products are addictive.&nbsp; As Dr. Luik argues, the term &ldquo;addiction&rdquo; reflects a specific pharmacological condition with specific symptoms.&nbsp; However, over the past several decades, activist-minded academics, government regulators, and private attorneys have manipulated the term to support their policy and litigation goals, to the detriment of sound science and public health.</p>

<p>Last July 4th we made detailed predictions about how the propagandists would trumpet how successful is the British smoking ban, that we reproduce below (or they can be seen in our archives). We recommended that readers &ldquo;Save and print this page and consult it in one month time, perhaps even earlier&rdquo;. Let us compare now, about 50 days later.</p>

<p>The stupidity of attaching pseudo-morality to money is well described in this communiqu&eacute; by a group of concerned citizens in Windsor, Ontario, about a tobacco investor getting the Heather Crowe Award.</p>