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EXTRA - Velvet Glove, Iron Fist 

Christopher Snowdon's book is now in print.

FORCES readers are familiar with Christopher Snowdon's excellent research which has appeared widely. Chris informs us that his book on the history of anti-smoking, Velvet Glove, Iron Fist, will be formally released on 22 June, and is now available (with free worldwide shipping and inscribed by the author on request) by advance order via his website. . . .

Author Christopher Snowdon has given us a sneak preview of his book Velvet Glove, Iron Fist. It's a must-read for all. Mister Snowdon's website has in the past year offered selected chapters for viewing on the internet. These are most intriguing and we can now say that the complete manuscript meets with highest expectations. FORCES recommends Velvet Glove, Iron Fist, now available via advance order from his website, to smokers and non-smokers alike. We are, by now, all affected by the ever-expanding nanny state, internationally at this point.

This is an important book. Privately published offerings such as Michael J. McFadden's Dissecting Antismokers' Brains and Vincent-Riccardo Di Pierri's Rampant Anti-smoking Signifies Grave Danger: Materialism Out of Control have previously provided crucially valuable perspectives, while Jacob Sullum's lauded For Your Own Good: The Anti-smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health warned a wider audience of a growing menace. Snowdon's book, coming five to ten years after these, confirms all their predictions of unceasing regulatory encroachment into the present, while providing historical perspectives on Puritanical and prohibitionist movements of the past, wrapping all into a compelling view of the "anti" hysteria afflicting our times. Popular awareness of this threat, as the burgeoning activism against it chronicled here at FORCES attests, has finally taken root, and now grows exponentially.

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