tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60644652012-01-26T08:19:43.043-08:00The Smoker's ClubThe Property Rights Newsletter. www.smokersclub.comSamanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comBlogger3961100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-5195192733461702122012-01-26T08:18:00.000-08:002012-01-26T08:19:43.052-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
January 27, 2012 - Issue #648
"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."
- P.J.O'Rourke
USA: See the list of all smoking bans in the United States. Country Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-84595566817768492272012-01-19T09:56:00.000-08:002012-01-19T09:57:09.585-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
January 20, 2012 - Issue #647
"As a man is said to have a right to his property,
he may be equally said to have a property in his rights."
- James Madison
NY Schools spy on fat kids. Big Brother is joining the battle of the bulge. A group of Long Island students will soon be wearing controversial electronic monitors that allow school officials to trackSamanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-18325358326330175452012-01-13T04:39:00.000-08:002012-01-13T04:40:07.270-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
January 13, 2012 - Issue #646
From the desk of the Director of The Blatantly Obvious:
Ban water vapor?! That must include tea, coffee, boiling water, soup, most hot foods, right? Note that no one wants to ban an alternative nicotine delivery system. That would cost Big Pharm money.
ALERT SC: North Myrtle Beach has decided to include E-cigs in their Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-81632064334463916662012-01-05T13:20:00.000-08:002012-01-05T13:21:18.415-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
January 6, 2012 - Issue #645
"On a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority, trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other."
- James Madison
Formal request for: Future CDC Study on Economic Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-88625410379786030752011-12-29T13:35:00.000-08:002011-12-29T13:38:20.444-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
December 30, 2011 - Issue #644
"Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true."
- Alfred Lord Tennyson , 1850
Fire hazard fears over compact fluorescent lamps - after they've stopped working. Compact fluorescent lamps, Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-68198698369075039292011-12-22T14:24:00.000-08:002011-12-22T14:26:38.112-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
December 23, 2011 - Issue #643
"The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath."
Our Christmas Card For You.
Read more about keeping Christmas in Christmas.
Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house,
not a creature was stirring, not even a Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-49523411873211302222011-12-15T10:31:00.000-08:002011-12-15T10:33:28.687-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
December 16, 2011 - Issue #642
"Common sense is not so common."
- Voltaire
US calls for ban on in-car phone use ... even with Bluetooth. The government's transportation safety experts recommended Tuesday to ban all American drivers from using portable electronic devices — including cell phones, even if you use a hands-free Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-2374875166047581052011-12-08T08:17:00.001-08:002011-12-08T08:17:56.112-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
December 9, 2011 - Issue #641
"You can never be comfortable with your success,
you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it."
- Lou Gerstner
Stanton Glantz: How to deceive without actually lying. By Chris Snowdon. Anti-smoking dinosaurs like Simon Chapman and Stanton Glantz (pictured left) try to maintain the facade of it being a battle between Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-52241620251736433402011-12-01T18:26:00.000-08:002011-12-01T18:27:47.039-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
December 2, 2011 - Issue #640
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
- Frederick Douglass
Placing obese children in foster homes: An 8-year-old Cleveland Heights boy was taken from his family and placed in foster care last month after county case workers said his mother wasn't doing enough to control his weight. The case Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-4624394077781395552011-11-26T09:45:00.000-08:002011-11-26T09:46:03.649-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
November 25, 2011 - Issue #639
"Every man dies - Not every man really lives."
- William Ross Wallace
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 hugeSamanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-11915349319988321912011-11-17T12:01:00.001-08:002011-11-17T12:03:21.293-08:00
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
A Deep Breath For Free Speech. By Jeff Jacoby. In a memorable 1977 decision, the US Supreme Court Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-43258854839225064382011-11-10T12:51:00.001-08:002011-11-10T12:51:52.889-08:00
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
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 Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-69548103884817618852011-11-07T13:29:00.000-08:002011-11-07T13:30:33.823-08:00
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
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 Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-37352660767662280162011-10-27T09:56:00.001-07:002011-10-27T09:56:53.893-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
October 28, 2011 - Issue #635
"Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is."
- Yvonne Craig
Halloween. By Peter Thurgood. At this point, the man reached into the top pocket of his jacket and took out a leather case, from which he produced a large cigar. The woman watched him in disbelief as he then took a silver cigar cutter from another Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-32123952032002268092011-10-19T12:34:00.000-07:002011-10-19T12:36:11.199-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
October 21, 2011 - Issue #634
"For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!"
- Jay Leno
Eat more, pay more. Has that worked for smoking?: By Michael J. McFadden. How about if we simply equalize the taxesSamanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-781377550826983152011-10-16T09:56:00.000-07:002011-10-16T09:58:17.498-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
October 14, 2011 - Issue #633
"When the smoke started to fill the air, a transformation
came over the place. It was no longer somewhere to go
for a drink. It was a pub - a proper pub."
- Richard Catton, Columnist and Non-Smoker
Prohibition: By Frank Davis. For it’s the strange thing about all these prohibitionists, whether Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-84061298948246886432011-10-03T14:26:00.000-07:002011-10-03T14:27:17.304-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
October 7, 2011 - Issue #632
"At the end of the day, the goals are simple:
safety and security."
- Jodi Rell
University of Montana: Ban places smokers in "dangerous situation." "This is fully acknowledged but college admin still wants them to risk rape to smoke, and another part of admin doesn't want campus cops to protect them since "the goal of the Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-19256702292913893162011-09-30T13:44:00.001-07:002011-09-30T13:44:46.351-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
September 30, 2011 - Issue #631
"Why, then 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so: to me it is a prison."
- William Shakespeare
Against Overlordship. By Daniel B. Klein, The Independent Review. For social democrats, the state is to the community what the landlord is to the apartment complex or the owner is toSamanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-23076028549916650662011-09-23T11:42:00.000-07:002011-09-23T11:43:43.358-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
September 23, 2011 - Issue #630
"The anti smoking fascists thought they could de-normalize smoking, they've failed. Smoking is still a perfectly normal pleasure for many (and so it should be). All the anti smokers and the gullible people that follow them have achieved is the normalization of bigotry and intolerance."
- Phil Williams
Court Case Asks if "Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-19280705204716999112011-09-15T09:45:00.001-07:002011-09-15T09:46:53.820-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
September 16, 2011 - Issue #629
"The two most common elements in the universe
are Hydrogen and stupidity."
- Harlan Ellison
Hay and the EPA: EPA declares hay a pollutant in effort to drive small, mid-sized family cattle ranchers out of business. "Now that EPA has declared hay a pollutant, every farmer and rancher that stores Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-17123749328238295432011-09-02T13:49:00.000-07:002011-09-02T13:51:55.520-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
September 2, 2011 - Issue #628
"The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist
is that the taxidermist leaves the skin."
- Mark Twain
Smokers Blogs: Read what other smokers have to say. Watch instant postings to your favorite blogs, and use the big Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-21378548349370474262011-08-26T13:35:00.000-07:002011-08-26T13:37:15.132-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
August 26, 2011 - Issue #627
"Hindsight, or our ability to see our past clearly, is a learning function that, when damaged ... renders us unable to look at the past to guide ourselves through the present and into the future. Without this ability, we cannot learn from our mistakes. We cannot clean up the wreckage ofSamanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-61715653605938049842011-08-18T19:16:00.001-07:002011-08-18T19:16:45.646-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
August 19, 2011 - Issue #626
"Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like
asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds."
- John Perry Barlow
Facial Recognition System: Here's Looking at You, and You, and You ... "The system looks at each driver’s license photograph stored in the state’s computers, mapping Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-1928018616642684152011-08-11T18:54:00.001-07:002011-08-11T18:54:56.368-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
August 12, 2011 - Issue #625
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people; it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."
- Patrick Henry
Is Quitting Smoking to Blame for Obama’s Irritability, Instability, Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-90976090790519162502011-08-08T04:00:00.000-07:002011-08-08T04:02:10.947-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
August 5, 2011 - Issue #624
"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself.
Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."
- Wayne Dyer
Are new health warning labels on cigarette packages too graphic? By George Koodray. Lost in all of the chatter now are principles such as the freedom people have to consume a Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-20729351861826961552011-07-30T01:00:00.000-07:002011-07-30T01:05:47.230-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
July 29, 2011 - Issue #623
"Somebody has to speak for these people. You all got on this boat for different reasons, but you all come to the same place. So now I’m asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything I know this, they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-30584854878738559382011-07-23T06:08:00.000-07:002011-07-23T06:10:28.553-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
July 22, 2011 - Issue #622
"It is pathetic and ludicrous to say we ever vanquished smallpox with vaccines, when only 10% of the population was ever vaccinated."
- Dr. Glen Dettman.
Antismoking Vaccine Fails in Late Trial. A vaccine meant to help people quit smoking has failed to work in a large, late-stage clinical trial, dealing a Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-33115575078005285852011-07-14T17:48:00.000-07:002011-07-14T17:49:14.507-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
July 15, 2011 - Issue #621
"The secret of happiness is freedom.
The secret of freedom is courage."
- Thucydides
PROPERTY RIGHTS. PLEASE READ THIS: UK Islamic radicals set to implement Sharia-controlled-zone. Hardcore Islamists in Britain are set to kick off their new "Sharia law enforcement zones" across the country, under which gambling, smoking, drugs andSamanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-83216728279374815982011-07-08T17:05:00.000-07:002011-07-08T17:06:45.210-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
July 8, 2011 - Issue #620
"If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun."
- Benjamin Franklin
FDA unfairly maligns tobacco plant with graphic new cigarette warning labels. By Mike Adams, the Health Ranger. Blaming tobacco for the health ills of cigarettes is like blaming corn plants for the increased risk of cancer that comes from eating corn dogs. (The Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-84691275102326539102011-07-01T10:26:00.000-07:002011-07-01T10:29:02.048-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
July 1, 2011 - Issue #619
"You may fool all the people some of the time,
you can even fool some of the people all of the time,
but you cannot fool all of the people all the time."
- Abraham Lincoln
The Smoking-Ban in Andalucia - Spain. By Peter Thurgood for The Smoker's Club. To my great disappointment, Paco had also succumbed to the ban, Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-58116791882195000382011-06-23T13:01:00.000-07:002011-06-23T13:03:34.737-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
June 24, 2011 - Issue #618
"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be."- Voltaire
Nevada Governor signs bill to allow smoking in standalone bars that serve food. Despite opposition from health officials, taverns and standalone bars have won the right to permit both smoking and food service under a bill signed into law Friday by Gov. Brian Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-26705894239447857652011-06-17T11:51:00.000-07:002011-06-17T11:54:06.883-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
June 17, 2011 - Issue #617
"I have sworn upon the altar of Almighty God eternal hostility
against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
- Thomas Jefferson
Fat Stigma Spreads Around the Globe. At a time when global health officials are stepping up efforts to treat obesity as a worrisome public health threat, some Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-576429177110910902011-06-10T14:21:00.000-07:002011-06-10T14:26:16.472-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
June 10, 2011 - Issue #616
"In a time of universal deceit,
telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
- George Orwell
AR: Fayetteville Smoking ordinance fails. Residents will be able to continue to light up inside bars that allow smoking for the foreseeable future. The measure failed to garner six of eight Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-23176605484093114752011-06-03T06:49:00.000-07:002011-06-03T06:53:04.691-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
June 3, 2011 - Issue #615
"I don't know how much education you need to be stupid."
- Roy Rowley
Cellphones 'possibly carcinogenic,' report suggests. They reviewed possible links between cancer and the type of electromagnetic radiation found in cellphones, microwaves and radar. The agency is the cancer arm of the World Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-39878270689213456242011-05-27T08:53:00.000-07:002011-05-27T08:54:50.899-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
May 27, 2011 - Issue #614
"With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of
every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance."
- Norman Mailer.
Bill would snuff out Nevada's smoking ban in bars. Lawmakers have introduced a surprise bill to lift the ban on smoking in bars that serve food, a move that might have Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-29293177852767506642011-05-20T14:34:00.000-07:002011-05-20T14:37:07.087-07:00
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 Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-46011551725568961732011-05-13T08:54:00.000-07:002011-05-18T08:55:21.900-07:00
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 Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-10795893564445869552011-05-06T08:52:00.000-07:002011-05-18T08:54:07.313-07:00
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 Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-70949276884560334172011-04-22T08:50:00.000-07:002011-05-18T08:52:24.265-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
April 22, 2011 - Issue #610
"If you think you are too small to make a difference,
try sleeping with a mosquito."
- Dalai Lama XIV
Chicago school bans homemade lunches, the latest in national food fight. The students can either eat the cafeteria food--or go hungry. "I can accept if they want to ban soda, but to tell me I can't send a lunch with my Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-36797350218629838552011-04-15T08:48:00.000-07:002011-05-18T08:50:20.396-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
April 15, 2011 - Issue #609
"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."
- The Dalai Lama
Steer clear of Big Pharma, says... the WHO!
The World Health Organization has warned health professionals working in tobacco control not to become too closely involved with drug companies that produce smoking cessation products.
Well, well. Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-27667487239876019162011-04-08T08:45:00.000-07:002011-05-18T08:48:06.416-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
April 8, 2011 - Issue #608
"No matter where you go, there you are."
- B. Banzai
Nudgers vs. Nannies. The new split divides those who believe the fat, feckless masses should be nudged toward better behavior and those who believe the fat, feckless masses should be nannied toward better behavior. Prime Minister David Cameron leads the nudgers. He Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-38838972984442747252011-03-25T08:40:00.000-07:002011-05-18T08:45:30.704-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
March 25, 2011 - Issue #607
“Get up and dance, get up and smile,
get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.”
- Simon Fowler
Scotland Drinkers Update... Now Drinkers Can Hate ASH Too. To all those CAMRA binge-drinkers (oh yes you are!) who so loved the smoking ban, see what you spawned? The Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-28399371596520671652011-03-20T10:08:00.000-07:002011-03-20T10:10:47.993-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
March 18, 2011 - Issue #606
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead
us to an understanding of ourselves."
- Carl Jung The Three States Cutting Cigarette Taxes. Bucking a national trend of raising cigarette taxes, New Hampshire, New Jersey and Rhode Island have considered reducing theirs, hoping to draw smokers from other states and increase revenue. Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-25100332560534505442011-03-12T07:38:00.001-08:002011-03-12T07:38:33.544-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
March 11, 2011 - Issue #605
"We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing."
- Mother Teresa Moss Lights Up Catwalk On No-Smoking Day. The 37-year-old supermodel smoked a cigarette as she paraded in black hot pants and Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-24538176108243423012011-03-05T07:55:00.001-08:002011-03-05T07:55:51.085-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
March 4, 2011 - Issue #604
"The most elementary tool of propaganda is simply the careful
choice of the terms one uses to describe oneself, one's
opponent, or the activity being propagandized about."
- Michael J. McFadden Top Ten Legal Drugs Linked to Violence. When people consider the connections between drugs and violence, what typically comes to mind are Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-54341745355291302862011-02-24T15:46:00.000-08:002011-02-24T15:47:24.894-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
February 25, 2011 - Issue #603
"I'm not upset that you lied to me,
I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
- Friedrich Nietzsche Smokers are a persecuted minority.
By T. Gavin King. This is not reasonable but the product of mass hysteria for a utopia. Moreover, if some nonsmokers might be in those smokers' ghettos, which is unlikely because they don't Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-42945833396365505402011-02-09T17:01:00.000-08:002011-02-09T17:02:23.191-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
February 11, 2011 - Issue #601
Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.
- Christopher Eccleston Circus of Horrors: Circus act's smoking raises health and safety alarm. Fire-eating is fine. As is walking barefoot up a ladder of swords and swallowing a revolving electric drill. And – while it may not be to everyone's taste – there should be Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-40980940456675632122011-02-09T17:00:00.000-08:002011-02-09T17:01:26.176-08:00The Property Rights Newsletter
January 28, 2011 - Issue #600
"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed,
but that he cannot believe anyone else."
- George Bernard Shaw Don’t believe the lies about secondhand smoke. By Theodore J. King. Fortunately, it is simply not true that even brief exposure to secondhand smoke can cause cardiovascular disease. The myths about Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-76980101593670005882011-01-20T17:32:00.000-08:002011-01-20T17:34:14.620-08:00The Property Rights Newsletter
January 21, 2011 - Issue #599
"There is no week nor day nor hour when
tyranny may not enter upon this country,
if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance."
- Walt WhitmanDEFIANCEBULGARIA: Smoking Ban Widely Ignored. Even though a smoking ban in public places came into force in Bulgaria five days ago, reporters' checks across the country have shown Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-62481883384946239732011-01-20T17:31:00.000-08:002011-01-20T17:32:21.732-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
January 14, 2011 - Issue #598
"In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship."
- Frederica Montseny Thank You for Smoking: Spanish Bars Flout the Ban.
Fernando Tejedor never considered himself a rebel. For the past several years, he Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-68318686167426112022010-12-10T19:56:00.000-08:002010-12-11T10:44:08.463-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
December 10, 2010 - Issue #595
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
-Samuel AdamsSamanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-69910665943953910732010-12-02T21:26:00.001-08:002010-12-02T21:26:58.032-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
December 3, 2010 - Issue #594
"It's kryptonite, Superman. Little souvenir from the old
home town. I spared no expense to make you feel right at home."
- Lex Luthor Obvious WHO bias. By Robert Gehrmann. "Scientists then estimated ... ." That is a misnomer. True scientists measure; "estimated" is not science. When a study is started to produce a specific result, Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-24305768784058823842010-11-24T07:39:00.001-08:002010-11-24T07:39:54.515-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
November 26, 2010 - Issue #593
"I can never fear that things will go far wrong
where common sense has fair play."
- Thomas Jefferson USA Warning Labels: Tobacco Warnings Could Trigger First Amendment Lawsuits. Tobacco companies vow to fight warning labels. When the U.S. Health and Human Services Department announced last week its proposal to include grim images Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-44488840879214912972010-11-11T08:30:00.000-08:002010-11-11T08:31:16.968-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
November 12, 2010 - Issue #592
"To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take
responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life."
- Arbie M. Dale Why our smoking ban had to schtop. By Wiel Maessen. The Netherlands has become the first country in Europe to overturn its smoking ban. A new liberal government is to allow smoking, though only in Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-52080284303872798902010-11-11T08:29:00.000-08:002010-11-11T08:30:27.707-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
November 5, 2010 - Issue #591
"The worst kind of non-smokers are the ones that come
up to you and cough. That's pretty f**king cruel isn't it?
Do you go up to cripples and dance too?"
- Bill Hicks Would this be considered blackmail, or would it be simple extortion?
Zoo spokeswoman Sue Allen says a memorandum was included stating that a large foundation said it Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-75091271419932343542010-10-29T12:13:00.000-07:002010-10-29T12:14:23.822-07:00
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 Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-78050774715007499792010-10-21T19:05:00.000-07:002010-10-21T19:06:17.148-07:00
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 Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-85700934167265897802010-10-15T05:06:00.000-07:002010-10-15T05:07:04.210-07:00
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 usSamanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-86476068296209826012010-10-15T04:55:00.001-07:002010-10-15T05:06:09.354-07:00
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 Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-8190966132447455362010-09-30T14:49:00.000-07:002010-09-30T14:50:23.624-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
October 1, 2010 - Issue #586
"Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the
window except that the birds might eat them."
- Martin H. Fischer Pfizer Lists Payments to Doctors. Health Care Reform Law Requires Big Pharma to List Payments by 2013. It will be a lot easier for patients to find out what drug companies are paying their doctors in 2013. That's when Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-49091141111511826882010-09-23T06:26:00.001-07:002010-09-23T06:26:54.159-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
September 24, 2010 - Issue #585
"In order to end passive obesity the government will make it illegal to eat anything in a public place, including restaurants. We will still be able to buy food, but have to eat it outside in the rain."
- Phil Williams Scotland: ASH Scotland looks for support from Scottish Government, as smoking rate remains static. Freedom to Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-85891290770469489282010-09-15T18:19:00.000-07:002010-09-15T18:20:11.052-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
September 17, 2010 - Issue #584
"For most folks, no news is good news;
for the press, good news is not news."
- Gloria Borger Chile: Cigarettes, electricity on the way to trapped miners. The miners trapped for more than a month in Chile are getting a light in more ways than one. The 33 men have received a power line that will allow them to install electric lightsSamanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-42342572474745729072010-09-10T11:56:00.001-07:002010-09-10T11:56:57.952-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
September 10, 2010 - Issue #583
Prohibition makes a crime out of things that are not crimes.
A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon
which our government was founded.
- Abraham Lincoln (1840) Listen to Michael McFadden 'Dissecting Anti-Smokers' Brains' author joins Mike McConnell, News 720 WGN. Oftentimes, it is the smoker that gets Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-4009477186504779892010-09-10T11:55:00.002-07:002010-09-10T11:56:16.668-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
September 3, 2010 - Issue #582
"I was once a soldier, I knew the risks and accepted them
when I joined. Likewise Police, Firefighters, Coal Miners, etc…
all face risks but chose to accept them. So why can't
bar staff choose to work in a smoky pub?"
- Phil Williams A sad farewell to a friend. Ban Damage. By Phil Johnson. The last few months cost Rui a lot of moneySamanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-74153386010821669042010-09-10T11:55:00.001-07:002010-09-10T11:55:37.385-07:00The Property Rights Newsletter
August 20, 2010 - Issue #581
"You can fool some of the people all of the time,
and all of the people some of the time,
but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
- Abraham Lincoln Four degrees of separation. Obesity gains ground in the fight for funding in the United States. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is now spending over ten times as much onSamanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-63205471708470032892010-08-13T09:08:00.001-07:002010-08-13T09:08:39.089-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
August 13, 2010 - Issue #580
"Ten years ago we got laughed at for playing "The Slippery
Slope Card." Today we'd have to play a whole deck
before anyone questioned it."
- Michael J. McFadden Antis Rewrite History
Winston Churchill's cigar airbrushed from picture. In a reproduction of the picture, hanging over the main entrance to a London museum celebrating the Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-18780442280838303902010-08-08T05:34:00.000-07:002010-08-08T05:35:42.417-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
August 6, 2010 - Issue #579
"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.
And the tigers are getting hungry."
- Winston Churchill Third Hand Smoke Causes Leprosy! By Michael J. McFadden, Mid-Atlantic Regional Director, Citizens Freedom Alliance. Did you know that third hand smoke can cause Leprosy? Wounds that never heal? Flaming,festering,Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-71375914991931820042010-07-30T15:00:00.000-07:002010-07-30T15:01:13.833-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
July 30, 2010 - Issue #578
"What is dangerous about extremists is not that
they are extreme, but that they are intolerant.
The evil is not what they say about their cause,
but what they say about their opponents."
- Robert F. Kennedy County ‘Dons’ keep selling smoke-free agenda. By Jim Waters. These facts are ignored by Hahn, who must justify getting federal Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-55275246911037610672010-07-23T05:27:00.001-07:002010-07-23T05:27:54.450-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
July 23, 2010 - Issue #577
"To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming
too many calories is like saying that the only cause
of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party."
- Adelle Davis USA: Department of Health and Human Services. HHS commits $10 million to curb tobacco use, obesity. Of the 10 organizations receiving $1 million grants, seven Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-87090702233097644052010-07-16T11:19:00.000-07:002010-07-16T11:20:07.098-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
July 16, 2010 - Issue #576
"No matter where you go, there you are."
- B. Banzai Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children? By Tim Andrews. We now live in a country that is based upon risk-minimisation to the extreme. It is now viewed as legitimate for our government to do everything to minimise any potential negative effects on our lives, even if we enter them Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-50009768478163289122010-07-09T14:04:00.001-07:002010-07-09T14:05:23.400-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
July 9, 2010 - Issue #575
"Liberty cannot be caged into a charter
or handed on ready-made to the next generation.
Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.
Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves."
- Florence Ellinwood Allen The Economic Losers From Smoking Bans. This is an OBVIOUS attack against liquor permit holders in the StateSamanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-56194984612992514232010-07-02T10:28:00.000-07:002010-07-02T10:29:15.283-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
July 2, 2010 - Issue #574
"In a time of universal deceit,
telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
- George Orwell UK: Smoking ban U-turn appeal. Smoking ban rebel Hamish Howitt claims he was forced to close his Happy Scots bar because of the smoking ban. Mr Howitt, who flouted the ban at his DelBoy's Sports Bar on Rigby Road, Blackpool, for 18 months, Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-23809876463648604772010-06-18T07:57:00.001-07:002010-06-18T07:57:44.329-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
June 18, 2010 - Issue #573
"I am proud to be paying taxes in the United States.
The only thing is I could be just as proud for half of the money."
- Arthur Godfrey GA: Perdue signs truck seat belt law in Dalton. Georgia has joined the rest of the nation in requiring seat belts for all motorists -- even those who operate pickup trucks. MA: Proposes Anti-Tobacco Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-2131488123504856422010-06-11T20:12:00.001-07:002010-06-11T20:12:58.022-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
June 11, 2010 - Issue #572
"It is curious that physical courage should be so
common in the world, and moral courage so rare."
- Mark Twain Denmark Update: From The Smoker's Club, European Regional Director, Wiel Maessen, we have some GOOD NEWS from the Dutch. They have just had elections, and the party (VVD: The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy) that is Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-35617108434330356042010-06-04T08:58:00.000-07:002010-06-04T08:59:53.802-07:00The Property Rights Newsletter
June 4, 2010 - Issue #571
“There are lies, damned lies and statistics.”
- Mark Twain They have created a fear that is based on nothing. They don’t base it on any solid scientific evidence. World-renowned pulmonologist, president of the prestigious Research Institute Necker for the last decade, Professor Philippe Even, now retired, tells us that he’s convinced of Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-4966454523293770512010-05-29T16:35:00.000-07:002010-05-29T16:38:21.706-07:00The Property Rights Newsletter
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 Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-47608645761109273842010-05-21T18:38:00.000-07:002010-05-21T18:39:36.143-07:00
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 Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-1403127041943614872010-05-14T11:21:00.001-07:002010-05-14T11:21:59.124-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
May 14, 2010 - Issue #568
"Never, never, never give up."
- Winston ChurchillSee 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 Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-58571728640791795752010-05-10T20:17:00.001-07:002010-05-10T20:17:50.055-07:00
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May 7, 2010 - Issue #567
"Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance."
- Saint Francis of AssisiTo our readers:
There is no Newsletter issue this week due to recent computer failures, repairs, and the need for a new system. It has been a long time since we've asked for donations for expenses.
Please consider sending a donation.
To ourSamanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-43581592800794644252010-04-29T19:36:00.000-07:002010-04-29T19:37:10.064-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
April 30, 2010 - Issue #566
"One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws, but conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Abuse of power against a section of the population: Proposes to Increase Tobacco Taxes by Up to 300 Percent. What if Kansas’ state sales tax went from 5.3 Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-75784344730203575162010-04-23T10:11:00.000-07:002010-04-23T10:12:36.322-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
April 23, 2010 - Issue #565
"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; secondly, to liberty; thirdly to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can."
- Samuel Adams Eminent Domain: NY. Hotel Conference Center May Trump Private Property in Eminent Domain Case. But Smith-Ward blasts theSamanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-64144700998740288252010-04-02T09:23:00.000-07:002010-04-02T09:24:29.659-07:00
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April 2, 2010 - Issue #564
"That the sole object and only legitimate end of government
is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty,
and property, and when the government assumes other
functions it is usurpation and oppression."
- Alabama, Declaration of Rights Article I Section 35 The Republic in Crisis. By Jeremy Richards, Ph.D., Director of Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-62570565167483606682010-03-25T13:48:00.000-07:002010-03-25T13:50:09.356-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
March 26, 2010 - Issue #563
"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom."
- Justice William O. Douglas By Phil Williams
United Kingdom Regional Director
Citizens Freedom Alliance, Inc.
Video: Pubs are dying because of one thing, the smoking ban. Scrap the unjust and unwanted smoking ban, and the pubs will recover immediately. Had the Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-23993580581502594762010-03-19T14:10:00.001-07:002010-03-19T14:10:49.671-07:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
March 19, 2010 - Issue #562
"Write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
- Ben Franklin Report From The TICAP Conference: The Hague! By Michael J. McFadden, Citizens Freedom Alliance. The Conference was a great success! To the future... We have the truth and the facts on our side, while the power of the antismoking industry is based only on Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-700100796070305712010-03-19T14:09:00.001-07:002010-03-19T14:09:43.748-07:00
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March 12, 2010 - Issue #561
A Short History of Medicine
2000 B.C. - "Here, eat this root."
1000 B.C. - "That root is heathen, say this prayer."
1850 A.D. - "That prayer is superstition, drink this potion."
1940 A.D. - "That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill."
1985 A.D. - "That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic."
2000 A.D. - "That antibiotic is Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-63860798844375390542010-03-05T11:22:00.000-08:002010-03-05T11:25:22.552-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
March 5, 2010 - Issue #560
"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is
not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a
force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy
and tyranny commence."
- John Adams Nick Hogan Update... Nick Hogan was the first person to be prosecuted under the new smoking laws. He will spend six months in Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-71897827856349006102010-02-25T16:42:00.000-08:002010-02-25T16:43:22.514-08:00
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February 26, 2010 - Issue #559
"There is no such thing as a free lunch."
- Milton Friedman Choking warnings for food. Doctors say risky foods should be cut into pea-sized pieces for small children. Those foods include hot dogs, raw carrots, grapes and apples. Some say things like hard candies, popcorn and peanuts shouldn't be given to young children at all.
Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-45192830915027822552010-02-18T12:14:00.001-08:002010-02-18T12:14:51.281-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
February 19, 2010 - Issue #558
Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted
in her life before, and she felt that she was losing her temper.
"Are you content now?" said the Caterpillar. Alice in Wonderland: Rated PG for fantasy action/violence involving scary images and situations, and for a smoking caterpillar.
Avatar: James Cameron defends Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-49697814765137360582010-02-11T20:31:00.001-08:002010-02-11T20:31:49.851-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
February 12, 2010 - Issue #557
"Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it
attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation
and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes."
- Abraham Lincoln The Old Rambler: Smokers face double risk: active smoking & SHS. Just thought I'd drop a line to acknowledge your superlative exercise in redundancy.
Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-58064832692184631672010-02-04T13:32:00.001-08:002010-02-04T13:32:37.025-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
February 5, 2010 - Issue #556
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test
a man's character, give him power.”
- Abraham Lincoln The psychology of power. Absolutely. Power corrupts, but it corrupts only those who think they deserve it. These results, then, suggest that the powerful do indeed behave hypocritically, condemning the transgressions ofSamanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-82556586509237938852010-01-28T20:03:00.001-08:002010-01-28T20:03:54.815-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
January 29, 2010 - Issue #555
"People deserve freedom...
it is the most precious of all commodities."
- John McCain NO SMOKING - Yes You Can Says Federal Judge. Federal U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon sided with electronic cigarette makers as he criticized what he called the FDA's "tenacious drive to maximize its regulatory power," saying he found its Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-22562164526925014992010-01-22T07:41:00.001-08:002010-01-22T07:41:50.288-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
January 22, 2010 - Issue #554
"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
- Douglas Adams Gary Nolan, national director for Citizens Freedom Alliance, a group that fights for property rights, challenged proponents to a debate on the issue of whether secondhand smoke is harmful. "Instead of making a brief presentation, let's have a real Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-44042026563362423012010-01-01T12:52:00.000-08:002010-01-02T12:52:45.440-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
January 1, 2010 - Issue #553
"In the New Year, may your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want."
- Irish toast Michael Siegel - Tobacco Policy Blog:
On the Similarities Between Health Care Reform Legislation and the FDA Tobacco Bill: Compromising with Special Interests and Selling Out Principles. Selling Health Protection for Votes in Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-25363511430051884482009-12-26T09:09:00.000-08:002009-12-26T09:12:09.831-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
December 25, 2009 - Issue #552
"Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect.”
- Oren Arnold
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The Property Rights Newsletter
December 18, 2009 - Issue #551
"Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it."
- Lincoln Steffens Court News: Tobacco companies win partial legal victory in Canada. A divided British Columbia Court of Appeals panel overturned part of a lower court's ruling that the federal government could not be drawn in by the industry as a third party Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-57804047581066081522009-12-11T18:34:00.001-08:002009-12-11T18:34:39.480-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
December 11, 2009 - Issue #550
"Mind Your Business"
- The very first motto on a U.S. Minted Coin Croatia: By Euan Ferguson. What have the Balkans ever done for us? Until I saw this picture, I would have said pretty bloody little. Anger, wars, vampires, evil food, poisoned rivers, dictators, distrust, revenge and fear and it still features the only part of the Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-85116728899289932442009-12-05T10:35:00.001-08:002009-12-05T10:36:10.182-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
December 4, 2009 - Issue #549
"In America, through pressure of conformity,
there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from."
- Peter Ustinov Should Smoking Be Banned Outdoors? But as public support for the bans continues to grow, some people are questioning how far the government should go to protect nonsmokers. “The general public should have the right toSamanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-80669176899726580102009-11-28T17:44:00.000-08:002009-11-28T17:45:02.688-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
November 27, 2009 - Issue #548
"If you make any money, the government shoves you
in the creek once a year with it in your pockets,
and all that don't get wet you can keep."
- Will Rogers Taxing "Sin Foods": Obesity Prevention and Public Health Policy. Obesity thrives in low-income communities where the quality of food and built environments is poor. InterventionsSamanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-57436785243572250982009-11-20T14:38:00.001-08:002009-11-20T14:38:52.250-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
November 20, 2009 - Issue #547
"The Hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who,
in time of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."
- Dante, "The Inferno" Tobacco Retailers Challenge News Reports on Roll-Your-Own, Pipe Tobaccos. The International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association came out swinging today by challenging news reports regarding the Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6064465.post-53047129510172365842009-11-20T14:37:00.001-08:002009-11-20T14:37:59.381-08:00
The Property Rights Newsletter
November 6, 2009 - Issue #546
"Smokers being forced outside.
Abuse is abuse, no matter what the excuse."
- Nick Melnyk Michael Siegel - Tobacco Policy Blog:
Op-Ed in NY Daily News Exposes Misleading Scientific Claims of Anti-Smoking Groups; Now Health Groups, Not Just Big Tobacco, are Deceiving the Public.
Published Study Shows No Effect of New Zealand Smoking Samanthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15602932278492169266noreply@blogger.com