Thursday, March 30, 2006
Howdy,
Issue #374 is now online… READ IT AT: http://www.smokersclubinc.com/
Australia: Smokers should be licensed. "He or she would go along, sit for a test and be given a licence to smoke on the understanding that they knew the risks they were taking." Professor Chapman and other health experts last week gave evidence to an all-party select committee chaired by independent MP Richard Torbay...
Tobacco Control Movement Credibility Starting to Decline as Public Can't Differentiate Legitimate from Far-Fetched Claims. By Michael Siegel. In what I think will be a harbinger of things to come, the first signs of erosion of the credibility of the tobacco control movement are starting to occur.
Governor. Haley Barbour Vetoed a bill that would continue to allow the Mississippi Legislature to give $20 million a year to a private, nonprofit anti-tobacco organization. "The Partnership's argument is to give the Partnership another $20 million and then they'll tell us what they did with the other $100 million. I was born at night, but it wasn't last night," Barbour said.
Philip Morris, Reynolds Win Arbiter's Tobacco Ruling that may allow them to reduce $1.2 billion in payments to states under a 1998 health care settlement. MSA Is Costing States Money Update.
Tobacco Farmers in Crisis Protest
Canada: 24-hour "sit-in" at the offices of Premier Jean Charest
Ireland: Update on People Ban
Scotland: Update on People Ban
UK: Update on People Ban
Beatles' cigarettes erased from box set cover
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Howdy,
Issue #373 is now online… READ IT AT: http://www.smokersclubinc.com
CA: Calabasas clean air Cossacks.
CA: Boycott Calabasas. Print out the graphic to tape on your shirt, purse, briefcase, car, dog, etc... Do not spend a dime in Calabasas.
Canada: The Canadian Auto Workers union is asking the Ontario government to supplement the incomes of hospitality workers who are laid off because of the province's smoking ban and to provide retraining for them.
Medical researchers caught faking it. More than a dozen scientists and doctors, several of them recipients of sizable federal grants, have been faking research, destroying data, plagiarizing or conducting experiments on people without necessary ethics approvals, the country's lead research agencies report.
The 20-30 Minutes Fiasco: Why Anti-Smoking Groups Providing Inaccurate Health Information is Unethical. By Michael Siegel. ...values which cannot and should not be trodden upon by public health organizations in free societies simply to promote a favored policy.
CSPI Busybodies or tyrants? By Walter Williams. ... concerned about smokers passing on bad habits to our youth, might call for an ordinance banning public appearance of obese people so as not to pass bad eating habits on to our children.
AND International News, State and Local News, and Updates!
Yours,
Samantha
CA: Calabasas clean air Cossacks.
CA: Boycott Calabasas. Print out the graphic to tape on your shirt, purse, briefcase, car, dog, etc... Do not spend a dime in Calabasas.
Canada: The Canadian Auto Workers union is asking the Ontario government to supplement the incomes of hospitality workers who are laid off because of the province's smoking ban and to provide retraining for them.
Medical researchers caught faking it. More than a dozen scientists and doctors, several of them recipients of sizable federal grants, have been faking research, destroying data, plagiarizing or conducting experiments on people without necessary ethics approvals, the country's lead research agencies report.
The 20-30 Minutes Fiasco: Why Anti-Smoking Groups Providing Inaccurate Health Information is Unethical. By Michael Siegel. ...values which cannot and should not be trodden upon by public health organizations in free societies simply to promote a favored policy.
CSPI Busybodies or tyrants? By Walter Williams. ... concerned about smokers passing on bad habits to our youth, might call for an ordinance banning public appearance of obese people so as not to pass bad eating habits on to our children.
AND International News, State and Local News, and Updates!
Yours,
Samantha
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Howdy,
Issue #372 is now online… READ IT AT: http://www.smokersclubinc.com
MSA Is Costing States Money. The A.G.s are crowing and bragging about their success, while the state DOR's are panicking! More and more smokers are making their own cigarettes and the black market is flourishing too.
ME: This could leave the state with a short-term cash flow problem for funding programs now supported by tobacco settlement dollars.
SC: Possible $15M shortfall could hurt state budget.
UT: Tobacco payments to Utah may drop.
Internet Sales Update. Amendments to Contraband Cigarette Trafficking Act. USA: USPS on Tobacco Shipments.
National Anti-Smoking Group Claims to be Only National Anti-Smoking Group. By Michael Siegel. Where has honesty and humility, accuracy and scientific integrity gone in the tobacco control movement? It seems to have been sucked into the black hole of money, desire for recognition, and fanaticism.
Forget 30 Minutes; Anti-Smoking Group Claims 20 Minutes of Secondhand Smoke Exposure Increases Heart Attack Risk. 10 minutes? Anybody?
What Are They Waiting For? Tobacco Companies Should Claim that Smoking Presents No More Risk of Heart Attacks than Brief Secondhand Smoke Exposure.
Dangers of Air. EPA Whips Up Air Pollution Scare. By Steven Milloy. So why claim such a certain connection between soot and health when the data and study method are so deficient?
Dangers of Car Scents. Meanwhile, roll down windows. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers and phthalates, which are used in seat cushions, arm rests, floor coverings and other plastic car parts, are main sources.
Dangers of Coffee. Genes determine coffee-related heart attack.
Dangers of Depleted Uranium. US Lung Cancer Rates Soar. By Karl W B Schwarz. They know and they are terrified on both sides of the aisle of a paper trail of evidence being created.
Dangers of Fat. Obesity Epidemic Continues to Worsen in the United States. Over eight in 10 U.S. adults are overweight...
Dangers of Radon. These particles will emit radioactivity and can damage lung tissue, causing cancer.
AND International News, State and Local News, and Updates!
Yours,
Samantha
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Friday, March 10, 2006
Howdy,
Issue #371 is now online… READ IT AT: http://www.smokersclubinc.com/
Surgeon General: Obesity Could Dwarf Terrorism Threat. Lowering the nation's obesity rate depends on changing behaviors, but too many Americans are health illiterate, meaning they cannot understand medical terms and directions from doctors, Carmona said.
Surgeon General: Obesity Could Dwarf Terrorism Threat. Lowering the nation's obesity rate depends on changing behaviors, but too many Americans are health illiterate, meaning they cannot understand medical terms and directions from doctors, Carmona said.
Scientist Calls For Warnings, Tax On Soda. "Warning: The Surgeon General has determined that drinking soda can be hazardous to your health." Popkin is also in favor of a soda tax, such as the one on tobacco. He said studies involving the links of soda and obesity are at the same stage as studies on tobacco and health problems several years ago, when those warnings were issued. Soft Drinks Being Singled Out as Cause of Obesity Problem; Analogy to Tobacco Seems Detrimental to Public Health Efforts. Read More Michael Siegel: The Rest of the Story. Alderman Robert G. Donovan. I have heard from many residents on this issue. Many have made the same comment, "Doesn't Milwaukee have better things to worry about than smoking?" I'm asking the same question.
Canada: Bar owners vow fight: The Patio War.
Pakistan: Anti-smoking law goes up in smoke. Scotland: Hotels File Suit Against Ban.
DE: The end of the Truth campaign? MN: State says No to ban again. SC: Bill to Ban Restaurant Smoking is Stuck. UT: Gutted Smoking Ban. WI: Milwaukee Smoking Ban Put On Hold. WI: State says No to ban. AND International News, State and Local News, and Updates! Yours, Samantha
Thursday, March 02, 2006
Howdy,
Issue #370 is now online… READ IT AT: http://www.smokersclubinc.com
Another Nursing Home Atrocity. Gladys Gornall, in a wheelchair, must go out in the cold weather for a cigarette even though she is 93.
Why ASH's Recent Actions Are an Example of Fanaticism, Rather than Science-Based Advocacy. By Michael Siegel. In science and medicine, we have a technical term that can be used to describe such a contention: a bunch of crap.
Reliance on Pharmacotherapy in Smoking Cessation Questioned.
30 Minutes Of Smoke. ASH Responds by Reiterating and Reemphasizing its Claim that 30 Minutes of Secondhand Smoke Causes Fatal Heart Attacks in Otherwise Healthy Nonsmokers.
Challenge Issued to Document that FORCES is a Tobacco Front Group.
Eating Some Crow on Fat. By John Luik. The attitude of we-know-best-no-matter-what-the-studies-say discredits both the scientific process and the requirement that health advice be evidence-based.
Spain: Madrid plans to ease smoking ban.
CO: Debate on smoking ban bill postponed.
KY: Ashland says NO to smoking ban.
MD: State says NO to smoking ban.
TX: Galveston says NO to smoking ban.
VA: State says NO to smoking ban.
AND International News, State and Local News, and Updates! Yours, Samantha
