Health is the new religion. Voices that would legislate the populace into compliance with community standards for healthy living are the new moral authority.
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Free Audio Book – Vices Are Not Crimes
Lysander Spooner (1808 – 1887) was an American individualist anarchist, entrepreneur, political philosopher, abolitionist, supporter of the labour movement, and legal theorist of the nineteenth century. Here he gives his views on the role of Governments in the private lives of their citizens (Summary by Annise)
Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another. Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property. In vices, the very essence of crime—that is, the design to injure the person or property of another—is wanting. It is a maxim of the law that there can be no crime without criminal intent; that is, without the intent to invade the person or property of another. But no one ever practices a vice with any such criminal intent. He practices his vice for his own happiness solely, and not from any malice toward others. Unless this clear distinction between vices and crimes be made and recognized by the laws, there can be on earth no such thing as individual right, liberty, or property, and the corresponding coequal rights of another man to the control of his own person and property.
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Lysander Spooner (1808 – 1887) was an American individualist anarchist, entrepreneur, political philosopher, abolitionist, supporter of the labour movement, and legal theorist of the nineteenth century. Here he gives his views on the role of Governments in the private lives of their citizens (Summary by Annise)
Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another. Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property. In vices, the very essence of crime—that is, the design to injure the person or property of another—is wanting. It is a maxim of the law that there can be no crime without criminal intent; that is, without the intent to invade the person or property of another. But no one ever practices a vice with any such criminal intent. He practices his vice for his own happiness solely, and not from any malice toward others. Unless this clear distinction between vices and crimes be made and recognized by the laws, there can be on earth no such thing as individual right, liberty, or property, and the corresponding coequal rights of another man to the control of his own person and property.
https://archive.org/details/vicesnotcrimes_0908_librivox
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Sent to faculty and staff
8/2/10
***Faculty and Staff Wellness Update***
Missouri State University strives to ensure a healthy?learning and working environment by promoting a culture of health and wellness.
Beginning August 15, 2010, Missouri State University?will take the first step toward becoming a tobacco free campus.
To learn more about the policy, designated smoking areas and programs to help you become tobacco free, go to www.missouristate.edu/tobaccofree
Missouri State University strives to ensure a healthy?learning and working environment by promoting a culture of health and wellness.
Beginning August 15, 2010, Missouri State University?will take the first step toward becoming a tobacco free campus.
To learn more about the policy, designated smoking areas and programs to help you become tobacco free, go to www.missouristate.edu/tobaccofree
MSU – Smoking Cessation Program
The tobacco cessation program at Taylor Health & Wellness Center is evidenced based and modeled after the Mayo Clinic model.
The tobacco cessation program consistsof physician and tobacco treatment specialist visits, and is tailored to the specific individual.
It can include either group (depending on availability) or one-on-one counseling. If you’re insured through the University,?the tobacco cessation program at Taylor Health and Wellness Center is covered at 100% ($350 value). Insurance through the University will also??cover the cost of tobacco cessation medications as prescribed?by a physician, at 70%. For more information call our Tobacco Treatment Specialist Jerilyn Reed at 836-4045.
The tobacco cessation program at Taylor Health & Wellness Center is evidenced based and modeled after the Mayo Clinic model.
The tobacco cessation program consistsof physician and tobacco treatment specialist visits, and is tailored to the specific individual.
It can include either group (depending on availability) or one-on-one counseling. If you’re insured through the University,?the tobacco cessation program at Taylor Health and Wellness Center is covered at 100% ($350 value). Insurance through the University will also??cover the cost of tobacco cessation medications as prescribed?by a physician, at 70%. For more information call our Tobacco Treatment Specialist Jerilyn Reed at 836-4045.
Tobacco Free Ambassador Training Workshop
This interactive 2-hour workshop will prepare you to support the University’s new Tobacco Use/Smoking policy as a “smoke free ambassador.”
This workshop will provide information on the new tobacco policy,which takes effect on August 15th, 2010.
The policy disallows smoking on campus except in designated areas.
The Ambassador Training Workshop will prepare you to take an active role in promoting a healthy campus environment by helping to spread the word
?about the new policy in a respectful way.?
If interested in learning more, please contact Sheila Bowen at 6-4064 or by email at sheilabowen@missouristate.edu
This interactive 2-hour workshop will prepare you to support the University’s new Tobacco Use/Smoking policy as a “smoke free ambassador.”
This workshop will provide information on the new tobacco policy,which takes effect on August 15th, 2010.
The policy disallows smoking on campus except in designated areas.
The Ambassador Training Workshop will prepare you to take an active role in promoting a healthy campus environment by helping to spread the word
?about the new policy in a respectful way.?
If interested in learning more, please contact Sheila Bowen at 6-4064 or by email at sheilabowen@missouristate.edu
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September 22, 2006
By Dwight Bitikofer
By Dwight Bitikofer
Health is the new religion. Voices that would legislate the populace into compliance with community standards for healthy living are the new moral authority. Once upon a time it was the churches that defined sin and vice. Now, it is the American Medical Association, The American Cancer Society, The Heart Association and a host of other good-but-way-zealous organizations. One might think the Surgeon General is Pope of The New Morality.
Second hand smoke has wafted into the realm of venal sin. The quicksands of sugar and the slime of saturated fats are close behind.
Healthy living IS a good thing.
I have made some decisions in my own life to live more healthily. I have recently given up one unhealthy vice. I am eating more consciously (even though sugar and chocolate are still among my friends). I have begun spending some time at a gym.
But these were CHOICES I made. They were not legislated. Social pressures may have had some influence, the best of those being the examples of others who have made healthier choices. Fearmongering serves only to encourage underground continuations of the behaviors they seek to prevent.
To think that raising the taxes on cigarettes will reduce smoking is to believe that smoking is a logical decision. It is not. Logic can introduce shame and guilt. But ultimately it is something other than logic that causes the hand to reach for another cigarette and to light the match. Raising taxes on vices mostly hurts those who can afford them least. And it introduces the dichotomy of creating revenue streams from things we want people to give up.
The clean air argument in restaurants and public places is a compelling one. One should not be forced to breathe another’s smoke. And more and more restaurants have chosen to become smoke-free. This is the marketplace working as it does best.
Diners get to choose where they want to eat. Restaurants should get to choose which segments of the marketplace they most need to create a healthy business.
Perhaps restaurants without pristine air quality could be prohibited from serving diners or hiring employees under age 18. A fair compromise?
Adults should get to choose whether or not to dine in a restaurant that allows smoking. It is fundamentalistic meddling to attempt to legislate away these rights even if couched in the best intention of caring for the public good.
Some common sense is in order when Chicken Little proclaims that ANY AMOUNT of secondary smoke is harmful. No doubt that is true – along with microwaves, auto emissions and a host of other environmental assaults we choose to ignore in diluted amounts. Might the same standards be applied to driving with a cell phone or after a single sip of Commu nion wine?
There are inconsistencies in our fervors when they are driven by beliefs that we possess the whole truth about anything. We tread in dangerous places when we believe we must control every environment that may touch our lives. That may not be jihadist or Bible-banging, but it is fundamentalism. It is an attempt to mold the world into the image of our own understanding.
More willingness to live and let live would go a long way toward keeping peace here at home and in the world.
Good examples are much more effective than control by legislation.
Toward a comprehensive long term nicotine policy
2005
N Gray1, J E Henningfield5, N L Benowitz2, G N Connolly3, C Dresler1, K Fagerstrom4, M J Jarvis6 and P Boyle1
1 International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
2 Department of Medicine, Psychiatry and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
3 Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
4 Helsingborg, Sweden
5 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, and Pinney Associates, Inc, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
6 University College London, London, UK
2005
N Gray1, J E Henningfield5, N L Benowitz2, G N Connolly3, C Dresler1, K Fagerstrom4, M J Jarvis6 and P Boyle1
1 International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
2 Department of Medicine, Psychiatry and Biopharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
3 Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
4 Helsingborg, Sweden
5 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, and Pinney Associates, Inc, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
6 University College London, London, UK
Correspondence to:
Dr Nigel Gray
International Agency for Research on cancer, 150 Cours Albert Thomas, 69372 Lyon cedex 08, France; nigel@uicc.org
Dr Nigel Gray
International Agency for Research on cancer, 150 Cours Albert Thomas, 69372 Lyon cedex 08, France; nigel@uicc.org
Global tobacco deaths are high and rising. Tobacco use is primarily driven by nicotine addiction. Overall tobacco control policy is relatively well agreed upon but a long term nicotine policy has been less well considered and requires further debate. Reaching consensus is important because a nicotine policy is integral to the target of reducing tobacco caused disease, and the contentious issues need to be resolved before the necessary political changes can be sought. A long term and comprehensive nicotine policy is proposed here. It envisages both reducing the attractiveness and addictiveness of existing tobacco based nicotine delivery systems as well as providing alternative sources of acceptable clean nicotine as competition for tobacco. Clean nicotine is defined as nicotine free enough of tobacco toxicants to pass regulatory approval. A three phase policy is proposed. The initial phase requires regulatory capture of cigarette and smoke constituents liberalising the market for clean nicotine; regulating all nicotine sources from the same agency; and research into nicotine absorption and the role of tobacco additives in this process. The second phase anticipates clean nicotine overtaking tobacco as the primary source of the drug (facilitated by use of regulatory and taxation measures); simplification of tobacco products by limitation of additives which make tobacco attractive and easier to smoke (but tobacco would still be able to provide a satisfying dose of nicotine). The third phase includes a progressive reduction in the nicotine content of cigarettes, with clean nicotine freely available to take the place of tobacco as society’s main nicotine source.
