<p><span style="font-size: 8pt"><font face="Verdana"><img alt="" hspace="2" align="left" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/audio_button.jpg" />Many have heard of the Master Settlement Agreement, but very few realize its size and implications. Perhaps is because the size of the exploitation is so large and the numbers involved so big that it is impossible for the average smoking victim to really understand them.</font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt"><font face="Verdana">There is this concept that a good citizen must obey the law even when he/she does not agree with it. Bad citizens are bad in part because they do not obey laws.</font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt">Question: What do you get when a male snake from Philip Morris climbs in bed with a leading-presidential-contender female snake? Answer: a new litter of venomous anti-tobacco activist baby snakes who promote the idea that children’s health insurance should be financed by Philip Morris customers.</span></p>
<p>Good news for American smokers. For a change, a ‘disposable’ and less wealthy minority – smokers – will not have to finance a richer and ‘non disposable’ majority, the non smokers. Let’s light up a cigar to that! Columnist Norman Kjono gives us the details.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Dr. Michael Siegel, a prominent anti-tobacco activist, sent us this press release. The public needs to learn about the falsehoods that some of the biggest anti-tobacco organizations are spreading throughout the world.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Here we are again: BS statistical projections written by ‘leading’ scientists at the service of ‘public health’ ideology.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">More scientific fraud and ‘creative interpretations’ in </span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">England</span><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> to serve the government’s prohibitionist intents to widen the smoking ban.</span></p>
<p><img hspace="8" align="left" alt="" src="https://www.forces.org/images3/work_in_progress.gif" />The FORCES International portals have been an instant success, exceeding our best expectations. That, in turn, creates technical problems that we are presently addressing.</p>
</strong><p>Anyone having a baby or who has a baby obviously wants to do whatever they reasonably can and should do to give that baby a good life and keep it healthy. But as human beings we all have various imperfections, and as human beings we have to realize that our knowledge — no matter how good it may seem to be at the moment — is also imperfect and might change as new research emerges.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Smokers are truly what blacks used to be in past times: sources of wealth without sharing that wealth, second-class citizens to address with disdain, and “stuff” that can be abused and insulted with a clear conscience.</span></p>