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We are part of an international organization determined to fight irrational smoking bans, and misinformation about primary, and second hand smoke. For many years now, our government has targeted smokers as the object of psychological persecution, moral lynching, and public apartheid. This affects over a quarter of Canada's population, and it has no precedent in the history of this country. The anti-smoking industry claims to be based on scientific evidence. We are here to prove that this evidence is largely flawed and manipulated. We believe that the real reason for this persecution stems from the wider and much more dangerous tendency of the state to control the personal choice of citizens, just by deeming some choices "unhealthy". Smoking prohibition is just one goal of a much broader policy of state interference in our lives, and it must be stopped. Smoking is a right, not a privilege. While we do not advocate smoking, neither do we advocate the ostracization of a segment of the population based on a widely prevalent view that what they do with their own bodies is unhealthy or undesirable. We believe that tobacco is not a choice to be ashamed of. The issue of smoking choice should properly be seen in the context of the rights of an individual in our society to control his/her own body and destiny. The battle for this control is currently being waged between the state and advocates of individual rights on a number of fronts. We believe that smoking is a human right, and we intend to stop and reverse any anti-smoking policy that does not indicate respect and accommodation for Canada's 6 million smokers.
WHAT'S NEW ON FORCES CANADA
CANADA: TOWARDS A HEALTHY TYRANNY BILL C-71 AS PASSED BY THE HOUSE OF COMMONS The bill is now before the Senate. Note that the enforcement provisions will permit the search of some premises and, among other things, the commandeering of computer files -- all without the fuss and bother of pesky search warrants! Do you still believe that this bill is simply an initiative to protect the health of young people? Fascism has always used the fabric of democracy to implant its cancer and kill the host -- democracy itself. Write to the Senate! - See FORCES Canada Initiatives
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SMOKING AND LIBERTY
FORCES Canada is pleased to direct the attention of our readers to the latest book by Pierre
Lemieux, a thoughtful, outspoken and articulate defender of free choice.
What is all the fuss about smoking as a "rights" issue? Lemieux turns his attention to the tobacco
control debate in Smoking and Liberty: Government as a Public Health Problem, published by
Varia Press of Montreal. Click on a book for more information, and how to order a copy of the English or French version.
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