<p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">“Novel MRI Technique Shows Secondhand Smoke Damages Lungs”, announces this press release with the implication that, finally, some conclusive evidence that passive smoking “kills” has emerged. Sorry, guys, it is not so – and here are the tricks you used.</span></p>
<p align="justify">Ours is a world where second-hand smoke in parks and on beaches tilts people into hand-wringing concern over the possible repercussions for their health.</p>
<div align="justify">Once upon a time, when amongst fellow doctors one would refer a medically interesting finding or article, it was enough to say where one had read it to get, or fail to get, attention.</div>
<p align="justify">2,300 children were forced to have vaccinations in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Media were not allowed to cover the event.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Amongst the many disgusting things that the fraud-based and morally twisted tobacco control movement is capable of, two take the prize.</span></p>
<div align="justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Verdana;"><img vspace="1" hspace="5" align="left" alt="" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/video_button.jpg" />We are pleased to present another FORCES International Round Table. This time the topic is “attributions” of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome to Environmental Tobacco Smoke. Our discussion raises striking perspectives from three distinguished guests on an abysmal lack of integrity into which health professionals and institutions now very commonly fall.</span></div>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Reading the recent posting on the fines for smoking in the parks of </span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">San Francisco</span><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> – a city, according to the writer of the piece, of “public urination and defecation”, I could not help but laugh at the stupidity of Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier.</span></p>
<p>Companion bills in both the Alabama Senate (SB155) and House of Representatives (HB478) aim to end the disparity of local ordinances by enforcing a statewide ban on <a href="http://www.al.com/birminghamnews/stories/index.ssf?/base/community/1192004827139550.xml&coll=2" target="_blank"><strong>smoking in public places</strong></a>.</p>
<div align="justify">“Get their dander up and our continental cousins take to the streets en masse in protest until they force their respective authorities to listen and negotiate. Now why can’t we do that?”</div>
<p align="justify"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Sandy Szwarc catches up with the latest and greatest in “food education”, that is, <em>forcing</em> people to do what “public health” <em>thinks</em> is good for them. What about locking children up to make them eat what “public health” wants?</span></p>