Who is WHO? Because of the answer, you should adopt the "brace position" suggested by airlines before a crash. Your freedom is about to crash, not into the sea, but into the World Health Organisation’s (WHO’s) propaganda cesspool. You would surely have maintained a healthy distance were it not for the fact that your ministry for health and against freedom, slavishly implements the WHO’s imaginary "obligations". Prepare yourself for a deluge of detritus next week when the WHO meets in India. According to an increasing number of critics, the WHO is reprehensible and dangerous. It spews preordained resolutions designed to legitimise the erosion of lifestyle liberty. It proclaims, contrary to evidence, that healthy alternatives to smoking tobacco (e.g. filters, vaping and e-cigarettes) are unhealthy. It is about to inflict another body blow against your right to control yourself. Superficially, it is about smoking, but substantively about everything. "Why," you might ask, "would the WHO...

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