The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterFebruary 1, 2008 - Issue #468
"Liberty is not a means to a higher political end.
It is the highest political end."
- Lord Acton |
 Taking liberties. By Jonah Goldberg. Once again, personal choices are under attack by good-for-you government.
Pharmaceutical interests who funded smoking ban laws expect pharmaceutical nicotine sales to reach $4.6 billion annually by 2016. Anti-smoking vaccines: set to ignite underdeveloped prescription market.
Ovarian cancer risk not affected by alcohol and smoking, but reduced by caffeine. From CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.
 Crown 7: “My product gives you the nicotine, but what looks like smoke is really water vapor. It is an alternative for bars and restaurants. It’s not meant to be a replacement,” MacDonald said.
Electric cigarette beats pub smoking ban in Australia. THE term "lighting up" a smoke could take on a whole new meaning with the development of an electronic cigarette.
Read: Product reviews for smokers who enjoy smoking.
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The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter.
Canada: Segregation alive and booming... By Sylvia Lanski.
France: Beating The Smoking Ban In France & Germany.
Taiwan: May Quadruple Cigarette Tax to Curb Smoking.
IL: ACTION: Print the petition to the Illinois General Assembly.
IL: The Batavia City Council takes smoke ban local.
IL: Naperville. The police sent three cruisers and five big cops.
IL: Tazewell County reviews smoking ban, on all county property.
IL: Veterans are forced to sit or stand out in freezing temperatures.
ME: Car smoking ban with kids under 16 years old goes for vote.
MO: Kansas City ban that affects most restaurants, but not bars.
NY: Dr. Richard F. Daines crack down on tobacco.
TX: Public can comment on Nederland, TX smoking ban plan.
TX: Proposed Tyler Smoking Ban Up For Debate.
UT: Protecting the children? Smoking while children are in the car?
VA: Anti Smoking Extremist smoking suit cites ADA.
WI: Legislators push back on Doyle’s call for smoking ban.
WI: Smoking ban takes away our freedom of choice.
USA: Drugmakers spend billions wooing doctors with gifts and trips.
USA: House Sustains Bush Veto Of Health Bill, cigarette tax.
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AZ: Alfonso Larriva, Metro Sportz Bar, fighting the ban update.
MO: Independence group gathers names for possible amendments.
MO: Smoking Ban Hurts Business. Decreased nearly one-third.
Germany: Helmut Schmidt, ex-chancellor, flouting smoking ban.
Philippines: Pasig defying citys smoking ban, faced resistance.
| The Slippery Slope After Tobacco |
Booze: New rules require bars in Sunrise, FL to close by midnight.
Fatosphere: Big Is In, or at Least Accepted, in fat people blogs.
Food Regulations: NYC post calorie content on the menu board.
Health: Americans to Drink More Treated Sewage.
Health: Manure drastically reduces development of lung cancer.
Medical Care: UK, Smokers, heavy drinkers, the obese and the elderly should be barred from receiving some operations, according to doctors, with most saying the health service cannot afford to provide free care to everyone. Don't treat the old and unhealthy. |
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# posted by Samantha : 11:01 AM
The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterJanuary 25, 2008 - Issue #467
"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."
- Martin Luther King Jr. |
 Cees van der Knaap. Netherlands. New mayor gets private smoking room. Former defence minister Cees van der Knaap, who is about to be sworn in as mayor of Ede, is having a special smoking room built next to his office, the Telegraaf reports. The paper says chain-smoking Van der Knaap has also made sure that civil servants, who currently have to go outside to smoke, will also get an indoor smoking area. 
Lawmakers, staff pan smoke-free Congress. This is silly feel good crap by a bunch of do-gooders, barked a high-level Democratic staffer (also a smoker). We should be worried about the housing crisis, the unemployment rate and the national debt instead of making staffers walk four blocks to buy a pack of smokes. We should have seen this coming. 
Germany's Udo Nagel, Hamburg's secretary of the interior, is a tobacco aficionado. The pipe smoker submitted a request to turn his office into a designated smoking area. Co-workers can drop by the boss' office (assuming he's not in a meeting) and puff away.
| From The International Mailbag |
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter.
Czech Republic: They ignore the smoking ban, NO total ban.
Dubai: The third phase of the smoking regulations in public places.
India: Health minister Anbumani Ramadoss is at it again.
NZ: Smoking linked to REDUCED allergic sensitization.
UK: Andy Hemming cleared of smoke breach, wins in court.
UK: MP Alleges Cover-up In Cyberspace, staff changed information.
CA: Calabasas expands smoking limits to apartments.
IL: The ban covers virtually all public indoor spaces.
MI: Grand Valley State says it doesn't have to follow county ban.
MS: The Dickie Scruggs bribery case keeps getting curiouser.
NY: Attempt To Extinguish Smoking Waivers Fails.
PA: Anti-smoking zealots are free to move to France.
TX: Alert: Dallas bars next on the smoking ban list.
VA: Use this form to submit your comments to the Governor.
WA: Bills would ban smoking when kids are in the car.
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IL: Ban kills Marshall McGearty RJR Smoking Lounge.
IL: Chicago Big Smoke Cancelled by Cigar Aficionado.
MO: Can it be true? Where there's smoke, there's economic fire.
MO: Six more cited Columbia downtown over tobacco ban.
China: Customers desert the first smokefree restaurant.
Germany: 'Nazi' claim as Germans rebel over smoking ban.
UK: A DRAMATIC stand-off took place at a pro-smoking pub.
| The Slippery Slope After Tobacco |
Child Obesity. Rates On The Rise At National, State Levels.
Dirty Air Poses Threat To Boston Commuters, diesel fumes.
Music. Sean Paul Music Triggers Woman's Seizures.
Smoking In Movies. Influences Kids Lighting Up, study shows.
Water. Don't drink the water - at least, not too much.
Wood: Proposed CA wood burning ban draws fire, in Bay Area. |
 
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# posted by Samantha : 10:24 AM
The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterJanuary 18, 2008 - Issue #466
"It never hurt Lenny Bruce's career to get arrested for swearing.
It did back in the time, but he broke those doors down by
doing the stuff that he believed in."
- Joe Rogan |
 Proposal would ban swearing in bars. A St. Louis-area town is considering a bill that would ban swearing in bars, along with table-dancing, drinking contests and profane music. A sincere desire to preserve the safe and fun environment of our historic city prompted the introduction of Ordinance 9527, which proposed many significant changes to our liquor license rules.
SC House Judiciary Committee To Consider Eliminating Smoke-Free Ordinances. The bill would stop local communities from passing their own no smoking laws.
Europeans chafe under New Year 'nanny state' laws. Europe started 2008 with a raft of new laws against smoking, air pollution and even junk food adverts, but some grumbled that the New Year's resolutions from the "nanny state" cramped their style.
| From The International Mailbag |
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter.
Australia: Casino's outdoor plan to entice smoking gamblers.
UK: Gordon Brown's rule is like America's Prohibition era.
UK: Smoker ban plan is axed for operations on smokers.
CO: Thought you might be interested in what the legislature is doing.
CT: Accounting sought on MSA tobacco money. Where is it?
FL: Zimmerman Wins Florida's Anti-Smoking Campaign.
IL: No smoking! Convicts go cold turkey, face withdrawal.
NY: Board Of Health Will Consider Rescinding Waivers.
NY: Keep tobacco decisions private. By Dick Lucinski.
OH: Telling vets to smoke outside is un-American.
VA: Kaine to Try Again to Pass Smoking Ban.
VA: York says NO and turns down smoking ban.
WI: Where Do You Stand? The Smoking Ban Resurfaces.
WI: Governor attempts to light a fire under state lawmakers.
USA: Federal update with the candidates. Huckabee about-face.
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HI: Revise smoking ban to give options to bar owners.
NY: Queens bar owner accused of $100 bribery over violation.
OH: Liquor Inspections Reveal Smoking In Bars.
OH: On Line National Petition for Congressional Hearing.
OH: Struggling veterans orgs look for new ways to survive.
Canada: Barry Collen, 74, froze to death outside for a smoke.
Germany: Hoax: Boss fires staff for not smoking, revenge.
Germany: German Don Quixotes Tilt against Smoking Ban.
UK: Dawn OBrien fined for smoke ban noise, over one complaint.
UK: PM Gordon Brown barred by 105 North Yorkshire pubs.
UK: Stuart Smith will openly flout the smoking ban in his pub.
UK: Watch the news clip: Pubs in Crisis Flouting the ban.
| The Slippery Slope After Tobacco |
Alcohol tax? NY Democrat Felix Ortiz wants sin tax to cut drinking.
Cartoons: Snuffing out Goofy's cigarette, and inconsistency.
'Nazi' home invasion in Colorado woman's home, no rights. |
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For all my soldiering I always had a strong sense of patriotic duty towards my country, so imagine my horror when our so called government decided that freedom of choice was no longer a right, and was outlawed. This is not the country I served to protect, but rather the very thing I was protecting it from. |
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# posted by Samantha : 10:21 AM
The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterJanuary 11, 2008 - Issue #465
If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back
every now and then to make sure it's still there."
- Will Rogers |
 Smoking As Child Abuse: From the Car to the Home. By Jacob Sullum. John Banzhaf, founder and executive director of Action on Smoking and Health, who wants the ban extended into smokers' homes. "Smoking, like other activities, should be confined to consenting adults in private," he says. Banzhaf elaborates in a press release he sent me today.
Center for Public Accountability in Tobacco Control. Established to Bring Public Health Principles Back into Tobacco Control. Hold tobacco control groups accountable to the primary constituency they are supposed to be serving: the public.
Cancer Scandal. What’s in a name? Where did millions of research grant money go? And until physicians, policy makers and the public become aware of the damage being done by ignorant, conflicted and corrupt leadership of health care organizations, nothing will be done at all.
Is Stop-Smoking Drug A Suicide Risk? ANTI-SMOKING "wonder drug" Champix will hit shelves in Australia tomorrow, even after being linked to more than 62 deaths and thousands of cases of suicidal thoughts and depression in the US and Britain.
| From The International Mailbag |
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter.
Denmark: The law will be 'revised' in 2009 to apply in 2010.
France: Left Bank fumes in a smoke-free zone. Owner rebels.
Hong Kong: Smoking ban backlash, people are smoking more.
Iran: Smoking ban in all public places in Iran.
Israel: MK Zvi Hendel blows smoke at anti-tobacco lobby.
Portugal: Anti-smoking chief breaks ban on Day 1.
UK: Happy 109th Birthday Hilda Newson.
CA: Santa Monica moves to strengthen no-smoking laws.
IL: Public vs. private property. By Raymond Weiland.
IL: Wamac City Council plans to fight smoking ban.
KY: Judge says NO and throws out Louisville's smoking ban
MO: City standing by its smoking ban despite court setback.
MO: Libertarians say smoker-friendly law would work.
NC: Smoking bans among new state laws for the New Year.
NH: Giuliani protects Smokers. Political update from Eric Dondero.
PA: Matt Baker says a statewide indoor ban will be approved.
PA: Wegman Grocery Store Chain Pulls All Tobacco Products.
SC: High court to hear smoking ban case, State Update.
WA: Smoking Ban Starts in Some KCHA Housing Properties.
USA: Life's tough on North American smokers.
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OH: Ban is a sham in Marion, customers go elsewhere.
Canada: Police, hospital searched for missing patient found dead.
Germany: Restaurateur Introduces Smoking Holes in the wall.
UK: Smoking ban plunges club into crisis, Bingo closes and more.
UK: Smokers set to take a stand against ban on Hogmanay.
| The Slippery Slope After Tobacco |
Cussing Ban Proposed In St. Charles, MO Bars. Meeting 1/14.
Drink Policy of only serving two alcoholic drinks to parents with kids.
Light Bulbs Ban. No incandescent light bulbs as of 2012.
Mandate electronic health records bill A.4044 starts in NJ.
SIDS Scripps study on SIDS focuses on accidental suffocation.
Smog. Cancer risk from SoCal smog declines, dirtiest air.
TV Show Smoking. Rovers Return to get smoking area.
New Zealand: No smoke, no fire, just nicotine. Smokers can puff legally at indoor bars and cafes with a battery-powered "electronic cigarette" because its nicotine hit comes in a vapour. The Ministry of Health has confirmed that using the device would not breach the Smokefree Environments Act, which extended workplace smoking bans.
Turkey: Health Ministry suspends the sale of electronic cigarettes, which were imported into the country under the definition of pesticide. Experts dismiss claims that it is a ‘harmless’ way to quit smoking, arguing that it is just as addictive and harmful as regular cigarettes. |
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