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Friday, May 20, 2011
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The Property Rights Newsletter May 20, 2011 - Issue #613 "If you, with all the taxes you paid, paved that road in front of your house, that everyone in town gets to drive on... you might be a smoker." - Samantha Phillipe | ||
 Shame. By Frank Davis. I think that a day will come when politicians and pundits will recognise the irreparable harm that has been done, and belatedly act to prevent further harm. They’ll quietly lift or relax the ban that they once so gaily put in place. And that will mark the end of the war on smoking, and with luck of lifestyle engineering as well. The costs will have proved too great, and the benefits too small. And they will wonder why they ever thought it might be worth it. They will wonder how they could have been so blind. They will wonder what kind of madness afflicted them.
CA: Senate Bill 332, Impact not lessened by fact that it depends on the whims of the bldg owner. The bill, passed the Senate just this week with an overwhelming 33-2 vote. The current version, now heads to the Assembly. GA: DeKalb County Outdoor Smoking Ban to Blow Away Business. "Customers can choose the businesses they patronize just as workers can choose where they work," said Chris McCalla, legislative director for the IPCPR, based in Columbus, Georgia. "They don’t need government passing convoluted laws telling them where to shop or work." IL: Vacation home's $300 smoking fine crosses the line. Calling her fee a "fine" won't disguise the fact that it's a predetermined price for damage, regardless of its extent. Incidentally, a true fine can be imposed only by a government entity: It is punishment for violating a health or safety law. MA: Teen Turns Violent After Being Asked Not To Light A Cigarette at Forest Hills T. The dispute led to both the would-be smoker and her sister being arrested after transit police said the pair slapped, pushed and kicked them. MD: A resolution to adopt a proposed Montgomery County, Maryland Board of Health smoking ban regulation will be the subject of a public hearing June 23 by the Health and Human Services Committee of the County Council. Iraq: Bogged Down on Big Issues, Iraq Takes Aim at Smoking. Following the lead of New York, London, Paris and scores of other Western cities, Iraqi lawmakers are now trying to push smoking to the margins of public life here, to the frustration of many of their constituents. Baraa Ghazi, 27, offered a broader pronouncement as he took a languid drag. “This,” he said, “is freedom.” UK: "Evidence Review" without evidence! The long awaited review of the smoking ban has arrived but no one who reads this report in an open-minded way will be taken in by it as it is riddled with basic errors. Linda Bauld has proven nothing with this report apart from the fact that she is a true anti tobacco activist. | ||
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Friday, May 13, 2011
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The Property Rights Newsletter May 13, 2011 - Issue #612 "In the sick room, ten cents worth of human understanding equals ten dollars worth of medical science." - Martin H. Fischer | |||
 "No smoking" signs actually drive smokers to light up? "What's interesting is the ironic effect of the negative image. No smoking signs are meant to discourage an activity but what happens is you get a kick back so that the very item that's supposed to be prohibited becomes more desirable," Earp said. The study will be presented at the British Psychological Society's annual meeting in Glasgow.
Hospital Violence: Some Link Increased Violence At Napa State Hospital To Smoking Ban. The alleged killer of Donna Gross is patient Jess Massey. A man who, according to records, has a criminal history of armed robbery, sexual assault, and murder. Some patients at Napa State Hospital believe they know why Donna was targeted. "If you talk about the Jess Massey thing, it's almost a unanimous consensus. He killed her over tobacco," said Michael, a hospital patient. Since the campus has been tobacco free, patient on staff assaults have nearly quadrupled. USA: STUDY: SMOKING BANS CAUSE DROP OUTS FROM ADDICTION TREATMENT. Smokers and non-smokers alike were more apt to leave substance abuse treatment centers after a smoking ban was instituted, researchers say. Tobacco-free treatment facilities began in New Jersey in the 1990s but many treatment facilities tend to allow patients to smoke because some say treating a person for smoking in addition to other substance abuse would be too difficult and result in failure, Gregoire says. Canada: Markham Stouffville Hospital to ban smoking on all property. Michael J. McFadden disagrees. He questioned whether or not hospitals have the right to "dictate" patient behaviour that’s "not deeply, immediately and fundamentally affecting their treatment at the hospital". Scotland: Judge agrees to hear mental patient's suit against smoking ban. It seems distasteful to force a smoking ban on someone just because you can: just because the courts have awarded you custody over this person for treatment purposes – even though the treatment s/he is receiving is not smoking-related.
 CO: Join The Spirit Keeper Tavern, in Black Forest. May 15th fundraiser and poker run! With our support, we can make another child's wish a reality.
GA: Smoking ban snuffed out as Macon council fails to overturn veto. The vote means the smoking ban that would have prevented anyone from lighting up in various places, including Macon’s bars, won’t take effect later this year after all. Listen to the Jeremy Richards interview. LA: Premium Cigar Association Says No to Higher Tobacco Taxes in Louisiana. The House Ways and Means Committee of the Louisiana State Legislature is considering H.B. 63, legislation that would nearly triple the excise tax on cigarettes. NY: A Smoking Ban Too Far. By Michael B. Siegel. A ban on outdoor smoking may provide a symbolic victory. But from a public health perspective, it’s pointless. NY: NJ woman chides NYC smoker, gets stabbed with pen. A New Jersey woman was stabbed in the face with a pen on a New York City subway train after she tried to stop a man from lighting a cigarette. TX: A Dallas physician is accused of trying to run over someone he allegedly saw smoking near his car. Police say 54-year-old Dr. Jeffrey Reed Thompson faces a felony charge of aggravated assault with a vehicle. USA: Nanny of the Month: Drug Warrior-in-Chief Barack Obama!
Scotland: Freedom to Choose (Scotland). Educating the general public, and particularly the general public in Scotland, on matters where freedom of choice is under threat.... "When health is equated with freedom, liberty as a political concept vanishes." (Dr. Thomas Szasz, The Therapeutic State). INTOLERANCE IS THE MOST PREVENTABLE CAUSE OF INEQUALITIES! UK: Freedom2Choose do not represent either extreme of the passive smoke debate; we are not a pro-tobacco organisation funded by tobacco companies nor are we anti-smokers funded by drug companies. We are members of the public from all walks of life, professional through to working class, united in a determination to expose the myths that are currently leading to the removals of the freedoms of the people of this nation. UK: Voices of Freedom to discuss smokers' rights. Peter Hitchens, Toby Young, Oscar-winning screenwriter Sir Ronald Harwood and David Davis MP are just four of the speakers taking part in The Free Society’s Voices of Freedom series of debates in London in June. UK: Save Our Pubs & Clubs supports Great British Pub Award. We want YOU to nominate a smoker-friendly pub that you think deserves to be recognised. All you have to do is send us the name of the pub plus a very brief description of the smoking area. We will then contact the landlord and ask if they would like to be nominated for the award. Closing date for entries is May 20, 2011. | |||
 The Lies Behind The Smoking Bans!
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Section 1: The Health Fraud.
Section 2: The Economic Fraud.
Section 3: What YOU Need To Do! | |||
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Friday, May 06, 2011
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The Property Rights Newsletter May 6, 2011 - Issue #611 "Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people." - Charlie Chaplin | |
 Osama bin Laden banned smoking in compound.
Osama bin Laden's hatred of western decadence is well documented, but according to villagers close to where he was shot dead earlier this week, it seems he included smoking as one of its vices.
Shopkeepers where two of his close lieutenants did the bin Laden family shopping said they regularly bought one or two single cigarettes and smoked them immediately because they could not smoke them in their compound.
The apparent ban on smoking is in line with a Taliban ruling that while taking snuff is permissible, smoking tobacco is "haram" or forbidden by Islam.
Arshad Khan, described as a "fat" but polite and friendly man in his mid-thirties, and his younger thinner brother Tariq, regularly visited a row of poorly-stocked shops a few hundred yards from their compound to buy eggs, salt, milk and sweets for up to seven children in the compound.
The two brothers are believed to have been killed along with bin Laden in the US raid on their compound in Pakistan on Monday.
One of them, Arshad, is said to have been the trusted courier who unwittingly led American intelligence officials to discover bin Laden's hiding police after an eleven year search.
But according to local shopkeepers they were reserved, polite, generous and enjoyed a gossip and a furtive cigarette.
"They were good people. They were generous. They liked to mix with people and gossip," said tailor Yasir Khan, 28.
AND: Marijuana Crop Found Near Osama Bin Laden's Pakistan Compound. | |
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