An Update From Richard White

From Richard White ............................................

Hi guys,

I just got off the phone to Liz and her husband, unfortunately Philipina 
moved out today but on the plus side the family are just settling her 
into a new home where she's allowed to smoke, so all's well that ends 
well i guess - better there than the nazis eh?

Anyway, regarding the plans to send her the e-cig, Liz was really 
grateful for that and has provided me the new address, i'm sure you can 
understand that i won't be printing it online because it's direct to her 
apartment, so (Kate in particular!) if there are any updates or news 
regarding getting her one, can the person contact me directly and i'll 
sort the address out?

Liz was also grateful for the petition itself and found it bizarre that 
the story was in papers in various provinces - so you can imagine the 
reaction when i told her about all the blogs and multi-national 
signatories! I'm still going to email the petition though, perhaps with 
an extra note notifying them that we're aware of the move but we still 
have a voice. They still need to be made aware that their actions aren't 
tolerable, so i'll just email it over tomorrow (Michael, if you have any 
more names since i emailed it to you please send it back and i'll add 
them to the new ones i got). (Martin, as you asked earlier, i'm 
currently at 80 names, not bad for 3 days i reckon)

Now, i've only emailed the 4 of you because the whole thing went so damn 
out of control that i couldn't possibly email everyone who contacted me. 
So if you could all do what you did before on blogs, groups, emails and 
whatever magic you unleashed, but this time mentioning that it's now 
closed and my inbox can stop being pounded hopefully.

If you do manage to do that, please put a huge thankyou from me, i 
didn't expect it to get so much attention, there's still a lot of caring 
people around and it should give us a lot more hope and determination 
that our fight isn't a lost cause. And also tell everyone to give 
themselves a pat on the back for the hard work, everyone pulled together 
really well and although we didn't get her to keep her home, we still 
united for a good cause so there's nothing to stop us going from 
strength to strength from here.

Cheers everyone
Rich


-- 
Author of Smoke Screens: The Truth About Tobacco
http://www.smokescreens.org
http://www.smokescreensthetruthabouttobacco.blogspot.com

Thanks to Kate from Vaper's Network for sending this to me,and thank you to the 

Austrian Smokers Movement  for reminding me that I have a blog and should use it.

Ranting About The Framework

YouTube - Legislation Against the Tobacco Industry

Depressing.

Makes me wonder when the WHO is finally going to be done.

Do they not see that the things they do affect everyone?

Farmers,elderly people,parents, children?

Every lie costs someone something,not tobacco control of course but it costs everyone else something.

Children are afraid their parents will die in agony and horrific pain,elderly people afraid they will be thrown out of their homes,farmers in the third world afraid they will no longer be able to make a living.

I wonder how many jobs have been lost since so many contries ratified the WHO's framework for Tobacco Control.

Not just jobs lost to smoking bans but jobs lost to the WHO Framework ,I bet the statistics on that would be amazing reading.

Survey reveals doubts over Turkey's smoking ban

Survey reveals doubts over Turkey's smoking ban -

Well there you have it in black and white.

Anything and everything you have heard before about how smoking bans damage economic well being.

It says something when people report that 64 % of non smokers believe that smoking should be allowed in public places.

That is a big percentage of people.

I am so happy to read stories like this,they give me hope even when there is so little of it these days.

Another Charity Boards The Gravy Train

National Families In Action Launches "But What About The Children?" - TheStreet

It's all the same.

Every single one of these groups want to "protect the children".

Protect them from what living?

In this case the all powerful evil enemy is Marijuana,in this case the stuff California is trying to legalize.

"We allowed alcohol and tobacco to be sold for too many years without effective regulation, and we've paid a terrible price in terms of early use, addiction, and all of those deaths," said Rusche. "If policy makers decide to legalize a third addictive drug, it's imperative that we use our 150 years of knowledge and experience to protect our children from becoming the target market of the marijuana industry."

Ya sure,it's the fault of the government for not doing enough to protect us.

Someday and maybe I won't live to see it but someday these people and groups like theirs will no longer exist.

I hope I live long enough for that to happen.

Oddly enough I don't use controlled substances,but I think we should be able to legally use them if we want to.

I have these fantasies of a world where we are treated like adults and no one tries to say what vise is good and what vice is bad.

No one tries to control us or shame us and no one is living off my tax dollars or anyone else's.

Someday I imagine a world where adults are responsible for their own behavior and the behavior of their children.

I like the world I created in my head,I'm only sad I don't already live in it.

Time Is Running Out

A close friend recently asked me why I let all this stuff bother me.
Why I allow myself to be so upset by things I have no control over.
My answer was simple,I love my friends and my family.

I have no desire to see either of them hurt by policies out there that  have the ability to try and force changes on them that they don't wish to abide by.
They are rational adults some of whom have smoked for their entire lives.
My mother and father are both older ,I don't consider them elderly but  some people would.

My Father fought as a marine overseas well before I was born.
My Mother grew up as did I on a farm in the middle of nowhere with cows and pigs for company.
Both of them worked hard my entire life to try and provide us kids with a better life than they had.
I probably forget to mention they both smoke,they smoked my entire life.

Some members of my family smoked until they died at ripe old ages of what doctors would no doubt label smoking related illness.

(I smoked tratitional cigarettes until last year,now I smoke an electronic one oddly enough for political reasons not health ones.)

Smoking Policies in Long-Term Care & Residential Facilities Serving Older Persons

I am however very lucky that both of my parents as old as they are are still quite able to care for themselves.

If they weren't I have no doubt they would be in housing somewhere and I also have no doubt they would be exposed to policies like the ones outlined at the above link.

88 Year Old Faces Eviction For Smoking Indoors

This is just what we allow to happen to our elderly when they don't do what we want them to.

At some point we have to stand up and raise our voices in unity and say enough is enough.

This is someone's mother,someone's friend and someone who at this point in their life deserves better.

I stuck up a quick blog post Sunday to ask that people contact Richard White at his website www.smokescreens.org to add their names to a list of people asking the housing authority to reconsider their eviction.

Please do it,time is running out.

If it were your mother you would want people to stand up and say enough is enough,wouldn't you?

BANNED

Excellent video.
It's sad when the only one's left who tell the truth are independent media,bloggers and comedians.

On Evictions And Letters

I've mentioned Richard White before on this blog.

I greatly admire his book Smoke Screens which is pretty eye opening and reminds me of other well written books in the same genre like Dissecting Anti-Smokers Brains or Velvet Glove Iron Fist.

So when Richard says he has something he'd like to share I pay attention.

I am posting his e-mail to me which I had permission to post:


Hi all, 

This is one of the most important emails I've ever sent to you all and 
it's imperative this gets as much attention as possible. If you are 
unfamiliar with the story, read this link before opening the attachment. 
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/year+woman+told+butt+evicted/3696774/story.html 

The attachment is a letter I have written to be sent to the Housing 
Association in question to urge them to overturn their decision. If we 
can generate enough support and interest perhaps we will have victory on 
this one. Please take a moment to read the letter and add your name at 
the bottom; if you involved in any organisation like CAGE, Forces, F2C 
etc then add that too, and if you know any others who will be interested 
please pass it on to them and ask them to do the same. Once your name is 
added, email it back to me and I'll put each name on the same document. 
Alternatively to signing, just email me back with your name and relevant 
description next to it and i will add it to the letter. This is a matter 
of urgency as I want to send it out during the week. 

If you find any errors in the letter, let me know and I'll amend it. 

Thanks, 
Rich 




If anyone out there is interested in reading and or signing the letter please contact Richard White at his site
www.smokescreens.org  .

Smokers are destroying the planet ... apparently

Smokers are destroying the planet ... apparently

Yes there we go.

I was waiting for what was going to make me mad enough to write again.

Here it is a story so unbelievable that I will say no more.

So What Does That Have To Do With This?

I'm noticing a theme when I look at the things I care about.

Seems like I keep reading the same types of stories over and over again,just change one word and you can see what happens when entities, charities and governments decides a plant is what is wrong with the world.


ICSDP REPORT: US Government Data on Cannabis Prohibition Video

Tobacco Smuggling Detracts From Law Enforcement

The High Cost Of Cheap Smokes

If contraband is, indeed, playing a role in the smoking problem, what to do about it is still a matter of debate. Convenience stores and the major tobacco companies, backed by the conservative Fraser Institute think-tank and other analysts, have pushed for a reduction in taxes, which they say would largely remove the market for cheaper, unlicensed cigarettes.

Health groups reject the tax-cut idea, stressing that the high prices resulting from taxation are a major barrier to smoking, and lowering the levies would only restore market share to sanctioned cigarettes, not address stalled anti-smoking efforts.

Do Anti Smoking Programs Work To Reduce Smoking?

Statistical analysis that I've conducted shows that there is a very tenuous link between cigarette sales and state anti-tobacco spending. At best, spending large amounts of money on anti-tobacco programs seems to produce a trivial drop in cigarette sales — less than a pack a year per capita. States would be better advised to put these resources toward other public health policies that produce larger results.


What are they spending all our tax money on again?
Effective programs to stop illicit activities?


Or just another waste of money that does nothing that anyone could call helpful?
Watch where the money goes.


Seems like more is spent making criminals out of honest people than is spent really trying to help the less fortunate.

End Game

End Game

A F r a m e w o r k f o r I m p l e m e n t a t i o n A p p e n d i x B

End Game.

It's not a word that means much to most people,unless you smoke or use smokeless tobacco or hell enjoy a cigar or a pipe occasionally.

Maybe you like some Swedish snus on occasion,maybe you just use an electronic cigarette.

Maybe the words end game mean nothing to you at all,but they should.

End Game is the plan to end nicotine use unless under regulatory schemes.

It's tobacco control's best idea,a way to take everything away from all of us.

I just vape and use snus,but to these people I am no different than someone who smokes or smokes cigarettes or a  pipe or cigars.

I hope we can get past the us versus them bullshit I keep seeing because eventually all of us who use nicotine in any form will be needed to try and stem the tide of tobacco control's success.

Comprehensive Long Term Nicotine Policy

I should clarify that not all tobacco control people are this draconian but some of them are and their plans are clearly spelled out

Third Hand Smoke

High risk of nicotine transfer from clothing

Another day,another horrible story about nicotine,smoking,parenting and science.

Here again the results were unambiguous: in the laboratory experiment, scientists say the toxins from the cigarette smoke that were dissolved in the perspiration caused massive damage to the skin cells; for example, they changed their shape and even, where the concentration was high, died off. Similarly, nerve cells, which are particularly active during the early stages of development, showed clear changes and were no longer able to connect properly with one another. The Hohenstein scientists are now publishing the results of their work in a scientific journal.

How a baby's skin cell reacts in a lab under controlled conditions isn't exactly how an infant's skin will react to the same conditions away from the lab.

I can't pretend to understand the science behind it but I am pretty sure the immune system plays a role in how our bodies,skin and organs handle toxins on a day to day basis.
It's not that I question the ethics of the scientists it is only that conditions in a lab don't reflect conditions in the real world.

Third hand smoke for those who might not already know it was an odd concept.

Richard White author of the excellent book Smoke Screens has a wonderful post about it on his blog.

When you read about how the research was carried out on this" new smoking catastrophe" I'm sure you won't be surprised,I know I wasn't.

Richard White On Thirdhand Smoke

Sin Taxes

I always seem to be reading something.
99% of the time I wind up reading something about the encoraching nanny state here in America.
Today Google Alerts pointed me to something I think got published on Monday in the Washington Times.


Washington Times Comments

All politicians that promote sin taxes are two faced. They never want you to quit alcohol or smoking, they just use that as a ruse to increase taxes on those products...if they wanted to really get you to quit, they wouldn't bank on the money from those "sin taxes" . 

The story itself was a small mostly angry  rant about how out of touch Bloomberg really is.
He seems to be upsetting constituents on a number of fronts.
But what I took away from that article wasn't the angry person upset about the ground zero victims and their families.

I found the comments section was much more informative and useful to my personal experiences in the world.
The smoking ban alienates a minority group of folks who are indulging in the use of a product that is despite some efforts isn't illegal to use.

No smoking inside,no smoking outside and yet tobacco is still a very legal and extremely regulated consumer product,fully legal to purchase,but where it can be used is being prohibited.

There is always a reason why feel good politics seemingly does something without attempting to stamp out the root cause of the problem.
It always comes down to money.
There is no real concern for anyone's health or welfare.

The comments from the story I read today are what I linked to,not because the story itself wasn't interesting but because the comment left by a non -smoker rings so much truer than anything I have ever read about why feel good politics is so prevalent in the world today.

The Tipping Point

I read an interesting article today in Tobacco Reporter.
It seems like some people are quite worried about contraband tobacco.

Contraband Tobacco

I suppose it's something to have a vaild concern about,if Canada's government were really concerned about tobacco being adulterated and people getting hurt by ingredients that shouldn't be there.

That isn't what they are afraid of though(suprise,suprise) their biggest concern is that with cheap cigarettes being so widely available cheap tobacco might once again become socially acceptable.

"The problem is getting near a tipping point," said Mark Holland, the Liberal public safety critic. "If contraband tobacco becomes too prevalent, it just becomes socially acceptable.... If we cross that line, if we have that tipping point, it will be almost impossible to stamp out."

Is that something to be so afraid of?
It seems like it's a bottom line issue,but it always is.

Cease To Be

There is a reason I love the Cato Institute.
Besides having what I consider reasonable ideas they published an amazing handbook in 2009 that I just started reading.

Cato Institute Handbook For Policymakers:Tobacco

It's called The Cato Handbook For Policymakers.
Included inside on chapter 23,I found this little gem.

As former Commissioner David A. Kessler stated, outlining his concept of FDA oversight: ‘‘Only those tobacco products from which the nicotine had been removed or, possibly, tobacco products approved by FDA for nicotine-replacement therapy would then remain on the market.’’ In other words, cigarettes as we know them would cease to exist.

Truer words were never written.
No one should be allowed to make something they don't like go away.
It doesn't matter how damaging it could be.

Reasonable laws would and could have been applied to tobacco if only cooler heads had prevailed.
Instead you see what happens around the world when someone begins a crusade.
It might begin with the best of intentions but it usually turn into a huge stinky pile by the time all is said and done.

It can and has gone so far as to challenge amendments to our constitution here in America.
In other places it has lead to an odd prohibition of sorts,in some other places it has lead it's leaders to propose an all out ban on smoking,using or buying any tobacco product would be the courageous way to handle things.

What people forget when they impose their will on others is a simple thing,people will do what they want and hurray if it's legal but if it isn't then they will still do what they wish to do.
The path we are headed down is just going to get worse,this is what demoralizing something does.

It hurts people,economies and personal freedoms.
George Santayana said 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'

ep-ology by Carl V. Phillips: Our comments to the FDA re graphical warnings on c...

From voices of reason.

ep-ology by Carl V. Phillips: Our comments to the FDA re graphical warnings on c...: "A bit of a long post, but it would be nice to put this somewhere where a few people will actually read it.... Comment regarding Experimen..."

I am always delighted to read anything by Carl Phillips or the tobacco harm reduction org. people.

I think they are one of very few pro tobacco harm reduction people who write things that make sense.

I agree with alot of what they say and I'm happy to put this on my blog (that no one ever reads) and share it with the world.

Interesting

Christopher Snowdon Interviews Scott Ballin

I love Christopher Snowdon,it's simply an over site that his blog isn't listed on my blog roll on the side of this blog.

It is odd when  you think of tobacco control as a community you tend to think of people who don't want you to have anything.

From some members of the tobacco control community that might very well be true.

There is a small group in the tobacco control community that seeks outright prohibition of both the plant tobacco and the ingredient in tobacco nicotine.

There is also a group that from my obviously limited vision seems a bit more reasonable.

The proponents of tobacco harm reduction seem to be a small group who don't want prohibition of everything outright.

It's strange to see a group have slight differences like this, but it makes for an interesting journey for everyone ahead as they seem to be a minority.

A minority I support but ....................................

Oddly Enough

Baby Steps

I always expect the worst.

I am usually rewarded for that with a news story that makes me either cry at the state we are in or come damn close to it.

Today I read something that made me happy.

For once a small piece of the world  is making sense.

A small victory but I'll take it.

I Was Bound To Bring It Up Eventually

Chantrix/Champix

I don't normally link to a blog with no preview,but this is an exception.

This is the story of Brian,a man who in all probability is another of Chantrix's victims.

There really is nothing wrong with smoking if the alternative is something that leaves shattered lives and devastation in it's wake.

Just read the blog post,I have nothing else to say.

The Ultimate Solution

The Ultimate Solution

Well there you go.

I guess I wasn't as surprised to read this as I thought I would be.

I am only shocked by where this might happen if this resolution is ever passed.

The council’s resolution noted that total bans were the ‘ultimate and courageous solution’ and added, perhaps unnecessarily, that they were ‘unlikely to be popular within the smoking community or with those economically reliant upon tobacco products’.

I read this and my heart skipped a beat,it felt like someone had hit me square in the face.

It feels like I have always been saying this couldn't happen,but there it is in black and white from a wholly credible source.

If you don't like something someone does it's apparently perfectly fine to just fucking ban it.

The idea is a nightmare,but if this is adopted the reality will be much worse.

Hypocrites and liars

If the science doesn't work now how can you justify what you've done with it previously?

 “While acknowledging Mr Labate’s exposure to second hand tobacco smoke and finding no other cause for his lung cancer, the Medical Committee in its decision nonetheless stated that it could not establish with certainty the connection with his professional activities.” 

                                       It's Hazardous Unless You Sue

They have banned smoking just about everywhere,based on studies and testimony of scientists and doctors.

And yet when one of their own a person who went into many smoky pubs on a daily basis on their behalf has taken ill,those statistics they used to justify their own bans go right out the window.

Hypocritical bastards,someone is so ill they can no longer work and they suddenly can't make the science work?

It's amazing,isn't it?

August 13,1919 New York Times

August 13,1919

The link I have up here is for a rather interesting PDF.

One could almost imagine that it was written today,almost.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.--The total abolition of the use of all tobacco within five years is planned by the Women's Christian Temperance Union, according to assertions made today by the Association Opposed to National Prohibitions. 

Even in the early 1900's someone didn't like smokers,someone didn't like drinkers as well.

They planned an all out propaganda war on people who's actions they didn't like.

Not so different from what we see happening around us today.

The slogan nicotine next and it's ideas of child welfare,health and morality and education and information aren't so different from what we see happening today.

The tactics are almost exactly the same,only this time it isn't the temperance movement against people,it's junk science and press releases and bad journalism

Someone you have never met will always be unhappy with how you live your life.
Someone you don't know will always be dissatisfied with the choices you make.

Someone who doesn't know you from a hole in the wall will always be more than happy to force changes onto you,society, business owners, and the law just to stop you from doing something they don't like.

The only difference is that today they have scientists,doctors and the medical community on their side.

It's beyond discouraging.

The Failure Of Drug Policy

Cato Institute's New Podcast

Law enforcement is having a hard time fighting the war on drugs.
It has become a bloody,violent and senseless mess.

The Podcast I linked to features a law enforcement officer who thinks when the"war fails,it's time to bring the troops home".

The war on drugs isn't what we think it is.

T-Mobile And Text Censorship

Text Message Censorship

Such approval is necessary, T-Mobile added, “to protect the carrier and its customers from potentially illegal, fraudulent, or offensive marketing campaigns conducted on its network.”

It’s the first federal case testing whether wireless providers may block text messages they don’t like.

I'm pretty sure this is less about t mobile's not liking the texts and more about who they are from.

After all if a legal  medical marijuana dispensary wants to use your phone service they shouldn't be able to after all where do we think we are America?

I know I am oversimplifying the whole story but the link at the top of this from Wired explains it in much better detail.

LOL!

A great post today on Jredheadgirl 's blog .

A funny and ironic look at The World Health Organization.

It does seem like they don't have their priorities in order doesn't it?

Obesity

Obesity And The Gender Gap

 The study found that obese women were paid lower wages than their normal-weighted counterparts, while obese men did not suffer any salary loss as a result of their belt size.

How fucking pathetic.
Other than that I have no good comments on the new epidemic raging right now.

I know you have all seen it.
It's everywhere,it's the if it looks healthy it must be healthy epidemic and it's racing round the world.

My vision of the future gets dimmer and dimmer every day.
It's depressing that we don't like seeing a fat woman so it's o.k. to pay her less.

Watch out they came for the smoker's first,now it seems everyone is fair game.

Finland Taxing Chocolate

Finland To Tax Chocolate

And the reason for the return of the cocoa tax? It's seemingly got nothing to do with health concerns; "the aim is to increase the revenues from taxes, particularly in order to cover the gap caused by the abolition of the employer contributions to the basic pension insurance scheme," Helsingin says.

Hell I'm just impressed it isn't over "health concerns".

Whoops!

Oopsie

Why does a ten dollar pill get a four hundred ninety dollar markup?
Massive screwup

A doctor emails a drug rep to ask why pills are so expensive.
They get this in return.
Whoops!

Now you know why prescription drugs cost so much.

Pathetic.

Why I Signed The Vienna Declaration

Did You Know The War On Drugs Edition

The Vienna Declaration is a statement calling for the incorporation of scientific evidence into illicit drug policies. Research shows that an over reliance on drug law enforcement has resulted in overwhelmingly negative health and social consequences, yet law enforcement continues to be the dominant policy approach adopted by policymakers, at the expense of more effective public health interventions.

Prohibition doesn't work.
It didn't work with alcohol ,it won't work with tobacco and it certainly isn't working with drugs.

I don't do any drugs except for nicotine and caffeine but even I can see the war on drugs is a huge failure from any way I choose to look at it.

As a society we may have to choose to accept that drug use has been with us since we evolved and it will continue to be with us until we are extinct.
It doesn't mean we ignore it  but it might mean that we have to stop criminalizing what other people do.

There is another way.

Reading The Science Based Medicine Blog

Your Disease Your Fault

Not everyone has “the opportunity for a non-drug recovery”.  As physicians, our job is to use the best available evidence to help all of our patients.  It is not to dispense false promises, fake science, and a heaping portion of blame to those who don’t do everything we tell them to.

I haven't read alot of this blog but what I have read so far I have really enjoyed.
It seems odd to me that there are doctors out there who aren't so quick to slam people for their lifestyles.

Doctors in general seem so quick to tell you that whatever is wrong with you is because of something you have done to yourself,so this blog so far has been a refreshing read.

I'm sure eventually they will write something that upsets me,but so far that hasn't been the case.

Useless Rambling

World Action On Salt And Health


Although I understand the idea behind it,I really feel like we are starting down the same old road.
You remember the one?
Where every single thing we did was oh so reasonably explained away?


Where we got told no about smoking inside a fucking bar or a restaurant or a shopping mall or on a plane?
And we said O.K.,I understand non smoker's might not like it?
And it might be dangerous?
It might hurt innocent people?


That link scares the ever loving shit out of me for a whole slew of reasons.


Not the least of which is that soon we will all fucking live forever in a miserable stepford wife sort of exsistence,conforming and becoming exactly what they want us to be.


No more dancing,you might hurt yourself,think of the medical bills!
No more anything,now take your medically prescribed pills and eat your unsalted diet and exercise the proper amount every single day.
There's a good citizen.


I know I'm rambling but this is what this blog is for,for me to get this out of my system,so sorry for all the useless shit.

Obstacle for tobacco legislation

Obstacle For Tobacco Legislation

Labour MP Iain Lees-Galloway has drafted legislation that would make it illegal for retailers to display tobacco products prominently is stores.

But the Attorney General's report on his Bill has found it is inconsistent with freedoms and rights affirmed in the Bill of Rights as it limits freedom of expression.

I'm sure they'll find a way around all that.

Why let a silly thing like  personal freedoms stand in your way?

After all tramping on everyone's rights seems to be the thing to do when we can "protect the children".

McDonald's Slams Ad Equating Big Macs With Heart Disease

Mc Donalds Slams Ad

This commercial is outrageous, misleading and unfair to all consumers. McDonald's trusts our customers to put such outlandish propaganda in perspective, and to make food and lifestyle choices that are right for them.

The nannies strike again.
It seems quite apparent that some people feel the need to tell adults how they can live.


What to eat,what to breathe,how to exercise.
It's already getting old and I bet we 'ant seen nothing yet.

Cato Institute talks about Black Market Tobacco

Cato Institute On Black Market Tobacco

The problem is that exorbitant taxes in New York state and especially New York City can add as much as $60 to the cost of a carton of cigarettes. No wonder criminals including “organized crime groups with ties to Vietnam, Russia, Korea and China” are getting into the business of buying cigarettes in lower-taxed states and driving trailers full of them to the high-tax states

What shocks me is that people never seem to learn.

Raise taxes too much and people will buy their product of choice elsewhere.

Bootleg tobacco.

Not a phrase I ever thought I'd use.

Ethan Nadelmann on Tobacco Prohibition

Ethan Nadelmann On Tobacco Prohabition


The numbers of people who support prohibition of tobacco is staggering.

One assumes that people don't remember what history teaches us.

There comes a time when common sense should prevail but apparently that time is not yet upon us.