ABOUT SHODDY SCIENCE BY PRESS RELEASE

On our French comment of October 2nd we questioned the findings of a recent Canadian study that was published online ahead of print. It was...

REVEALING THE CATHY BELL HYPOCRISY

For the past two years, a certain “Cathy Bell” has been making “her” presence felt on the Internet. “She” regularly frequented many of the ...

FOR THE KIDDIES...REALLY?

Although our Canadian media have reported plenty about another phase of anti-smoking to be enacted shortly in Quebec and Ontario, we have ch...

ENOUGH WITH THE LIES AND BULLYING

Finally, an opinion piece from a well known and respected writer, Mr. George Jonas , found its way into the mainstream media, the National ...

THE PERLEY VETERAN SMOKING ROOM

An update on the Perley Veteran smoking room (for background see THE PERLEY VETERANS SAGA CONTINUES and ARE PEOPLE RESIDENTS OR INMATES? ...

THE PASSIVE SMOKING SWINDLE

On January 17th, we published in French a link to an interview with Dr. Philippe Even. For those who understand French you can refer to it h...

CORPORATE SHENANIGANS

English translation of the interview Quand les multinationales font de la politique with Pr Robert Molimard , professor emeritus of physio...

NO FAT PEOPLE ALLOWED

Imagine a world where people are told what to eat, what to drink, how to enjoy themselves, and how to behave in general. If they don’t do as...

SCIENCE BY PRESS RELEASE

Sometime ago Dr. Michael Siegel commented in his blog about a practice that he very accurately labeled: Science by Press Release. You can re...

THE PERLEY VETERANS SAGA CONTINUES

First they took down their smoking room as it was no longer compliant and were kicked outside in the elements. Then they were told that a sm...

SLANDER AND IGNORE

Dan Romano and Iro Cyr, C.A.G.E. president and vice-president respectively, were the guests of Maryetta Ables, president of FORCES , for a ‘...

EMBARRASS A SMOKER TODAY !

We have said it since the first day we heard the rhetoric about how smoking bans were necessary for the protection of by-standers: These ban...

FROM THE FORCES MULTI-MEDIA PORTAL

Please read, listen and distribute at will, the educational article and video that FORCES has just produced on epidemiological studies that ...