| The Property Rights Newsletter
October 29, 2010 - Issue #590
"I'm here to fight for truth, and justice,
and the American way." (Superman)
"You're going to end up fighting every elected
official in this country!" (Lois Lane) |  WARNING! Single Bowl of Corn Flakes Causes Heart Damage Similar to That of Habitual Smokers, According to Reasoning of ANR and ASH. By Michael Siegel. . If any organization made such a claim, it would be attacked - and rightly so. Because it is an inaccurate extrapolation to tell the public that endothelial dysfunction is the same thing as heart damage. Obviously, you don't see cardiologists going around telling their patients not to eat even a single bowl of Corn Flakes because it can cause heart damage similar to that of habitual smokers. The same phenomenon occurs after eating a single high-fat meal. And after consuming a single energy drink. And after experiencing acute mental stress. But it would obviously be untruthful to tell the public that consuming a single energy drink can cause heart damage similar to that of habitual smokers. Or that a brief episode of mental stress causes heart damage similar to that of habitual smokers. So how could it then be truthful to tell the public that being exposed to secondhand smoke for a mere 30 minutes causes heart damage similar to that in habitual smokers? The answer is that it is not truthful. Both ASH and ANR are disseminating lies to the public in making these statements, which exaggerate, extrapolate, and distort the science in a way that turns a potentially important piece of information into a lie.
| From The International Mailbag |
Canada: Philipina Schergevitch. 88-year-old woman told to butt out - or be evicted. Daniels said her mother has been smoking since she was 15 and has tried to quit, but at age 88, it's hard. She's been smoking in her suite since she moved there in 2000. "I understand no one likes smoking, but are these people lepers?" said Daniels. "It's not fair. These people have contributed all their lives and now they're treated like this."
UK: Forest: Cut public spending on tobacco control groups.
UK: Hemingway and Castro star in the world's largest auction of rare Pre-Embargo Havanas. Organised by C.Gars Ltd, will take place at Boisdale Belgravia in London on November 30, 2010.
 Smoking: A Winnable Public Health Battle? Winning the battle - completely abolishing smoking over the next decade - is possible, Katz said, but only if our politically polarized society bands together on legislation. And that's not something he anticipates happening.
MN: Minnesota releases revenue numbers that verify what we've already known.....smoking bans destroy the hospitality industry. The auditor's report proves the "Freedom to Breathe" Act was a complete failure and only serves to eliminate business and jobs while fulfilling special interests' agenda.
NY: Two Tobacconist Associations Join to Fight Proposed Smoking Ban Extension. "We’re against legislated smoking bans of any kind."
OK: The Board of Health has proposed changing the law to give local communities the authority to change laws in their jurisdiction. The plan still would have to be approved by the Oklahoma Legislature.
TX: Galveston City Council votes to keep ban changes. Gonzales said he encouraged businesses to remain smoke-free, "but it’s not our responsibility to set the rules."
USA: Florida man launches "Bama" cigarettes with a playful nod to the smoker-in-chief. "It's edgy," said Rob Klotzback, one of the brand's creators. "It's easy to remember, the packaging is pretty attractive and it's a good smoke." |  | | Join FREE - Home - Events - Forum - Videos - Please Help - © |
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| The Property Rights Newsletter
October 22, 2010 - Issue #589
"The distance between insanity and genius
is measured only by success."
- Bruce Feirstein |  Third Hand Smoke Update: Terribly Toxic T-Shirts. By Michael J. McFadden, CFA Mid-Atlantic Regional Coordinator. In yet another chapter of the Tale of Terribly Toxic Tobacco, a textiles researcher at Hohenstein University released preliminary details on a study seemingly designed to terrify parents who might smoke outside on a balcony that they will be poisoning their innocent infants with the deadly neurotoxin known as nicotine as it secretes itself on their T-Shirts and then leaps out to burrow into and destroy the little babes' skin cells. No, as usual, we are not making this up. Of course a little seat of the pants figuring reveals that the typical smoker would have to take roughly 6 quadrillion smoking breaks in this manner to "poison" the child with the equivalent of a single cigarette. At a pack a day that's roughly 300 trillion years' worth of smoking and baby cuddling (about 30,000 times as long as the universe has existed, give or take a few eons).
 Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights By Michael Siegel, MD, MPH. Reporting as "Science" Claims from Press Release by Institute that Markets Floor Mops.
ANR Removes Unsupported Thirdhand Smoke Claim from Web Site.
Stop and Think About This: My Warnings About the Degradation of the Scientific Integrity of the Tobacco Control Movement Have, Unfortunately, Come True.
Action on Smoking and Health Reinforces Its Claim that 30 Minutes of Smoke Exposure Raises a Nonsmokers' Fatal Heart Attack Risk to That of a Smoker. Greece: Greece's smokers stoke up rebellion. The country's response to its government's anti-smoking campaign is proving more inflammatory than predicted. The collective snub is yet another example that the Greeks are not going to take this crisis and the hard-hitting changes that it has spawned, lying down.
Scotland News: Freedom-2-Choose. Denormalisation: 'an obvious escape from this negativity is to quit smoking' - Barron defeats Nuttall without cowing Binley - David Nuttall talks about his Bill to amend smoking ban - Ballard not daunted by dismal quit rates in Tayside - Report: global treaty blocked by big tobacco - Professor Pell: tribute from Snowdon, Blastland and Dockrell.
Fat Damage: 300-pound Mets fan who fell on woman at game too drunk to chant "Let's Go Mets." The lawyer levelled the allegations to bolster his client's contention that the Mets and their beer vendor should be held responsible for his client's injuries for serving the obvious drunk more beer and for failing to have security remove him from the game.
 Watch: Emiliano Altunez, Florida state coordinator for The Smokers’ Club, Inc. He says the tobacco ban is “the snowball… rolling down the hill.”
Watch: Phil Williams. No cash bags, and even less freedom.
Watch: Ron Paul. Tobacco Prohibition.
Watch: Ray Stevens. Come to the USA.
Watch: Ray Stevens. We The People.
Watch: The Bellamy Brothers. Jalapenos. | 
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| The Property Rights Newsletter
October 15, 2010 - Issue #588
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy."
- Earnest Benn |  POLITICIANS IN THE PANTRY: Dr. Yvonne Kleine sounds off on Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Paterson's banning of soft drinks from folks on food stamps. Politically using those of us who have to depend on food stamps for their daily nutrition is just nasty and mean, and it is just one step further to control our daily lives. Nobody should be drinking huge amounts of soft drinks. But since when should a megalomaniac like Bloomberg tell anyone what they can eat and drink? What's next, butter, cake mix, bagels? Bloomberg's ban on smoking has done nothing but drive smokers underground or outside where they can be seen pitifully puffing away in even the foulest weather.
Revelations and Re-evaluations: By Michael J. McFadden. If they lied to us for all these years about the real goals of their smoking bans, why should we have any faith at all in what they've told us while leading us down that garden path? People need to read beyond the paid sound bites that pervade the media and actually look at the lack of substance behind the justifications for most smoking bans and at the harm those bans have caused. MA: Cigar Association Condemns Cambridge Council for Proposed Smoking Ban Extension. McCalla said no studies exist that prove secondhand smoke represents any health risks indoors, let alone outdoors. He added that laws against littering already exist and should be enforced without wasting any more time on silly matters like this.
SC: Actual election details. All The South Carolina Races of Interest. Be ready for November 2nd.
SC: Smoking foes step up in Myrtle Beach area. Grants support push for smoke-free Horry.
Canada: First Nations start challenge of provincial tobacco tax restriction. "It's a violation of our treaty rights to tax exemption and, unfortunately, this government hasn't taken our treaty rights very seriously and our leaders are saying, 'Stand up and do what you're supposed to do,' " he said.
Canada: McGuinty Liberals unlikely to back Tory's smoking bill. Progressive Conservative Gerry Martiniuk of Cambridge introduced the bill, but even he admitted the best course of action would be to lower taxes to eliminate illegal cigarettes.
Ireland: Tobacco control quango to go up in smoke. John Mallon, who runs smokers' lobby group Forest Eireann is understandably delighted at the OTC's demise. "The Office of Tobacco Control should never have been set up. Tobacco is a perfectly legal product, its use is self-regulating and you don't need a government agency to tell you how much you can smoke. "We are campaigning for the right to have comfortable smoking rooms in pubs. To have people smoking out in the open is pure vindictiveness," he added.
Greece: Eight in 10 Greeks violate smoking ban. The new Socialist government hoped fines would work after a partial ban in 2009 was largely ignored, but the law is flouted, again.
Scotland: Government Defies Public Opinion. Eddie Douthwaite has a further problem with the answers given by Cabinet Secretary Shona Robison. Most respondents wanted the exemption currently enjoyed by mental health facilities to remain in place.
More: Progress to smoke-free mental health: Scottish Government rides roughshod over consultation findings.
UK: At last! An end to the elf 'n' safety madness as meddling officials face fines if they ban events. Health and safety zealots blamed for creating a ‘national neurosis’ are finally to be reined in. Lord Young, 78, said ‘petty tyrants’ had been allowed to flourish under Labour. | 
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| The Property Rights Newsletter
October 8, 2010 - Issue #587
"I never came upon any of my discoveries through
the process of rational thinking."
- Albert Einstein |  The Licensees' View: A survey of 570 public houses across England. It is well documented that in excess of 6,500 pubs/clubs have closed down. The smoking ban has brought Britain’s major Pubcos to their knees. Both companies built considerable empires, but both built on debt/loans. The smoking ban has seen the Pubcos closing outlets at an unprecedented rate, many being sold to property development companies in order to reduce vast debts.
UK History: 1801 Navy Journal: Tobacco Smoke Saves Lives. Smoke, Brandy Credited With Saving Sailor. When sailor James Calloway, 40, was pulled from the sea after being underwater for at least 12 minutes, Dr. Ben Lara described him as having "the appearance of a corpse." Lara reports Calloway had tobacco smoke piped into his lungs, and after 45 minutes, Lara noticed "an obscure palpitation of (Calloway's) heart." Shortly afterward, Calloway's pulse was detected, the smoke treatment was stopped and he was given some brandy.
UK Happy Birthday: Chain smoking whisky drinker celebrates 100th birthday. Hard-living Arthur Langran has smoked at least 10 cigarettes a day since the age of 20. The father-of-two also religiously drinks a dram of Macallan single malt Scotch whiskey every evening before getting into bed. AK: Sitka Smoking ban fails at ballot box. Voters soundly defeated a proposal to forbid smoking in bars and private clubs. Business owners and the Chamber of Commerce also came out against it.
SC: Simpsonville preserves private property freedom. It was heartening to hear each and every other member, the five other council members and the mayor, each stand up for private property rights and shoot down Welborn's idea. It was even more heartening to hear several council members slam Welborn for suggesting that council did not care about people's health. Clearly, Wellborn was trying to read from the anti playbook and failed miserably. Ahh, if only all city and state government majorities felt this way.
OH: Cincinnati Reds' celebration cigars bring smoking complaints. A lot of players could be seen on TV smoking the cigars, and Reds owner Bob Castellini was passing them out. But video doesn't affect the investigation - the health inspector has to actually see someone smoking, said Rocky Merz, health department spokesman. Five people called a statewide smoking ban complaint hotline, Merz said.
World: CALL AND EMAIL our thoughts and displeasure on no smoking sections and rules. They have gotten 4 letters/e-mails in two years saying people wanted a smoking section. They should be getting 4 a week, at least. If YOU don't call, the anti smokers will speak for you!
| The Slippery Slope After Tobacco |
Are we raising a generation of nincompoops? Second-graders who can't tie shoes or zip jackets. Four-year-olds in Pull-Ups diapers. Five-year-olds in strollers. Teens and preteens befuddled by can openers and ice-cube trays. College kids who've never done laundry, taken a bus alone or addressed an envelope. | 
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