April 2008

<div style="text-align: justify;">Ken MacMillian moved from Britain to New York City in 1990. He loved it then. He loathes it now. The smoking ban of 2003 was &quot;the final straw.&quot;</div>

<div style="text-align: justify;">Antitobacco tells us everybody just loves smoking bans, the non-smokers who fear smokers, the smokers who fear themselves, the hospitality business owners who naturally benefit from increased business when forced to toss their customers out the door.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><img hspace="4" align="left" alt="" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/video_button.jpg" />Members and friends of the Danish smokers’ rights group Danmark’s Rygerforening (DaRy) demonstrated at the headquarters of the Danish Cancer Society on Saturday, April 5, 2008.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">The banning mentality is wearing thin.</div>

Here is a laugh-or-cry story from Canada.<br type="_moz" />

<div style="text-align: justify;">Today Chicken Little is the American press.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Britain continues its de-evolution from a serious country to one of increasing absurdity by cranking out yet one more irrelevant report advocating another thread of societal control.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">2008 will continue a trend of global cooling.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">A dedicated reader sends us his commentary on an issue being debated in the Minnesota Legislature.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Reporter John Stossel relates the story of a woman harassed for smoking by her neighbors, a pair of married lawyers, of the type that have gained that profession a dismal reputation in the United States.</div>