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Saturday, November 26, 2011

The Property Rights Newsletter
November 25, 2011 - Issue #639
"Every man dies - Not every man really lives." - William Ross Wallace
Property Rights for all include Smokers Rights! Statistics on mortality little more than guess. Margin of error on death certificates is estimated to be 20 to 50 percent. It’s incredibly hard to accurately describe why someone has died based solely on their medical history, Hitchcock said. Those huge error rates are calculated by allowing a doctor to fill out a death certificate with how he or she thinks the person died based on medical history. Then autopsies are performed on the study group to determine the actual cause of death. Autopsies themselves have a rate of error, but “they’re a lot better than the clinical (determination),” Marsh said.
A New Way to Detect Lung Cancer? Dogs Can Sniff It Out. They're man's best friend, but dogs, it turns out, may also be a doctor's newest secret weapon for detecting cancer. The scientists worked with an admittedly small number of canines — just four, including two German shepherds, a Lab and an Australian shepherd — but the dogs had good success. They were able to suss out cancer in 71 out of 100 breath samples from lung cancer patients, and were able to correctly identify 93% of cancer-free samples, giving them an impressively low rate of false positives.
Why Do We Die?: (1) The number 1 reason: We are human. We all die.
Read the Facts: The Research of David W. Kuneman. "There are other important contributing causes of lung cancer that are being ignored because we simply have too much lung cancer now despite the large quit ratio since about 1955."
Smoking in cars: BMA admits "error." Can it really be the case that having a ciggie in a car exposes passengers to a climate 11 times nastier than you would find in a bar packed with people puffing on fags? Even one of the studies cited by the BMA as proof for this figure actually says something quite different...
Property Rights for all include Smokers Rights! Nanny State: By Joe Jackson. "A smoking ban in bars is saying that adult citizens are not allowed to use a legal substance even though they’re very highly taxed for doing so in a place that is private property." "You’re throwing out the window the property right of the owner of that establishment, freedom of choice, a lot of things, compared to a health risk [from second- and third-hand smoke] that is really unproven."
MO: Springfield Bar Closing After Smoking Ban "Cut 80 Percent of Sales." Ray Hassen has owned Ray's Lounge for the last 15 years, but this year will be his last. "I felt it immediately, even though I have a patio for the smokers."
TX: Sam Houston State University not to support SHSU tobacco ban. Pres. Tyler Eberhart was asked by the university to give an "opinion of the students" regarding tobacco on campus. He asked the senate if they would vote for a complete ban on the policy. Only five senators voted in favor. The rest of the senate voted either for a partial, or amended, ban on all tobacco products.
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Thursday, November 17, 2011

The Property Rights Newsletter

November 18, 2011 - Issue #638

"It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own." - Herbert Hoover

Property Rights for all include Smokers Rights! A Deep Breath For Free Speech. By Jeff Jacoby. In a memorable 1977 decision, the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of New Hampshire resident George Maynard, who had covered up the state motto "Live Free or Die" on his automobile license plates. Under the Constitution, the court held in Wooley v. Maynard, he could not be punished for doing so. Americans cannot be made to "use their private property as a 'mobile billboard' for the State's ideological message." So in gloating that her agency's strident new warnings were intended to convert every pack of cigarettes into an anti-smoking "mini-billboard," the FDA commissioner was -- presumably inadvertently -- articulating precisely the goal that Wooley disallows.
Mental health smoking ban set to be lifted. Australia. A smoking ban for mental health patients is likely to be lifted to stop people who have been committed risking their lives for a cigarette. Reports have shown some involuntary patients were even swapping sex for cigarettes and poking electricity sockets with paper clips to get a spark and light up. Earlier this year, The Sunday Times and PerthNow reported how involuntary mental health patients who smoke were not able to light up in WA hospitals, prompting some to go to extreme lengths to smoke cigarettes. Shadow Mental Health spokeswoman Ljiljanna Ravlich said she put forward the motion in parliament because of the harm the smoking ban was doing to patients and staff.
Smoking bans backfiring at some hospitals. Canada. In interviews, patients said they felt unsafe going outside alone to smoke. A few worried “about getting suddenly sick while smoking outside.” Some risked frostbite. Security guards described patients “pushing this IV pole all the day down the sidewalk in the snow” after being told not to smoke on hospital grounds. Other expressed compassion for smokers. “We need to address these people, because it is a stressful time to give up your bad habit.” She said it was “immediately striking” how little staff felt “that enforcing the smoke-free policy was their responsibility.”
From The Mailbag
IL: Premium Tobacco Association Calls Proposed Cook County and Chicago Taxes "Job-Killers." “When consumers take their business elsewhere, jobs are lost and businesses are hurt. Many of those businesses will be forced to close,” he explained. “That’s not in the best interests of Cook County residents – whether or not they use tobacco products. Everyone would be affected negatively by jobs-killing and business-busting taxes like these.”
MO: St. Charles County Council has backed off of plans to expand the county’s smoking ban through two proposed ballot initiatives because Councilwoman Nancy Matheny has decided a ban expansion would threaten county jobs and businesses.
USA: Anti Smokers are worried: "Resurgence of cigs on TV troubling." FX spokeswoman Roslyn Bibby-Madison yesterday defended Violet’s decision to smoke on “American Horror Story,” saying the character is a rebel. It’s unlikely the teen smoker has to worry about cancer. With the homicidal Rubber Man lurking about, it’s doubtful the character will live to see next season.
China: Survey finds half of Beijing's restaurants ignore smoking ban. The Daerwen Nature Quest Agency, a civil environmental group, conducted the five-month survey of 51 mid-range and low-end restaurants in Beijing in May after the smoking ban was enacted by the Ministry of Health.
UK: Updates: The truth: Government is just a fraud!, There's ASH...and there's ash!, Using the little grey cells, More on the pubs, Eat, drink, smoke and be merry!, The bright lights have dimmed-completely!, and more.
World: Congratulations to the 2011 World Pipe Smoking Champion.
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Thursday, November 10, 2011

The Property Rights Newsletter
November 11, 2011 - Issue #637
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." - James Madison
Property Rights for all include Smokers Rights! Judge blocks graphic cigarette label images. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled that it is likely the cigarette makers will succeed in a lawsuit to block the requirement. He stopped the requirement until the lawsuit is resolved, which could take years. Leon found the nine graphic images approved by the Food and Drug Administration in June go beyond conveying the facts about the health risks of smoking or go beyond that into advocacy — a critical distinction in a case over free speech. Leon said the labels would amount to a "mini-billboard" for the agency's "obvious anti-smoking agenda." The cigarette makers that sued the FDA are R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Lorillard Tobacco Co., Commonwealth Brands Inc. Liggett Group, and Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co.
FDA Genetically Altered Cigarettes. A new crop of electronic cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products seem aimed more at getting smokers through smoke-free times rather than quitting. Earlier this month, the F.D.A. and N.I.H. also announced they were starting a $118 million study to track about 44,000 people over five years to assess usage trends, risk perception, quit-smoking attempts and the possible impact of new tobacco regulations. Tests so far on the experimental cigarettes are encouraging enough that Dr. Hatsukami is going into a Phase 3 clinical trial. That means Phase 2 trials have proven effectiveness on humans. Phase 3 measures both effectiveness and safety. 22nd Century is also planning to start Phase 3 trials next year. The studies are examining gradual or rapid reductions of nicotine. In a regulated marketplace, the government could set limits on nicotine and ratchet down. And teenagers could still experiment with cigarettes, as they are wont to do, without getting addicted.
From The Mailbag
IL: Do not wait! Contact your Cook County Commissioner to oppose additional taxes! Toni Preckwinkle, president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners is proposing new, county-level tobacco taxes.
SC: If you live in Florence County, South Carolina, and you value freedom, this is your wake up call - Federal Government Grant money is being used to force smoking bans in every city in Florence County, then the County itself. Wake up and fight this government funded attack on our freedoms.
USA: Altadis U.S.A. Makes Substantial Contribution to IPCPR. According to Javier Estades, General Manager of Premium Cigars for Altadis U.S.A., “IPCPR has been particularly active on a variety of state and federal legislative issues -- past and current. We wanted to show our support of those successful strategies and actions.”
USA: In the wake of Herman Cain's web-based campaign advertisement that has garnered over one and a half million You Tube views as well as hours of TV discussion time, Audrey Silk and NYC CLASH released their own take on it as relates to the Free Choice movement.
World: Second Hand Television? By Bob Pritchard. My first question would be, Where and when are they going to stop meddling in our private lives?
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Monday, November 07, 2011

The Property Rights Newsletter
November 4, 2011 - Issue #636
"Here at Air America, what's considered psychotic behavior anywhere else is company policy." - Gene Ryack, from the movie Air America
Property Rights for all include Smokers Rights! Airline Air: Boeing Reaches Settlement with Flight Attendant in Toxic Airplane Air Lawsuit. 250,000 pages of company documents turned over to the plaintiff's legal team by Boeing seem certain to fuel the long-running battle over the safety of cabin air in commercial jetliners. "Air travel has been made possible over the past 60 years by a technique called "bleed air pressurisation", which takes hot air out of the engine, cools it down and then feeds it - without first filtering it - into the plane's cabin and cockpit. Sometimes, however, this becomes contaminated with engine oils containing many different chemicals, which are wafted into the plane to be inhaled by passengers and crew alike. Campaigners are particularly concerned about a neurotoxin called tricresyl phosphate (TCP)." (But the crews, who knew nothing at the time about this bleed of toxic engine fumes into the cabin, sued the tobacco companies, and smokers were banned.)
John Banzhaf Strikes Again: The Coming Church-State Wars. By Patrick J. Buchanan. For it seems that not a single Muslim student at CUA had gone to the District of Columbia Office of Human Rights to file a complaint. That complaint was the work of John Banzhaf, a professor at GW, perennial litigant, and longtime contender for the title of National Pest. In provocative language, Banzhaf told Fox News, "It shouldn't be too difficult to set aside a small room where Muslims can pray without having to stare up and be looked down upon by a cross of Jesus. The episode also reveals how the cause of civil rights has been trivialized and exploited.
From The Mailbag
GA: Macon City Council, No Vote on Smoking Law. Now White says she's not sure if they'll continue the effort to get the law passed. Tillman previously participated in a commercial supporting the law, but says he's changed his mind. He says he's afraid that outlawing smoking in downtown Macon's bars and restaurants will drive business into other communities, like Warner Robins and Gray.
IL: You are cordially invited to An Evening Cigar with Ron Sandack on Monday, November 7th, in Springfield.
WI: Mike Hanke would like the city of Chippewa Falls to adopt the state’s workplace smoking ban as a city ordinance. That way, the city could give tickets when there are violations, instead of relying on the county district attorney’s office to prosecute offenders.
Property Rights for all include Smokers Rights! USA: Cain's Ad is Brilliant. He’s blowing smoke rings around the competition in polling (24 percent to Romney’s 21 percent), and the cash is flowing at a rate of $1 million per week. If you view political campaigns as entertainment — and you may as well — Cain’s crazy ad was a lucky strike.
USA: Watch Angry Whoopi: Let Soldiers Smoke! "The View" talks about a proposed ban on smoking for U.S. soldiers.
USA: Watch Blaze Exclusive: Texas High School students made to recite Mexican National Anthem, Pledge of Allegiance.
Property Rights for all include Smokers Rights! Canada: Does it really have to come to this, that Barrie's Royal Victoria Hospital needs smoke police? Carol Holden said smokers are obviously breaking the rules, and the law, on hospital property.
Property Rights for all include Smokers Rights! Spain: Winds of change in Spain. Answer from Soraya Saénz de Santamaría, Popular Party's spokesperson. We can achieve special facilities where smokers can smoke without bothering other costumers or staff, let's look for this balanced way, in this time of crisis, to preserve employment in hospitallity sector. Let's look for saving everybody's rights and wishes. I think it is possible to reach an intermediate measure for smokers to smoke inside without disturbing anyone".
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