<p>California legislators awoke one morning and discovered to their dismay that the Health Reich had overlooked one choice available to Californians not offered to most other Americans. Corrective measures have been taken.</p>
<p>From a reader we are happy to present a brutally frank assessment of the current situation smokers find themselves in and his formula for ending the persecution:</p>
<p>A trip to the grocery store to buy some beer for a party at the local senior citizens center turned absurd when the 77-year-old purchaser was refused service for not providing proof he was old enough to buy alcohol.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">That is the question that we have to ask ourselves when we read what Michael Siegel has to report on the latest absurdity of tobacco control.</span></p>
<p align="justify">It may be news to many readers but swimming with dolphins is an activity that many people enjoy, not only for specific therapeutic benefit, the focus of the article we link to, but also for its sheer pleasure. Pleasure is therapeutic for any human, but it should come as no news at all to regular FORCES readers that <em>anything</em> humans find pleasant, is displeasing to the Anti mentality.</p>
<p align="justify"><img alt="" hspace="4" align="left" vspace="4" src="https://www.forces.org/userfiles/video_button.jpg" />In a big wave from across the Great Pond, our Freedom2Choose friends give a tip of the hat to the hard work and accumulation of scientific evidence at <a target="_blank" href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gdqd8BgcnwE"><strong>Forces international</strong></a>.</p>
<p>This piece from the French journal <em>Le Figaro</em> provides mixed news for those who fight antitobacco.</p>
<p align="justify">A march against the smoking ban in England has seen the participation of 200 protesters.</p>
<p align="justify">Anti telegraphs her message from coast to coast and across the wide flat Earth. If the planet was round we’d all roll off.</p>
<p>A liquor commissioner in Utah is proposing an iron curtain to shield non drinkers from the sight of a liquor bottle.</p>