<div style="text-align: justify;">Michael Siegel reports that “A U.S. District Court judge for the District of Massachusetts ruled last week that there are sufficient legal grounds for a lawsuit filed by a smoker against The Scotts Company to proceed. The plaintiff — Scott Rodrigues of Bourne, Massachusetts — was fired by Scotts after failing a urine cotinine test.”<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><img hspace="4" align="left" alt="" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/video_button.jpg" />In conversation with a representative of the hospitality industry, a Hawaiian legislator describes bills she is proposing that would permit some accommodation of smokers, what we shall call beginner steps toward sanity.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">In a culture where everything is illegal shame takes a holiday.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Jon Hemminghaus has got the right idea.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Accusing those who disagree with antitobacco of being daemonically possessed by Big Tobacco is an antitobacco industry standard.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">We present another news round-up including a quiz on the final story.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">As it is becoming every day clearer to a growing number of people that the “studies” on passive smoking are trash and fraud, the industry that produces those frauds is desperately trying to create more tangible “evidence.”<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">"I am an internet subscriber to the ‘Natural Health Newsletter’ of a Dr. Mercola. I look at it because it sometimes touches on issues of interest, however, it’s not always accurate, and the commentary can be quite astounding."<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">This piece by Steve Cross at Freedom to Chose asks questions that deserve clear answers.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Both the defiance of smokers and of business owners against the smoking bans and the hatred induced by antitobacco operatives and “public health” against smokers continue to grow in Germany.<br />
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