<div style="text-align: justify;">Every fifth cigarette lit in Germany is smuggled. This unsurprising fact comes from the former East Germany, where cigarettes are not criminally taxed as a “therapeutic” offset.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">Former minister of environment for the Nord Rhein Westfahlen region and rabid antismoker Bàrbel Hòhn has been accused of peculation. According to the accusation, Hòhn received unapproved financing without any oversight by the appropriate government agency. There is, in fact, no official record of the money transfer.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">We are glad to present to our readers this addition to our Scientific Portal (in the “<a href="https://www.forces.org/Scientific_Portal/category.php?section=37">The Cost of Non Smokers to Society</a>” section) of the study “Lifetime medical costs of obesity: prevention no cure for increasing health expenditure”, that covers both obesity and smoking.</div>
Barbecued beef main cause of L.A. smog? You betcha.
<div style="text-align: justify"><img alt="" hspace="4" align="left" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/video_button.jpg" />Our readers are sure to appreciate this 1986 clip from the <i>David Susskind Show</i>, a popular US national TV program that ran for decades, which presents some debate on smoking policies.<br />
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A new proposal in the United Kingdom is touted as an iron-clad method to deter smokers from lighting up.<br type="_moz" />
<div style="text-align: justify">Pfizer, manufacturer of the devastating anti-smoking drug Chantix, continues to finance and keep active its “public health” marionettes in Canada.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify">One of the most important achievements of American law was the 1993 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals — a landmark decision that allows judges to set up scientific review panels in federal litigation to keep junk science out of the courtroom. One Daubert panel played a pivotal role in stopping silicone breast implants litigation in federal courts.</div>
Tobacco Prevention is one of the sobriquets the anti-smoking crowd dubs its agenda of prohibition and smoker vilification.<br type="_moz" />
The latest actions of the US FDA against Chantix are well justified, but insufficient. For those who are not yet aware, Chantix is a killer smoking cessation drug <a href="https://www.forces.org/evidence/kill/kill.htm">no different than Zyban</a>. It just kills in a different way. It should be removed from the market as it is an unnecessary drug to treat a non-existing disease.