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Pro-active There is no such word as pro-active You can act or react , but you cannot pro-act You may be active or passive , but you can never be pro-active

The Scientific Scandal of Antismoking By J. R. Johnstone, PhD (Monash) and P.D.Finch, Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Statistics (Monash) Science is not always a neutral, disinterested search for knowledge, although it may often seem that way to the outsider. Sometimes the story can be very different. Smoking and health have been the subject of argument since tobacco was introduced to Europe in the sixteenth century. King James I was a pioneer antismoker. In 1604 he declared that smoking was "a custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the braine, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomelesse." But like many a politician since, he decided that taxing tobacco was a more sensible option than banning it. By the end of the century general opinion had changed. The Royal College of Physicians of London promoted smoking for its benefits to health ...

What is morally repugnant is a government that sets-up tax-avoidance schemes and then moans like fuck when people have the temerity to use them. A previous government removed the Inland revenue's duty to only collect that tax which was due ; instead it switched the burden onto the tax-payer. It would therefore seem that it is every citizen's legal duty to avoid tax.

euro crisis...simple solution get rid of the single currency and let sovereign governments re-value their currencies People wonder why in Britain we have a north-south economic divide...simple two different economic systems sharing a common currency, namely the pound...if a small region like England struggles HOW THE FUCK CAN IT WORK IN EUROPE YOU FUCKWITS