The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterNovember 28, 2008 - Issue #505
"In any war, the first casualty is common sense,
and the second is free and open discussion"
- James Reston |
 | The Competitive Enterprise Institute: The tobacco "Master Settlement Agreement" was signed by 46 state attorneys general and major tobacco companies. This video is a dramatization of how the deal was hatched. Watch the video. |
 TEN YEARS LATER, TOBACCO DEAL GOING UP IN SMOKE. "It just seems weird the idea that the tobacco (settlement) is going to go on forever," Baden said. "In the long run my suspicion is something will take out the settlement. The thing won't last forever."
WHO FCTC: Tobacco treaty signers close to adopting measure. By Vinnee Tong. Kathy Mulvey, policy director at Corporate Accountability International, said that earlier opposition from China and Japan -- which both have a stake in tobacco companies -- had dissolved.
KING BLOOMBERG: MIKE IS A MAYOR RUN AMOK. By Fred Siegel. Bloomberg says he's beyond politics. He's right. We're living in his monarchy, subjects to his unwavering faith in himself.
Newly detected air pollutant mimics damaging effects of cigarette smoke. "Based on our work, we now know that free radicals similar to those in cigarettes are also found in airborne fine particles and potentially can cause many of the same life-threatening conditions. This is a staggering, but not unbelievable result, when one considers all of diseases in the world that cannot currently be attributed to a specific origin."
Health experts debunk passive smoking fraud. We hope that the voices of scientific decency will not be silenced.
MD Says Second-Hand Smoke Theory is Junk. By John Dale Dunn MD JD. They are propagandists, not scientists.
OH: Lobbyist argued two sides of issue. By Pam Parker.
SC: York County: Businesses Should Decide Smoking or Not.
WI: IPCPR Op-Ed on Proposed Statewide Smoking Ban.
USA: Celebrate Repeal Day, December 5th.
USA: Claims that FDA Bill Will End Addiction are Unfounded.
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter, read all the news.
Australia: Commissioner - Police won't enforce smoke laws.
Netherlands: Huge protest planned for November 29th in The Hague. |
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# posted by Samantha : 5:26 PM
The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterNovember 21, 2008 - Issue #504
"A great wave of oppressive tyranny isn't going to strike,
but rather a slow seepage of oppressive laws and regulations
from within will sink the American dream of liberty"
- George Baumler |
 FDA Regulation of Tobacco: Joel L. Nitzkin, M.D., M.P.H. American Association of Public Health Physicians opposes FDA tobacco Regulation. Mark Berlind, chief legislative counsel of Philip Morris, drafted specifications for regulation of tobacco products by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that would ensure the continuing profitability of the Marlboro brand, provide a shield against litigation, and protect cigarettes from competition from less-toxic, smokeless tobacco products.
 Let the Guy Smoke. Obama Is Probably Fibbing About Giving Up Cigarettes. That's Okay. By Michael Kinsley. It is still okay to discriminate against one group of Americans. This discrimination is not only legal, it is encouraged. You see members of this oppressed minority huddled outside in rain and snow, forbidden to seek refuge. No one feels sorry for them. And yet we may have just elected one of these pariahs as president.
Anti-Smoking Advocate Named to Obama Transition Team. A leading anti-tobacco advocate will serve on President-elect Barack Obama's transition team reviewing health policy and the Dept. of Health and Human Services during the administration switch.
MA: Proposed Boston Cigar Bar Ban. By Tony Tortorici.
MD: Proposal would ban sidewalks adjacent to buildings.
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter, read all the news.
Australia: Racing tobacco sponsorship bill fires up Greens.
Bavaria: Landslide defeat for anti-smokers in state election.
Brazil: Vacates the Largest Award Against Cigarette Manufacturers.
UK: Forest wins apology from the BBC. Bob Walmsley compared smokers to alcoholics and stated that smokers are unfit parents.
| Defiance And Ban Damage Hurts Everyone |
IA: Rich Marx: Smoke Ban Forced Me To Close My Bar.
MN: One year later statewide smoking ban eliminates business.
Canada: Crackdown sought after crash killing smugglers.
Canada: Smoker was run over by a car in the smoking area.
Holland: Health Minister Ab Klink Threatens Cafes with Closure as Smoking Ban Anarchy Spreads.
| The Slippery Slope After Tobacco |
 Hold the salt. Health experts and food-industry representatives were told about Mayor Bloomberg's next crusade - an effort to reduce the salt in processed food by 20 percent over the next five years. Restaurateurs will be encouraged to join a "voluntary" initiative.
Politicians eyeing circumcision ban. 'A lot of parents want it done to their children because they themselves had it done. But we're living in the present and it isn't fair to expose healthy children to religious circumcision.' |
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The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterNovember 7, 2008 - Issue #503
"The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade"
- Hannah Arendy |
 Hawaii smokers light up as law goes unenforced. “I am complying with the law if we post signs and we inform our customers of what the law is, which is exactly what we do,” said Bill Comerford, co-owner of E&J Lounge Operating Co., which runs O’Toole’s Irish Pub, Kelley O’Neil’s and the Irish Rose Saloon in Honolulu. “If they smoke in our bars, they made that choice and it’s not for me as a business owner to cite them.”
State grants exemption to smoking ban. The PA state Department of Health granted more than 1,700 exceptions to the statewide ban that took effect September 11.
Smoking ban 'causing NHS problems' "At the mental health trust where I work, the frequency of fires has quadrupled since the start of the ban," he claimed. He said the increasing number of fires is thought to be a result of patients no longer being supervised in smoking rooms.
| From The International Mailbag |
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter, read all the news.
Canada: Multi-Agency Tobacco Smuggling Operation.
UK: Gaunt accused Stark of being a "health Nazi" and "ignorant pig."
UK: Hamish Howitt, Rebel landlord's battle goes to High Court.
UK: Pubs 'kept in dark' over tax savings, overcharged.
FL: Cigarette case may affect other products, cars, boats, beer...
KS: IPCPR Advises KS Locales to Drop Ban Consideration.
NJ: Smoking ban threatened Atlantic City's identity.
OR: Cigarette tax is regressive. By John Nothdurft.
SD: Use Logic, Truth Against Expanding SD Smoking Ban.
TX: IPCPR to Dallas Council: Vote to Eliminate Smoking Ban.
WY: Letter to Rep. Landon on proposed smoking legislation.
USA: Happy 233rd birthday of the United States Marine Corps.
| The Slippery Slope After Tobacco |
 Alcohol. Experts want a convention to regulate alcohol. An international agreement, similar to the 2005 framework convention on tobacco control, is urgently needed.
Fourth Amendment. Constitution does not apply in D.C. According to Metro Transit Police Chief Michael Taborn, “Inspections could take place at any Metrorail station or Metrobus stop. They will be random...
Swimming Pools can boost child's asthma risk.
Warning. Old people die from being old. More cases expected as more people live to be old. Will cause economy failure. |
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The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterNovember 7, 2008 - Issue #502
"You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people."
- Will Rogers |
 What's happening in the Netherlands? By Wiel Maessen. The Dutch government, in it's arrogance, has never expected an organised opposition when they set up this anti-smoking law. But the Dutch obviously don't want this law and therefore show their famous civil disobedience.  And in city after city, bar owners gather and decide to put the ashtrays on the tables again. The middle finger is raised by increasingly more bars every day.
Attention Women! You’re WEAK and GULLIBLE! This may not be a new topic, but it’s bubbling back into the spotlight again thanks to the whining and complaining of groups like the American Cancer Society Action Network, the American Heart Association, the American Lung Association, the American Medical Association and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
MA: Letter to Mayor Menino, from a business traveler.
MI: What A Smoking Ban Would Mean. By John Nothdurft.
WI: Voters Say NO and Reject Kenosha Smoking Ban
WV: For $1, patrons can smoke at the Blackhawk Saloon.
WY: Rep. Jack Landon, Smoking ban talk raises more questions.
USA: Disneyland talks about their smoking policy.
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter, read all the news.
India: Every breath you take... trying to find anything fun.
UK: 11/13/08 Manifesto Club, Club night for property rights.
| Ban Damage Hurts Everyone |
CO: 62 lose jobs as the Wild Horse Casino closes down.
IL: Smoker is found fatally shot after leaving bar.
Canada: Bar gunplay inside kills innocent smoker outside.
Malaysia: Couple beaten to death in bizarre quit-smoking ritual.
UK: Cadet Stabbing when boys go outside to smoke.
| The Slippery Slope After Tobacco |
Internet. Australia to implement mandatory internet censorship.
Nanny. UK: Public health goes to the street, mental and sexual health. AND The smoking police take to the streets... By Mark Littlewood.
Smokers: UK: First blanket ban on becoming foster parents.
Video game sales ban considered by appeals court in CA. |
The Canadian Smokers Rights
Newsletter, read all the news. |
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