The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterApril 27, 2007 - Issue #430
"Only Lawyers and mental defectives
are automatically exempt for jury duty."
- George Bernard Shaw |
 Smokers not wanted on jury. U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz has suggested keeping smokers off the jury in the Tommy Bromwell RICO case. Couldn't that skew the jury pool? Smokers tend to be poorer, less educated and, according to some studies, more likely to drink than nonsmokers. Maybe a jury of nonsmokers would be less sympathetic to a defendant with blue-collar roots - not to mention lots of alcohol-laced conversations on FBI tapes. ... "The idea that the privilege should be taken away is terrible," said Michael J. McFadden, mid-Atlantic director of The Smoker's Club, a smokers' rights group. Motz said he could understand concern from a smokers' rights angle. But he noted that he is not suggesting that smokers be barred from all juries, just those in very high-profile trials.
 Glass Ban. UK: The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has thrown its weight behind the petition which reads: “We feel blanket bans on glass are unnecessary and will have a detrimental effect on the licensed trade and the drinking experience of the millions of law-abiding pub goers in well-run establishments up and down the country.” |
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The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterApril 20, 2007 - Issue #429
"You can fool all the people all the time
if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough."
- Joseph E. Levine |
 Antismoking Extremists Advertising to be investigated in the UK. The Advertising Standards Authority is to ask for proof to substantiate claims made by the Department of Health about the dangers of passive smoking. “We would expect them (the respondents) to provide evidence to support their claims.”
'No-strings' funding from Big Tobacco makes research more impartial. Actually, the opposite is true. By Michael J. McFadden. The university should also insist that no government organization funded by tobacco taxes be allowed to provide grants, since the source of that money is indeed Big Tobacco...
Smoke inhalation affects non-smokers most. A Rhode Island Hospital study of 21 survivors of The Station nightclub fire in 2003 found the most severely impacted were non-smokers. |
| From The International Mailbag |
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter.
Australia: Queensland to review car ban.
Ireland: Smoking Rebel Tops Election Poll.
UK: Shisha bars defy smoking ban.
UK: Smoking On TV? The BBC in discussion.
USA: Proposed Little Cigar Regulations.
AR: Bentonville says NO to park ban.
CA: Burbank City Council firms up ban details.
CO: Local bars applaud smoking ban ruling.
CT: Fairfield University says NO to a full ban.
HI: Hawaii Bar Owners Association Update.
IA: Differences over details doom ban bill.
IL: Smoking battle moves to IL House.
IL: Winnebago County Asks Voters About Ban.
IN: Ban will probably be gone in negotiations.
KS: Supreme Court to hear ban arguments.
KY: Corbin Antismoking Extremists Alert.
KY: Madison County passes smoking ban.
MD: Smoking ban has some fuming.
MN: ALL workplaces includes your barn.
NC: Weakened ban passes committee again.
NH: Freedoms and liberty at stake.
OH: Agency may finalize smoking ban rules.
PA: Harrisburg says NO to ban again.
SC: Permit needed ban heads to Senate.
WI: Dunn County says NO to ban.
| Ban Damage Hurts Everyone |
DE: Smoking Bans Hurt Small Business.
OH: Honda Danger Of Smoke Breaks.
MO: Columbia bar owners complain.
NV: I should have been a hooker.
PA: Allegheny residents told to act like police!
SD: Problem looming due to lower tax sales.
WI: Wiganowsky on Madison tavern damage.
World: Global Betting and Gaming After Bans.
| The Slippery Slope After Tobacco |
Big Pharm Goes After Pet Market.
Cellphone Ban in WA about to be passed.
Dr. Evil: One Of The Good Guys.
Eminent Domain Abuse in Arlington Heights, IL.
Nanny Governments seek playpen full of laws.
Patio Fireplace Laws pits or chimineas in OH.
Plastic Bags are Barking in Nairobi.
Stab-proof hoodies and clothes on sale. | Is Bacon The Next Step After Trans Fats?
Cured meats on the chopping block.
"Cured meats, such as bacon, sausage, luncheon meats and cured hams, are high in nitrites, which are added to meat products as a preservative, an anti-microbial agent, and a color fixative," said Dr. Jiang. "Nitrates generate reactive nitrogen species that may cause damage to the lungs, producing structural changes resembling emphysema." Although certain rodent studies suggest that inhalation of nitrogen dioxide may contribute to emphysema, no other human studies to date have examined the relationship between consumption of cured meats and COPD. |
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The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterApril 13, 2007 - Issue #428
"Coffee and tobacco are complete repose."
- Turkish Proverb |
 Coffee Lovers, Smokers at Lower Parkinson's Risk. The new study, led by researcher Dana B. Hancock of Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., included 356 Parkinson's patients...
On Car Smoking Bans and Class Discrimination. By Michael Siegel. We do not equally respect the parental autonomy and parental behavior choices of smokers and wealthy cell phone addicts when we aim to criminalize one but not the other. The differential respect afforded to parents in the two situations is based on their social class, and is therefore class discrimination. |
| From The International Mailbag |
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter.
Australia: Let's not confuse health and morality.
Dubai: Saloons flout ban in Sharjah, Ajman.
CO: Judge Rules State Ban Unconstitutional.
DC: Skyline Schmoozing: The Rooftop Scene.
IA: Putting into doubt the future of a ban.
IN: Goshen may amend proposed ban.
MD: House and Senate Reach Compromise.
NV: Ashless, ashless, they all fall down?
NV: Smoking Ban Again is Challenged in Court.
NY: Lawmakers mull $2 cigarette tax.
OH: Altering ban rules would be a challenge.
OH: Bill sets stage for ban exemption.
OH: Chillicothe Smoking ban on city agenda.
SC: Senate proposal for state ban.
TX: McAllen smoking ban back on table.
VA: House says NO to state ban.
| Ban Damage Hurts Everyone |
IL: Orland Park killing their business.
ME: High tax encourages theft.
NJ: Smoking ban blamed for closures.
TX: Smoker jailed in Abilene after not paying.
USA: Smoker on plane had panic attack.
Scotland: Beer sales in pubs are falling.
| The Slippery Slope After Tobacco |
Antismoking Extremists Lying Dentists.
Ban Children Next. Noisy, messy, dangerous.
Rancid smell of body odour in UK clubs.
Wood boilers Regulation of ME outdoors. | 
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The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterApril 6, 2007 - Issue #427
"You don't have to see the whole staircase,
just take the first step."
- Martin Luther King, Jr. |
 Proposed smoking bans light up debate. By Tom Kisken. Robert Best, California State Coordinator for The Smoker's Club, Inc. says, "The government doesn't have the right to legislate morality, and that's definitely what this is." Many of his arguments revolve around personal freedom. That, he said he believes, should be sacred.
They’re All Bad for You, but Should They Be Illegal? CT Trans fats ban, Insurance companies tell you to lose weight? “Let’s not give government the key to our door so they can come into our homes to fine us and punish us,” said Gary Nolan, a spokesman for the Smoker’s Club...”
Enstrom Cleared of Scientific Misconduct Charges; American Cancer Society Owes Him An Apology. By Michael Siegel. To issue the attack on the individual researcher and attempt to denigrate the character of that individual by making what amount to false allegations of scientific misconduct is not appropriate.
Citizens' Commission to Protect the Truth is Hiding the Truth. It is in fact funded by the American Legacy Foundation to advocate on behalf of the American Legacy Foundation. |
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