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In an article which may be found here, Paul Bedard writes: Newly discovered notes from a U.S. Army interview of former Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler doctors reveal that the madman had homosexual tendencies, did not sleep in girlfriend Eva Braun's bedroom, and was doped up with multiple drugs including female hormones. Written in erratic shorthand, Army interrogator Herman Merl, a Vienna-born medical technician enlisted to interview Hitler's doctors, Karl Brandt and Theodor Morell, scribbled "Homosex" in his notebook where he sized up the mass murderer's sexuality. He then wrote: "Eva Braun = separate rooms" before adding "female hormone - injection...

Anti-smoking lobby steams over report Peter McKnight Vancouver Sun Monday, June 30, 2003 What if I told you there's a group of people who have been blamed for countless thousands of deaths, yet there's precious little evidence of their guilt? "Demand an inquiry," you'd say, "Overhaul the system that implicated them!" But what if I then told you the people are smokers and the thousands of dead were alleged victims of second-hand smoke? "Oh," you'd say, "you're in bed with the cloven-hoofed cabal running the tobacco companies aren't you?" That's precisely the reaction researchers James Enstrom and Geoffrey Kabat received...

SEATTLE, March 7 (UPI) -- When you walk through Seattle's airport, even in the middle of the night, a de-sexed disembodied male voice informs you that "Sea-Tac Airport is a smoke-free facility. Your cooperation is appreciated." This will be repeated several times before you're allowed to retrieve your luggage and escape.Lemme point out something here: we already knew that. We didn't arrive in Seattle thinking, "Hmmmm, there don't appear to be any 80-decibel public address announcements warning against smoking like a Communist Commissar with a bullhorn. I guess we can LIGHT ONE UP."We already know that there is no public...

<p>On Wednesday, the quality of life in Delaware will improve noticeably because every restaurant and bar in the state will become smoke-free. People will be able to work and relax in an environment free of the benzene, formaldehyde, carbon monoxide and 4,000 other chemicals secondhand smoke spews into the air.</p>

Smoker Fumes & Fights Back Defending right to light up By GREG WILSON Daily News Brooklyn Bureau Chief Brooklyn cop Audrey Silk says she is out to arrest the tobacco police — while protecting fellow smokers from unfair taxes and the pariah treatment. Unabashed smoker and cop Audrey Silk's lobbying group has recently taken on the anti-tobacco movement with a complaint to the IRS. In her off-duty time, Silk, 37, founded Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment (CLASH) to stick up for folks who light up. The group recently served a formal complaint to the Internal Revenue Service challenging the tax-exempt...