The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterJune 27, 2008 - Issue #488
"A lie can travel half way around the world
while the truth is putting on its shoes."
- Mark Twain |
ALERT! Move to ban menthol cigarettes. Call your Member of Congress now and tell them to oppose any amendment to ban Menthol cigarettes. Tell them to say NO!
Bill Would Ban Flavored Cigarettes in New Jersey under a bill approved by an Assembly committee.
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The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter, read all the news.
Canada: Ontario passes ban on smoking in cars with kids under 16.
The Big Smoke will be opening on the significant July 1, the anniversary of the ban in London, at the Museum Of London.
World: Updates on Smokeless Tobacco Industry News.
World: Updates on Tobacco Industry News, ITC raising prices.
CA: Research workers accuse UC of retaliation over complaints.
CA: Tobacco Foes in California Think Globally, Act Locally.
IA: Clinton IA, Smoking ban fight to go national.
OH: ALERT: Email information for politicians on SB 346.
FL: Commission Rejects Health Department's Request For Funds.
WI: Operation Mollycoddle aims to ban the ban.
USA: Leader of the Pack. So here’s a piece of strategic advice for the candidate: Lose the Nicorette. Light up instead.
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HI: When will smokers be welcome back? We will come back!
MI: Silver Star owner's sign clears air about bar's smoking policy.
NV: Nevada Taverns Refuse to Obey Nevada Smoking ban.
France: Smokers are uniting to beat a ban on lighting up in public by organising open-house parties where they can puff on their Gauloises until the early hours.
Holland: Coffee shops say tobacco ban is blow to business.
UK: 'Bring back smoking' campaign launched in Chorley.
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The coming global warming bust. That's what bugs Al Gore and his fellow travelers most – having to accept the proposition that man proposes, and nature – and nature's God – disposes. We're just not as important as some of us think we are, and that smarts.
Lung Cancer Vaccine Available. Cuba’s biotech industry plans to launch the vaccine on the international market. |
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The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterJune 20, 2008 - Issue #487
"Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom - for himself."
- Elbert Hubbard |
 Reining In the Kings of Tort. The cases involve two of the country's most prominent class-action lawyers, Melvyn Weiss and Dickie Scruggs. Over the past several decades, they have won billions in judgments against tobacco companies, asbestos companies, energy companies and other putative corporate villains. Both pleaded guilty this year to criminal abuse of the legal system.
Chantix: Litigation Predicted in Wake of FAA Ban of Chantix Use by Pilots and Air Traffic Controllers: Smoking Cessation Drug Target of Controversy. Kristian Rasmussen, a veteran pharmaceutical litigation attorney with the law firm Cory Watson Crowder & DeGaris said, "The magnitude of the health risks associated with Chantix is alarming - we are trying to determine whether the drug maker, Pfizer, failed to disclose information it may have had about adverse side effects."
 Increase In Drunk Driving Fatalities Followed Ban On Smoking In Bars. While the results at first seemed surprising to Adams, a UWM assistant professor of economics, and Cotti, now at the University of South Carolina, literature on consumer behavior suggests an explanation: Smokers are willing to drive longer distances to an establishment that allows smoking.
Nicotine for non-smokers depression. Nicotine may improve the symptoms of depression in people who do not smoke, Duke University Medical Center scientists have discovered.
SIDS May Be Linked to Bacteria. At birth, mothers transfer some of their antibodies against infection to their babies. But when babies are from 8 to 10 weeks old, the maternal antibodies have nearly run out and the babies typically have not started producing enough of their own.
Japan: Seeking Trim Waists, Measures Millions. Under a national law that came into effect two months ago, companies and local governments must now measure the waistlines of Japanese people between the ages of 40 and 74 as part of their annual checkups. That represents more than 56 million waistlines, or about 44 percent of the entire population.
Airlines May Start Treating Passengers `Like Freight.' Imagine two scales at the airline ticket counter, one for your bags and one for you. The price of a ticket depends upon the weight of both.
OH: ALERT: Ohio Voters Misled When They Voted for Ban.
OH: Senate smoking ban revision. Delaney's Lounge update.
SC: There are several important runoff races, Vote June 24th.
TX: Dallas officials want to ban smoking in bars.
NoCigTax.com: Fight Tobacco tax increases in MI, NH, PA, RI.
USA: Smokers, I Love You. By Jo Scott-Coe.
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The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterJune 13, 2008 - Issue #486
"Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower |
 New Study Concludes that Smoking Causes Impairment in Memory among Middle Aged Adults. By Michael Siegel. The authors are quick to dismiss their finding that ex-smokers had better cognitive function by arguing that they must have had other health behaviors that led to better cognitive function. The idea that the smoking caused the increased cognitive function is not entertained. However, for the finding that current smokers had impaired memory, the study does not similarly dismiss the finding by arguing that they must have also had other health behaviors that led to worse cognitive functioning.
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Canada: Press release is a paid message from legal drug dealers.
Africa: How to Solve Africa's Food Crisis. By Thompson Ayodele.
UK: I have a basic human right to look at fag packets.
World: Never mind the zealots: smoking has a role in film. By public health academic Simon Chapman.
OH: Health board snuffs out two tobacco-related positions.
OH: Smoke Signals: Cities should butt out, people's health choices.
PA: Legislature passes smoking ban bill, sends to Rendell.
VA: NY Times Slimes VCU over Philip Morris' contracts.
WI: Good ventilation can solve smoking controversy.
USA: Tobacco Taxes and the Constitutional Rights of Smokers
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DC: Jack's faces overcrowding charge for 2007 High Heel Race.
IL: Smoking ban especially bad for state economy.
MN: We're now at 197 closings from ban, and casino damage.
Canada: Tobacconist Rick Arora, squeezed by dueling laws in B.C.
Nigeria: Top Officials Defy Govt Order on smoking ban.
Germany: Smoking Ban Proves Costly for German Bars.
Pollution fears are misplaced while toxins thrive indoors. Following the smoking ban, advocates of clean air might have believed that the battle was largely won. However, worrying new research highlights the pernicious effects of other life-threatening pollutants. Most worrying is the fact that these are pollutants that occur inside the home. |
  
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The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterJune 6, 2008 - Issue #485
"Don't stay up thinking of ways to get rid of me,
it makes wrinkles."
- Frederick Loren, "House on Haunted Hill" 1959 |
 The Stiletto. A save and print out flyer designed for anyone anywhere facing or in the middle of a ban. Give copies to your local business owners.
More Smokers Stuff To Print And Use.
Hawaii: The Red List - Who to vote out in November!
 War on smokers is like a horror movie. By Jim Bailey. The classic 1959 film "House on Haunted Hill" presents a bone-chilling image. After all the other guests in an isolated mansion have been killed one by one, the last one alive says: "They are coming for me now ..." Then he looks dead on into the camera and says: "... and then they will come for you." The evil is approaching - slow and steady.
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India: People can only smoke on Roads or in their homes.
Israel: Is there basis to the belief that passive smoking is harmful?
Portugal: Observations from a Freedom to Choose Member.
UK: Forest slams tobacco display ban, gesture politics.
UK: Cigarette Packs May Go Plain in UK, undermining brands.
AR: Two university campus' say NO to bans. ACLU of Arkansas has stepped in and proclaimed that civil rights were being violated with this proposed smoking ban.
MO: Lawsuit filed against Kansas City's smoking ban.
NH: House delays proposed 25 cent cigarette tax hike.
NY: Ithaca, How about a ban on legislating morality?
PA: Says NO, snuffs out proposed state smoking ban.
SC: State Primaries - see who the antis are and take action.
SC: House sustains cigarette-tax veto, no increase.
SC: Folly Beach City Council says NO, rejected a smoking ban.
USA: Court Denies N.Y. State a Separate Arbitration Over Huge Tobacco Settlement. Appeals court also removes Manhattan justice as judge responsible for enforcing compliance with the 1998 settlement.
Ventilation not Legislation: Studies that show secondhand smoke is safer than OSHA permissible exposure limits may help pre-empt every state smoking ban enacted. By Mark Wernimont.
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CO: Bronco Billy’s Casino claims exemption to smoke-free law.
OH: The Columbus Symphony Orchestra is out of money.
WA: Bar owner opens 'private club' for smoking patrons.
Australia: No smoking ban rethink, despite pokies profit fall.
Germany: Public smoking ban makes rebels of Germans.
UK: The smoking ban in psychiatric institutions means their patients are the only people in Britain forbidden from smoking at home.
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Fined 5 percent of Massachusetts taxpayers uninsured.
Global Warming: UK: Breaking the Climate Deadlock initiative.
Lifestyle Discrimination: Florida Smokers need not apply.
Obesity epidemic in U.S. kids may have peaked.
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