The Smoker's Club

More People See Thru Antismoking Extremists Lies Howdy, Issue #348 is now online: http://www.smokersclubinc.com/ 1. Two-thirds of meta-analyses in the critical care literature are of poor quality. 2. Smoking bans cloud free market's ability to thrive. 3. Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights (ANR) Should Stick to Public Health, Not Political Attacks and Smear Campaigns. 4. New Colorado treasurer questions legality of tobacco settlement. 5. Ban Damage. 6. Smoke, coffee seen as weapons From The International Mailbag From The USA Mailbag Your local ban news, editorials, world news, and a lot more! Lots of news in Canada. http://www.smokersclubinc.com/modules.php?name=News&new_topic=58 If you don’t read the Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter this week you will miss: Bar butt-out bylaw banished -AB Hotel Association butted out of smoking battle -SK Ottawa looks for new technology to combat counterfeit and smuggled cigarettes The Queen is crowned -ON Tobacco farm woes gain little sympathy -ON Festival harvests big fun -ON Canmore smoking bylaw butted-AB Rodeo chew ban no shock -AB Waitress speaks out - AB Students co-operative with smoke policy -MB Flue sales to China up in 2005-ON Canada's top court to rule on suing Big Tobacco Agency stops taking money from tobacco, alcohol companies The smoke's gone, but angry fire still burning -MB Farmers' markets fight back -ON Elsie's a Tolstoi institution -MB Three suspects sought in 7-Eleven robbery -SK Legionnaires fear the worst when smoking ban takes effect -ON Bar owners to fight Quebec smoking ban -QC What ban has achieved -MB Listen up, Quebec merchants: Contraband cigarettes are bad -QC Smoking ruling expected Thursday -MB Rothmans stock hit before court ruling Smoking Ban to Cut Gambling Revenue: Report -ON Gov't ignoring its own policy in gaming deal -SK Ban a kick in casinos' butts: Study -ON Yours, Samantha

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The Antis lay out their plans for “fat” next Howdy, Issue #347 is now online: http://www.smokersclubinc.com 1. Bush against constitutional requirement for anti-smoking spending 2. Anti tactics in plain text 3. The Ultimate 'Public Health' Shield 4. Where There's Smoke, There's a Star 5. Nazi medical practices to be topic of lecture 6. FDA after Big Pharmaceutical. From The International Mailbag From The USA Mailbag Your local ban news, editorials, world news. Scotland’s plan to water down smoking ban at hospitals, Meet Jacob Sullum, 58% of people in NJ smoke, Austin businesses sue over ban, Madison bar owners fight, and a lot more! Lots of news in Canada. http://www.smokersclubinc.com/modules.php?name=News&new_topic=58 If you don’t read the Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter this week you will miss: Tobacco Farmers in Crisis propose $1.1 billion buyout -ON Charities pay to work bingo’s -AB Smoking petition falls short -AB Is tourism in crisis?-NS Heavy Drinking, Levels of Stress High Among University Students - Canadian Campus Survey Trampling rights wrong course for smoking ban -AB Smoking leads to the morgue -AB Groups making alternative plans for bingo hall closure Sept. 28 -ON Smoke-free -QC Smoking remains burning issue -MB RHA moves closer to butting out smoking -MB Flue board hires consultant to help with exit strategy -ON Fire verdict due next month-BC Cda's tobacco farmers battle debt, depression as industry hits hard times -ON Adults turn to youths in bid to curb smoking -ON NDP's taxapalooza -MB Mounties probing 'unexpected' death of hospital patient while outside smoking-BC The toil and trouble in our tobacco fields -ON Last year for Canada's tobacco farmers? -ON Bell Centre to become smoke-free environment Sept. 18 -QC Romanow fears `end of medicare' Smoking ban burns clubs -AB Warning: Smoking is a Leading Cause of Vision Loss Welcome to mini Cali -AB Doctor urges trustees to reconsider butt-ban vote -MB Federal grant targets youth smoking -AB WORKPLACE ETHICS 101 Yours, Samantha

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Blue Cross freeing tobacco money, and new issue is out! Howdy, Issue #346 is now online: http://www.smokersclubinc.com 1. Montreal bar owners to challenge Quebec smoking ban. 2. Calculate Tax Impact. 3. Why American Legacy Foundation Claims About the Impact of Its "Truth" Campaign Are Wildly Exaggerated. 4. New Study Shows Melatonin in Walnuts Protective Against Cancer and Heart Disease. 5. Leading cause of lung cancer may be in your home. 6. Vector's 'safer' smoke strategy falls short. 7. Ban Damage From The International Mailbag From The USA Mailbag Your local ban news, editorials, world news. IL town says NO, ME Outdoors, Harrah’s, Trash in OH, VA hospital relents on ban, RJR and the RTDA send Katrina relief, and a lot more! Lots of news in Canada. http://www.smokersclubinc.com/modules.php?name=News&new_topic=58 If you don’t read the Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter this week you will miss: Few male babies born in Chemical Valley community, study finds -ON Two years after fire, suspect's court case splits town -BC "Sleepwalking into disaster": small business delivers wake up call on proposed changes to the Ontario Municipal Act Gun-toting youths to appear in court -NS Finally, the right call -MB Ottawa Routinely Breaks the Law in Treatment of Media Requests under Access to Information, Newspapers Claim Ban urged for all workplaces -SK Sarnia still smoke-free -ON Smokers vent opposition to ban -ON Ontario Youth Group Presses 18A Rating for Tobacco at Toronto International Film Festival -ON Reports on tobacco crop varied -ON Accused describes events on day of fatal fire -BC Does this non smoker not get my point? -AB Businesses suffer under smoking ban, says owners -AB Bear Ban would stop danger -ON Judge reserves wildfire case ruling -BC Killed for a smoke? -ON Contraband cigarettes, pot seized Tobacco ads now outside of stores -ON Jail's no smoking policy now includes tea bags -MB Concert security -AB Montreal bar owners to challenge Quebec smoking ban -QC Yours, Samantha

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Howdy, Issue #345 is now online: http://www.smokersclubinc.com 1. Wales: Critique of the Report of the Committee on Smoking in Public Places. 2. Canadian bar owners to defy law on October 10, 2005. 3. Castaways seafood and Italian restaurant fights Florida 4. American Legacy Foundation Again Fails to Disclose Conflict of Interest 5. "Go Back to Emptying Bedpans - Leave Smokers Alone” We Are Everyday People From The Mailbag Your local ban news, editorials, world news. Lots of stuff going on in WI, Simon Clark’s warning to the UK, Ferrari extends tobacco contract, IL after the EPA, Gwinnett County GA to loosen ban, and a lot more! Lots of news in Canada. http://www.smokersclubinc.com/modules.php?name=News&new_topic=58 If you don’t read the Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter this week you will miss: GOVERNMENT TAKES ACTION TO PROTECT THE HEALTH OF ONTARIANS -ON Anti-pollutant regulation expanded -ON The war on smoking isn't over yet Duff wants smoking snuffed -SK, AB Sweet-smelling solution -MB The Government of Canada responds to Trans-Fat Task Force Interim Report Canadian bar owners to defy law -NL Smoke less (but drink more if you must) -ON Tobacco companies need to butt out of our lives Jasper hotel chain bans smoking -AB Johnstown bingo hall to close soon -ON NDP should force school smoke ban -MB Gas Prices not such a worry as cancer & obesity -ON September 1, 2005 letters -AB Bar profits smoked out -AB RE: Gas Prices not such a worry as cancer & obesity -ON World turned upside down -MB Bylaw cops are smoking out city offenders -AB Bingo Hall numbers Down -AB Landmark hypertension study shows reductions in mortality and strokes Smoking policy baffles -MB New law targets allergy risk -ON YM BioSciences to present results of Norelin(TM) study at Cancer Vaccines/Adjuvants/Delivery 2005 Congress in Lisbon Beaten by butt bummer -MB Tobacco smuggling hearing begins Your cellphone could spy on you Under the G: Greedy -MB Slain man linked to smuggling -ON Yours, Samantha

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Food Police out in force! New issue is online. Howdy, Issue #344 is now online: http://www.smokersclubinc.com 1. Food Police Want To Close Your Restaurants 2. Food Police Nothing To Laugh About 3. The Oreo, Obesity and Us 4. State sues nine companies for failing to tell of carcinogen 5. New Study Concludes that Nicotine Increases Appetite 6. ACSH Petitions EPA 7. The Medicalizing of America 8. Most published research findings may be false. We Are Everyday People From The Mailbag The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter Your local ban news, editorials, world news. Another smoking chimp! Gretchen Wilson, Tobacco Harm Reduction, Siegel, lots of local updates, more places find out that smokers outside because of bans causes litter, (Say it all together now… “Derr!”) and a lot more! Lots of news in Canada. http://www.smokersclubinc.com/modules.php?name=News&new_topic=58 If you don’t read the Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter this week you will miss: Famed artist in fight of his life -AB MP Chuck Strahl diagnosed with lung cancer Health region enforces smoking ban on property -SK Blowing smoke Tobacco ruling may be appealed Appeal tobacco sponsorship decision to highest court, health minister urges Reader shares woes of dealing with WSIB -ON Tobacco grow case resolved -AB Parking and signs missing -ON Tobacco ruling could save Women's Open Ontario government resembles dictatorship -ON Tobacco ruling won't boost smoking Canadian Cancer Society Supports Tighter Smoking Restrictions -BC Smoking is bad, unless it's third-hand or you're a monkey Double standard -MB Gold smoking bylaw too aggressive -AB When in Ottawa, lay off Old Spice Clarification of a Smoker -AB Golf's blowing smoke Smoking ban fight derailed by ruling -SK Billions Sucked Out by Money Grubbers -AB Smoking showdown tonight -MB RE: The right to a smokeless environment -ON Government should buy the tobacco industry BBBS feels the funding pinch -SK Lung cancer risk higher for women Society more tolerant of drug users than smokers -AB Store fined for selling cigarettes to a minor-YK Cigarette Seizure in Sudbury area -ON School smoking ban narrowly defeated -MB Non-smokers can avoid smoking establishments -ON Employees make decision about work environments -ON Smoker's rights group hosting hearing: Mychoice.Ca to Allow Puffers to Vent September 8 -ON Yours, Samantha

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