<p align="justify">Australian bar owners, stung by smoking bans, are trying to stay alive by promoting newly and often expensively installed beer gardens. Anti’s ears sting when she hears such solicitations. She demands they be silenced under force of the law.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">This is an interesting poll that may indicate a shift in the public opinion, and against lifestyle persecution. But that is not the main reason why we report this to our readers.</span></p>
<p align="justify">The pro-choice advocacy movement lost a strong voice last week. Warren Klass, a brave man who tirelessly promoted reason in the face of mindless fanaticism, died October 22.</p>
<p align="justify">Here we have a textbook example of what many in the smokers’ rights movement would consider a ‘better than nothing’ piece and tend to use it, while instead it should be utterly trashed. This piece is worth the time for a rational analysis of the foundations of the tobacco control scam.</p>
<p align="justify">’Defending legitimate epidemiologic research: combating Lysenko pseudoscience’ is something that all FORCES visitors and all concerned citizens should read.</p>
<p align="justify">Interesting and powerful piece by Elizabeth Whelan on the abuse of science by institutions and the media, emphasising the woes that betide any who buck the party line.</p>
<p align="justify"><em>Skeptic</em> magazine, bucking the standard media bias, has run a good article by Sidney Zion, a frequently harassed but stalwart critic of anti-smoking.</p>
<p align="justify">Here is the great discovery: "drug cravings can be ‘switched off’ by shutting down a key part of the brain." So you should kill your brain to satisfy those who prefer non-smoking to living and to thinking? Keep on smoking or you’ll become like them.</p>
<p align="justify">A denunciation of the fraudulent report of the Surgeon General on the effects of passive smoking on health has been deposited with the Office for Research Integrity in Washington, DC. Several organizations have co-signed the official complaint.</p>
<p align="justify">Overweight persons beware. The Health Reich is after you.</p>