<div style="text-align: justify;"><img hspace="4" align="left" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/video_button.jpg" alt="" />John Baker, Secretary of Freedom to Choose in the UK, has created a heartfelt video tribute to the late Gian Turci.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">From the <i>Times</i> of West Virginia: "If passed — the bill is now in the House’s Political Subdivisions Committee — that would means [sic] that Marion’s smoking ban questionably passed last year would have to be approved by the county commission before it goes into effect.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Longtime smokers’ rights advocate Norman Kjono got invited and disinvited all in a day to be a Key Speaker at the Third Annual Smoking Cessation Conference scheduled for September in Philadelphia.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">From the <i>Times</i> of West Virginia: "Early this week, the West Virginia House introduced a bill to raise the cigarette tax by 66-cents per pack, moving it up from 54-cents to $1.20. The bill also calls to raise the tax on other tobacco products from 7 percent of the wholesale price to 14 percent.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">From the <i>Charleston Gazette</i> of West Virginia: "Since the smoking ban took effect, there hasn’t been a single month that Kanawha County’s video lottery sales eclipsed totals for the same month the previous year, Lottery data shows.</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Our friends at C.A.G.E. of Canada have produced a moving tribute to the late Gian Turci.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><img hspace="4" align="left" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/video_button.jpg" alt="" />Insightful video commentary from Ian, a retired UK physician.<br />
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More interference into our most private place is planned by the same social engineers who brought you the anti-tobacco jihad.<br type="_moz" />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Last week the Obama administration emphatically eliminated the Yucca Mountain site in Nevada for storing highly radioactive nuclear waste.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">Tributes to Gian Turci are appearing across the globe.</div>