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Please Don't Poop in My Salad
and Other Essays Opposing the War Against Smoking

by Joseph L. Bast, President, The Heartland Institute
with a foreword by Joel Sherman, President, Nat Sherman International
The Heartland Institute, July 2006

In the series of articles that compose this small book, Joseph Bast uses common sense, real science, and the (almost) lost art of critical thinking to refute and debunk the outlandish claims and comments made by anti-smoking fundamentalists and those who have found great profits in fueling the hysteria.

Where Bast veers from unbiased to biased is when he observes how the sum of this deceit attacks and destroys our freedoms and ultimately our democracy. The slippery slope starts with government making personal choices on your behalf and then using junk science and outright falsehoods to justify their actions. It ends with the total loss of our basic American ideals of individual freedom, personal responsibility, and limited government.

On the subject of freedom, Bast is obviously passionate and his patriotic bias begins to show.

--from the Foreword

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