"Passive Smoking, Scientific Method and Corrupted Science'' by Antony Flew available from FOREST, 2 Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1W 0DH, Great Britain. Smoking is definitely a serious health hazard to the smoker, but second-hand smoke is probably just the latest EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) power play. Flew writes that, "[by the standards employed by EPA in this matter], the EPA could move immediately to ban chlorination of drinking water, order massively expensive reorganization of electricity service lines (because of the speculative dangers of electromagnetic fields), and outlaw diesel vehicles and heating systems that use number 2 home heating oil.'' This is the real danger in this lever against smoking.
Environmental Briefing Book for Congressional Candidates published August 1994 by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, 1001 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 1250, Washington, DC 20036, telephone (202) 331-0640. This is an excellent 70-page booklet providing well-written and accurate briefs on 23 environmental issues. CEI also publishes a wonderful "Federal Disaster Calendar, a monthly compendium of government-sponsored fiascoes, from the idiotic to the catastrophic.'' This is actually a large wall calendar with each month's picture illustrating innovative U.S. government programs.
"Deadly Microbes: Forgotten But Not Gone'' in Civil Defense Perspectives, 10-5 (1994) published by Physicians for Civil Defense, 1601 N. Tucson Blvd. #9, Tucson, AZ 85716. Incidence of infectious diseases is rising and will explode upward if current enviro campaigns against chlorine and pharmaceuticals are even partially successful. Visit an historic old graveyard of your choice for a graphic reminder of the probable results.
