| The Property Rights Newsletter
September 4, 2009 - Issue #538
"Whenever the government assumes undelegated powers,
its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force."
- Thomas Jefferson |  USA Legal Challenge to FDA. Commonwealth Brands, Inc. has today joined with a number of other companies including the R.J.Reynolds Tobacco Company, Lorillard, Inc. and Conwood Company in filing an action in Federal Court against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regarding the recently enacted Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. This action is designed to protect the plaintiffs' First Amendment right to free speech.
USA: Don't Tread On Me Flag Sales Up 400%. Using the Gadsden flag to voice one's attitude about the government is an example of our first amendment rights and how we live in a country where we are free to voice our opinions which is what our founding fathers created this flag for in the first place.
Don't Exhale: EPA Expected to Declare Carbon Dioxide a Dangerous Pollutant. The Environmental Protection Agency is expected in the next few weeks to declare that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases are pollutants, a move that would require the federal government to regulate them -- even without legislation. That's just the start, however. Aides say later rules will extend to other sources and require a permit from the EPA to build anything that emits more than 25,000 tons of these pollutants. That could include schools, nursing homes or a Walmart. KS: ALERT: Gov. Mark Parkinson said he will push next year for a statewide ban on smoking indoors in public places, and he may work to raise the state's tax on cigarettes...
SC: Freedom organizations in Lexington County plan on dethroning Council Members who voted for ban. The five who voted for the ban are chairman Debbie Summers and council members Bill Banning, John Carrigg, Smokey Davis and Johnny Jeffcoat.
Scotland: No 'same again'... it's water for you! The move, which was today branded "ludicrous", has been introduced as part of the Licensing Act which comes into force next week, aimed at tackling binge drinking. | 
Tim Hawkins
funny video, "The Government Can."
THE UPRISING!
A chilling video from puppetgovcom. | | Join FREE - Home - Events - Forum - Videos - Please Help - © |
| The Property Rights Newsletter
August 28, 2009 - Issue #537
"The essential characteristic of socialism
is the denial of individual property rights."
- Ayn Rand |  OH: Cigar Store Owners Support Appeal of Smoking Ban Enforcement Case. McCalla says the IPCPR, an association of some 2,000 small-business owners of retail smoke shops and premium cigar manufacturers and distributors, is not against an individual business owner’s right to ban smoking on their premises. “When government decides to run those businesses by telling the owners they can’t allow smoking there, it steps across the line of freedoms as established by the constitution. If you don’t want to be with smokers, don’t go into an establishment that allows smoking. Period,” he said. 
Tea Party Commercial: Well worth the watch, don't miss it.
What you can do to protect your rights – or expect to loose them! By Robert Deitz. Maybe you have other ideas? Share them with people – but most importantly just do SOMETHING. Write a letter or e-mail right after reading this. Then do it again next week. Then get better at it by next month! Hand this out to people who are smoking at the curb at the Airport, not spending money inside!
The New Federal Tobacco Tax: Who Loses? By David Weeks, National Center for Policy Analysis. Using tobacco tax increases to fund health care for low-income children is a bad idea. As the taxes imposed on tobacco products increase, revenues are likely to fall - requiring increases in other taxes. In addition, small businesses and their employees are likely to suffer, and the impact on public health is likely to be negligible, or even negative. KS: Sheila Martin's letter to the VFW Posts Statewide.
KS: Topeka Ban Alert, Editorial: Let market rule.
MI: Bill lets MI towns decide on restaurant smoking.
WA: State Tobacco Shipping Ban, for residents it's total insanity.
Africa: Nigeria, Tasks before the new CBN Deputy Governor.
Canada: Move over Mediterranean diet. The Canucks are coming.
Canada: Plainclothes officers eyeing downtown litter scoff laws.
UK: Uses the Norfolk VA, USA ban reversal as an example.
World: Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Undermines International Tobacco Control and Displays Blinding Hypocrisy. By Michael Siegel. On the one hand they are telling other countries they must adhere to the FCTC treaty. On the other hand, they negotiated and supported legislation that puts the U.S. in violation of the treaty. |  Grow Your Own Tobacco.
Fed up by expense, smokers grow own tobacco. Seed suppliers report a tenfold increase in sales as many seek cheaper fix. | | Join FREE - Home - Events - Forum - Videos - Please Help - © |
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UK NHS antismoking ads: This past week took things to a new level though as the Antismokers' highly paid PR machine produced a slick special effects video showing what fun it is to literally beat a smoker to a bloody death....
NHS Birmingham East and North is hoping the campaign will get through to "hard to reach" smokers – specifically white males aged 35-55 in the C2DE socio-economic category – living in the most deprived parts of the area.
WHILE... Anger as visitors flout St Richard's Hospital smoking ban at hospital. "It is not just the visitors, people are sat outside in wheelchairs smoking. I have complained several times to the reception staff, sitting literally two metres away from the smokers, who have informed me they are aware of the problem but there is nothing they will do about it." Smokers are standing underneath the banner which says no smoking. 
NY: Mayor Doesn’t Always Live by His Health Rules. HE dumps salt on almost everything, even saltine crackers. He devours burnt bacon and peanut butter sandwiches. He has a weakness for hot dogs, cheeseburgers, and fried chicken, washing them down with a glass of merlot. And his snack of choice? Cheez-Its.
NY: Anti-Smoking Groups' Scientific Arguments Don't Hold Water.
WV: Health Board says NO, Votes Down Berkeley County Smoking Ban, and Butch Pennington Smokers Rally. The board also felt that the issue was a matter of freedom of choice, and if people don’t like to be around smokers than they should stay away.
Scotland: National Association of Cig Vending Machine Operators.
South Africa: Smoking laws... the new apartheid. By David Bullard.
UK: Campaign alert with artist David Hockney and Simon Clark.
UK: Simon Eldon-Edington, California dreaming - about the ban.
USA: When you thought you'd seen it all... Jon Stewart on ACORN. 
The World: The myth of the smoking ban health miracle. By Christopher Snowdon. Restrictions on smoking around the world are claimed to have had a dramatic effect on heart attack rates. It's not true. Although the story quickly went around the globe, no one seems to know where the figure came from. It’s all rather strange. Basing journalism on anonymous sources is commonplace in the world of politics, but it is surely not necessary in the realms of science. 
Top Ten Reasons
Not to Raise Tobacco Taxes
John Nothdurft, The Heartland Institute. 
