<div align="justify"><img vspace="0" hspace="4" align="left" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/video_button.jpg" alt="" />Scottish comedian Billy Connolly homes in on the blue-nosed Antis whose precious prohibitions, like those beloved of Carrie Nation and Lucy Gaston decades ago, are once again being ridiculed and defied in the twenty-first century.</div>
<div align="justify">"As a follow-up to my recent piece on the sudden increase in lung cancer cases in the USA I wish to offer FORCES readers a look at the big picture on smoking and lung cancer. A look at the plain figures on smoking and lung cancer since 1950 punctures the myth that smoking is the ’cause’ of or even the major influence on lung cancer."</div>
<p>It has proven impossible to ban smoking in most areas of Missouri. A frustrated prohibitionist has decided to ban everything else.</p>
<p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Times Online of London gives us a short compendium of the worst statistical trash – mainly on health – promptly published by the mass-media without one ounce of verification. The piece almost speaks for itself.</span></p>
<div align="justify">Our regular readers are familiar with Gro Harlem Brundtland. She is a physician, a former Norwegian prime minister, former head of the World Health Organization from 1998-2003, and by all measures a life-long hypocrite.</div>
<p align="justify">Norway was on the cutting edge of anti-tobacco activism, banning smoking there before most European countries did so. A success?</p>
<p align="justify">While career politicians from both parties frenetically crisscross the United States begging for votes as the presidential primary heats up, they should pause and ponder what their potential consituents <strong>do not want</strong>.</p>
<p align="justify">We’ve moved beyond the "dog eat dog" struggle for dominance where at one point the most aggressive and clever gets to be the top dog.</p>
<p align="justify">We’ve only just begun the new year and already a junk study howler has been released that eloquently melds lunacy with ingrained prejudice.</p>
<p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">More bans, this time on food advertisement for children: yes, children are to grow up “straight” in the Health Reich – no fatso “weak links” shall be tolerated amongst the new Master Race.</span></p>