<div style="text-align: justify"><span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)"><font color="#000000">Bucky Covington describes for us the world he (and many others) were born into. It is poignant and meaningful and gives us insight into how far we have come down the road of "progressivism". Read "regressivism"!<br type="_moz" />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">The founding editor of the journal <i>Tobacco Control</i> has succumbed to cancer at age 52.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify"><img alt="" hspace="4" align="left" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/video_button.jpg" />"Christmas at the Snout": that’s the title of this video from the UK, telling the Antis, their ideological friends and neo-Nazi politicians where to go and what they are.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify">A Philippine journalist criticising road traffic complains about exhaust … from tobacco smokers!</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Unquestionably, 2009 is already starting with a volley of frauds and lies by the Tobacco Control establishment. We can safely expect that, this year, the bombardment of false information and trash science on smoking and other lifestyles will increase dramatically.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">Policy makers weighed the "evidence" and came down firmly on the side of Big Drugs and the environmental lobby. Cast aside are the nation’s asthmatics.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">Here is a list of places to go in New York if you want to smoke! They violate the ban and continue to enjoy themselves. List comprehensive through August, 2008.</div>
In an attempt to try and remove a $15 billion deficit facing the state, New York Governor David Paterson has proposed several new taxes and spending cuts, among them a tax on non-diet drinks. The effort would impose a 15% tax on sodas and other non-diet drinks. diet sodas, milk, bottled water, and the like, would not be affected.<br />
<div style="text-align: justify">The US Supreme Court ruled today in a 5-4 split won by the court’s liberals, that smokers may use state consumer protection laws to sue cigarette makers for the way they promote "light" and "low tar" brands. </div>
<div style="text-align: justify">The bankrupt and mismanaged state of New York is looking for a bailout. As always the cash, 62 million and counting, will come from the little people.</div>