<div style="text-align: justify;">Abstinence from everything, zero exposures, and a compulsive health fixation lead to good health. Isn’t this what we hear every day? Isn’t this what the sacred ideology says? Isn’t this what "scientific" computer models project?<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">We are singularly impressed by the subtlety of this piece about an unintended German victim of the war against antitobacco.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Smoking is certainly not the only target of pharmaceutically-controlled “public health.” Prohibition of alcohol is once again a priority.<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="" />Candidate Ron Paul’s campaign juxtaposes his position on smokers with that of Mike Huckabee in a video of interest to Americans and to world citizens.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Just read this hate letter to the <i>Edmonton Journal</i> of Canada to get the idea of what Healthism, and journalistic fawning on this hateful ideology, are all about. The title says it all: “Smokers done. Let’s go after the obese”.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">As old people continue to die in Canada because of the smoking ban in nursing homes — tragic victims of a criminal law based on epidemiological fraud — a wisp of humanity seems to have come through the callous Alberta antismoking Reich. Check the odor of it.<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" />A correspondent from England shares his perspective on anti-smoking.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">For a while it looked like coffee had been let off the hook. More recently has come a barrage of junk science “attributions” based on risks as ridiculously low as those of passive smoking (and with the same trashy data gathering methodology) that attempts to paint java as — yikes! — the new tobacco!<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">If somebody still believes that government-driven antitobacco policies are good or smart, he should really read this piece, as the utter stupidity of the Canadian government and its criminal antitobacco policies cannot be better described.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">A French bar owner has gone on a hunger strike to protest the country’s new smoking ban.<br />
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