Thursday, August 31, 2006
Howdy,
Issue #396 is now online… READ IT AT: http://www.smokersclubinc.com
Vote for Sue Jeffers for Governor of Minnesota
Sue Jeffers will challenge Tim Pawlenty to be the Republican candidate on the November ballot. In a primary on Sept. 12, the candidate who gets the most votes continues on to the general election on November 7. Those who lose in the primary are done.
European Anti-Smoking Groups Condemn Employment Discrimination Against Smokers; Why are U.S. Groups Afraid to Speak Out? By Michael Siegel. It's not clear to me why U.S. anti-smoking groups are afraid to speak out. Do they really support this kind of discrimination, or are they simply afraid to speak out because of the McCarthyistic-like mindset that leads to attacks on anyone within the movement who dissents from the extremist agenda?
New Data Show Decline in M.I. Admissions in Smoke-Free States: is Lagging Behind Decline for Nation; Casts Doubt on Helena/Pueblo/Saskatoon Claims. If you are going to be a credible scientist, you have to be willing to look at the data.
Baytown, TX: “My parents ran from Poland during the second World War to escape a police state so they could have the freedom of choice with liberty and justice for all,” she said. “My fear is today it’s smoking. Tomorrow, it may be M&Ms or barbecue ribs because those things have been deemed to kill. This is what is called communism, or a police state. Let us keep freedom of choice.”
Disease Mongering: Re-definition and Invention of Diagnoses. In the 1990s Lynn Payer in a magisterial phrase, described widening the boundaries of illness as disease mongering, "the selling of sickness, and growing the markets for those who sell and deliver treatments," Payer accurately described a problem that is growing like a malignancy in our health-obsessed culture.
Vote for Sue Jeffers for Governor of Minnesota
Sue Jeffers will challenge Tim Pawlenty to be the Republican candidate on the November ballot. In a primary on Sept. 12, the candidate who gets the most votes continues on to the general election on November 7. Those who lose in the primary are done.
European Anti-Smoking Groups Condemn Employment Discrimination Against Smokers; Why are U.S. Groups Afraid to Speak Out? By Michael Siegel. It's not clear to me why U.S. anti-smoking groups are afraid to speak out. Do they really support this kind of discrimination, or are they simply afraid to speak out because of the McCarthyistic-like mindset that leads to attacks on anyone within the movement who dissents from the extremist agenda?
New Data Show Decline in M.I. Admissions in Smoke-Free States: is Lagging Behind Decline for Nation; Casts Doubt on Helena/Pueblo/Saskatoon Claims. If you are going to be a credible scientist, you have to be willing to look at the data.
Baytown, TX: “My parents ran from Poland during the second World War to escape a police state so they could have the freedom of choice with liberty and justice for all,” she said. “My fear is today it’s smoking. Tomorrow, it may be M&Ms or barbecue ribs because those things have been deemed to kill. This is what is called communism, or a police state. Let us keep freedom of choice.”
Disease Mongering: Re-definition and Invention of Diagnoses. In the 1990s Lynn Payer in a magisterial phrase, described widening the boundaries of illness as disease mongering, "the selling of sickness, and growing the markets for those who sell and deliver treatments," Payer accurately described a problem that is growing like a malignancy in our health-obsessed culture.
Cheyenne
I’m really mad at City Council Members Pete Laybourn, Judy Case, Jimmy Valdez, Joseph “Joe” Bonds, Patrick Collinsm, Don Pierson and Mayor Jack Spiker. I think that it should be a businesses right to allow or disallow smoking.
Print out this sign to hang on your door.
We would let you smoke if it wasn't against the law.
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Howdy,
Issue #395 is now online… READ IT AT: http://www.smokersclubinc.com
Tom & Jerry in trouble for smoking. Should cartoons be sanitized for a younger generation or preserved as a snapshot of the era in which they were created? Unfortunately, those same children are still in danger of dropping anvils on one another's heads, putting each other's tails in electrical sockets, cutting each other in half, poisoning one another, exploding each other with dynamite and other sundry weapons available from the diabolical Acme corporation.
Eating Carrot Cake and a Milk Shake May Be As Bad As 30 Minutes of Secondhand Smoke. By Michael Siegel. What this study shows, in my opinion, is that eating a piece of carrot cake prepared with saturated fat in a restaurant that contains secondhand smoke is a recipe for almost certain death.
RICO Trial: Judge Kessler ruled that the nation's top cigarette makers violated racketeering laws, but said she couldn't order them to pay the billions of dollars the government had sought.
Weyco acquired by Connecticut firm. Weyco has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Meritain Health Inc., which is, in turn, a division of Westport, Conn.-based Prodigy Health Group. Howard Weyers will remain the president of Weyco.
John Daly. Grown men love John Daly. There's just something about watching a fat guy in a Hooters golf shirt clobber 300-yard drives with a cigarette dangling from his mouth that draws a crowd of the exclusively male variety.
Shutting Down Debate: By Joseph Bast. In 22 years as head of a public policy research organization, I have never before seen a more concerted effort to shut down debate on important public policy issues.
IL: Niles says NO to ban.
Tom & Jerry in trouble for smoking. Should cartoons be sanitized for a younger generation or preserved as a snapshot of the era in which they were created? Unfortunately, those same children are still in danger of dropping anvils on one another's heads, putting each other's tails in electrical sockets, cutting each other in half, poisoning one another, exploding each other with dynamite and other sundry weapons available from the diabolical Acme corporation.
Eating Carrot Cake and a Milk Shake May Be As Bad As 30 Minutes of Secondhand Smoke. By Michael Siegel. What this study shows, in my opinion, is that eating a piece of carrot cake prepared with saturated fat in a restaurant that contains secondhand smoke is a recipe for almost certain death.
RICO Trial: Judge Kessler ruled that the nation's top cigarette makers violated racketeering laws, but said she couldn't order them to pay the billions of dollars the government had sought.
Weyco acquired by Connecticut firm. Weyco has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Meritain Health Inc., which is, in turn, a division of Westport, Conn.-based Prodigy Health Group. Howard Weyers will remain the president of Weyco.
John Daly. Grown men love John Daly. There's just something about watching a fat guy in a Hooters golf shirt clobber 300-yard drives with a cigarette dangling from his mouth that draws a crowd of the exclusively male variety.
Shutting Down Debate: By Joseph Bast. In 22 years as head of a public policy research organization, I have never before seen a more concerted effort to shut down debate on important public policy issues.
IL: Niles says NO to ban.
WI: Waukesha says NO to ban. Canada: Guard loses bid to ban in federal jails.
AND International News, State and Local News, and Updates! Yours, SamanthaThursday, August 17, 2006
Howdy,
Issue #394 is now online… READ IT AT: http://www.smokersclubinc.com
It Must Be the Plutonium: Anti-Smoking Group Provides Explanation for How 30 Minutes of Secondhand Smoke Exposure Could Be So Deadly. By Michael Siegel. Already, a number of pharmaceutical company-funded anti-smoking groups are touting KRT (kryptonite replacement therapy) as the new basis for a national smoking cessation plan...
It Must Be the Plutonium: Anti-Smoking Group Provides Explanation for How 30 Minutes of Secondhand Smoke Exposure Could Be So Deadly. By Michael Siegel. Already, a number of pharmaceutical company-funded anti-smoking groups are touting KRT (kryptonite replacement therapy) as the new basis for a national smoking cessation plan...
Religion and drugs. At issue: A church's efforts to use a hallucinogenic tea, containing a banned substance, in its religious services. They WON! Cigar Club Goes Corporate to Survive. New Jersey's smoking ban could have snuffed out the Metropolitan Cigar Society this spring, but an innovative restructuring has saved the smoking club from extinction. The Commonalties Between Terrorists and Antismoking Groups. By David W. Kuneman. They believe their cause is so noble, that using these claims to instill misinformation, fear and ignorance is justified.
This is economics 101 Forget the ban. Let the market decide the winners and losers. Focus on real issues instead. No brats allowed! Is American society increasingly intolerant of tots? "... still we didn’t feel welcome. There were just these looks." AND International News, State and Local News, and Updates! Yours, Samantha
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Howdy,
Issue #393 is now online… READ IT AT: http://www.smokersclubinc.com
Asbestos: The Newest Fallacious Scientific Claim. By Michael Siegel. That is a fallacious claim if I've ever seen one. There is no asbestos in secondhand smoke.
Third Hand Smoke. Ever since fanatic anti-smoking groups began their nonsense, they have assured us all that they do not want to eradicate tobacco or come into our homes. Those fighting the bans called them liars and justifiably so.
DEATH-PENALTY CONVICTION. Forbidding jurors to smoke during deliberations in a Licking County murder trial caused a rush to judgment, say attorneys seeking to overturn a man’s death-penalty conviction.
The European Commission confirmed that the wave of anti-discrimination legislation it has passed during the past six years does not cover smokers. Bosses can reject job-seekers just because they smoke.
No ban in Switzerland for the Rolling Stones. Ron Wood and Keith Richards, for whom a smoking ban in the hangar has also been temporarily lifted.
Mel Smith defies smoking ban. Smith, who is a cigar smoker off-stage, criticised the law banning smoking in public places. He said: “It would have delighted Adolf Hitler. Congratulations, Scotland.” He suggested that the audience could be warned before the show: “A third of a Romeo y Julieta will be smoked during this performance. If you find that offensive, f*** off.”
AND International News, State and Local News, and Updates!
Yours,
Samantha
Asbestos: The Newest Fallacious Scientific Claim. By Michael Siegel. That is a fallacious claim if I've ever seen one. There is no asbestos in secondhand smoke.
Third Hand Smoke. Ever since fanatic anti-smoking groups began their nonsense, they have assured us all that they do not want to eradicate tobacco or come into our homes. Those fighting the bans called them liars and justifiably so.
DEATH-PENALTY CONVICTION. Forbidding jurors to smoke during deliberations in a Licking County murder trial caused a rush to judgment, say attorneys seeking to overturn a man’s death-penalty conviction.
The European Commission confirmed that the wave of anti-discrimination legislation it has passed during the past six years does not cover smokers. Bosses can reject job-seekers just because they smoke.
No ban in Switzerland for the Rolling Stones. Ron Wood and Keith Richards, for whom a smoking ban in the hangar has also been temporarily lifted.
Mel Smith defies smoking ban. Smith, who is a cigar smoker off-stage, criticised the law banning smoking in public places. He said: “It would have delighted Adolf Hitler. Congratulations, Scotland.” He suggested that the audience could be warned before the show: “A third of a Romeo y Julieta will be smoked during this performance. If you find that offensive, f*** off.”
AND International News, State and Local News, and Updates!
Yours,
Samantha
Thursday, August 03, 2006
Howdy,
Issue #392 is now online… READ IT AT: http://www.smokersclubinc.com
Surgeon General Carmona Leaves Post. Carmona's term expired over the week end with no announcement from the Health and Human Services Department.
CO Ban Damage: By Bill Johnson. The law was not required to address the inevitable hardships such a bill was destined to inflict. What has happened is a statewide tragedy, sponsored by the government.
Flavoring agent destroys lungs. The lung disease is as bad as its name suggests: bronchiolitis obliterans. It's a condition that literally obliterates the bronchioles -- the lungs' tiniest airways -- resulting in drastically reduced breathing capacity.
Sun kills 60,000 a year, WHO says. ... according to the report, the first to detail the global effects of sun exposure.
Chemical in Many Air Fresheners May Reduce Lung Function. New research shows that a chemical compound found in many air fresheners, toilet bowl cleaners, mothballs and other deodorizing products, may be harmful to the lungs.
Bingeing on 'Doing-Good' By Duane D. Freese. A recent study by the National Institute of Mental Health found that nearly one out of four cases of obesity is associated with a mood or anxiety disorder.
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Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary
By Michael Siegel
APHA Terribly Misrepresents Secondhand Smoke Health Risks to Thousands of Public Health Practitioners; Surgeon General’s Propaganda to Blame
IN MY VIEW: Extremism Has Taken Over the Tobacco Control Movement
American Legacy Foundation Partnering with Corporate Killer, By Its Own Admission
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AND International News, State and Local News, and Updates!
Yours,
Samantha
Read The Rest of the Story -
Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary
By Michael Siegel
APHA Terribly Misrepresents Secondhand Smoke Health Risks to Thousands of Public Health Practitioners; Surgeon General’s Propaganda to Blame
IN MY VIEW: Extremism Has Taken Over the Tobacco Control Movement
American Legacy Foundation Partnering with Corporate Killer, By Its Own Admission
Please Help
AND International News, State and Local News, and Updates!
Yours,
Samantha
