<div style="text-align: justify">Here in Alabama, we have a chance of nixing the statewide smoking ban which will soon be popping up once again, when the legislature goes back into session in February, 2009.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">France is not exempt from the economic devastation caused by smoking bans. This piece from the politically correct <i>New York Times</i> reports on the leveling effect that the prohibition of the right to smoke is having in France, further aggravating an already precarious general financial situation that goes with the times.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">The turpitude of Tobacco Control cannot and should not cease to disgust any person who still has a moral sense. Tobacco Control has become a squalid metre against which to measure our moral sanity and integrity.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">Prime Minister Stephen Harper shut down the Canadian parliament on Thursday, December 4th, 2008.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify">Now that the United States is blessed with a Commander in Chief who enjoys cigarettes, can smoking again be a signature of the "cool" and "with it"?</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">From the annals of history we know that it takes courage to act in defiance against tyranny. Some of the most heartening examples of courage stem from the most hideous autocracy of the 20th century – Hitler’s Nazi German regime of 1933 to 1945.</div>
The American Civil Liberties Union has produced a map of the "Constitution-free zone" of the United States.
<div style="text-align: justify;">Fornication, smoking joints, shooting up, kids swearing, talking about “dick and pussy,” drunkenness, mad car chases, bloody murder … in the movies, in general, and in particular for the kids, really anything goes — as long as there is no smoking!</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Sad sarcasm by Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independent Party, on the latest and greatest nonsense by the health Nazis: hide cigarettes under the counter, obviously to prepare people for future prohibition by rooting the concept that tobacco is a “forbidden” product – still legal, yes, but barely so and not for long.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">In line with its smoking ban, Amsterdam has discovered the joys of Puritanism and is expanding policies by which "undesirables" are to be eliminated.</div>