Oh Jesus, reading the article it just gets worse:

The association included in its journal an article criticizing governmental efforts to encourage people to stop smoking as costly and ineffective and suggesting that the focus on the addictive nature of nicotine is wrong.

“Repeating the message that nicotine is habit-forming convinces some smokers that their habit is not their fault and that they would be silly to attempt to quit on their own,” wrote Michael L. Marlow, a professor at California Polytechnic State University.

Marlow has received grants to study smoking bans from the Philip Morris Management Corp., the parent company of the cigarette manufacturer, according to a note in the journal that accompanies the article

… and worse …

The AAPS opposes peer-review boards, which review complaints against doctors and punishes those who make mistakes, and it is critical of the federal government for charging physicians with crimes for over-prescribing pain medication.

On the group’s Website, Dr. Lawrence Huntoon, a former AAPS president, calls peer review “an insidious and spreading evil which threatens to destroy not only the integrity of the medical profession but quality care for all patients.”

… and what the hell?

The AAPS advances the claim that women who have abortions are at a higher risk for breast cancer, although the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society say there is no such link.

And the group opposes mandatory vaccinations and promotes a now-discredited study linking thimerosal, a longtime component of many vaccines, to autism in children.

They’re like a publisher’s clearinghouse for ridiculous quack-nuttery.