The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterJanuary 30, 2009 - Issue #514
"All of us together -- in and out of government -- must bear the
burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable with no one
group singled out to pay a higher price."
- Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address 20 January 1981 |  India Movie Smoking. Creative victory. “A film must reflect the realities of life. Smoking is a reality of life. It may be undesirable but it exists. It is not banned by any law,” Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul said. “To depict such an act (smoking) without glamorising it or promoting any particular product cannot be prohibited as it would bar a representation of how life is.”
Fire-Safe Cigarettes: Self-extinguishing smokes sweep the country, but many say they taste bad. By Alex Johnson. And they are venting on online forums like one run by the Smokers Club, which argues that “there is no end to the fictions nicotine ninnies will create to justify their venomous hatred of smokers.” 
Importers' Attack on $25 Billion Tobacco Settlement Is Dismissed. A federal judge on Monday rejected an antitrust attack on the $25 billion settlement reached in 1998 between the nation's major cigarette manufacturers and 46 states as it has been implemented in New York. AR: The AR Project. Nutty Anti-Smoking Zealot: The Uncut Version.
CA: Belmont Update. Smoking Ban Hits Home. Truly.
CO: New bill could allow smoking back in bars and more.
KS: American Soldier jailed for smoking outside!
KS: Hutchinson Huffing and puffing. By Dan Deming.
KS: State health plan backfires, Agency isn't what envisioned.
KS: State smoking ban a non-starter, let locals decide.
NY: Court rules Cayugas not charged with cigarette tax crimes.
PA: Possible Smoking Ban Violators Get Warning Letters.
TX: Freedom vs. personal taste. By Shane Warner.
TX: Killeen City Council update, Up in (no) smoke?
WA: Refusal to hire smokers and smoking bans criticized.
WV: Harrison County says NO and smoking ban is suspended.
WY: Says NO and statewide smoke ban bill exempts bars.
USA: Moran, Berry Introduce Health Care Bill, Patient Access.
USA: Bringing It Up Again: Obama And Cigarettes.
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter, read all the news.
Canada: Heading to court a fourth time for Manitoba’s public places.
Germany: Happy Birthday, Former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt!
UK: (Comedy) Gordon Brown Interview with truth drug.
UK: Leeds City Council: Husband deemed too fat to adopt children.
UK: Scheme to make pubs pay for drunken disorder proves a flop. |  The Rest of the Story:
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The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterJanuary 23, 2009 - Issue #513
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his
enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes
a precedent that will reach himself."
- Thomas Paine |  Nationalize A Cigarette Smoking Cessation Program?! Dear Sir, If you enjoy smoking, you have this patriot's permission to do so. Most intelligent people are aware that the war on smokers, not smoking, is being financed by the huge drug companies that sell Nicoderm, Nicorette and Chantix. They do not lobby to stop the selling of tobacco products, only to ostracize and shame adult users of a legally sold product.
SCHIP: CONGRESS GETS IN LINE TO TREAT SMOKERS AS NON-PERSONS: It seems that's not enough to put a chill on the plan. Congress, it would seem, has more animus towards adults who choose to smoke than it has towards terrorists. Here's a guy who "cut myself a little slack" for smoking because running for president was stressful who then cuts other indulgers none during the worst, most stressful economic downturn in four generations.
Selective research. By David W. Kuneman. It's simply not true that the only ones who challenge secondhand smoke claims are connected to Big Tobacco. In the early 1980s, the vice president of epidemiology and statistics with the American Cancer Society published two huge studies finding no health risk from secondhand smoke. In 1995, the Library of Congress reviewed all studies published to date and concluded the risks were small to nonexistent. In 2002, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration declared that secondhand smoke was such a minor risk that it was not worth regulating. Does the Post-Dispatch think these are Big Tobacco front groups?
The Truth about Cancer. Scientists should stop trying to cure cancer and start focusing on finding it early. It's the smart way to cheat death. IN: IPCPR Casts Doubt on Need for State Indiana Smoking Ban.
KS: A vote for the ordinance is a vote against business freedom.
MO: Bill Hannegan can't stop huffing and puffing about bans.
MS: Smoke-free casino tops tourist destination study.
SC: Some lawmakers want revision to York County ban proposal.
TX: IPCPR Says Texas Legislator Tilts at Tobacco Windmills.
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter, read all the news.
Canada: Christmas Eve of 2051. By Pierre Lemieux.
Africa: Global Meltdown: Africa Needs Stable Exports.
EU: TICAP. Attempt To Silence Freedom Of Speech. | 
The Research of David Kuneman "It does not take a tornado to make fireplace smoke go up your chimney, and it does not take a tornado to keep secondhand smoke out of the nonsmoking section of a restaurant" | | Join FREE - Home - Events - Forum - Videos - Please Help - © |
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The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterJanuary 16, 2009 - Issue #512
"People who complain about taxes can be divided into
two classes: Men and Women."
- Author Unknown |
| TAKE ACTION! Congress is once again considering a $35 billion expansion of the SCHIP health program funded by a 156% cigarette tax increase. This legislation places an unfair burden on adult smokers. In difficult economic times like these, raising taxes just doesn't make sense! Say NO to Higher Cigarette Taxes!
Freedom Works: Fight tax hikes for socialized medicine! One of the first proposals that the liberals are pushing is a serious step toward government-run health care. They are trying to do this through a massive expansion of the SCHIP program, which would increase taxes on cigarettes to pay for government-run health care!
SCHIP’s Tobacco Taxes: An Economic Disaster. By Leonard Stebbins, owner of Dewey Ave Smoke Shop. If Congress considers a bill early in 2009 to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) by significantly increasing federal cigarette and tobacco taxes, the fallout from the tax increases will include major sales reductions, massive employee layoffs, numerous store closings and many more robberies because of the much higher value of tobacco products.
Federal Tax Alert: A tax increase may seem counterintuitive in a recession — especially since Obama and congressional Democrats are simultaneously touting tax cuts as part of the cure for the ailing economy.
More Third Hand Smoke Nonsense. By Michael J. McFadden. Judge for yourself: Has the NY Times lived up to its supposed standard of being a reliable paragon of journalistic excellence? Or have they sunk completely into the mixing of editorial opinion and news reporting that would get a high-school journalism student a failing grade?
Smoke Screens: The Truth About Tobacco. By Richard White. The first three chapters of Smoke Screens are available to read here for free. It reviews the exact studies anti-smokers have used, to see whether the hysteria is justified, as well as looking at a number of other factors that are overlooked conventionally.
CA: Revives Secondhand Smoke Case Against Apt Complex.
KS: First Reading of Stricter Salina Smoking Ordinance Approved.
ME: Taxes, Baldacci singing an old tune, a tiring one.
VA: IPCPR Warns of Economic Impact from Virginia Smoking Ban.
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter, read all the news.
Canada: Champix side effects prompt 818 complaints.
EU: Employment commissioner Spidla announced no workplace ban during his term of office this year.
UK: ACTION: Join the licensees protest march January 26.
United Nations: The UN's battle to ban smoking in its headquarters doesn't encourage confidence in its ability to enforce will anywhere else, writes Tom Leonard. |
The TICAP Conference
1st World Conference Against Prohibition:
"Smoking Bans and Lies"
Brussels, at the European Parliament Building
27/28 January, 2009 |
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The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterJanuary 9, 2009 - Issue #511
"Lies - damned lies - and statistics," still there are some easy figures the simplest must understand, and the astutest cannot wriggle out of."
- Leonard Courtney, August 1895 |
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... Back in the news again! The aim is... total tobacco prohibition. "When you smoke – any place – toxic particulate matter from tobacco smoke gets into your hair and clothing," said Dr Jonathan Winickoff, from MassGeneral Hospital for Children, in Boston, and an assistant professor of paediatrics at Harvard Medical School, who led the study.
... Third Hand Smoke. By Dave Hitt. There is no end to the fictions nicotine nannies will create to justify their venomous hatred of smokers. This is their latest one, but, but we can be sure there are more to come. Smokers who politely smoke outside, often in inclement weather, to avoid annoying people with second hand smoke, are now horrible evil bags of toxins that will kill your children. And while the idiocy of this will be obvious to anyone with a functioning brain cell, we can be sure that plenty of stupid people will swallow this lie and use it as an excuse to harass smokers even more.
... New Study Warns of Dangers of "Thirdhand" Tobacco Smoke. By Michael Siegel, MD, MPH. I question the accuracy and the scientific support behind such a health claim. It's not clear to me that if a smoker is careful never to smoke inside the home, that merely hanging up their coat on a hook inside the home will cause harm to his children from toxins that offgas from the coat. I just am not aware of any evidence that this represents a significant health risk.
IA: Dissent dilutes Iowa's smoking ban, flouting the ban.
IL: Area establishments defy indoor smoking ban.
IL: Smoking ban hurts state's casinos, cities.
NY: Woman charged with tax evasion for buying cigarettes.
OH: State puts expanded prison smoking ban on hold.
USA: New laws in 5 states call for fire-safe cigarettes.
USA: Please let the Obama team know your story.
USA: Smokeasies defy smoking bans across the country.
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter, read all the news.
Canada: Andrew Stephen Frang, stabbing victim, killed over cigs.
UK: Freedom To Choose, Success Comes To Those Who Wait.
UK: Jersey, the law has forced smokers out onto the street. |
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New Phil Williams Videos!
Anti Smoking League.
Watch: Stanton Glantz blames big tobacco (again) 