Patio smoking ban talk extinguished
<p>Some good news from Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada for a change. A proposal to ban smoking on patios has ended. For now. We report the take of a reader.</p>
Class Action Racketeers III: Dear Senator Baucus
<p>As the presidential election heats up the lockstep unity of the Democratic contenders in their hatred of smokers could negatively affect Democrats nationwide, especially in the mountain states, where the party has made recent gains.</p>
Is drinking the new smoking? You bet: any joy is
<p>As we predicted long ago, right along with smokers and “fatsos”, imbibers are the target of prohibition and junk science – once again.</p>
Who benefits from smoking bans?
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Interesting thoughts of a non smoker who does not like the scent of tobacco but is against smoking bans.</span></p>
The FORCES Multimedia Portal: It’s a Go!
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;"><img hspace="3" align="right" alt="" src="https://www.forces.org/images3/bog_small.jpg" />FORCES International is pleased to present its new Multimedia (MM) Section. The links to the Multimedia portal are now activated everywhere.</span></p>
Update on John Nuttall Fund Raiser
<p align="justify">When FORCES was made aware of the John Nuttall case of surgery being denied by the British National Health Service, a decision was made to contact Mister Nuttall and ask for his permission to do a "John Nuttall Fund Raiser" on his behalf to pay for his ankle surgery privately.</p>
The Anti-social State
<p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 8pt">This interesting piece from Florida addresses an essential tragedy of anti-smoking social engineering: social disintegration.</span></p>
After protests, EU gangsters call for total ban
<p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 8pt">As a reaction to the round of protests against the European antitobacco policy antismoking gangsters want to <em>accelerate</em> the pace. The call now is for draconian smoking bans in the whole of </span><span style="font-size: 8pt">Europe</span><span style="font-size: 8pt"> by 2008.</span></p>
‘Three Drinks a Day Raises Breast Cancer Risk’
<p align="justify">Junk science is such a flexible tool, its application is truly universal. All you need is to choose a target — and let the media spread the lie.</p>
Smoking Wins Popularity Contest
<p align="justify">A place where normal folks can gather socially — whether smokers or non-smokers — to socialize normally was, naturally, the definition of a hospitality venue prior to the dictatorship of Anti. That a nightclub which does its best to approximate normal conditions under tyranny is now crammed to bursting with normal folks of every stripe therefore does not surprise. </p>