Monthly Archives: August 2016

Appendix 3 Suggestions

Posted on August 31, 2016 by the archivist

Chris Snowdon has submitted an email to the WHO (appendix3@who.int) in response to the consultation process on their Non-Communicable Disease action plan (which is really just another nine yards of meddling and bullying). I don’t usually respond to these things, … Continue reading →

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Trump Offers To Release Medical Records

Posted on August 30, 2016 by the archivist

Breitbart: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump challenged Hillary Clinton to release detailed medical records, as he continues to raise questions about her ability physical ability to serve as president. “I think that both candidates, Crooked Hillary and myself, should release … Continue reading →

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145-Year-Old Chainsmoker

Posted on August 29, 2016 by the archivist

And the next oldest, Jeanne Calment, was also a smoker. Says it all, really.

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An Army Of Utter Bastards

Posted on August 28, 2016 by the archivist

New Zealand: A lawyer is arguing that subjecting psychiatric patients to nicotine withdrawal lengthens their confinement in institutions. The Supreme Court will hear an appeal in the long-running battle by psychiatric patients to overturn the smoking ban at state-owned health … Continue reading →

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A Zombie Candidate With Undead Bodyguards

Posted on August 27, 2016 by the archivist

Hillary Clinton’s health has been coming under intense scrutiny recently, with several doctors – including Dr Ben Carson – calling for  the release of her medical history and/or a medical examination. Today the Drudge Report headlined a photo of her … Continue reading →

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UKIP Calls For Smoking In Pubs

Posted on August 26, 2016 by the archivist

H/T commenter Sheldon for this Express article: ‘Bring back the GREAT BRITISH PUB’ UKIP wants to reduce alcohol taxes and allow smoking AFTER leading the successful campaign for Brexit, Ukip is embarking on another crusade – to bring back the … Continue reading →

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The Hysteria Continues

Posted on August 25, 2016 by the archivist

The hysteria continues. Look! Someone smoking on a train! Shocking moment man lights a cigarette and smokes it on a Sydney train Man caught on camera puffing away on a cigarette on a Sydney train He can be seen smoking … Continue reading →

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Old Doctors and New Doctors

Posted on August 24, 2016 by the archivist

Lovely sunny day, and in the afternoon I went and sat in a shady pub garden with a beer and a few cigarettes, and thought about the medical profession. In the distant past, 50 or so years ago, the medical profession’s … Continue reading →

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The Litmus Test Of Freedom

Posted on August 23, 2016 by the archivist

I mentioned it last week, and now Taking Liberties has a piece – The war on smoking is a war on individual freedom – on the liberation of Manbij, quoting from an article by Juliet Samuel in the Telegraph: The women are … Continue reading →

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Will We Never Be Free?

Posted on August 22, 2016 by the archivist

H/T Dick Puddlecote for this from the Irish Independent: Will we never be free? Will we always be shackled by the killjoys, the bullies and the eternal-life fantasists of the health lobby? In the last few years, they have managed … Continue reading →

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