The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterDecember 29, 2006 - Issue #413
"A government big enough to give you everything you want
is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."
- Gerald R. Ford |
 What will they ban next? By John Stossel. In a free society the issue is: Who decides what I eat, the government or me? It's not as though information about trans fats is hard to come by. Unfortunately, CSPI is not content to tell you avoid trans fats. It sues restaurants like McDonald's and KFC for using them, and urges governments to ban them. But why do the health police get to take away my choices? Adults should be expected to take responsibility for their own health. |
| From The International Mailbag |
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter.
Canada: Call for ban is fearmongering.
Australia: Mums-to-be get deadline.
Japan: Special Report - Smoking In Japan.
UK: West Lancashire says NO to full ban.
Wales: A Speech By Mark Isherwood.
AK: Freedom movement may go national.
AL: Madison suggests changes before vote.
AR: New Health Insurance Plan - Tobacco $.
IL: Orland Hills says NO to ban.
IL: No corner pocket for smoking ban.
MN: If we ban smoking, what’s next?
MO: Chillicothe Alert.
MO: North Kansas City ban fight.
NV: Churchill County Update.
NV: Judge Allows Part Of Smoking Ban.
NY: Onondaga County raises smoking age.
OH: Antwerp ban doesn’t end the debate.
OH: Truckers exempt from smoking ban.
PA: Allegheny County Smoking Ban On Hold.
PA: Erie County ban in most indoor areas.
SC: Hilton Head Alert.
SC: Sullivan's Island 'behavior police.'
WI: Sheboygan County says NO to ban.
WV: AMA helps Mercer in lawsuit.
| Ban Damage Hurts Everyone |
Canada: Dying smoker left out in the cold.
Canada: Six arrests in kickback probe.
UK: Smoking jibe wins mother £44,000 payout.
| The Slippery Slope After Tobacco |
Canada: Country's first beer keg registry.
China: Unmarried, obese, over 50 can't adopt
UK: Obese may be denied priority NHS care.
USA: How healthy is America? | Henry County, GA:
The Board voted to prohibit the use and possession of cigarettes and similar tobacco products in all parks owned by the county. "and possession" You caught that, right?
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# posted by Samantha : 9:17 AM
The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterDecember 22, 2006 - Issue #412
"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
- Elie Wiesel |
| IN State sues New Horizons Inc. The Indiana attorney general sued New Horizons Inc., of Gary, and its founders. The state seeks to recover $251,000 in anti-smoking grant money that it says could not be properly accounted for. No one has been criminally charged, although Lake County Prosecutor Bernard Carter is reviewing the audit. Walter Scott says auditors misinterpreted his financial reports.
TX Use of grant funds in question. Officials worry money given to Clean Air by health district 'lobbying.' A state oversight group has also begun looking into the matter. If funds are found to have been misspent, that amount must be repaid...
The Case Against Smoking Bans. By Thomas Andrew Lambert, University of Missouri at Columbia - School of Law. This essay rebuts the externality, preference-shaping, and risk-reduction arguments for smoking bans and contends that such bans are unnecessary and, on the whole, utility-reducing.
Anti-Smoking Groups' Claims are Making a Mockery of Secondhand Smoke Science; Years of My Own Research Being Thrown Down the Drain. By Michael Siegel. So now I join the tobacco company attorneys in standing to voice objection to the value of my own research and testimony: "Irrelevant and immaterial," I say. |
| From The International Mailbag |
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter.
Canada: Hookah bars want ban exemption.
Australia: Robbie Williams' smoking on stage.
Germany: Agrees on Watered-Down Ban.
UK: Fury at bid to ban smoking in homes.
UK: "Freedom To Choose" is now online!
AL: Dothan Residents Voice Pros And Cons.
AZ: RJR challenges new state tobacco-tax hike.
IL: Machesney Park says NO to ban.
IL: Six Flags business suffers.
IL: Smoking area for airport approved.
IN: Anderson says NO to ban.
ME: Medicaid Lifestyle Discrimination.
MI: Lenawee County Alert.
MI: Monroe County Owners Against Ban.
MO: Kansas City says NO to ban.
MO: Lambert Field says NO to ban.
MS: Tupelo smoking ban holds.
ND: Wider smoke ban proposed.
NY: Onondaga Nation to make own cigarettes?
OH: Franklin Protest 12/23/06.
OH: Hookah bars considering changes.
OH: Protesters rally law violates their rights.
OH: Unenforceable ban breeds contempt.
PA: Allegheny County - RJR funding fight.
PA: Erie County Tavern Owners Unite.
PA: Philadelphia Ban Lifted for 3 Weeks.
PA: Smoking in casinos gamble.
SC: Lexington County Alert.
TX: League City Alert - 1/11/07 meeting.
WV: Randolph County Considers Ban.
| Ban Damage Hurts Everyone |
CO: The Golden Cue closes after 30 years.
HI: Now Less Welcoming to Smokers.
MN: How many more will go out of business?
MO: Man Kills 5, Then Himself.
| The Slippery Slope After Tobacco |
Diesel Soot Health Impacts.See your report.
Mandatory Calorie Counts says Ald. Burke.
Obesity helpline printed on larger sized clothes?
Obesity worse than drinking or smoking.
Trans Fat. You Call That Fried?Fuhgeddaboutit.
Raise tax on cigs, snacks, soda, beer, wine. | 
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For each of the NEW BAN STATES the flyers are asking 'pro-choice' citizens to participate in a month-long "SILENT PROTEST" - by simply wearing the lapel stickers anytime during January, starting with New Year's Eve! The stickers will increase public awareness, increase our visibility as a disenfranchised group, and help us to identify each other!
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# posted by Samantha : 9:40 AM
The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterDecember 15, 2006 - Issue #411
"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting"
- Alan Dean Foster |
| Conflating Coronary Blood Flow and Coronary Flow Velocity Reserve: The Basis for Anti-Smoking Groups' Misleading Health Claims - ClearWay, ANR, ACS, and Tobacco-Free Kids. By Michael Siegel. Read the response from Stanton A. Glantz. MORE about Glantz - Doctor of WHAT?! His Ph.D is in mechanical engineering.
MORE from Michael Siegel: Articles Cited to Defend Anti-Smoking Groups' Claims Show No Evidence of Increased Heart Attack Risk Among Healthy Nonsmokers Exposed to Tobacco Smoke. At Least 38 Health and Anti-Smoking Groups are Misleading the Public by Conflating Coronary Blood Flow and Coronary Flow Velocity Reserve.
Sir Richard Doll on the take. The American Journal of Industrial Medicine will now create greater doubt, given its startling, "Secret Ties to Industry and Conflicting Interests in Cancer Research." MORE from the Antis: Wall Of Shame. |
| From The International Mailbag |
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter.
China: Health or Nicotine Replacement?
Germany: Says NO to National ban.
Ireland: Minister - "Please Ignore Smokers."
Sao Paulo: Lawsuit in the USA.
Scotland: Police probe threat to smoke ban MSP. CA: Delray to designate beach smoking zones.
CA: Dismisses Secondhand Smoke Lawsuit.
DC: Obtaining a waiver to sidestep the ban.
DC: Smoking in the U.S. Capitol.
FL: Beach Bans contrary to state law.
IA: Casinos brace for ban debate.
IL: Mt. Prospect Exceptions Added.
IN: Allen County ban delayed five months.
IN: Marshall County says NO to ban.
IN: Valparaiso says NO to bar and club ban.
KY: Louisville Bingo halls sue over ban.
NC: Charlotte/Douglas Airport Update.
NV: Businesses Sue to Halt the Ban.
NV: Churchill County not enforcing ban.
NV: Nye County not enforcing ban.
OH: State will not enforce smoking ban.
OH: Smoker arrested, refused to leave bar.
PA: Allegheny County restaurants sue.
PA: Erie County ban would be illegal.
SC: Greenville Businesses sue over ban.
WI: Madison Bar owners go after ban.
| Ban Damage Hurts Everyone |
Smoker Attacked: 19 Year old woman attacked for no reason. More attacks.
Mob Brawl: Bonanno soldier to be tried in '05 Little Italy beatdown over smoking ban.
TX: Tightens foster parent eligibility when an increasing number of children need help.
| The Slippery Slope After Tobacco |
Asthma: An Epidemic No One Understands.
Ban Cellphones: Are they the new smokers?
Junk Food Severe Restrictions On Advertising.
Pesticides are what is killing our kids.
More Trans Fat Law Suits After 3 Successful.
Trans fat, smoking, foie gras--what's next? | Please help those fighting for our freedom!
CO Peterson Air Force Base
If anyone would like to contact the Wing Commander, the phone # to his office is 719-556-2100, Colonel Jay Santee. EMAIL As military members we cannot buck the system without getting our careers ruined but I believe if they were to start taking heat from outside groups on smokers rights they might have to back down.
The total ban policy is not approved yet, PLEASE contact the Colonel and let him know that our kids deserve some of the freedom they are fighting for! |
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# posted by Samantha : 9:19 AM
The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterDecember 8, 2006 - Issue #410
"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom.
Don't ever count on having both at once."
- Robert A. Heinlein |
 Tobacco Control Research and Education Center Suggests Malpractice Lawsuits as a Way to Get Physicians to Prescribe Pharmaceuticals to Smokers. By Michael Siegel. Ultimately, what troubles me the most about this article is not the fact that it is devoid of any real legal substance or that it is inappropriate in a number of ways, but the fact that it is indicative of a larger problem in tobacco control: that we're headed in the wrong direction, spinning out of control, going off the deep end, losing our sense of reason, and becoming so narrow-minded that we are blind to everything other than smoking.
Sunderland charged with conflict of interest. In a rare criminal case against a government scientist, the National Institutes of Health's Dr. Trey Sunderland was accused of performing consulting work for Pfizer Inc. that improperly overlapped with his government duties.
Muslims Seek Prayer Room at Airport. A Newsletter reader wrote: IF THEY GET THEIR PRAYER ROOMS, I WANT MY SMOKING ROOMS BACK!!
Belmont Ban Proposal Prompts Death Threats. When Coralin Feierbach, suggested a citywide ban, she expected debate. She's getting death threats. |
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