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Issue #509
The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterDecember 26, 2008 - Issue #509
"Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you
have carefully considered what they do not say."
- William W. Watt | 
Interview: On Dec. 18th 2008, the well known author and hostess of "Marketing for Fun and Profit" interviewed the author of "Dissecting Antismokers' Brains" and "TobacckoNacht! - The Story" about his background, thoughts, writings, and efforts to get those thoughts and writings out to a wider public. A comfortable and entertaining 30 minute interview ranging from marketing QumQuats to shooting pregnant smokers in parking lots. Listen.
CA: Loma Linda's smoking ban not aggressively enforced.
MI: IPCPR Salutes MI Legislature for Not Enacting Smoking Ban.
VA: Virginia Needs Spending Reform, Not Higher Cigarette Taxes.
USA: Letter to The American Legion from Sheila Martin.
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter, read all the news.
Scotland: Youth Smoking Up Despite Ban. "Significant progress has been made in recent years to shift cultural attitudes to smoking, but this report clearly demonstrates that firm action needs to continue if we are to succeed in our desire to make Scotland smoke-free."
UK: Smoking ban fails to curb the habit: Figures reveal men are smoking MORE. The figures, coming after years of declining smoking rates, are a massive blow to Labour's public heath policy.
UK: York pub ‘bans’ MP Hugh Bayley in smoking row.
| The Slippery Slope After Tobacco |
Binge drinking comes to France. Long considered a public problem in Britain, binge drinking is now on the rise among young people in France. "I never thought it would be a real problem," says Pierre of his own drinking. "But now, I always need to drink, and that is a problem."
Don’t annoy someone in Brighton city or you might get a ticket.
Privacy! Doctors fight plans to hand medical records to researchers and private companies without patients' consent. |  The smoking ban in England and Wales
is NOT legal. Part 1 and Part 2
The same exemption that exists for the
house of commons bar, applies to all
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Issue #508
The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterDecember 19, 2008 - Issue #508
"Actually, I think all addiction starts with soda. Every junkie did soda first. But no one counts that. Maybe they should. The soda connection is clear. Why isn't a presidential commission looking into this? Or at least some guys from the National Carbonation Council."
- Chris Rock |  Non-Diet Soda Tax: NY Gov. David Paterson's budget plan for taxing non-diet sodas under an "obesity tax" that will raise $404 million.
The big, fat myth of government prevention programs. By Sally C. Pipes. Government prevention programs don't reduce healthcare costs. And worse, they are an infringement upon our most basic freedoms. We should resist government control over our health choices, even as we resolve to lose that 10 or 15 pounds of holiday-induced cheer chub.
Health risks stack up for students near industrial plants. The U.S. EPA, which has a special office charged with protecting children's health, has invested millions of taxpayer dollars in pollution models that could help identify schools where toxic chemicals saturate the air. Even so, USA TODAY found, the agency has all but ignored examining whether the air is unsafe at the very locations where kids are required to gather. 
Supreme Court Allows Fraud Lawsuits in 'Light' Cigarette Advertising Case. By a 5-4 vote, the justices ruled against Altria Group Inc's Philip Morris USA unit and held the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act does not bar or preempt such state court lawsuits.
KS: Hutchinson Vote Supports Business, Disappoints Busy-Bodies.
KY: Ashland. City and hospital agree to new approach to smoking.
KY: Corbin Smoking surveys go out to restaurants.
KY: Farms production rebounding aided by exports to Germany.
MA: Boston bans sales in drug stores but delays cigar bar closings.
NY: Gov. Paterson signs cigarette tax law for Indian land sales.
SC: Easley joins Greenville in restricting smoking.
USA: CRS reckons effects of cig tax hike for SCHIP.
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter, read all the news.
Bulgaria: Smoking kicks off civil protest, Ministry and police too.
Ireland: Smoking On Film, No need to get puffed up about past.
| The Slippery Slope After Tobacco |
Coal: False and misleading data. By Mark Wernimont.
Scents: Judge says perfume lawsuit can proceed. A Detroit city planner says co-worker's scent interferes with job performance, breathing. | 
The TICAP Conference
1st World Conference Against Prohibition:
"Smoking Bans and Lies"
Brussels, at the European Parliament Building
27/28 January, 2009 | | Join FREE - Home - Events - Forum - Videos - Please Help - © |
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Issue #507
The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterDecember 12, 2008 - Issue #507
"The public is a ferocious beast:
one must either chain it up or flee from it."
- Voltaire |  Hamish Howitt. The last UK Pub landlord to fight the smoking ban. Despite numerous fines, threats to revoke his license, close him down and bankrupt him, he soldiers on to make a gallant stand against government oppression.
FTC Cambridge Filter Method. The Federal Trade Commission tosses guidance on tar, nicotine in cigarettes. The commission has rescinded guidance it issued 42 years ago, saying the test method is flawed.
Quit-smoking pill. 339 reports of adverse reactions — 255 of which "describe psychiatric symptoms including depression, aggression, agitation, abnormal dreams, insomnia, hallucination and anger". It has been linked to depression and suicides in the US and Britain. In February the US Food and Drug Administration issued an alert along similar lines to yesterday’s alert from the TGA.
| From The International Mailbag |
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter, read all the news.
Canada: MB, Smoking with kids in the car will soon be illegal.
Australia: Smoke ban costs clubs, casinos, $1.7m a day.
Australia: Smoking ban costly, figures show.
France: One year after ban, French smoke just as much.
Ireland: Smoking a nice little earner. By John Mallon.
UK: More on Criticism of adoption ban. By Michael J. McFadden.
UK: Researchers call for smoke-free outdoor areas.
CO: Petition: Undo Colorado's unfair smoking Ban.
IL: Why we can't exempt casinos from the smoking ban.
KS: Group wants city to make smoking ban talk a priority.
MA: Boston considers a ban on cigar bar smoking, and limit sales.
NV: Casino reality of smoking ban damage sets in.
NY: Judge rules Cayuga Nation can't sell cigarettes tax-free.
OH: Smoking law should be amended. By Pam Parker.
OH: Judge Brogan, Warrantless search ruled unconstitutional.
PA: State may loosen up outdoor smoking ban at 14 Universities.
TX: James Graham: Dallas doesn't need worse smoking policy.
USA: Learning from history... Alcohol Prohibition. Repeal Day.
USA: Obama says he won't be smoking in White House. | 
The Metropolitan Society
A Private Cigar Club
Fairfield, NJ
973-287-3540
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Issue #506
The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterDecember 5, 2008 - Issue #506
"Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything."
- Gregg Easterbrook | Watch: Newsflash, Heart attacks increase in Scotland.
When it looked as though heart attack rates were dropping in Scotland, the government were quick to claim that this was caused by the smoking ban, but now that we discover that heart attacks are actually increasing, the government and the biased media prefer to sweep this inconvenient truth under the carpet. By Phil Williams, United Kingdom Regional Director, Citizens Freedom Alliance, Inc., The Smoker's Club.
Scotland: Large rise in Acute Coronary Syndrome since the smoking ban. The Scottish smoker ban is responsible for many, many deaths. The ban can be said to have CAUSED hundreds of heart attacks.
CO: Tobacco prohibitionists complaining, spending tobacco $.
KS: Hutchinson and Reno County Update by Sheila Martin.
OH: Allegations of Voter Fraud in Ohio. Ballot backwards.
USA: MSA: New companies challenge deal, tobacco wars.
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter, read all the news.
| Defiance And Ban Damage Hurts Everyone |
Defiance: Inside NYC's Smoking Speakeasies. Fashionable New Yorkers are breaking the law and lighting up.
Protest! Dutch cafe owners on Saturday took to the streets of The Hague in protest at a smoking ban they say has seen business drop by up to a third. Protesters brandished banners denouncing the "dictatorship" of Dutch Health Minister Ab Klink.
France: Across France, Cafe Owners Are Suffering.
| The Slippery Slope After Tobacco |
 Beer! Four beers a day 'could make you blind.' Explaining the trigger, Dr Chong said it was possible alcohol could increase oxidative stress to the retina. "Alcohol is a neurotoxin so it is thought that high levels can actually cause retinal damage that might lead to the disease," she said.
Flax Seed: A Natural Alternative to Statins? The guidelines issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics called for cholesterol screening of children as young as 2—and cholesterol drugs for kids as young as 8.
Privacy: You’re Leaving a Digital Trail. What About Privacy? | 
Proof Ireland is in recession: pubs freeze drink prices. | | Join FREE - Home - Events - Forum - Videos - Please Help - © |
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Issue #505
The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterNovember 28, 2008 - Issue #505
"In any war, the first casualty is common sense,
and the second is free and open discussion"
- James Reston |  | The Competitive Enterprise Institute: The tobacco "Master Settlement Agreement" was signed by 46 state attorneys general and major tobacco companies. This video is a dramatization of how the deal was hatched. Watch the video. |
 TEN YEARS LATER, TOBACCO DEAL GOING UP IN SMOKE. "It just seems weird the idea that the tobacco (settlement) is going to go on forever," Baden said. "In the long run my suspicion is something will take out the settlement. The thing won't last forever."
WHO FCTC: Tobacco treaty signers close to adopting measure. By Vinnee Tong. Kathy Mulvey, policy director at Corporate Accountability International, said that earlier opposition from China and Japan -- which both have a stake in tobacco companies -- had dissolved.
KING BLOOMBERG: MIKE IS A MAYOR RUN AMOK. By Fred Siegel. Bloomberg says he's beyond politics. He's right. We're living in his monarchy, subjects to his unwavering faith in himself.
Newly detected air pollutant mimics damaging effects of cigarette smoke. "Based on our work, we now know that free radicals similar to those in cigarettes are also found in airborne fine particles and potentially can cause many of the same life-threatening conditions. This is a staggering, but not unbelievable result, when one considers all of diseases in the world that cannot currently be attributed to a specific origin."
Health experts debunk passive smoking fraud. We hope that the voices of scientific decency will not be silenced.
MD Says Second-Hand Smoke Theory is Junk. By John Dale Dunn MD JD. They are propagandists, not scientists.
OH: Lobbyist argued two sides of issue. By Pam Parker.
SC: York County: Businesses Should Decide Smoking or Not.
WI: IPCPR Op-Ed on Proposed Statewide Smoking Ban.
USA: Celebrate Repeal Day, December 5th.
USA: Claims that FDA Bill Will End Addiction are Unfounded.
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter, read all the news.
Australia: Commissioner - Police won't enforce smoke laws.
Netherlands: Huge protest planned for November 29th in The Hague. |  | | Join FREE - Home - Events - Forum - Videos - Please Help - © |
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Issue #504
The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterNovember 21, 2008 - Issue #504
"A great wave of oppressive tyranny isn't going to strike,
but rather a slow seepage of oppressive laws and regulations
from within will sink the American dream of liberty"
- George Baumler |  FDA Regulation of Tobacco: Joel L. Nitzkin, M.D., M.P.H. American Association of Public Health Physicians opposes FDA tobacco Regulation. Mark Berlind, chief legislative counsel of Philip Morris, drafted specifications for regulation of tobacco products by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that would ensure the continuing profitability of the Marlboro brand, provide a shield against litigation, and protect cigarettes from competition from less-toxic, smokeless tobacco products.
 Let the Guy Smoke. Obama Is Probably Fibbing About Giving Up Cigarettes. That's Okay. By Michael Kinsley. It is still okay to discriminate against one group of Americans. This discrimination is not only legal, it is encouraged. You see members of this oppressed minority huddled outside in rain and snow, forbidden to seek refuge. No one feels sorry for them. And yet we may have just elected one of these pariahs as president.
Anti-Smoking Advocate Named to Obama Transition Team. A leading anti-tobacco advocate will serve on President-elect Barack Obama's transition team reviewing health policy and the Dept. of Health and Human Services during the administration switch.
MA: Proposed Boston Cigar Bar Ban. By Tony Tortorici.
MD: Proposal would ban sidewalks adjacent to buildings.
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter, read all the news.
Australia: Racing tobacco sponsorship bill fires up Greens.
Bavaria: Landslide defeat for anti-smokers in state election.
Brazil: Vacates the Largest Award Against Cigarette Manufacturers.
UK: Forest wins apology from the BBC. Bob Walmsley compared smokers to alcoholics and stated that smokers are unfit parents.
| Defiance And Ban Damage Hurts Everyone |
IA: Rich Marx: Smoke Ban Forced Me To Close My Bar.
MN: One year later statewide smoking ban eliminates business.
Canada: Crackdown sought after crash killing smugglers.
Canada: Smoker was run over by a car in the smoking area.
Holland: Health Minister Ab Klink Threatens Cafes with Closure as Smoking Ban Anarchy Spreads.
| The Slippery Slope After Tobacco |
 Hold the salt. Health experts and food-industry representatives were told about Mayor Bloomberg's next crusade - an effort to reduce the salt in processed food by 20 percent over the next five years. Restaurateurs will be encouraged to join a "voluntary" initiative.
Politicians eyeing circumcision ban. 'A lot of parents want it done to their children because they themselves had it done. But we're living in the present and it isn't fair to expose healthy children to religious circumcision.' |  | | Join FREE - Home - Events - Forum - Videos - Please Help - © |
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Issue #503
The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterNovember 7, 2008 - Issue #503
"The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade"
- Hannah Arendy |  Hawaii smokers light up as law goes unenforced. “I am complying with the law if we post signs and we inform our customers of what the law is, which is exactly what we do,” said Bill Comerford, co-owner of E&J Lounge Operating Co., which runs O’Toole’s Irish Pub, Kelley O’Neil’s and the Irish Rose Saloon in Honolulu. “If they smoke in our bars, they made that choice and it’s not for me as a business owner to cite them.”
State grants exemption to smoking ban. The PA state Department of Health granted more than 1,700 exceptions to the statewide ban that took effect September 11.
Smoking ban 'causing NHS problems' "At the mental health trust where I work, the frequency of fires has quadrupled since the start of the ban," he claimed. He said the increasing number of fires is thought to be a result of patients no longer being supervised in smoking rooms.
| From The International Mailbag |
The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter, read all the news.
Canada: Multi-Agency Tobacco Smuggling Operation.
UK: Gaunt accused Stark of being a "health Nazi" and "ignorant pig."
UK: Hamish Howitt, Rebel landlord's battle goes to High Court.
UK: Pubs 'kept in dark' over tax savings, overcharged.
FL: Cigarette case may affect other products, cars, boats, beer...
KS: IPCPR Advises KS Locales to Drop Ban Consideration.
NJ: Smoking ban threatened Atlantic City's identity.
OR: Cigarette tax is regressive. By John Nothdurft.
SD: Use Logic, Truth Against Expanding SD Smoking Ban.
TX: IPCPR to Dallas Council: Vote to Eliminate Smoking Ban.
WY: Letter to Rep. Landon on proposed smoking legislation.
USA: Happy 233rd birthday of the United States Marine Corps.
| The Slippery Slope After Tobacco |
 Alcohol. Experts want a convention to regulate alcohol. An international agreement, similar to the 2005 framework convention on tobacco control, is urgently needed.
Fourth Amendment. Constitution does not apply in D.C. According to Metro Transit Police Chief Michael Taborn, “Inspections could take place at any Metrorail station or Metrobus stop. They will be random...
Swimming Pools can boost child's asthma risk.
Warning. Old people die from being old. More cases expected as more people live to be old. Will cause economy failure. |  Listen to Sue Jeffers
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Issue #502
The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterNovember 7, 2008 - Issue #502"You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people."
- Will Rogers
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Issue #501
The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterOctober 31, 2008 - Issue #501"There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people:
religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin."
- Linus Van Pelt
 A miserable knight at home.
There is only one reason that Britain has lost 2500 pubs since July 1st 2007. Its not the weather, its not cheap supermarket booze and its not the recession. Its the one thing that began on July 1st 2007, the f#cking smoking ban. Only liers claim otherwise, and only idiots believe them.
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Issue #500
The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterOctober 24, 2008 - Issue #500"I never wear a watch, Because I always know it's now
and now is when you should do it."
- Steve Mariucci
 Four Groups File Complaints Against Carmona's 2006 Report. Citizens Freedom Alliance's complaint is centered on "changing and omitting data". The data for a meta-analysis is the studies collected from the body of research, but the SG's meta-analysis omits relevant studies such as the Enstrom/Kabat study, belittles other large relevant studies, includes highly questionable studies, and relies heavily on the thoroughly discredited 1992 EPA report (which was not only discredited by a Federal Judge, but by three congressional committees). By omitting relevant long-term, large studies as well as relying heavily on discredited reports, the Surgeon General both changed and omitted data in his meta-analysis of research on secondhand smoke (SHS)/environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), which did indeed ensure that the research is not accurately represented in the research record. He, therefore, committed "research misconduct" as defined by the "falsification" according to the "Public Health Service Policies on Research Misconduct". According to Gary Nolan, U.S. Regional Director for Citizens Freedom Alliance, "Americans should be angry about this waste of tax payer dollars. I truly believe this study was released for purely political reasons and is an insult to every honorable scientist in the world. The result of Carmona's ETS study was to needlessly ruin business, cost jobs and harm the economies of local communities and states across the country. He should be ashamed of his actions."
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Issue #499
The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights NewsletterOctober 17, 2008 - Issue #499"I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it is."
- Wayne Gretzky
 New Phil Williams Videos!
Anti Smoking League. 1: Tasting their own medicine.
Anti Smoking League, 2: Stantons guilty secret.
Anti Smoking League, 3: Spoofing the bigots.
Anti Smoking League, 4: The crumbling empire.
Anti Smoking League, 5: Uncensored mail.
Anti Smoking League, 6: The sinking ship.
Anti Smoking League, 7: Surgeon Generals Report.
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Defiance: EU World Conference Against Prohibition
The TICAP Conference
1st World Conference Against Prohibition:
"Smoking Bans and Lies"
Brussels, at the European Parliament Building,
27/28 January, 2009
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Joe Jackson Smoke, Lies And The Nanny State
The Research of David Kuneman 
Watch Phil Williams Videos
Rest of the Story. Michael Siegel
Arnold and smokers rights
Johnny Depp has vowed to defy bans.
Catherine Zeta Jones and private planes
Mel Smith defies Scotland's ban.
Bad NY air for heroes.