Second-hand Science:
By Steven J. Milloy. A headline-grabbing study by Health Canada linking breast cancer and second-hand smoke is more a case of Ottawa blowing smoke

Places To Eat And Smoke:
and More Places To Eat And Smoke.

Live Free:
Freedom links and information.

Smoker Arrest In Tobago:
By Victoria Macdonald.A BRITISH woman is suing authorities on the Caribbean island of Tobago after she was arrested, assaulted and thrown in a police cell for smoking a cigarette.

How to Communicate with Journalists:
If media outlets get letters from a dozen people raising the same issue, they will most likely publish one or two of them. So even if your letter doesn't get into print, it may help another one with a similar point of view get published.

Distinguishing Science and Pseudoscience:
PSEUDOSCIENCE displays a remarkable and characteristic indifference to fact. Writers tend simply to make up bogus "facts"-what Norman Mailer calls "factoids"-where needed, instead of going to the trouble of consulting reference works of investigating directly.

We Are Everyday People:

Roll Your Own Magazine: RYO product reviews and editorials.

Without The Smoker There Is No Tobacco Industry : so if it is sued, it is the smoker that pays once again.

Snickers: A Smokers Warning To Snickers Eaters.

From The Mailbag:

FAIR.org *Free and Open to the Public* "The media's misreporting of an American human rights crisis" with Stuart Adams, New York City PoliceWatch & John Hess, commentator & former New York Times reporter. Friday, April 14, 7:00 PM Housing Works Used Book Café 126 Crosby St, NY
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The major U.S. cigarette manufacturers won the transfer to Federal court of a Wisconsin suit charging them with conspiring to fix the price of cigarettes sold in the State. The suit, which seeks class-action status, was filed last month in Milwaukee County Circuit Court, and was similar to several others filed nationwide. It seeks treble damages and other relief, and calls for the creation of "a tobacco health research fund" (AP).

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