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<div style="text-align: justify;">A contrived job in San Francisco government pays a very real salary.</div>

<div style="text-align: justify;">We see yet another consequence of antismoking insanity in this powerful <i>Wall Street Journal</i> article entitled &ldquo;Cigarette Taxes Are Fueling Organized Crime.&quot; The more smoking prohibition progresses, the more it resembles US alcohol Prohibition of the ’20s.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">… this piece from the notably uncritical <i>San Francisco Examiner</i>.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Lots of stories of interest are in the news. I present a few here in the &ldquo;news and quiz&rdquo; format you&rsquo;ve seen at FORCES before (featuring a quiz on the final news item listed.)<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><img hspace="4" align="left" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/video_button.jpg" alt="" />No intelligence allowed!<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Yes, it is true: our headline is nothing new. Yet, there are still a lot of people out there who believe that the &lsquo;public health&rsquo; institutions tell us to quit smoking because they are concerned with our health. Na&iuml;vet&eacute; is hard to overcome, but reality is there nevertheless: they tell us to quit smoking because they are paid off by the pharmaceutical multinationals.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Friends in Hawaii send us voting indications on Hawaiian state legislators.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">We re-introduce this long-suppressed document at our new Scientific Portal.</div>

<div style="text-align: justify;">This author visited Minnesota in February, 2008 and gained some insight from her trip to that state.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">When antitobacco passes you a tip, recall how antitobacco earns its tips, then tell antitobacco where to put its tips.<br />
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