SLIPPERY SLOPE? NAH WE MUST BE INVENTING THINGS AGAIN.

So let's see a raise of hands from all those who thought we were wearing tinfoil hats when we said that once you give in to one type of ...

News Digest May 17, 2012

Coffee It’s healthy, it’s healthy not, it’s healthy, it’s healthy not, it’s healthy…according to this umpteenth study on the issue:    NIHst...

MORE PROPAGANDA FROM THE WEALTHIEST NON-PROFIT SOCIETY, THE ACS

A report by none other than the American Cancer Society has found (as to be expected from any tunnel vision anti-smoking organization) that ...

CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST ONTARIO AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS FOR TOBACCO DENORMALIZATION

We interrupt our Summer break once again to bring to you this important invitation from the New Tobacco Alliance Committee to join them in s...

WHO BETWEEN TOBACCO AND ANTI-TOBACCO IS EXACERBATING POVERTY?

Straight from the great masters of public health - the WHO - who in an overflow of limitless compassion and immense concern for these less t...

FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE SMOKERS

We repeatedly warned about the slippery slope once you have allowed government to dictate your lifestyle choices even on unpopular issues su...

ON NE JUGE JAMAIS UNE POLITIQUE À SES INTENTIONS, MAIS À SES RÉSULTATS (NATHALIE ELGRABLY)

L’analyse (ici-bas) de l’économiste Nathalie Elgrably sur le commerce de cigarettes autochtone explique bien pourquoi que ces dernières ont ...

LA CLEF DU PROBLÈME

Les médias ont été inondés d’articles sur la vente des cigarettes bon marché dans les réserves autochtones ces derniers jours. Non pas pour ...

TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION (PART 2)

On March 21st we presented you with a story about how smokers are deliberately left out of every decision that affects their lives and the...

TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION

Although smokers dish out 75% on taxes on every pack of cigarettes they purchase, they are invited to stay out of any decisions taken on the...

CONTREBANDE DE CIGARETTES, LE GOUVERNEMENT SE DÉCLARE IMPUISSANT

En 2002 la Coalition Québécoise pour le contrôle du tabac écrivait : Il faut augmenter les taxes davantage, pas les diminuer. L’augmentatio...

LEGISLATING PLEASURE

Those who thought that because they don’t smoke and are not obese or overweight, all is well in the wonderful world of the health nanny soci...