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May 28, 2010 - Issue #570
"In a time of universal deceit,
telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
- George Orwell |
 UCF Prof Harnesses Plant Power to Fight Hemophilia. For the past two decades, Henry Daniell has worked with transgenic plants to create vaccines and improve treatments for malaria, cholera, diabetes -- and now hemophilia.
Effects of Secondhand Smoke Questioned ... Again. By Sylvia Cochran. Secondhand smoke is a sore topic for smoking-ban advocates and detractors alike. Recent news show that tobacco users and those opposed to smoking bans are gaining traction with an unlikely ally: science.
Do Smoking Bans Reduce Heart Attacks? By Michael L. Marlow, Ph.D. The study concluded that bans do not significantly affect health outcomes in the elderly, working-age, or pediatric populations. From: Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Volume 15 Number 1 Spring 2010.
Why Do You Smoke? By Sam Nettles. Smoking stimulates the pituitary gland which balances out the endrocrine system. This fights stress and reduces mental disturbances and other glandular problems. NY: New "Transit Museum Annex" exhibit features 19 vintage smoking pipes dating back to the 1600s uncovered at the South Ferry Terminal construction site.
PA: List of Pittsburgh Smoking Permitted taverns, bars, and pubs.
SC: Pledge Breakers Override Sanford's Veto. Legislators Betray Constituents with a 700 percent Tax Increase.
USA: Half of states ban tobacco use in prisons. By Andrew M. Seaman, special for USA TODAY. Michael McFadden, a spokesman for the Citizens Freedom Alliance, which mostly focuses on government interference with private-property owners, said the group is concerned with what prison smoking bans mean.
USA: The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is praising the new, larger warning labels on smokeless tobacco advertisements, but scientific evidence shows that these labels will have little effect on health, but will have a huge effect in helping to immunize the tobacco industry from liability in litigation.
Canada: Smoking in parks. By Thomas Laprade. Even Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed legislation that would have banned smoking at all California state parks and beaches, saying the bill crossed the line of government intrusion.
Scotland: Smoking. By Michael J. McFadden. So why not apply it to cars as well? If it makes sense for one, then it should make sense for the other, right? | Ban Damage Hurts Everyone |
Canada: Edmonton woman pinned to wall by car dies. “It’s known as a safe place to smoke because it’s out of the way, it’s behind the barrier,” he said. “She was just having a break, then this happened.”
Scotland: A man from Cumbria is charged with indecently assaulting a woman in a smoking shelter at a south of Scotland fish factory.
Turkey: Lawyer killed in Bursa for warning smokers about the smoking ban. When he asked some of the customers who were smoking inside to go outside, he was attacked and stabbed to death. |
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| The Property Rights Newsletter
May 21, 2010 - Issue #569
"When people begin to accept dictates from governments of what they are not supposed to say and do, for their own and collective good, they begin to forget all the liberties that previous generations knew. The Nannies are out to remake our society, and smokers are their lab rats"
- Theodore J. King |  New Study Casts Doubt. By Michael Siegel. New Study Concludes that Smoking Ban in Arizona Decreased Heart Attacks, Despite Increase in Heart Attacks in Most of the State. Before smoke-free advocates get too excited about the new study from Arizona, they ought to read the actual study. Doing so reveals that despite the conclusions which are being disseminated in the media, the study fails to find any effect of the smoking ban on heart attacks in regions that make up 83% of the state’s population. More importantly, the study reveals that urban areas were used as the comparison group to estimate secular trends in heart attacks in rural areas. This is a no-no, as trends would be expected to be very different in urban vs. rural areas. What is needed is a comparison group that is comparable in the major risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Sets New Standard for Hypocrisy; Urges Other Countries to Adhere to FCTC While Lobbying for U.S. to Violate It. Upon the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids' insistence and as a result of its vigorous lobbying, the United States has violated the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) treaty by granting the tobacco industry permanent membership on the scientific advisory panel that will help the FDA implement its tobacco regulations.
Global smoking ban... Article 11 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. New Searchable Database from WHO: Tobacco Control Health Warnings. The database is accessed via two drop down menus.
Exposure to prenatal smoking may lead to psychiatric problems. The 1992/93 EPA report was thrown out by a judge for fudging the numbers. Essentially, the standard for scientific significance which demonstrates if a variable has an effect at all was lowered. But the judge's ruling doesn't stop the anti-smoking advocates from citing bad science. | | | Join FREE - Home - Events - Forum - Videos - Please Help - © |
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May 14, 2010 - Issue #568
"Never, never, never give up."
- Winston Churchill |  See the new website: Lighten Up with James Leavey. Britain's most smoker-friendly journalist, broadcaster, photographer, PR and speech consultant, he was editor of the world famous The FOREST Guide to Smoking in London (and Scotland), and chief taster for Cigar Buyer magazine, and has smoked cigars in voodoo ceremonies in Brazil, on stage at the Royal National Theatre in London, in Vienna's sewers, in Dublin's main prison and on desert islands. James is also the British correspondent of The Smoker's Club, and Citizens Freedom Alliance, Inc.
 Cigars loved by Churchill to be auctioned in June. By James Leavey. The wartime British prime minister's penchant for Romeo y Julieta Piramides cigars became part of his pugnacious image as a leader who defied the might of Hitler's Nazi Germany. The picture of Churchill giving the two-fingered victory sign with a cigar in his mouth is a classic World War Two image. CA: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says NO and has snuffed out anti-smoking advocates' hopes for banning cigarettes at state parks.
NC: State says NO and won't test workers for smoking.
SC: Lexington eases smoking ban. Owner Joe Biedrycki is free to resume serving smokers on his bar’s patio after Town Council repealed a local restriction that barred service to those lighting up in outdoor areas in the community’s restaurants and lounges.
SC: Senate overrides Sanford veto, raises cigarette tax.
SC: Summerville says NO and council tables smoking ban. Council members said they had concerns that the proposed ordinance was overreaching.
TX: Conroe says NO and drops bars from its smoking ordinance. City Council has removed bars from the new ordinance because of the economic impact it was having on business owners.
USA: Educational Briefing for Congressional Cigar Association.
Canada: Auditorium accepts smoking comic‘s fine. Thunder Bay District Health Unit representatives levied a $365 fine because comedian Ron White smoked a cigar during his sold-out show Tuesday night.
Canada: Crop shift up in smoke. The story is the same throughout southwestern Ontario's tobacco belt, with almost 50 million pounds (22,680 metric tonnes) of the leaf projected to be grown this season, more than double the size a year before the $286-million "Tobacco Transition Program" was offered.
Canada: Tobacco troubles: Law enforcement has not kept up with the illegal trade in cheap cigarettes. "The number of seizures is not keeping up with the growth of the contraband market and so the result is that... the problem with contraband is out of control."
Scotland: Party! 30 May, CISWO Club, Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland. | | | Join FREE - Home - Events - Forum - Videos - Please Help - © |
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May 7, 2010 - Issue #567
"Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance."
- Saint Francis of Assisi | To our readers:
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# posted by Samantha : 11:17 PM
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