Thursday, March 28, 2013
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The Property Rights Newsletter March 29, 2013 - Issue #706 "Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another,and under that another, and they all make you cry." - Derrick Jensen |
Smoking bans KILL businesses - FACT! The longer this idiotic smoking ban goes on the more the anti tobacco movement show their intolerance to other peoples pleasures, and of course, the more businesses will die. The problem they now face is one of looking either fair minded or simply plain stupid-and I'm afraid that the latter is far outstripping the former! This interview lays the 'TC bones' out for all to see - oh what liars they really are! Let's look at a few of these media reported 'plain stupid' facts that show these people up for what they truly are.
Fart-filled Ministry of Health anti-smoking ad hits a nerve. A new public awareness campaign from the Ontario Ministry of Health is cheekily comparing a casual cigarette in social situations to flatulence. "It's true that I fart but I wouldn't call myself a farter," a young woman says in the 53-second clip. "I'm a 'social farter,' I really only do it when I'm out with my friends who fart.
Those Who Switched From Saturated Animal Fats To Polyunsaturated Vegetable Oils May Have Made A Fatal Mistake. The results of the biggest and most thorough study thus far to investigate what happens when people switch from animal fats to vegetable oils couldn't be more clear. Those who heeded the advice to switch from saturated fats to polyunsaturated vegetable oils dramatically reduced their odds of living to see 2013. What happened? Fifty years ago the medical community did an about-face (it had previously thought the evidence equivocal at best and so cautioned against jumping to conclusions) and instead went all in on polyunsaturated fats. It reasoned that since (a) cholesterol is associated with cardiovascular disease and (b) polyunsaturated fats reduce serum cholesterol levels, it inescapably followed that (c) changing people's diet from saturated fats to polyunsaturated fats would save a lot of lives. In 1984 Uncle Sam got involved - Time magazine reported on it in "Hold the Eggs and Butter" - and he made a big push for citizens to swap out animal fat in their diet for the vegetable variety and a great experiment on the American people was begun.
Bloomberg Has a New Target. If New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg gets his way, stores won't be able to publicly display tobacco products and will have to keep cigarettes under the counter or behind curtains. He said it would be the first of its kind in the nation. The New York Association of Convenience Stores, which has 1,600 members, called the proposed ban on displays "absurd." "I can't think of another business that is selling legal products that is being forced to hide them from public view," said association president Jim Calvin. "Businesses have a fundamental right to communicate with customers."
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Thursday, March 21, 2013
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The Property Rights Newsletter March 22, 2013 - Issue #705 "Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."- Frederick Douglass |
Anti-smoking drug lawsuits cost Pfizer Inc. more than $273 million.Pfizer Inc. has entered settlement agreements in 80 percent of the 2,700 lawsuits alleging the company's smoking cessation drug, Chantix, caused suicide and injury. Reuters reports the agreements cost the company about $273 million in 2012 and the company is setting aside $15 million to resolve remaining claims in the United States in 2013. Chantix was first released in 2006. The company was flooded with lawsuits relating to psychological side effects by 2008.MORE: Articles about Chantix. - MORE: Articles about Big Pharmaceutical. 
U.S. government changes course on graphic cigarette warnings. The U.S. government has dropped its push for cigarette labels to carry images of diseased lungs and other graphic health warnings, and will craft new anti-smoking ads that do not run afoul of free speech rights. In a letter to Republican House Speaker John Boehner last Friday, Attorney General Eric Holder said that the Food and Drug Administration would go back to the drawing board to develop the ads, as required by legislation passed by Congress in 2009.
Whistle blowing scientist sues UCLA for his job. The importance of his work on behalf of Californians cannot be understated. The Environmental Health Sciences professor has been fighting the false science behind some of our state's most onerous regulations for years. The rebel professor is also famously known for bringing the public's attention to a fake Ph.D. degree claimed by a researcher for the extremely powerful state environmental agency, the California Air Resources Board (CARB). Liberal institutions claim they adore whistle-blowers. Not, it seems, when they fight the eco-activism that is entrenched in campus and government bureaucracies.
Mississippi Passes Anti Bloomberg Bill. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been making headlines and enemies over the past year due to his dictatorial edicts against food, drink, pain killers and guns. Perhaps because he is one of the 10th richest people in the United States, he feels he has the right to impose restrictions upon how much food, drink and painkillers people in his city are allowed to have. To prevent Bloomberg or anyone who idolizes him from trying the same kind of tyrannical restrictions in their state, the Mississippi legislature just passed a bill that they are referring to as the "anti-Bloomberg bill." The bill prevents any community in the state from imposing similar Bloomberg restrictions...
Life is now. Don't let the professional anti-smoking brigade ruin it. By David Hockney. The UK's remaining smokers can't be legislated out of existence. Everyone dies and to be obsessed with longevity is life-denying. So how come the professional anti-smoker is now an expert in packaging? Have you noticed that marijuana has quite good sales (they tell me) with no packaging whatsoever? Tobacco will be the same. Why does the government only listen to the anti-smokers who obviously natter and natter about it?
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Thursday, March 14, 2013
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The Property Rights Newsletter March 15, 2013 - Issue #704 "He that is of the opinion money will do everythingmay well be suspected of doing everything for money." - Benjamin Franklin |
Alleged Conflict of Interest on FDA Tobacco Panel. By Jeff Edgens. As far back as 2010, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sent a letter to the Inspector General calling for an investigation into the TPSAC and the conflict of interest of several of its members. CREW singles out Drs. Neal Benowitz and Jack Henningfield, both of whom have consulting connections with pharmaceutical companies, to develop smoking cessation products. Benowitz works for Pfizer, the maker of Chantix, a smoking cessation drug. Henningfield consults with the maker of Nicorette gum. A third member of the panel, Dorothy Hatsukami, has received grants to study the effects of a nicotine vaccine.
Utah moves to tax e-cigarettes like regular smokes. A proposal in the Utah Legislature that would tax electronic cigarettes at the same rate as regular cigarettes has put the state at the forefront of a national movement to regulate the increasingly popular devices. More than 35 proposals calling for some type of regulation of electronic cigarettes have been introduced this year in legislatures across the country, but Utah seems to be the only state currently proposing that they be taxed like regular tobacco, said Karmen Hanson, a tobacco policy analyst with the National Conference of State Legislatures. Hanson is unaware of any state with a law like this on the books.
Borg signals compromise possible on tobacco additives. The Commissioner for health and consumer affairs has signalled that European tobacco producers may include additives in Burley tobacco, offering East European tobacco producers a compromise that could enable them to continue production. In an interview with EurActiv, Borg said finding replacement jobs for workers left unable to grow tobacco any more following the introduction of new rules was not the responsibility of his department.
The government should not be allowed to tell individuals what they can smoke. Reason Magazine. Advocates of treating marijuana more like alcohol gained another ally recently: the United Nations. The U.N. would claim otherwise. In fact, the U.N.'s International Narcotics Control Board would hotly deny it. The agency's latest report laments the legalization of pot in Colorado and Washington, declaring the approval of recreational marijuana use "in contravention to" the 1961 U.N. Convention on Narcotics. They might favor it less if they knew the U.N. were, implicitly, telling states what to do. Just look at the conservative reaction to Agenda 21 -- a voluntary U.N. program that encourages bike paths and urban planning. Conservatives see it as nothing less than the first step on the road to serfdom.
Caffeine is so dangerous that it should be regulated like alcohol and cigarettes, warns leading expert. Dr Jack James says that the stimulant is causing "untimely deaths" and that its "lethality" is being underestimated. Dr James believes the risks caffeine poses to our health are so great that products that contain it should be taxed and restricted like cigarettes and alcohol. Sales to children in particular should be restricted. He says that as well as tea and coffee, caffeine is found in fizzy drinks, energy drinks, bottled water, alcoholic drinks (such as Tia Maria), cookies, chewing gum, yogurt and flavoured milk. It is also commonly found in cold and flu remedies, weight loss pills, mints, cosmetics, soaps and even tights to aid slimming.
Bloomberg has hard time swallowing judge's decision to nix large soda ban as the city files appeal. The ban on sugary drinks over 16 ounces at city-regulated eateries was supposed to take effect Tuesday. Bloomberg: "It wasn't a setback for me. It's a setback for the people who are dying." City lawyers wasted no time Tuesday trying to reinstate Mayor Bloomberg's big-soda ban. Bloomberg held up a 64-ounce KFC cup he said would hold a gut-busting 800 calories as he trotted out public health experts and pols - including his usual adversary, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio - to support his position.
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Thursday, March 07, 2013
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The Property Rights Newsletter March 8, 2013 - Issue #703 "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."- Frederick Douglass | |
There's a new dawn coming folks! In a country that is showing severe signs of complete insanity which, bizarrely, is completely the fault of those that should know all about sanity - the health freaks - there has been a glimmer of hope that sanity may now be starting to spread. We all know by now that smoking, drinking alcohol or gluttony is frowned upon from a great height by the new world rulers known as the World Health Organisation. Now I am at odds with this, as you may well know by now, for if the figures from Africa are even remotely accurate then the 700,000 deaths supposedly caused by smoking in the EU bloc absolutely pale into insignificance next to the (minimum) "1 child every 3 seconds" of each day dying of malnutrition & disease in stricken Africa. One death per 3 seconds would equal 10,512,000 deaths per annum - so the WHO, yet again, only accord figures to the projects they wish to promote. Of course you also need to take into account the fact that African figures are helpless children.
UK - The state is now in charge of breakfast. By David Atherton. Andy Burnham the Shadow Health Secretary wants to introduce legal limits on the sugar, fat, and salt in food, especially breakfast cereals. Diane Abbott meanwhile has been banging on about banning the spread of fried chicken takeaways. I appreciate that it is rude to talk about a lady's weight, but as a Shadow Health Minister she is in nautical terms a little broad at the beam herself. Gabriel Scully pitching in. Jones commented: "Not eating Frosties now I know they're 37% sugar. I'll reconsider if the sugar content is limited to 30%. What's wrong with that?" Dr. Scully's tuppence worth was "How about they don't spend millions on promoting unhealthy ones to kids? How about we eat food from farmers rather than industry?" Of course, it is all for the children. A normal serving of Frosties with 125 ml of semi skimmed milk and no extra sugar is only 152 calories. A ten year old boy should consume between 1,600 and 2,200 calories a day. So barely 10 percent of daily recommended levels. It is extremely unlikely that the Great Satan Kellogg's is adding extra notches to belts. Some might even argue this is an insufficient calorie intake.
USA: Drew Hastings, Comedian, Farmer, Mayor. Not necessarily in that order. You can now download his new CD, "Farmageddon" from his website for only $2.99. Proceeds benefit the FFA. Thanks. CDC Study Shows that Electronic Cigarette Use is Growing Among Smokers and Helping Some Smokers Quit, But Without any Increasing Appeal to Nonsmokers. By Dr. Michael Siegel. According to a national survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there was a tremendous increase in electronic cigarette use among smokers from 2010 to 2011 along with a large increase in the proportion of former smokers who reported having used electronic cigarettes, but without any increase in use by never smokers, suggesting that these products show promise as part of a national strategy for smoking cessation and reduction. Plain Packaging: There is no evidence that plain packaging will have any impact on youth smoking rates or the number of adults who smoke. There are, however, several very good reasons why this pointless idea should be rejected. Read on: Nothing plain about plain packaging - Legislation should be based on evidence - Tackle illicit trade not legitimate businesses - Please, no more nanny state diktats - and more! KS - Wellington Cat Law. Limits Households to 4 Cats. The new restriction matches the number of dogs each household is allowed. The first change was the creation of The Bad Apple Rule. Other amendments set requirements for dog shelters, wild or exotic animals, disposition/adoptions of dogs, along with new laws having to do with cats. | |
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