Injustice in the UK
Defiant UK hero Nick Hogan has been found guilty on four counts of "allowing people to smoke" and sentenced to six months in prison.<br />
Free Blackberries for Smokers?
CNN is reporting that nearly $1 million of stimulus funds are being used to give out free blackberry phones to smokers.<br type="_moz" />
NRT’s RACKET DENOUNCED
The article "<b>Extending Nicotine Patch Treatment Temporarily Increases Likelihood of Smoking Abstinence</b>", published by <a href="http://www.annals.org/content/152/3/144.abstract">Annals of Internal Medicine</a>, on February2, 2010, <span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span title="prova scientifica dl una strategia di marketing che si nasconde dietro la cosiddetta Terapia Sostitutiva della Nicotina (NRT)1, creata per abbindolare fumatori in buona salute che vogliono smettere di fumare." style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">may be considered </span></span><span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span title="L’articolo "Prolungando il Trattamento con Cerotti alla Nicotina Aumenta Temporaneamente la Possibilità di Astinenza dal Fumo" ("Extending Nicotine Patch Treatment Temporarily Increases Likelihood of Smoking Abstinence"), pubblicato da Annals of Internal Medicine, il 2 febbraio 2010, può essere considerato" style="background-color: rgb(235, 239, 249);"> </span><span title="prova scientifica dl una strategia di marketing che si nasconde dietro la cosiddetta Terapia Sostitutiva della Nicotina (NRT)1, creata per abbindolare fumatori in buona salute che vogliono smettere di fumare." style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">scientific evidence of a marketing strategy that lies behind the so-called Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT)<sup>1</sup>, created to dupe smokers in good health who want to quit smoking. </span><span title="L’impostura è già evidente nel termine "terapia" che implica l’esistenza di una malattia che si intende eliminare." style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The deception is already evident in the term "therapy" which implies the existence of a disease to be eliminated.<br />
</span></span><span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span title="Qual’è la malattia?" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What is the disease? </span><span title="La risposta è "Fumare"." style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The answer is "Smoking." </span><span title="In altre parole, ciò che per secoli è stato considerato abitudine, piacere, vizio, sedativo nei momenti di nervosismo, stimolante della concentrazione, della memoria, dell’efficienza, è stato trasformato in malattia." style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In other words, what for centuries has been considered habit, pleasure, vice, </span></span><span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span title="In altre parole, ciò che per secoli è stato considerato abitudine, piacere, vizio, sedativo nei momenti di nervosismo, stimolante della concentrazione, della memoria, dell’efficienza, è stato trasformato in malattia." style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">sedative</span></span><span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span title="In altre parole, ciò che per secoli è stato considerato abitudine, piacere, vizio, sedativo nei momenti di nervosismo, stimolante della concentrazione, della memoria, dell’efficienza, è stato trasformato in malattia." style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in moments of nervousness , stimulant of alertness, memory, efficiency, has been transformed into an illness. </span><span title="Una malattia inventata dall’industria del farmaco e sostenuta da medici condizionati da congressi e studi clinici finanziata da Big Pharma." style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Disease invented, like the Menopause, or the </span></span><span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span title="Una malattia
inventata dall’industria del farmaco e sostenuta da medici condizionati
da congressi e studi clinici finanziata da Big Pharma." style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">ADHD</span></span><span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span title="Una malattia inventata dall’industria del farmaco e sostenuta da medici condizionati da congressi e studi clinici finanziata da Big Pharma." style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (</span></span><span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span title="Una malattia
inventata dall’industria del farmaco e sostenuta da medici condizionati
da congressi e studi clinici finanziata da Big Pharma." style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder</span></span><span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span title="Una malattia inventata dall’industria del farmaco e sostenuta da medici condizionati da congressi e studi clinici finanziata da Big Pharma." style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">), by the drug manufacturers and supported by physicians, most of which influenced by congresses and clinical studies funded by Big Pharma.</span></span><span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span title="L’impostura è già evidente nel termine "terapia" che implica l’esistenza di una malattia che si intende eliminare." style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></span><br type="_moz" />
"Conspiratorial" Smokers on Sidewalks
Just when you thought you’ve heard all of the laughable ideas that anti-tobacco and the media can spread regarding smokers, the UK’s BBC News has published a gut-buster.<br type="_moz" />
EU: Soviet-style Show Trials for Smokers
Germany’s popular Das Bild newspaper is reporting that a new 31 page report from the European Union (EU) contains recommendations for draconian anti-smoking measures including "sensationalist prosecutions designed to shock the public."<br />
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Oops, birth weights are falling
Much has been made by tobacco control of low birth weights being "caused" by smoking and to back that up they had the fact that birth weights since the 1950’s had indeed been rising while smoking rates had been declining. (B follows A so A must have caused B right?)<br type="_moz" />
Smokers Can’t Have A Happy Marriage (Apparently)
The news article we link to here is an odd one; while anti smoking news headlines are more common than snow in the Arctic this one differs because the headline, – "Dreams Of Happy Marital Life Ruined Through Drinking and Smoking" – is so removed from the article it introduces that it is beyond laughable.<br />
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Failed Tobacco Tax
We link below to a wonderful article in the Hong Kong Standard that highlights perfectly the failures of stealth tobacco taxes.<br type="_moz" />
Keep Turning Left
At a time when the western world is moving ever further towards Marxism and falling over themselves to remove freedoms for our own good Forces Columnist Edmund Contoski takes a look at the slide from capatilism to collectivism that this thinking inevitably allows.<br type="_moz" />
Tobacco Smoke Helps Cancers Grow
Researchers at the San Diego School of Medicine have published the results of a study this week in the journal Cancer Cell, that shows lung cancers grow faster if you expose them to smoke.<br />