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In August, a troop of Turlock, California, Girl Scouts asked the city council to consider a ban on smoking in public parks. Months of sporadic—and occasionally heated—debate followed. The Scouts said they were seeking the ban, in part,…

During the first world war, a marketing technique to get people to sign up for service, was to have young ideologically brainwashed women presenting men, not in uniform, with White Feathers to infuse them with shame. This was done in…

October 10, 2014 - Issue #775 "Common sense is not so common." - Voltaire Airbrushing History ?October 10, 2014 - Issue #775 "Common sense is not so common." - Voltaire Australia: David…

The West Australia Opera decided to cancel its performance of Bizet’s much-beloved opera Carmen over concerns that it glamorizes cigarettes and smoking, WA Today reports. The 140-year-old opera, which was the second-most performed in…

October 3, 2014 - Issue #774 "God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man." - Arthur Young Scroll The Property Rights Newsletter issues by month. October 3,…

CARTERSVILLE, Ga. — A Cartersville man is upset after he said investigators mistook a garden full of okra for marijuana plants. The man growing the popular Southern food said a helicopter woke him up Wednesday and then he had deputies show…

E-cigarettes should not be marketed as the "healthier alternative" to traditional cigarettes, experts at the annual meeting of the Austrian Society of Pneumology (?PG) in Salzburg have warned. "The harm outweighs the benefits - and so…

Several hundred shipyard workers at six Vigor Industrial facilities in Oregon and Washington conducted unfair labor practice (ULP) strikes Sept. 25 during their lunch break and at the afternoon shift change.

Senator David Leyonhjelm thanks smokers for keeping up habit, says generosity via taxes 'truly staggering'... A crossbench senator has thanked Australia's smokers and attacked successive governments for increasing tobacco taxes in a…

The federal government would be given oversight over the production and distribution of medical cannabis under new legislation to make the make the drug available to patients with chronic pain. The push to legalize medical cannabis is…

Introducing BSCiTS: The Behavioral Study of Cigarette and Tobacco Substitution How do electronic cigarettes affect smoking behavior? September, 2014 By Dr. Michael Siegel, MD, MPH "By donating to this study, you…

GSK Update... On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at noon, about 45 liters of liquid contaminated with polio virus have been rejected from the production site to the GSK Rixensart local sewage treatment plant of Rosieres and subsequently in…

September 5, 2014 - Issue #770 "When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, Your child belongs to us already... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new…

The drug cocktail the two Americans received, known as ZMapp, was developed by the San Diego company Mapp Biopharmaceutical. It is manufactured in Kentucky using fast-growing tobacco plants, which act as “photocopiers” to produce proteins…

Promoting hunger scam is how federal bean counters keep their jobs According to the U.S. Agriculture Department, American households suffer far more “food insecurity” than do families in Angola, Mozambique and Pakistan. The USDA uses…

Cigar bars and other swank salons devoted to smoking won a significant though temporary reprieve from Boston health regulators today, who decided that the establishments will face extinction in 10 years instead of the five-year grace period…

Massachusetts ranks 33rd in the nation in funding tobacco prevention programs, down from 31st place, according to a report on states’ anti-smoking efforts. The report was released Wednesday by a coalition of public health organizations.…

Thousands of news stories, expert statements, and legislative testimonies based upon the Helena results had resulted in profound lifestyle and economic impacts upon the lives of tens of millions of people and had now been found to be in…

THE LIE: Cigarette smoke and Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) or Second Hand Smoke (SHS) Causes cancer. THE Truth: Simply stated there is no known cause for any type of cancer. With all the testing that has been done with every type of…

Lawmakers will take another look at the workplace smoking ban today, though observers predict the health-inspired law that started 14 months ago to jeers from puffers around the state won’t change.   Some bills up for consideration by the…

  Medicaid challenges annual payments of $20 million to partnership  Attorneys for the governor’s office of Medicaid and The Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi will meet with a judge next month to set out a schedule for written…

  This is to express my pleasure over Gov. Haley Barbour seeking to give the Legislature control of tobacco settlement funds administered by The Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi (“Medicaid files to seize $20M from anti-smoke group,”…

  Gov. Haley Barbour has branded an anti-tobacco group as an illegally-formed organization that every year keeps $20 million of taxpayer’s money.   Former state Attorney General Mike Moore’s reaction to many critics of the Partnership…

Mike Moore and Haley Barbour are political heavyweights and each is entirely capable of standing his own ground in their public disagreement over the use of Mississippi’s tobacco-settlement funds.    But it was shocking last week to see…

PIERRE -- The smoking ban bill that sailed through a legislative committee on Monday met its demise on the House floor Tuesday at the hands of West River lawmakers. Those who favor a ban on smoking in all public places blamed the bill's…

Partnership’s results are good, but some chapters do strange things. FOREST – It is an idea hopefully dead on arrival, but that is not stopping some Republicans and a handful of Democrats from trying to place the annual funding of the…

The food industry has been given a year to stop advertising junk food to children and improve product labeling or face possible legislation in the European Union. Markos Kyprianou, EU health and consumer affairs commissioner, warned in…

I am on twigs. I've tried Malibu, nail-biting and sex with mutants to quit smoking but now I am on essence of twig.   If you immerse twigs in hot water and then watch Gone With the Wind once or listen to Cole Porter's I Hate Men 96 times, a…

RICHMOND, Va. - Little Tobacco is preparing to fight Big Tobacco in Virginia and other states considering legislation that could sap the small manufacturers' sales. The dispute emerged from a landmark national settlement that required…

Junk food just moved a little closer to becoming as socially unacceptable as cigarettes, with the announcement by Kraft Foods that it will stop marketing its least nutritious products – think Oreos and Kool-Aid – to children younger than…

A bill that would clean up a possible problem with Helena's shelved smoking ordinance almost made it through a House committee hearing Wednesday without the word "smoking" being spoken. House Bill 33, sponsored by Rep. Dave Gallik,…

The abduction and rape of a Timaru woman is proof that banning smoking in pubs should not have got the green light, according to ACT leader Rodney Hide, an opponent of the law change. "What a horrible thing to happen," he said of the…

It took Delaware's indoor smoking ban to get Frank Infante fired up about politics. Rock the Vote at Murph's Irish Pub.We had a very good turnout and registered new voters during the event. New venues will be announced in the future…