The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterOctober 31, 2008 - Issue #501
"There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin."
- Linus Van Pelt |
 General Tobacco Sues 52 U.S. Attorneys General Over Restraint of Trade and Violation of the U.S. Constitution. Company Also Sues Competitors For More than $1 Billion. J. Ronald Denman, Executive Vice President of General Tobacco compared the MSA’s unequal treatment to a cartel. “The structure for the MSA created an impossible business environment for future competitors especially small players such as GT. All we are asking for is a level playing field for everyone,” Denman said.
South Carolina Alert! We are at the golden time of this two year cycle where we can identify those who hate us and either run against them for office or vote against them, both in the Primaries and the General Election. (In fact, in this year of a four year cycle, both the entire House and Senate are up for re-election.) This page will help us do so.
Ohio Alert!: This is EXTREMELY important and we need EVERYONE WE CAN GET to help! If you have any questions, please call me at 614-565-6560 or email me here. We know how oppressive Ohio's smoking ban is to family owned businesses, private clubs, to our liberties and freedom.
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The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter, read all the news.
Canada: It's hard to address the problem of asbestos-based illness when it's misdiagnosed, under-reported and often forgotten.
Nigeria: Smuggling: Policies that Stifle Entrepreneurial Initiatives.
UK: Michael's Story, abuse in nonsmoking foster homes.
UK: Letter to PM Gordon Brown from Justice for Licensees.
UK: The Battle of Ideas. Free Society Party November 2, 2008.
MA: Hub eyes new limits on tobacco, call today!
NH: Don't Smoke! Oh wait, we want more money...
NJ: Atlantic City says NO and lets 25% of space smoke.
TX: IPCPR Says Smoking Bans Are Like Gun Controls.
WI: Past and Present Collide. 17 genes for nicotine addiction.
WY: Proposed Jackson Smoking Ban Like ‘Bridge to Nowhere.’
USA: About That Interior Dept. Sex, Gift Scandal, Waxman.
USA: FDA May Revise Warning for Antismoking Drug Chantix.
USA: Panel Calls For Vaccine For Adult Smokers.
USA: Tobacco Today won a BMJ Golden Leaf Award. |
 A miserable knight at home.
There is only one reason that Britain has lost 2500 pubs since July 1st 2007. Its not the weather, its not cheap supermarket booze and its not the recession. Its the one thing that began on July 1st 2007, the f#cking smoking ban. Only liers claim otherwise, and only idiots believe them. |
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The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterOctober 24, 2008 - Issue #500
"I never wear a watch, Because I always know it's now
and now is when you should do it."
- Steve Mariucci |
 Four Groups File Complaints Against Carmona's 2006 Report. Citizens Freedom Alliance's complaint is centered on "changing and omitting data". The data for a meta-analysis is the studies collected from the body of research, but the SG's meta-analysis omits relevant studies such as the Enstrom/Kabat study, belittles other large relevant studies, includes highly questionable studies, and relies heavily on the thoroughly discredited 1992 EPA report (which was not only discredited by a Federal Judge, but by three congressional committees). By omitting relevant long-term, large studies as well as relying heavily on discredited reports, the Surgeon General both changed and omitted data in his meta-analysis of research on secondhand smoke (SHS)/environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), which did indeed ensure that the research is not accurately represented in the research record. He, therefore, committed "research misconduct" as defined by the "falsification" according to the "Public Health Service Policies on Research Misconduct". According to Gary Nolan, U.S. Regional Director for Citizens Freedom Alliance, "Americans should be angry about this waste of tax payer dollars. I truly believe this study was released for purely political reasons and is an insult to every honorable scientist in the world. The result of Carmona's ETS study was to needlessly ruin business, cost jobs and harm the economies of local communities and states across the country. He should be ashamed of his actions." | From The International Mailbag |
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter, read all the news.
Australia: Clean air policy up in smoke, more interested in revenue raising parking fines and grant money.
Bavaria could relax smoking ban in bars, suits stacking up in court.
Denmark: Parties want to drop cigarette package warnings.
Dutch pub owners rebel against smoking law, ashtrays out again!
German Casinos are state-owned. So the states basically harm itself with smoking bans.
India: Shrugging Off Smoking Ban. Uneven Enforcement, Public Apathy Pose Challenges to India's Health Initiative.
MA: Ludlow says NO to ban in private clubs, let them decide.
MS: IPCPR Says No Ban Needed. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
NJ: Casinos Choke on Smoke Bans, double digit revenue drops.
NJ: A letter to Mayor Evans and the Atlantic City Council.
NY: Violations of city's smoking ban rise by a third.
PA: IPCPR Urges Pennsylvania Lawmakers to Ban Smoking Bans.
USA: Obama Says He Still Smokes Occasionally.
USA: Philip Morris profits up despite agenda to reduce tobacco use.
USA: Up In Smoke: Pfizer’s Chantix Sales Go Poof.
| The Slippery Slope After Tobacco |
Air Pollution: Mexico City’s air may be undermining neural and mental functioning in some children. Bad air for growing brains and minds.
Baby Boomers quit smoking in droves, now we gotta pay the Alzheimer's piper, ONE TRILLION, TWO HUNDRED BILLION $!
Coffee: Drinking too much coffee could shrink women's breasts.
Green Power Revolution: Ethicists Ponder Plants' Rights.
Milk: Ontario farmer prosecuted for selling raw milk will not stop.
No Free Drinks to women in UK bars in the latest crackdown.
Pubs: Hoist One Last Glass. Can Britain still be Britain without pubs? |
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The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterOctober 17, 2008 - Issue #499
"I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it is."
- Wayne Gretzky |
 The TICAP Conference
1st World Conference Against Prohibition:
"Smoking Bans and Lies"
Brussels, at the European Parliament Building
27/28 January, 2009
 UK Open Your Own Bar. We're with you Mr.Chestnuts. We got pissed off so we made the social life come to us - which was quite easy as most of the local pubs have closed. Check out our solution. Nazi nannies have to stand in a bucket of poo outside and watch normal people doing what they used to do.
 UK Campaign for a Free Society. Thanks to everyone who came to The Freedom Zone at the Conservative conference in Birmingham. The two-day fringe conference, organised by Forest, The Free Society and The Freedom Association, attracted hundreds of guests.
 The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter, click here to read all the news.
John Carpay: Saskatchewan court reconsiders a tradition of tolerance
Smoking treatment lacking -AB
Tobacco tax hikes just hurt the poor -AB
Number of young smokers dropping fast in B.C. -BC
Where there’s smoke -BC
Arena bans cigarettes; smoke breaks snuffed out -BC
Security stamp targets contraband
Final harvest -ON
Smoking foes call for probe
Has Canada’s ambitious tobacco control strategy stalled?
Province says rules on designated smoking rooms not being followed -PE
Cracking down on all tobacco products marketed to children
Contraband butts litter schoolyards: retail group
All-night booze cans mar area -ON
Enforcing people to butt out -ON
Surprise RCMP roadblocks: -NB
On shaky ground
Loss of Grand Prix a 'serious blow' to Montreal tourism -QC
Imperial Tobacco Canada reacts to the Conservative Party's proposed political platform
Politics killed Grand Prix -QC
CA: Kuneman responds to Stanton Glantz's claim that the California Tobacco Program saved the state $86 billion dollars.
MA: Not the duty of health officials to police our lives.
ND: Lawmaker questions effect of tobacco measure.
NJ: Atlantic City Reconsiders Casino Smoking Ban.
WI: International Premium Cigar and Pipe Dealers Association: Spreads truth to head off Wisconsin smoking ban.
USA: IN MY VIEW: CDC and Surgeon General Deceptively Tried to Convince the Public that a Brief Exposure to Tobacco Smoke Puts People At Risk of Lung Cancer. |
 New Phil Williams Videos!
Anti Smoking League. 1: Tasting their own medicine.
Anti Smoking League, 2: Stantons guilty secret.
Anti Smoking League, 3: Spoofing the bigots.
Anti Smoking League, 4: The crumbling empire.
Anti Smoking League, 5: Uncensored mail.
Anti Smoking League, 6: The sinking ship.
Anti Smoking League, 7: Surgeon Generals Report. |
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