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Thursday, May 25, 2006

Howdy, Issue #382 is now online… READ IT AT: http://www.smokersclubinc.com Burned out by butt-inskis. By Michael Siegel. What comes next? Laws that ban fat people from the public square so that children won’t associate obesity with public acceptability? Laws that prohibit people from eating fast food in public so children won’t see this behavior and associate it with a healthy lifestyle? Making it Unlawful to Smoke Around Children Could have Detrimental Effect on Childrens' Health, Especially Among Disadvantaged Populations. Tobacco Control Movement is Legitimizing Junk Science Claims. Full of Smoke and Fury. By Piotr Brzezinski. Let us be clear about what these bans entail: They deprive private property owners of control over their own assets—calling them “public” smoking bans is quite a misnomer. Anti-drug overdose? By Marnell Jameson. The real worry is that the science-based research to date has found that most anti-drug education programs don't reduce the rate at which kids abuse drugs and alcohol. Antis Total Control Over Bodies And Life: Who Owns Your Body? Forever Pregnant. USA Guidelines: Treat Nearly All Women as Pre-Pregnant. Lawsuit over couple's denial of residency. A St. Louis suburb is being sued by the ACLU for denying residency to an unmarried couple and their children. The Global Framework on Essential Health Research and Development. This week in Geneva at the annual meeting of the WHO. Master Sunshine. The overzealous war on indoor tanning. AND International News, State and Local News, and Updates! Yours, Samantha

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Thursday, May 18, 2006

Howdy, Issue #381 is now online… READ IT AT: http://www.smokersclubinc.com Ban Smoking Outdoors Too? By Ken Schram. I wish politicians would also quit sticking their collective nose where it doesn't belong. Myth: Secondhand Smoke Is a Killer. I don't think we need to be stretching the truth," Siegel said. (This is a must read article!) Anti-Smoking Movement in its Current State is Not Sustainable. It has become virtually impossible to express any dissent in the movement. It has become impossible to challenge the existing dogma of the movement. It is not possible to even suggest that claims being made by anti-smoking groups may not be correct. To do so results in being censored, attacked, ridiculed, disrespected, and blacklisted. Antis Told To Lie. Three Major Anti-Smoking Organizations Instructed Anti-Smoking Groups to Claim that 30 Minutes of Secondhand Smoke Exposure Causes Atherosclerosis. Tracing Lung Ailments That Rose With 9/11 Dust. As they push their investigation into the health risks to workers in the recovery and cleanup operations at ground zero, medical detectives are focusing on a group of lung diseases that can lead to long-term disabilities and, in some cases, death. AND International News, State and Local News, and Updates! Yours, Samantha

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Thursday, May 11, 2006

Howdy, Issue #380 is now online… READ IT AT: http://www.smokersclubinc.com Wisconsin State Senate Rejects Statewide Smoking Ban Bill. Assembly Bill 414. Risser said he has another bill he wants to propose similar to the statewide smoking bans in California and New York. Parental Smoking. By Michael Siegel. It is sabotaging the tobacco control movement. When the public becomes aware that this is what we are pushing for (as they quickly are), they are going to view us as being complete fanatics and crusading zealots (and rightly so if this is what we are pushing) and we are going to completely lose our credibility and destroy our reputation. Tobacco critics speak out The focus of the two-day conference at the Williamsburg Inn was "harm reduction," a controversial idea that not all tobacco products are as deadly as commonly believed and that products can be developed that are far less risky. KY Prison bans tobacco. Brad Rodu, a pathologist at the University of Louisville who researches tobacco risks, said an all-out ban on tobacco like the one at the state reformatory is unnecessary if it's being done for health reasons. A group of cigarette distributors and sellers filed a lawsuit against NY seeking to overturn a law banning Internet, telephone and mail order tobacco sales. AND International News, State and Local News, and Updates! Yours, Samantha

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Thursday, May 04, 2006

Howdy, Issue #379 is now online… READ IT AT: http://www.smokersclubinc.com Reynolds supports your right to puff. The R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., the maker of Kools and Camels, is taking a leading role to pass a constitutional amendment that would protect public smoking in Ohio. Antis Widely Giving False Testimony. By Michael Siegel. Groups Even Being Instructed to Give Testimony that is Inaccurate. Ultimately, I do think we need to get to the bottom of this and determine how such a fiasco could have occurred. The reasons for the destruction of the gatekeeping mechanism that previously guarded the scientific integrity of the movement need to be identified, so that the problem can be fixed. Chicago's Mob Rule. By Jonathan Hoenig. IT MIGHT SURPRISE you that Chicago, known for its rough-and-tumble futures pits and passionate support for free-market capitalism, has been slowly morphing into a borderline socialist society where every aspect of private life is tightly controlled by the state. AND International News, State and Local News, and Updates! Yours, Samantha

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