<div style="text-align: justify">Standing up for yourself as a smoker is difficult. Smokers have been browbeaten so long that passive acquiescence is almost second nature. Pat Nurse realizes that the desire to "get along" is a loser’s game. Better to stand up, even in small matters, and start the process of gaining self-respect.</div>
The New York Times reports a story that is both good news and bad news.<br type="_moz" />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Anti-tobacco’s drive to eliminate smoking is 100 percent successful for 10 smokers in the United Kingdom. Expect the program to be expanded.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">Those are not exactly the words used in Denmark, but they amount to the same thing. Several Danish parties want the “health warning” removed from cigarette packs. Why? The reason is simple: they do not work – actually, they seem to have the opposite effect.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">Cigarette manufacturers who never claimed that their product is a panacea for health are sued on a regular basis on the grounds that their products are harmful to health.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">Canadian journalist George Jonas speaks largely for us – the free, the smokers, the independent.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">The on-going regression of the ability to understand even the most elementary fact never ceases to amaze us, although it may have some logical explanation.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">The deranged, foaming-at-the-mouth British public health/environmentalists are not content to defraud you with epidemiology and tell you how to live your life (and that of your children) down to the slightest detail with their self-delusions of knowledge and wisdom.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">The intrepid Michael Siegel discovered that the U.S. Surgeon General’s office and the CDC colluded on the release of the 2006 Surgeon General’s report on passive smoking.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">There’s a certain poetic justice in this article. Perhaps folks are truly getting fed up with California’s Pristine Clean? Every person complaining in the article sounds like a smoker who has been ostracized. Oh my, this is good!</div>