The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterJanuary 26, 2007 - Issue #417
"The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it."
- Dudley Moore |
| Investigation Concerning Termination of Smokers And/Or Charging Smokers Higher Healthcare or Disability Premiums. In 30 states and the District of Columbia, state law makes it illegal for companies to impose smoking bans on their employees when they are off duty. In addition, the federal employee benefits law, ERISA, prevents employers from discriminating against and/or firing employees, here smokers, to interfere with the attainment of any right under a benefit plan, here the right to health benefits.
Smoking bans crossing line of common sense. The anti-smoking campaign has crossed the line toward infringing on individual rights. Smoking products are still legal.
Used Smoke. There is a philosophy that I call Conform and Obey or Pay. History writers have given this philosophy different names but the outcome is the same. The bottom line of this philosophy negates a free country and a free people. Do you want to be free or not? |
| From The International Mailbag |
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter.
Australia: Bring back tobacco advertising.
Ireland: Price Increase Fuels Inflation.
Scotland: Lawyers Will Help in Judicial Review.
UK: Smoking ban to come in at Turf Moor.
USA: Nicotine levels in cigarettes rising?
USA: NIH Cancels Mtg, Conflicts of Interest.
IL: Cook County asks for delay til '08.
IL: St. Charles to consider ban on public ban.
IL: The right to be risky and stupid.
IN: Evansville doesn't live up to expectations.
IN: Fort Wayne City Council debated revisions.
KS: State ponders a ban.
ME: Support for cigarette tax goes up in smoke.
MN: Olmsted County's stricter ban.
NE: State calls for ban, again.
NJ: Atlantic City casino compromise talks.
OH: Some places ban smoking outdoors.
OH: Veterans fume over smoking ban.
TN: Prisoners angered, seek new currency.
TX: Baytown petition filed with the city.
TX: Bellaire says NO ban. Smokers Welcome.
TX: Brenham public meeting rescheduled.
TX: A smoke-free Texas?
VA: Restaurant owners against smoking ban.
WA: Antis bring the fight to apartment buildings.
| Ban Damage Hurts Everyone |
IL: Bans face 50% loss before Bears game.
NV: Ban damage reality sets in.
SD goes to WY to buy cigarettes.
Six Flags Selling 7 Parks For $312M. They are facing mounting losses and declining attendance. (Note: It is now one year since putting in a smoking ban.)
| The Slippery Slope After Tobacco |
OH: Keeping coffee from young people.
PA: Smokers to pay for everyone's insurance.
UK: Ban puts snuff back in fashion.
UK: Fatty Food Tax to tackle obesity crisis. | Bangor has gone insane
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Bangor: The ordinance, which takes effect on Jan. 19, allows the police to stop cars if an adult is smoking while a child under 18 is a passenger.
LOOKS 18?
Allow extra driving time, you could be pulled over by the police. Watch out when driving your young looking son to the airport to rejoin the troops. Be careful taking your young looking wife to the bank to sign your mortgage papers. Don't let anyone slump down in your car or wear a hat. |
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The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterJanuary 19, 2007 - Issue #416
"So you think that money is the root of all evil.
Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?"
- Ayn Rand |
 Where Has the MSA Money Gone? Find out what is being done with MSA funds in your state. Contact the attorney general's office in your state and your state's elected officials to find out where the money is going.
Outdoor smoking bans rile anti-tobacco leader. Siegel is speaking out against the movement he helped create. Why? Today's anti-smoking crusaders, he says, have lost their moorings in science by advocating smoking bans in the last refuge for smokers -- the great outdoors.
Jose Rodriguez. It's a sad day for freedom when business owners who cater to strictly adult clientele aren't allowed to dictate what legal activities can take place inside the closed doors of their establishments. I'm sure somewhere in hell, Stalin is applauding.
 Rise of the food tyrants. By Walter E. Williams. Smokers have been relatively passive and have allowed the anti-smoking zealots to run roughshod over them. The question is whether those of us who wish to eat as we please will allow the food zealots to do the same. These people are cowards, and here's why: If Mayor Bloomberg and other food zealots think I'm eating too many trans fats, let them personally come and take fatty foods off my plate or remove them from my shopping cart. Since they don't have the guts to do that, they correctly deem it safer to use the brute force of the state to control what I eat. |
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The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterJanuary 12, 2007 - Issue #415"People want economy and they will pay any price to get it."
- Lee Iacocca |
Mexico's prices luring U.S. tobacco buyers Move over, cheap prescription drugs. Nogales has a new lure for the pocketbook-conscious: cheap smokes.
FDA Update: Kennedy to seek tighter reins on tobacco, giving the federal government broad regulatory authority over the sale, distribution, and advertising of tobacco products.
David Kuneman: “I call on the Columbia City Council to refund the property taxes of any bar or restaurant that can show that their revenue is lower than it was last year.”
Nicogel, Nicotine Hand Gel. A new hand gel is starting to appear on drug-store shelves promising more than just an end to germs or dry skin — this one claims to satisfy users' tobacco cravings for up to four hours. |
| From The International Mailbag |
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter.
Canada: Nicotine patch OK in pregnancy.
Australia: Greens push for ban in cars with kids.
Scotland: Predictions have come to pass.
Spain: Ban doesn't work, 2 fines in a year.
UK: Probe into couple smoking at home.
United Nations building smoking area.
CT: Ban for cars transporting children debate.
DC: CEI Policy Analyst Brooke Oberwetter.
IL: Peoria push for restaurant smoking ban.
IL: Sangamon County rejects referendum.
MD: Happy Birthday Judy Meade.
MD: O'Malley Will Support Smoking Ban.
ME: Bangor Makes It Illegal to Smoke in Cars.
MN: Tavern League Opposition to State Ban.
NY: Goes after 18 year old adults.
OH: Athens still tolerating smoking patrons.
OH: Smokers openly break the new law.
PA: Prison smoking ban challenged.
PA: Scranton Smoking Ban Update.
SC: State update and House debate.
TN: Naifeh said let the business owner decide.
TX: Laredo Bars get smoking break.
| Some Forced To Pay For The All |
IL: Tax - NTUI Opposes Senate Bill 716.
ME: Highest cigarette tax in the nation.
SC: Cigarette tax hike gets thumbs down.
| Ban Damage Hurts Everyone |
MS: Hattiesburg ban leaves some out in cold.
NJ: Ban could prove costly to casinos.
OH: Ban obliterates custom smoking rooms.
WA: Ban has businesses doing a slow burn.
Canada: Hey if they can do it, we can do it.
UK: Ban expected to affect bingo habits.
| The Slippery Slope After Tobacco |
Canada: The weight of exclusions.
Ireland: Smokers pay more for life assurance.
UK: Doctors say no surgery for smokers. |
CA: Wood Stoves Under Attack
 
OH: Limits On Patio Fireplaces
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The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterJanuary 5, 2007 - Issue #414
There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
Graham Hess: from the movie “Signs” |
 These signs were found on a major street about a half mile from the Michigan border in Toledo.
The tyranny of the majority. By Jordan Mueller. We refer to bars and restaurants as “public” places because people go there, but they are actually privately owned businesses. If there were a demand for smoke-free establishments, then owners would ban the practice voluntarily — as many already have. Some have not, indicating the demand for places where smoking is permitted, but those bothered by secondhand smoke are free to avoid the latter.
Better to live with risk than limit our choices. By Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer. Tell these dangerous busybodies to mind their own business — before it's too late.
Smoking ban threatens freedom, state's bottom line. By Jeffrey Sewell. The anti-smoking zealots won't stop until cigarettes are made completely illegal.
UK fraud: in £61m stop smoking programme. Counter-fraud specialists are investigating claims that pharmacists are stealing money from the NHS by fiddling figures on the number of people they have helped to give up smoking.
Traffic Pollution Responsible For Health Problems. By David W. Kuneman. To sum it all up, it is highly likely the claim secondhand smoke causes lung cancer, heart disease, and chronic cough in hospitality workers is actually due to their work locations being next to busy highways. Another study finds no link between secondhand smoke exposure and heart attack. UK: No smoke-breast cancer link in study. |
| From The International Mailbag |
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter.
Hong Kong: Smoker ready to defy ban in parks.
Ireland: Smuggling ‘goes through the roof’
Okinawa: Naha smoking outside ban.
Sweden: Snus tax increase of over 100%.
UK: House of Commons set to get ban.
AL: Madison's three options to choose from.
IL: Batavia meeting January 10th.
IL: Bloomington businesses will delay ban.
IL: Hospital workers need the stress relief.
IL: Naperville Exemption riles ban proponents.
IN: New Haven says NO to county ban.
IN: Plainfield ban includes private clubs.
KS: Garden City ban facing resistance.
NJ: AC postpones vote on smoking ban.
OR: Carolina Tobacco Company Settlement.
PA: Nonprofit Connects Murtha, Lobbyists.
PA: Scranton smoking ban criticized.
USA: Tobacco Settlement Challenged in Court.
| Ban Damage Hurts Everyone |
DC: Goodbye, Nation. Hello, H St. NE.
IL: Bar annexed to avoid smoking ban.
IL: Chicago jazz mecca closes doors.
OH: Ban threatens hookah spots.
| The Slippery Slope After Tobacco |
CA: Destruction of property of homeless persons.
Banned: Bats, pit bulls, pedicabs, the circus...
Borderline Privacy. Leave the laptop at home.
Labelling cheese as junk food 'unfair.'
Environmental firm says leave asbestos alone.
USA: Michael Crichton on pseudoscience.
USA: The "right" to health care run by The Man. | Heart Attack Grill
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# posted by Samantha : 9:50 AM
Check your BMI
OBESE PEOPLE AND THEIR BMI:
Mel Gibson 5'9" 214: 32 Matt LeBlanc: 5'11" 218: 30 Steve McNair: 6'2" 235: 30 The Rock: 6'5" 275: 33 Arnold: 6'2" 257: 33 Stallone: 5'9" 228: 34
