<p>Last July 4th we made detailed predictions about how the propagandists would trumpet how successful is the British smoking ban, that we reproduce below (or they can be seen in our archives). We recommended that readers “Save and print this page and consult it in one month time, perhaps even earlier”. Let us compare now, about 50 days later.</p>
<p>The stupidity of attaching pseudo-morality to money is well described in this communiqué by a group of concerned citizens in Windsor, Ontario, about a tobacco investor getting the Heather Crowe Award.</p>
<p>The federal government’s suit against the to tobacco industry is over. Anti-tobacco says the industry made out like bandits while the industry itself mumbles incoherently about moving ahead and being a good corporate citizen.</p>
<p>This “health news” titbit, in which we’re told that a new urine test proves that obese people are not actually reliable reporters about what they eat, deserves comment for a couple of reasons. For starters, it illustrates a major shortcoming of many studies about health and lifestyle (and other matters as well) that rely on people’s memories, perceptions, and honesty about what they have done or experienced.</p>
Yes, in spite of the rabid antismoking campaigns and the proud touting of California’s and Utah’s lowest smoking rates in the world, the lifespan of Americans is far shorter than that of countries where smoking is abundant and their citizens are not persecuted (at least not as much!) by “public Read more…
<p>This blog posting in Surreality Times describes quite well a feeling that all of us at FORCES often experience. <em>This is so disturbing and depressing that I have put off writing about it (or anything, really) for many weeks.’</em></p>
<p>Finally, some Courage and Sanity. After being told repeatedly that the Board of Health is only responsible to "listen to their peers", (meaning the "public meetings" are a farce to keep the public from rioting) this board has used their collective brains to determine that their erstwhile peers are the paid promoters of the junk science.</p>
<p>Nostalgic remembrances usually hark back to better times but in this psychotic era those strolling down nostalgia’s path perversely wish for, and all too often effect, a return to times and practices that normal people remember with horror.</p>
<p>Michael Siegel brings us the umpteenth piece of health obsession: eating a meal at McDonalds, even a "healthy" one, results in the same degree of endothelial dysfunction as 30 minutes of exposure to secondhand smoke! Wonderful, that really means, given the realities of epidemiology, that a McDonalds hamburger can’t hurt you.</p>
According to Sarah Miller, Ontario is awash in toxins. The province has the highest environmental carcinogens released within Canada. That could mean serious cancer concerns for the residents of the province. All this is impossible if we are to believe the Ministry of Health Promotion, that by banning all smoking Read more…