The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterAugust 29, 2008 - Issue #497
Courage is the mastery of fear - not the absence of fear.
- Mark Twain |  Kim Larsen. Fight against smoking ban. Manager Jørn Jeppesen says that the slogan is indeed inspired from the nazi slogan and he finds it quite suitable as the German regime under Adolf Hitler was the first to make smoking restrictions in their attempt to create the Perfect Race.
"Health intervention" are band wagon and cult like witch burning campaigns. Letter to the World Health Organization. We are under a constant assault of statistical woes and “new” discoveries, to the point of information overload where the majority of us are simply confused; between the views of legitimate unbiased information, and quite biased advocacy cherry picked information produced with conscious intent to deceive, in order to gain an advantage.
Cold Turkey has always been the best way to quit smoking. NRT is very ineffective. The American Cancer Society's 2003 Cancer Facts and Figures report asserts that 91.4% of all successful long-term quitters quit entirely on their own.
Chantix: The quit smoking pill that has horrible side effects, and is even killing some people.
IN: New Albany Mayor Doug England ponders veto of ban.
MN: Delegates will surely see the massive damage due to bans.
PA: Businesses brace for smoking ban, grace period over.
RI: Tribe member appeals verdict in smoke shop lawsuit.
TX: Magnolia Hotels now smoke-free in Dallas and Houston.
TX: Testimony of Mike Hello from AMOT to the Senate.
USA Movie Ratings Don’t Teach Children Not To Smoke.
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter, read all the news.
UK: Deadline Sept.8 for submissions to the consultation document.
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 Does Hot Dog-Cancer Ad Go Too Far?
It's a startling revelation in an ad that vilifies one of America's most beloved, if maligned, foods, while stoking fears about a dreaded disease. But the boy doesn't have cancer. Neither do two other kids in the ad who claim to be afflicted.
Red Bull Ban? Is Red Bull next on the chopping block? So in keeping with the silly “no safe level of…” rhetoric that every rational person should consider suspect when they hear it, some Aussie doctor is now making the claim that there is “no safe level of Red Bull consumption.”
Water bottles ban London, Ontario plans to replace the water bottles with newly built water fountains. He even insisted that "drinkers of bottled water are the new smokers," and should be similarly socially vilified.
AL hits obese workers with fee. Alabama already charges workers who smoke -- and has seen some success in getting them to quit -- but now has turned its attention to a problem that plagues many people in the Deep South: obesity.
Smokers and fat people should pay higher health insurance premiums to encourage them to live a healthier life and make them less of a burden on the health system, according to one of Perth’s leading cardiologists.
UK Taking fat kids from parents. It will also discuss whether the food industry should use agreed standards on portion sizes, government campaigns on healthy eating, and incentives for local councils and small businesses to promote exercise. |  | | Join FREE - Home - Events - Forum - Videos - Please Help - © |
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The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterAugust 15, 2008 - Issue #495
“A single zealot may commence prosecutor,
and better men be his victims”
- Thomas Jefferson |
 March of the zealots. Every age has its dominant caste. This is the age of the zealot. Twenty years ago they were dismissed as cranks and fanatics, but now they are licensed to interfere in the every day lives of ordinary people to an unprecedented degree. When Bernard Levin first identified the new phenomenon of the SIFs (Single Issue Fanatics) many of us thought it was a bit of a joke or at most an annoyance. Now the joke is on us. In that short time they have progressed from being an ignorable nuisance to what is effectively a branch of government. They initiate legislation and prescribe taxation.
Scared Senseless. By Geoffrey C. Kabat. "The highly charged climate surrounding environmental health risks can create powerful pressure for scientists to conform and to fall into line with a particular position."
The Moralists of San Francisco. By Selwyn Duke. Help is an interesting word. It increasingly has become a euphemism, a codeword meaning, "I'm going to force my conception of virtue on you in the name of compassion, tolerance or sensitivity, and I won't even show you the courtesy of calling it what it is: the imposition of values."
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter, read all the news.
Germany: Igniting Europe's smoking revolution, after ban defeat.
UK: Smoking ban in British waters, up to 12 miles from coast.
UK: Pub managers fined for flouting smoke ban on film footage.
CA: LA Pushes Ban on Smoking Everywhere Outdoors.
IA: Iowans For Equal Rights fights the ban.
MD: Cigarette Tax Burnout, Politicians are scratching their heads.
NM: Navajo Nation President vetoes smoking ban.
NY: Will State Collect Cigarette Tax From Senecas?
SC: North Augusta deprives property owners of rights.
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Asbestos found at Sunrise Propane Industrial Gases blast site.
Cell Phones: Cause cancer, ugga-booga-booga. Dr. Herberman.
Chemical Paranoia: Pesticides, a list of 45 fruits and vegetables.
Microwave Mind Control. Intelligence forces in the UK.
Stink! Smoking covered up funny bar smell, says a scent scientist.
Talking signs tell smokers to stub it out, every few minutes.
Study: Half of overweight adults may be heart-healthy, defying conventional wisdom. You can look great in a swimsuit and still be a heart attack waiting to happen. And you can also be overweight and otherwise healthy. |
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The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterAugust 8, 2008 - Issue #494
"If people can learn to hate they can be taught to love, for love
comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."
- Nelson Mandela |
 House passes bill to regulate tobacco. House of Representatives voted 326-102 to place tobacco under the jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Administration. The move would give FDA bureaucrats the ability to regulate tobacco as well as tobacco advertisements, a power that both Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt and FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach oppose. In a statement, the White House threatened to veto the bill if the Senate passes a version pending there and sends it to President Bush’s desk.
Smoking: A case for harm reduction? By Libby Topp.
Scotland Rehashing an old study, and pretending it is new. Will the British Heart Foundation and ASH now retract their earlier statements and apologize to the public for drawing and disseminating premature conclusions? I doubt it. This is why it is essentially that we get it right the first time around. But when your sole criterion for scientific quality is whether the study results support your pre-determined conclusion, it is going to be difficult to get it right the first time, or any time.
The Doors Of Perception: Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything. By Dr. Tim O'Shea. We are the most conditioned, programmed beings the world has ever known. Not only are our thoughts and attitudes continually being shaped and molded; our very awareness of the whole design seems like it is being subtly and inexorably erased.
Canada looting tobacco companies. By Pierre Lemieux. The settlement between two major cigarette manufacturers (Imperial Tobacco Canada and Rothmans, Benson & Hedges) and the federal and provincial governments is a shame. It not only continues the persecution of smokers and their suppliers, it also brings state surveillance and the egoism of state rulers to new heights.
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter, read all the news.
Canada: Mr. Kennedy has documented evidence that does prove...
Canada: More Smoke and Mirrors For Tobacco Farmers.
UK: Woman Thrown on Live Rail After Telling Kids to Stop Smoking.
CA: Join the new California Smokers group, discuss ban issues.
HI: Pro-smoking campaign gains power against Goliath.
KY: Smoking controversy comes to Somerset city hall.
MD: Montgomery College Snuffs Out Smoking on campus.
SC: Alert - Ban being considered in City of Easley.
USA: NoCigTax.com News about increased tobacco taxes. |
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