The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterSeptember 28, 2007 - Issue #452
"Experience is a wonderful thing; it enables you to
recognize a mistake every time you repeat it."
- Anonymous |
 Paper Shows No Increase in Marlboro Nicotine Yields from 1997-2006, Yet Concludes There Has Been a Linear Trend of Increasing Yields During this Time. By Michael Siegel. what exactly does this paper tell us about consumer or population implications of the data reported therein? The answer is: nothing. And the paper acknowledges that, quite appropriately.
Santa Cruz lifts park smoking ban for medical marijuana festival. The smoking ban, less than two years old, will be lifted temporarily for medical marijuana users to medicate at San Lorenzo Park during next week's Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana annual festival.
Cameraderie of Smoking. By Ashley Gurbal. ‘‘Whenever you have a group of people that feels it has been singled out for unjust persecution you’re going to find that the members of that group will bond to each other,’’ McFadden said.
Bar Owners Plan Statehouse Rally. Group Seeking Relief From Anti-Smoking Law. October 9 at the Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio.
Edmonton, Canada. Health Nanny Excesses Protest. A picket-line style protest, September 30 and October 1.
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Dominican Republic: US President Bush vows to veto bill.
Spain: Catalan to extend smoking ban to include even small bars.
USA: Altria Group goes to court against two online ventors.
CA: UC regents to let researchers get tobacco industry grants.
CA: Yuba City, They aren’t blowing smoke.
FL: Repeal smoking ban for sake of pals. By Jack Bray.
HI: Smoking with what? No aloha in smoking ban.
IL: Champaign Council votes against alcohol laws.
IL: Gambling expansion to fund projects, capital construction.
IN: Smoking bans deprive owners of due property rights.
KY: Warren County says NO to Clean Air Act.
MN: Anti-smoking law to expand. By Don Davis.
TN: Tax hike prompts cigarette surveillance on state borders.
WI: Debate continues over smoking ban proposal.
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A hidden killer: Smoky kitchens kills 1.5 million people a year.
Cell Phone Ban for UK motorists, talk moving to the USA.
Obese pay higher health premiums slammed, think twice.
Pesticide chemical sprays can `double` the risk of asthma.
Screen all babies for high cholesterol, doctors say.
Vehicle Exhaust air pollution issue at the Port of Seattle. |
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# posted by Samantha : 9:04 AM
The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterSeptember 21, 2007 - Issue #451
"You're talking about protecting people from their own decisions."
- Jacob Sullum |
 Do Anti-Smoking Activists Know The Restaurant Business Better Than Restaurateurs Do? By Jacob Sullum. Even if restaurateurs know less about their own business than Stanton Glantz does, it's still their business, theirs to fritter away through unprofitable smoking policies if they so choose. And since exposure to secondhand smoke in a bar or restaurant is not forced on anyone, there is no externality to be corrected and therefore no moral justification for the use of force by people who prefer a smoke-free environment.
When examining something like the Scottish "Magical Study By Press Release" tactic it's important to examine the history of previous scams.
How Vitamin C Stops the Big "C." Source: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. ("The Big "C?" What? Are the folks at Johns Hopkins like... 6 years old?!)
Scientists do the numbers. By Andreas von Bubnoff. The debate is unlikely to be resolved any time soon. "If you put five epidemiologists and five statisticians in a room and have this debate," Young says, "and try to get each one to convince the other side, at the end of the day it will still be five to five."
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Canada: Imperial Tobacco Canada to test market snus.
Bahrain: Smoking may be outlawed, law being drafted.
Dubai: Smoking ban in mall comes into force.
UK: Updates and other observations, crisis, and backlash.
CA: Ban on smoking in cars goes to Gov. Schwarzenegger.
CA: Oakland toned-down smoking ban goes to City Council.
CO: Avon smoking ban stays strict, go to Vail instead.
IL: American Lung Association is gunning for casinos.
IL: DuPage County opts to wait on 2007-08 budget.
KY: Ban smoking? What’s next — beer? By Jeff Vanderbeck.
MA: Struggling bingo games brace for casino impact.
MN: Businesses prepare for smoking ban.
NH: The free market, not laws, should determine smoke-free.
NJ: Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino Floor Bans Smoking.
NY: Black market cigarettes in Chinatown.
SD: Cigarette tax produces less than forecast.
USA: There are 5 versions of Bill Number H.R.976 in Congress.
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AK: Darwin's has the wrong smoking theory, city says.
LA: Leave stadium for a smoke, you can't get back in.
NV: Bilbo's dodges a contempt citation.
OH: 34 warnings and no fines in central Ohio. 480 statewide.
PA: St. Margaret neighbors upset over smoking ban.
TX: Woman fired because she smells like cigarette smoke.
Australia: Pokies plummett as smoke clears. Slashed charity.
UK: Doctors refuse to fix broken ankle unless patient quits smoking.
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Parents don't let your children grow up to be rock stars.
Cameras to catch smokers littering on the street, on-the-spot fines.
Clarian: Scales Back Employee Health Demands, smokers, obese.
More than 6,000 U.S. Employers Refuse to Hire Smokers. By Michael Siegel. Anti-smoking groups should be ashamed of themselves for failing to speak out strongly against this obnoxious practice. |
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# posted by Samantha : 12:08 PM
The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterSeptember 14, 2007 - Issue #450
"Those who deny freedom to others
deserve it not for themselves."
- Abraham Lincoln |
 Big Popcorn. Companies act a day after hospital warns of health risks from flavoring ingredient diacetyl. So far, attention has focused on worker exposure, rather than on possible health problems affecting consumers who pop popcorn in their microwave ovens. That focus may be changing, however, with a warning sent by one of the country’s leading lung disease experts.
Pfizer study. Their study says to use Lipitor or die with the generic brand. Yes, THEIR study and OR DIE.
RWJF, Pfizer, J & J, Grant question on funding to Kerry Cork.
Disseminating Junk Science. By Michael Siegel. I find this science by press release approach to be yet another disturbing development in the tobacco control movement. This, too, is in my view contributing toward the degradation of the scientific integrity of the movement.
The Nanny State. By Charley Reese. Have you ever thought about what freedom is? It is simply the freedom to make your own decisions without outside interference. If you choose to smoke, drink and gamble, you should be free to do so. If you can't, then you aren't free.
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Canada: Somebody please tell Sean Penn about the legal Crown 7!
Fred Thompson: Al Qaeda smoking ban pushed Iraqis to the US. NYDaily News Distorts Comment. Iraqi official, Colonel Faik, who the Muftis would order the severance of the two fingers used to hold a cigarette for any Iraqis caught smoking.
Sweden: Woman appeals garden smoking ban on her own land.
UK: Fear and loathing in Edinburgh. By Simon Clark.
UK: No-smoking signs for unmarked police cars.
CA: Everyone in Belmont has lost their minds, and should leave the land of the free if they want to remove all property rights. Attend 9/25.
CA: Teachers rethink retirement tobacco investment ban.
MA: Rep. Peterson & Grafton post wants regulation rescinded.
MI: Calhoun County says NO to ban in restaurants and bars.
MI: Just another step in losing our freedoms. By Bill Johnson.
MS: Petal considers smoking ban, October 11 meeting.
MS: State wants anti-smoking group to repay $7.7 million.
OK: Judge revives lawsuit. Seneca-Cayuga tribe to get day in court. OR: Reynolds tweaks ads against cigarette tax.
PA: Smoking ban for restaurants? No, thank you.
USA: Congress Wants to Smoke Out Taxpayers — Again.
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AZ: Stakeout Stops Suspected Smugglers by narcotics task force.
OH: Car Hits Smoking Bus Passengers, Killing 1.
OH: Smoking Man Stabbed Outside Local Bar in Riverside.
PA: Looking beyond big bingo bucks.
South Wales: Smoking ban hits Bingo night tills.
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Burger King has a new twist, fresh apples that look like fries.
Look up. Seattle cops may soon be watching.
Motorcyclists UK Slower Speeds Initiative and the full regulation of your legal product, to limit power, weight and speed.
Obesity: Just sell your house and leave NJ if you are a parent. Run! Wood stoves CA ban in the works for this winter. This will spread! |
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# posted by Samantha : 10:22 AM
The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterSeptember 7, 2007 - Issue #449
"Got to stop treating people - Like they have no feelings.
Stop treating people - Like they have no meaning."
- Adam Ant "Won't Take That Talk" |
 Cancer Society Focuses Its Ads. In a stark departure from past practice, the American Cancer Society plans to devote its entire $15 million advertising budget this year not to smoking cessation or colorectal screening but to the consequences of inadequate health coverage.
First They Came For the Smokers… Then They Came For the Overweight. By Jacqueline S. Homan. The problem isn’t the overweight, the smokers, or those over age 40. It’s the prejudice and lousy attitudes...
Teenage Girls Starting A Diet, Twice As Likely To Start Smoking.
The 'addictions' racket. Your Honor, and ladies and gentlemen of the jury; every day Ronald McDonald ordered me to eat a dozen Big Macs and untold supersized fries. I am at his mercy. To be made whole, that clown must be made to pay.
New Study From Ireland. By Michael Siegel. This seems to be par for the course in the tobacco control movement right now. Junk science is passing for perfectly valid science in tobacco control these days.
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Austria: Railways to ban smoking on trains.
Seoul: Non-Smoking Ban Under Way for All Bus Stops.
Netherlands: Update and video for the Southern Crusade.
CA: Belmont narrows scope of proposed smoking ban ordinance.
IL: DuPage predicts major shortages in 2008 budget.
KS: Lawmakers reject recommending statewide smoking ban.
KY: Pikeville considers public smoking ban.
OR: Philip Morris sues to stop Measure 50.
PA: Robert Gehrmann speaks about bans on "Business Matters."
PA: West Pittston Proposes Teen Smoking Ban.
TX: Lewisville Council tables decision on smoking election.
USA: Do Cigarette Taxes Help or Hurt Poor Smokers?
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AZ: Smoking ban has some Phoenix Elks fuming.
HI: Tells Japan tourists, 'OK to smoke' and gives free ashtrays.
NV: Bully's Bar & Grill has gotten around the Anti's.
OH: 30 bars and clubs fined for violations of smoking ban.
UK: A death Knell for the pubs of village England.
UK: Pub sprayed with cigarette smell to get smokers back.
Regent lost $3 million in bookings since announcing its new policy.
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Chaw ban in AR because one person says it's gross?
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