The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterFebruary 23, 2007 - Issue #421
"This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
| What's Fraud for Big Tobacco Is Regulation for Big Government. By Jacob Sullum. Under the bill, the FDA would have the authority to set maximum levels for specific components of tobacco smoke, based on the same sort of machine-generated numbers that public health officials and anti-smoking activists roundly condemn as not only inaccurate but fraudulent.
TOBACCO REGULATION SMOKE-SCREEN. By Chuck Muth. About the only power the FDA wouldn't have over tobacco under Kennedy-Waxman is the power to ban it altogether. But there's always tomorrow.
USA Less Smokers, Less Tax Money. "The taxes on smoking are being used to fund education, they're being used to fund health care, they're being used to fund real things. Now, if we eliminate smoking, does it mean that those things go away?"
Behind Antismoking Policy, Influence of Drug Industry Government Guidelines. Don't Push Cold Turkey; Advisers' Company Ties. By Kevin Helliker. Michael Fiore is in charge of revising federal guidelines on how to get smokers to quit. He also runs an academic research center funded in part by drug companies that make quit-smoking aids, and he personally has received tens of thousands of dollars in speaking and consulting fees from those companies. |
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The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterFebruary 16, 2007 - Issue #420
"I'm fairly low-maintenance. Packet of smokes
and a few pints and I'm a happy man."
- Colin Farrell |
 Colin Farrell Targeted By Anti Smoking Bigots. Whether Colin Farrell smokes or is seen to smoke matters little to cigarette consumption worldwide. This won't prevent the anti smoking fanatics putting him and other celebrities into their sights as they attempt to bulldoze the rest of us under their juggernaut of intolerance.
New Study Casts Doubt on Significance of Harvard Nicotine Yield Report and Wisdom of FDA Tobacco Legislation. By Michael Siegel. This article also makes it clear that the FDA tobacco legislation, as currently proposed, will not only fail to protect the public's health, but will likely lead to government deception of the American consumer. The government, instead of tobacco companies, would (under the proposed legislation) control the machine-measured yields of various constituents, giving consumers the false impression that this regulation of machine-measured yields has any relationship whatsoever to human health. |
| From The International Mailbag |
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter.
Czech Republic: Says NO to smoking ban.
Nigeria: Initiative for Public Policy Analysis.
World: More Nonsmoking Get Lung Cancer.
World: Banning smoking in cars is not justified.
EU: Legislators disobey own smoking ban.
CA: San Mateo County parks update.
CO: Panel nixes bill to exempt taverns.
DC: Proposal to Ban Smoking in Cars.
HI: Anti-Smoking Law Protest Heats Up.
IA: Smokers pay 26% of Medicaid cost.
IA: Tax Alert, SSB 1162, HSB 89.
IL: Cook County faces smoking deadline.
IL: Geneva says NO to ban.
IL: Glenview Local smoking rules topic update.
KY: New Albany tables smoking ban.
LA: Backs sale of tobacco deal.
ME: Bar Harbor smoking in cars.
MN: Ellison calls the cops on Tancredo’s cigar.
MN: The John Adams Society.
MN: Yes to marijuana, no to tobacco?
ND: HB 1190 tax on moist smokeless tobacco.
ND: Senate Says NO to Smoking Ban.
NH: Smoking ban could cause a culture clash.
OH: Newark's smoking hut to be removed.
PA: Erie County judge postponed ban.
SD: Ban for bars where the kids are?
TN: Governor pushes for ban and tax increase.
WI: Chippewa County Local ban possibility.
USA: Senator Kennedy, ask questions.
USA: Does government protect us?
| The Slippery Slope After Tobacco |
CA: Nanny bills pitting safety against rights.
ME: Amended salvia bill limits sales.
MO: Officer Offering Cigarettes For Sex Acts.
NY: Ban On Cell Phones, MP3 players...
VT: Ban EVERYTHING in cars. | MI: Sick and elderly forced into sub zero temperatures.
Today elderly smokers all over this county and many others are being forced outside in sub zero temperatures because they are smokers. These nursing home patients have lost the right to smoke in their OWN homes and now must be wheeled, carted, or given a helping hand to face the brutal cold. These are Americans who have no voice. These are the forgotten ones. Will you help me to bring attention to their plight? It is illegal to force a dog out into the cold, but it is OK to force a human out into the cold?
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The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterFebruary 9, 2007 - Issue #419
"Please don't lie to me,
unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth."
- Ashleigh Brilliant |
 France: Cutting Back on Smokers' Liberty. Health Minister Xavier Bertrand said at a news conference last week that as many as 175,000 police officers, health and other inspectors would enforce the new law, fining violators.
Bill Reverses Hawaii's Smoking Ban in Bars, Nightclubs and Restaurants. Provided that exterior signage adequately warns the public that smoking is allowed within. A U.S. Supreme court decision during the early 1970's ((Lloyd Corp v. Tanner, 407 U.S. 551 (1992)) said a place of business does not become public property because the public is invited in. So, by that same reasoning. A restaurant or bar is not public property. We need to support small business and stop regulating them out of business.
Smoke and Rearview Mirrors. By Gary Nolan. Spending money to enforce such a law seems absurd when there are rapists, child molesters and murderers out there. Let us not usurp the rights of parents, abuse private property rights, waste valuable law enforcement resources or hand over our liberty to the state on the basis of faulty conventional wisdom. |
| From The International Mailbag |
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter.
Canada: Activist bar owner defends oasis.
Canada: Leave Me Alone Mom, Or I'll Sue You.
Belgium: Students Put In Cages.
Bulgaria: Go-Ahead for Smoking Ban Discussions.
Ireland: Call To Ban Smoking In Irish Homes.
Korea: Smoking Is Personal Responsibility.
Scotland: Fife Signing up to modify smoking ban.
AK: Politics to blame for lack of exposure limit.
CA: Baldwin Park seeks to enact ban.
CA: Belmont ban drawing lots of heat.
CO: Bars May Get Around Smoking Ban.
CO: Coalition For Equal Rights.
DC: Still smoking in the District.
IA: Bullying Bill on Legislators' Radar.
IL: Batavia says NO to ban.
IL: Geneva update and survey questions.
MI: Lenawee County raised ban objections.
MI: Lawmakers renew push for smoking ban.
MN: House committee passes statewide ban.
MO: Columbia Bar Owners Fight Ban.
ND: House defeats ban on Capitol grounds.
NJ: Casinos plan smoking areas.
PA: Manufacturers’ Association Plans Lawsuit.
RI: Don’t wager on smoke-free gambling.
SC: Mt. Pleasant gets a dialogue going.
TN: Governor is going to ask for a tax hike.
TN: The new 'old boys club.'
| Ban Damage Hurts Everyone |
NJ: Residents hit with internet tax bills.
UK: Father Beats Smoking 12 Year Old.
VA: Money cut from tobacco settlement?
| The Slippery Slope After Tobacco |
20 Face Lash for Dancing in Saudi Arabia.
Asbestos claims going too far.
Next Big Media Backlash Could Be Media.
Vehicle fumes stunt lung growth. | 
Secondhand Smoke Can Cause Instant Death.
The Most Misleading Claim of them All. By Michael Siegel. How did anti-smoking groups come up with this claim? By a wild stretch and distortion of the science, that's how. Reading The Rest of the Story could kill you. There! Now you have all been warned.
Holy Smoke: Burning incense, candles pollute air in churches. Even brief exposure to contaminated air during a religious service could be harmful to some people. |
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The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterFebruary 2, 2007 - Issue #418
"Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab.
We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems,
to fend off madness and chaos."
- David Cronenberg |
 Brain's 'addiction centre' found. The discovery of individuals with brain damage who give up smoking with ease could point the way to a surgical 'cure' for smoking, US scientists say.
Case Dropped Against Durango Bar Over Smoking Ban. Patrons at Orio's Roadhouse can keep smoking indoors after prosecutors dropped a criminal case claiming the bar violated the statewide smoking ban.
Violating Smoking Ban with wood-fired pizza oven. Warning letters are now going out to local restaurants accused of violating Ohio's voter-approved smoking ban. The smoking ban states no one shall burn tobacco or "any other plant."
Your dog can go into a bar but you can't? The reason for the existing law is that animals in such venues pose a potential health risk to humans. Apparently, that is no longer the case, but second-hand smoke from cigarettes continues to be banned as a major health risk. |
| From The International Mailbag |
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter.
EU: Kyprianou Calls for EU-Wide Smoking Ban.
USA: Nationwide smoking ban sought.
Wales: Assembly smoking den will be illegal.
CA: Belmont ban delayed until March reading.
CO: Lift smoking ban in mom-and-pops bars?
IL: Alsip says NO to smoking ban.
IL: Some towns glad they didn't ban smoking.
IL: Tinley Park's study of the effects of bans.
IN: Fort Wayne ban starts June first.
KS: Says NO to smoking in car ban.
MS: Brookhaven asks for voluntary smoking ban.
NJ: First OK Passes on Casino Smoking Ban.
NV: Judge Lets Nevada Smoking Ban Stand.
PA: Harrisburg Ban at a stand still.
PA: Yorkers sound off on proposed ban.
SC: Charleston, Randall Story fights ban.
TX: Baytown bars outright ignore ban.
TX: Lawmakers to consider smoking ban.
VA: Restaurants post sign if cigarettes are OK.
WI: Donovan wants to snuff out proposed ban.
| Ban Damage Hurts Everyone |
Canada: 65 year old smoker dies out in the cold.
NV: Non-smoking deli closed due to ban.
OH: Ban at VFWs disrespectful to vets.
WI: Ban killed business, Ravens owner says.
| The Slippery Slope After Tobacco |
Phthalates Chemicals in your cosmetics.
Trans Fat alternative has its own problems.
Toxic Dry-Cleaning Chemical Ban In CA.
TX: Mandates cervical cancer vaccine for girls. | The Bogus Science of Secondhand Smoke
By Gio Batta Gori.
A frank discussion is needed to restore straight thinking in the legitimate uses of "the science" of epidemiology uses that go well beyond secondhand smoke issues.
By Michael Siegel.
I agree that many of the claims being publicly disseminated by anti-smoking groups, including the Surgeon General's office, are based on bogus science. Public policy should be based on accurate and well-documented science...
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