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Happy New Year! Issue #361 is online. Howdy, Issue #361 is now online… READ: http://www.smokersclubinc.com Happy New Year! (Click on the cartoon for a larger copy to print out.) Final Thoughts Before the Holidays: On Pueblo, Parks, and People. By Michael Siegel. A lot has happened and I have learned quite a bit, not only about the anti-smoking movement, but about many of the people who I think we should be trying to serve. Thinking back over the past months, I think 3 things stand out. Swinger Clubs. Smoking? Jurists confirm that there is indeed a parallel to draw between the two cases. This decision could invalidate the Ontario court ruling, since smokers would assemble in a private club knowing that tobacco is harmful to their health, without endangering non-smokers' lives. Lord, save us from nanny state do-gooders pushing guilt about our kids’ diets. By Jeff Dreibus. Now, all of this might not be so disturbing if they were able to prove that there is an actual correlation between the advertising of snack foods by cartoon characters and childhood obesity. 22% Of General Practitioners Think Nicotine In Stop Smoking Products As Harmful As Cigarettes. According to new data presented at the British Thoracic Society (BTS) Winter meeting. NY: Tribe seeks waiver for smoking at casino. USA: Casinos to fight bans. WA: Smoke-filled casinos aren't about to clean our their coffers. 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: Bingo hall's closing a 1-million blow for service clubs, community groups -ON Sweet and sour -AB Dictated by fanatics, fewer pubs -AB Sex ruling is silly Insurance for a smoking bus? -AB Taxes urged on 'fat' food -AB Kids should not use tobacco, pot or alcohol! -ON Blatant dislike of tobacco smoke alters logical thinking -AB Experts take pass on fat tax -AB 'Tis the season to take it outside! Smoke-free homes and cars: protect others from second-hand smoke -ON New hope for a Torontonian that wants to create a club for smokers -ON Ok swingers club, smoking not? -ON Regarding “Smoking ban taking its toll on bingo halls and charities” -AB Butt bus market place at work -AB Move our butts -AB Good luck to smokers making the New Year's pledge -ON Bar owner burned by ban -SK Suggestions on government -AB Restaurants booming: Sales increase despite provincial, city smoking bans -SK Bars Ignoring Nonsmokers? -AB Yours, Samantha

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Merry Christmas! Issue #360 is online. Howdy, Issue #360 is now online… READ: http://www.smokersclubinc.com Our Christmas card to you, and a few words about the "Christmas" Vs "Holiday" issue... and some comedy. CA Raise cigarette tax 300% AND spend 110% of the money! By Michael J. McFadden. So adding it all together they plan to spend about 110% of the money. Teens, Sex, and Cigarettes By Thomas M. Keane Jr. We teach schoolchildren about sex and supply free condoms. So why don't we take the same approach to smoking? (Lifestyle tolerance) Spain: Passes Tobacco Law, But Bars to Stay Smoky. Restaurants and bars over 100 square metres (1,076 sq ft) to set up non-smoking sections next year. Smaller venues have to choose whether to ban or allow smoking on their premises and many owners of small bars, which dominate Spanish night life, say they have never even considered opting for a ban. "SCRAP ALL DRINK DRIVING LAWS" SAYS FREE MARKET AND CIVIL LIBERTIES THINK TANK. By Dr. Sean Gabb. "The current law on drinking and driving is a prior restraint law. We are banned from doing what in itself may not be harmful to others on the grounds that it may in some cases lead to harm. RJR opens trendy smoking lounge in Chicago. "We're calling it a smokers' paradise," he said. The lounge also offers light food, baked goods and a selection of coffee beverages, including lattes and espressos. There are plans to sell alcoholic beverages. The lounge also has cafe tables, leather couches and a fireplace. 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 Yours,Samantha ______________________________ Samantha Phillipe - mailto:info@smokersclub.com The Smoker's Club, Inc. & Video Archive - http://www.smokersclub.com Smokers Rights Newsletter - http://www.smokersclubinc.com Smokers Rights Chats & Forums - http://www.smokersclubinternational.com

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Ban milk in schools? Howdy, Issue #359 is now online… READ: http://www.smokersclubinc.com Scents Does Obesity Justify Big Government? Permission for Pleasure R.J. Reynolds Ends Drinks on Us' Promotion Boycott Miracle-Gro On the Stigmatization of Smokers Stretching the Science to Promote Policy Smokers Are Out in the Cold and Now Out of Work Disgust over 'Maori' brand cigarettes IN: Marshall County smoking ban defeated MA: Boston Globe says WHO goes too far MN: Hennepin Scaled-Back Smoking Ban MO: Nixa aldermen reject proposed ban OH: Cuyahoga Falls Won't Enforce Ban. TX: McAllen smoking ban plans dead. WA: No Ban Enforcement. WA: Yakama Nation Won't Enforce Ban. USA: Smoking Ban Alerts List. 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: AGCO rebuffs bingo bailout -ON Canada's Dodge, 12 Others Will Testify in JTI-MacDonald Case -ON Provincial smoking law will affect Vermilion -AB Bingo Country closing, operator blames province -ON David Dodge and other officials must testify in tobacco smuggling case: judge Bank of Canada governor must testify in tobacco smuggling case: judge -ON N.B. bill green-lights suing tobacco companies -NB Customers speak and hotel chain butts out -AB Dog school is destitute -AB Smoking rules under fire -AB Delhi’s on a roll -ON Klein defends decision to allow smoking in legislature -AB Man fined for illegal smokes -PE Smoking ban to include the Alberta legislature -AB Klein caucus ignores smoking ban -AB Butt out in workplaces: federation -YK Guide-dog charity hopes for funding -AB Smoking debate puts Chamber at odds with City Hall -AB,SK Public butts in; MLAs butt out -AB Norwich council briefed on flue program -ON Kingston hotel makes move to go smoke-free -ON Ponies before dogs -AB Smoking ban makes legislature balconies prime real estate -AB Massive tractor convoy planned -ON Smoking bus one answer to butt ban -AB Should bar owners be allowed to have smoking buses? -AB Smoking policy causes controversy -SK CTV Poll: reaction to smoke Free Hotel Former school transportation used to let smokers light up -AB Store employee punched in robbery -NS Province shows common sense after the publicity -AB Demonizing smokers -AB City checks out smoking buses -AB Group eyes grant -AB School bus for smokers before council -AB Tobacco growers want total buyout -ON Towns start to look at complete smoking ban -AB No butts about it -AB Leaving with dignity -ON Flue industry future up in air -ON Kids learn to butt out at BLAST conference -AB Yours, Samantha

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Chicago, DC, updates and more! Howdy, Issue #358 is now online… READ: http://www.smokersclubinc.com WHO Stops Hiring Smokers Westin hotels ban smoking Secret Knocks and Passwords Michael Siegel: Anti-Smoking Advocate Calls for Censorship of this Blog Canada: C.A.G.E. Essay Contest Winners Smoking in films update Anti-Smoking Tactics Cartoon characters in adults' food fight Austin bars ignore ban Narragansett Indian Smoke Shop Update NO Ban for Florence City, SC 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: Myths hinder efforts to quit smoking Ex-employee lodges complaint about smoking at plant -ON Hospitals' bids to put the lid on lighting up on their property have some smokers fuming -ON Eight Canadian provinces are to sue tobacco industry for healthcare costs Bingo hall revenues go up in smoke -SK Hotel chain tells all guests to butt out Customers speak and hotel chain butts out -AB Not paying attention -AB Legion butting out? -AB Yours, Samantha

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Anti-Smoking Tactics AS tactic #1) Don't debate---distort! If your opponent makes a valid point about flaws in your science, ignore it. Don't even read it. Then, mischaracterize his entire argument. SOUNDBITE: "Oh, I guess if it says secondhand smoke is harmful, it MUST, in your twisted world, be a bogus study." AS tactic #2) Employ, very liberally, the fallacy of question-begging. While you're ignoring the junk-science debate, pretend there is no debate. SOUNDBITE: "Freedom? To do what? Give other people cancer?" AS tactic #3) Spew glib enthusiasm like a brainwashed cultist! Keep repeating cheerful, exuberant slogan-type sentiments about the "smoke-free future"; combine the sunny optimism of Heaven's Gate with the raving of a demagogue mad on world conquest. Do this over & over again. You'll give your opponents a headache. SOUNDBITE: "December 8. No more secondhand smoke in bowling alleys, bars, and restaurants. Yes!!! That will be a great day. I can hardly wait." AS tactic #4A) Insult them! It's very important to hammer home the message that smokers, as a group, are fair game for denigration, insult, and general abuse. SOUNDBITE: "i hope all you smokers get banned ... you are filthy and disgusting ... p.s. you stink." SOUNDBITE COMBINING TACTICS 3 & 4A: "December 8 will be a great day. In fact, I'm thinking about writing to Gov Gregoire to suggest that Dec 8 be made a state holiday. I will suggest calling it 'Smokers Can Kiss My Ass Day.'" AS tactic #4B) Smear them! Waste no opportunity to call your opponent a liar, hypocrite, or shill. Don't say he's mistaken or misinformed---say that he's a deceptive con-artist who's muddying the waters. SOUNDBITE: "So Melle the Deceiver and Gomez the Distorter have been joined by Saprobe the BSer." AS tactice #5) While accusing the other side of lying, spread lies shamelessly and repeatedly. Remember, a lie repeated often enough becomes the truth! SOUNDBITE: "Every credible, peer-reviewed legitimate scientific study has found that secondhand smoke kills." AS tactic #6) Resistance is futile! Take a page from the totalitarians. Promote your arguments on the ground that your side's victory is inevitable. Pretend that political clout is a mark of virtue (in blatant contradiction to all of human history). SOUNDBITE: "States that allow smoking will fall like dominoes, very quickly. No one likes to be behind the times. The ease and speed of passing smoking bans will increase exponentially." AS tactic #7) Link your opponents to the tobacco industry, based on the most tenuous connections. If a bartender has accepted Camel promos, smear him as an RJ Reynolds employee! If a researcher worked at 7-Up while 7-Up was owned by Philip Morris, say that he used to work at Philip Morris---and if someone posts his research, dismiss it as "Big Tobacco-funded." Et cetera. SOUNDBITE: "I think we can now safely store Fuzed's posts in the 'Big Tobacco Bullshit Artist' file." AS tactic #8: Link your opponents to the tobacco industry based on no connections of any kind. So you know nothing about the person you're arguing with. Why let that stop you? Write as if he's linked to Big Tobacco. SOUNDBITE: "Melle is reading straight from his Philip Morris crib sheet." AS tactic #9) If you lose an argument, never fear---just pretend you've won! So your opponent backed up his position reasonably & consistently, with adequate references, and you have nothing to say. Just start saying you won the argument! There may be some inattentive and/or retarded readers who will accept this at face value, and their votes count too! SOUNDBITE: (wait until the argument you lost is a day or two old) "You had neither facts on your side nor debating skills. Simply put, you were out of your league." AS tactic #10) Shoot the messenger. Should your opponent quote the local police chief saying the ban won't be enforced, simply ignore the fact that he's quoting. Treat him as if he, & he alone, invented the idea of non-enforcement. In the same vein, should he quote a prominent epidemiologist who says risks below 100% are "insignificant," ignore the authority of the epidemiologist---treat the whole thing as your opponent's personal opinion. You may succeed in misleading some readers---see #9. SOUNDBITE: "On reading all your angry, defeated, drivel, 'Fuzed', there is only one thing significant enough to be worth knowing. Exactly what are YOUR plans for breaking the law?" AS tactic #11) For God's sake, keep your mouth shut!!! The anti-smoking movement has come this far without ever addressing certain subjects---e.g., the epidemiological weakness of the science, the lucrative smokefree-nicotine market, the fact that nonsmokers' rights groups and Big Tobacco both lobby for the same legislation---and we're not about to start now! If the opposition breathes a word on these subjects, shut up, shut up, SHUT UP! (If you really want to say something, throw them a cheap insult.) SOUNDBITE: " ... " ALT. SOUNDBITE: "What's your agenda? Making sure the air is dirty? Hmm, stupid much?"

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Antismoking Extremists don’t like our new study! Howdy, Issue #357 is now online… READ: http://www.smokersclubinc.com Do Smoking Bans cause a 27 to 40% drop in admissions for myocardial infarction in hospitals? New Study Casts Doubt on Claim that Smoking Bans Substantially Reduce Heart Attack Admissions. When You Don't Like What You Hear, Attack the Messenger - But Don't Discuss the Issues. Press Release. From The Smoker's Club, Inc. More on the Kuneman-McFadden Study. Airbrushing History THE END OF AMERICA? Dissent Not Allowed The busybodies are at it again Ban dogs as household pets? As Noise Rises, So May Heart Risks Head of RICO Trial Team Quits Speed Bumps at the Pharmacy Teens Turning to Cigars Smoking Ban Toll On Casinos 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: Anti-smoking fanatics should just butt out -AB Time has healed PCVS' wound as a 'positive energy' takes firm root -ON Don't use gambling cash -MB In-flight smoke bid ignites ruckus -AB Law Suits Farce in 3 Acts. All provinces likely to join tobacco litigation Health ministry officials criticized -ON City delivers fine to smoking courier -ON And bingo was their name-o -MB Ministry accused of altering papers -ON Health promotion may mean taking parents to court? -AB Timmins prepares to be 100% smoke-free -ON Alberta smoking laws clearing up -AB Province invests in Sudbury's smoke-free campaign -ON New committee snubs smokers -ON Bill 201 details disclosed -AB High price of cigarettes blamed for more robberies -ON Students learn why they should butt out -AB The anti-tobacco legislation of the Charest Government (Bill 112) will have devastating effects on unemployment in the bars industry in Quebec -Bar Owners rally to save this industry Lower Sackville man faces smuggling charges -NS Man who started huge forest fire in B.C. interior in 2003 fined $3,000 -BC Carbon monoxide sickens 20 players and spectators at semi-pro hockey game -QC Yours, Samantha

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