The ‘Level Playing Field’ Con
<div style="text-align: justify;">It sounds just, it sounds fair, it sounds egalitarian and exciting, but it’s a trap – yet another trap.</div>
Challenge Dismissed
<div style="text-align: justify;">A Federal Judge in Louisville, KY has dismissed a challenge to the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement between the states and 19 tobacco product manufacturers saying there’s no legal basis for attacking the compact.</div>
Was AMA Past President a Closet Smoker?
<div style="text-align: justify;">If smoking is the "cause of cancer" everyone with cancer must be a smoker.</div>
Study: Thinking Makes You Obese
<p style="text-align: justify;">We’re not kidding. Some researchers actually published a study warning that thinking is a health risk, because it can lead to obesity.</p>
Stunning Statistc
<div style="text-align: justify;">Death by medicine.</div>
1st WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST PROHIBITION
<div style="text-align: justify;">At the beginning of May 2008 an important meeting took place in Holland (click <a href="https://www.forces.org/News_Portal/news_viewer.php?id=1091">here</a> and <a href="https://www.forces.org/News_Portal/news_viewer.php?id=1150">here</a> for further information). The meeting ended with <a href="https://www.forces.org/News_Portal/news_viewer.php?id=1087">the signing of the Aldebaran Treaty</a>.</div>
Second hand research
<div style="text-align: justify;">Dr. Gagliano comments on one of the latest products of antismoking junk science propaganda.</div>
Evidence Please
<div style="text-align: justify;">Smoke free laws MAY cut heart attack hospitalizations.</div>
Crackpots and Kettles
<div style="text-align: justify;">Here is the Therapeutic State at its worst. For the public health “authorities” of today, this is the definition of a healthy citizen: “A person waiting to become a patient”.</div>
The Smell of (Excessive) Fear
<div style="text-align: justify;">Commenting on the latest piece of junk science today (third hand smoke), columnist Andrew Phillips makes some sharp remarks on how this pseudo-scientific trash has become more daring and more bold, to the point where the "scientific institutions" that develop these “studies” don’t bother citing funding sources, or even naming researchers.</div>