Issue #451

The United Pro Choice
Smokers Rights Newsletter

September 21, 2007 – Issue #451

“You’re talking about protecting people from their own decisions.”
– Jacob Sullum

When examining something like the Scottish “Magical Study By Press Release” tactic it’s important to examine the history of previous scams.
How Vitamin C Stops the Big “C.” Source: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. (“The Big “C?” What? Are the folks at Johns Hopkins like… 6 years old?!)
Scientists do the numbers. By Andreas von Bubnoff. The debate is unlikely to be resolved any time soon. “If you put five epidemiologists and five statisticians in a room and have this debate,” Young says, “and try to get each one to convince the other side, at the end of the day it will still be five to five.”

The Canadian Smokers Rights Newsletter.
Canada: Imperial Tobacco Canada to test market snus.
Bahrain: Smoking may be outlawed, law being drafted.
Dubai: Smoking ban in mall comes into force.
UK: Updates and other observations, crisis, and backlash.

CA: Ban on smoking in cars goes to Gov. Schwarzenegger.
CA: Oakland toned-down smoking ban goes to City Council.
CO: Avon smoking ban stays strict, go to Vail instead.
IL: American Lung Association is gunning for casinos.
IL: DuPage County opts to wait on 2007-08 budget.
KY: Ban smoking? What’s next — beer? By Jeff Vanderbeck.
MA: Struggling bingo games brace for casino impact.
MN: Businesses prepare for smoking ban.
NH: The free market, not laws, should determine smoke-free.
NJ: Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino Floor Bans Smoking.
NY: Black market cigarettes in Chinatown.
SD: Cigarette tax produces less than forecast.
USA: There are 5 versions of Bill Number H.R.976 in Congress.

AK: Darwin’s has the wrong smoking theory, city says.
LA: Leave stadium for a smoke, you can’t get back in.
NV: Bilbo’s dodges a contempt citation.
OH: 34 warnings and no fines in central Ohio. 480 statewide.
PA: St. Margaret neighbors upset over smoking ban.
TX: Woman fired because she smells like cigarette smoke.
Australia: Pokies plummett as smoke clears. Slashed charity.
UK: Doctors refuse to fix broken ankle unless patient quits smoking.

Parents don’t let your children grow up to be rock stars.
Cameras to catch smokers littering on the street, on-the-spot fines.
Clarian: Scales Back Employee Health Demands, smokers, obese.
More than 6,000 U.S. Employers Refuse to Hire Smokers. By Michael Siegel. Anti-smoking groups should be ashamed of themselves for failing to speak out strongly against this obnoxious practice.