<div style="text-align: justify">German smokers and their supporters continue their fight to regain their rights of choice and citizenship. Recently a demonstration that involved over 1,300 people took place in Berlin. The participants were mostly owners of hospitality locales and wholesalers of liquors. The demonstration took place in front of the Senate Building.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">This year’s presidential election is the most important in decades, so say both of the political parties that rule the United States.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Ryan, a correspondent at Ban the Ban Wisconsin, says: “drastic times call for drastic measures.”<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Give ’em an inch and they’ll take a mile. Although France’s smoking ban is less than one year old the nouveaux prohibitionists there are busy eyeing new terrain to conquer.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">It never ends. In the era of junk science a constant stream of panic is delivered to anxious people expecting the worst.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><img hspace="4" align="left" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/video_button.jpg" alt="" />If the periodic table had been based on questionnaires every person on the planet would have an element named after him.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">A credentialed historian tells us the history of smoking bans, and it isn’t pretty!<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">We report these historical words, for they are immortal and apply to all oppressed, to all targets, to all who are the subjects of "tough love" and behaviour control. They are as fresh today as they were on March 23, 1775. We need to read them again. We need to learn them again. We need to live by them again.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">It looks good at first glance, however, we must be very wary.<br />
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<p style="text-align: justify"><img alt="" hspace="4" align="left" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/video_button.jpg" />We are pleased to present a Round Table discussion on the landmark Aldebaran Treaty. As most of our readers know, earlier this month, representatives of prominent groups that fight antitobacco and Healthism met in the Netherlands for the first time ever, to establish an international agreement and create the International Coalition Against Prohibition.<br />
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