<div style="text-align: justify;">Since the smoking ban appeared in Great Britain a long-prevailing dicrease of smoking rates has, according to British Gestapo Headquarters (at the National Health Service), been reversed.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">Over one-out-of-five U.S. voters (22%) say the federal government should outlaw tobacco smoking, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Seventy percent (70%) disagree, and nine percent (9%) are undecided.</div>
E-cigarettes are now banned by Australian state government.<br />
<div style="text-align: justify">While any wrinkle appearing in tobacco control’s plan to eliminate smoking is to be applauded, it is vital to thoroughly examine any victory to ensure whether smokers truly have been victorious. Robert Prasker examines Boston’s continuing exemption of cigar bars from the smoking ban and finds the exaltation expressed by cigar bar owners and a cigar magazine naïve, to say the least.</div>
<p style="text-align: justify">Unbelievably, there is a bill in the Dutch parliament which would force mothers deemed "unfit" to take contraceptives and if that edict is defied, the newborn infant will be taken away from them.</p>
It works fine the way it is!
<div style="text-align: justify">Corpus Christi City Council passed a really restrictive ban on smoking in bars, billiard halls and restaurants, despite a huge display of opposition. And once again, special interests take precedence over the will of the people. </div>
A little girl in Florida has been accused of handing out drugs, which are only Hall’s cough drops.
<div style="text-align: justify"><img alt="" hspace="4" align="left" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/video_button.jpg" />Phil Williams talks to pub owners about pub owners – and he delivers a quite serious message.</div>
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We open 2009 for our <a href="https://www.forces.org/Library/">Library Section</a> by introducing two books of interest: “Diet Nation: Exposing the Obesity Crusade” by John Luik, Patrick Basham, Gio Gori and “The Dumbest Generation” by Michael Graham.