May 2008

<div style="text-align: justify;">The law banning sale of foie gras in Chicago restaurants, widely disobeyed, has now been repealed.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">India’s &ldquo;public health&rdquo; establishment long ago sold out to pharmaceutical multinationals. That, unfortunately, makes India typical, as the plague of &ldquo;public health&rdquo; is a world-wide problem.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Jacob Grier is a young man who sees straight through the antismoking fascism. He sees through the passive smoking fraud. He is aware of the economic damages. He works in the hospitality industry.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">At the Cannes film festival American actor Sean Penn lit up a cigarette despite France’s prohibition on smoking inside a building where the public congregates.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Youngsters as young as primary school age will undergo stomach-stapling surgery as the United Kingdom deals with its &quot;obesity epidemic.&quot;<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">It&rsquo;s good sometimes to refresh our memories on Healthist enormities of the past.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Anyone with the intelligence of a ten year old can add 2 + 2 and conclude that smoking prevalence cannot possibly be declining in Canada. Anyone with any intelligence at all has learned to distrust mass media reporting on health issues.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify">By now, we are sure, none of our habitual readers has any doubt that obesity and alcohol are the new targets of the health bastards, but as we get new readers every day, it is important and useful to keep pointing that out, and to keep them informed on the &ldquo;progress&rdquo; of health fascism.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">It had to come. There is a new study. Obesity causes global warming. Keep eating and you shall be to blame for planetary apocalypse.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Finally a government report we can believe in although it didn’t take a study to reveal what all who can see have known for a long time.<br />
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