Denmark Smokers Rights
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Smokers: The war is in progress
27. 27. juli 2009
Jacob Wenzel
?There is open war among smokers and nonsmokers, says Denmark’s Smoke Association who believe that anti-smokers exaggerate the dangers of passive smoking.
?Denmark Smoke Association believes that anti-smokers exaggerate the dangers of passive smoking.
?Denmark Smoke Association sees the trend to more complaints about smoke from neighbors as the latest battle in the war between smokers and nonsmokers.? They believe that anti-smoking debate the nature of a real war, and according to spokesman Soren H?jbjerg association is ready for war and will win it.
?But it is clear that tenants are in panic and complain that his neighbor smokes when both interest groups, politicians and the media blowing the threat of passive smoking up to unrealistic heights, said the association.
?”I think this is not strange for the news and the newspapers are full of stories of how dangerous passive smoking is, and it’s clear that people are starting to become interested in it,” says Soren H?jbjerg to Newspaq.
?He responded to it has emerged that more and more tenants complain that neighbor smoke seeps into their apartment.? But the association casts doubt as to whether passive smoking is really so dangerous that most anti-smokers claim.
?Among others, the French tobacco research and smoking cessation specialist, Professor Robert Molimard has also announced that the only people who are at risk of smoking is smokers themselves. In Denmark it is estimated that 2,000 people die each year from passive smoke.? But the figures are totally blown out of proportion, said the researcher.
?Anti-tobacco lobby, for example, consists of the Heart Association and Cancer Society, counting both smokers and former smokers even with the stats show . According to him, the real death toll from passive smoking in Denmark closer to a round zero.
?Soren H?jbjerg may well understand that you can be bothered by the smell when you are not themselves smoke.? But on the other hand, one can not expect that you will never feel anything from a neighbor.
?When you live in an apartment, so in fact share a property with other people. Somewhere, then we are forced to find themselves in the neighbor’s activities can sneak in for a while. Especially if it is an older building, “says the rygerfork?mperen.
Antis: What to expect
The Cold Sharp Slap Of Reality
Sweet toothed smokers could pay for proposed tax reform
Parties want to drop cigarette warnings
What were supposed to be terrifying warnings on cigarette packets seem to have the opposite effect. Several parties want to get rid of them.
In fact according to research, the warnings give consumers more of a wish to smoke. A Danish marketing guru Martin Lindstr?m has tested the brains of several thousand consumers and found that the warnings are associated with pleasure – because the smoker associates the warning with something pleasant that is about to happen – smoking.
“First of all I will be discussing this with the minister for health who is the one who goes to the meetings in the European U nion – and this is an EU issue,” says Conservative Health Spokesperson Vivi Kier.
Commission calls for more bans to protect public health
29.07.08
The Ministry of Health’s prevention commission wants tougher bans and higher taxes to protect the public’s health The Ministry of Health’s prevention commission was formed with the task of investigating how the average Danish life span could be extended by…
With an average life expectancy of 79 years, Danish women lag behind their peers in other Western countries. Comparative figures from the State Institute for Public Health show that Denmark lies in 20th position.
The institute wants to introduce measures that will cut the number of so-called lifestyle illnesses brought about by smoking, drinking, bad diet and too little exercise. These account for around 40 percent of all illnesses and early deaths in Denmark.
The commission told Berlingske Tidende newspaper that it would like to see a total ban on smoking in sports clubs and schools. It also wants the government to levy a higher tax on cigarettes and only make them available for purchase in certain outlets, such as pharmacies.
It recommends that the government introduce further bans and restrictions, which will extend the lifespan of Danes.
‘Experience from many countries shows us that these measures work quickly and effectively and can bring about a drop in heart-related diseases, for example. Danish politicians have always been worried about how far they can go with relation to the population, even though everything indicated that people would soon be happy with this kind of initiative,’ said the commission’s chairperson Mette Weir.
The Liberal Party spokesperson Brigitte Josefsen said that they were open to tightening the current smoking ban, but were not sure of the concrete proposals put forward by the commission.
‘We cannot remove personal responsibility totally,’ Josefsen said.
07.07.2008
After resisting smoking bans while other European and North American implemented increasingly strict restrictions on lighting up indoors, Danes are ready to enact bans against outdoor smoking in public places, according to a poll carried out by weekly publication Mandag Morgen.
Nearly a year after a national ban on smoking in all indoor workplaces – including bars and restaurants – went into effect, the poll found 46 percent of Danes favour a ban against smoking in outdoor areas such as sidewalk caf?s. Thirty-six percent said they were against such a measure.
Concerns about the effects of second-hand smoke were the primary reason many supported the ban.
Inge Hanustrup Clemmensen of the Danish Cancer Society said that even though studies show second-hand smoke present a health hazard, an outdoor smoking ban was neither practical nor necessary.
‘I’d rather see people show courtesy and not smoke in places where there are a lot of people gathered. The poll shows that people don’t want to be bothered by smoke outside, and it would be best if it became a custom that you just don’t expose others to second-hand smoke.’
Fact file | Smoking in Denmark
– The most recent revisions to laws against smoking in indoor public places went into effect on 15 August 2007.
– Smoking is banned in the vast majority of indoor public spaces
– The 2007 law specifically names workplaces, hospitals, schools, childcare centres and taxis as areas where smoking is not permitted
– Bars measuring less than 40m2 that do not serve food are exempt from the ban
– According to recent estimates 25 percent of Danes over 13 years smoke every day
– 12,000 Danes die annually from smoking-related illnesses (km)
Demonstration at Danish Cancer Society
On April 5, 2008, a group of dedicted smokers held a demonstration outside The Danish Cancer Society Headquarters, in Copenhagen, Denmark. The theme of the demonstration was “We are not quitting”. The demonstration was organised by the Danish Smokers Rights Organisation, DaRy (http://www.dary.dk) The Danish Cancer Society was chosen, because it is a prime source of misinformation about smoking and smokers. The goal is to induce the members of The Danish Cancer Society to stop the hate campaigns against smokers.
If the Danish Cancer Society does not get off the backs of smokers, DaRy will proceed to demonstrate directly against the Danish Cancer Society. This demonstration was a first warning. The demonstration breaks new ground. Nobody has ever dared to demonstrate against an almighty Cancer Society. It is time for smokers to take action against their opressors. DaRy hopes to inspire other smokers rights groups into taking similar actions.
Watch this short video about the action.
Denmark Smokers Rights Protest
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Dear madam, dear sir,
http://jp.dk/uknews/politics/article1302958.ece
http://www.raucherbewegung.eu/17.12.2007-danemark-ab-1.-januar-smoke-police.html
http://www.pjstar.com/stories/031908/REG_BG3IPNK3.033.php
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,539902,00.html
http://www.thelocal.se/8062/20070801/
http://www.agi.it/italy/news/200803061309-cro-ren0035-art.html
http://www.europaticker.de/0000_bilder/grafik/ep_report_spesen.pdf
http://www.wispofsmoke.net/SHSETS.html
“Faschism lives”? http://www.smokersclub.com/video/denmarksmokers.wmv
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How can something like this happen to a democratic country, just one of the ones that fights best againt the EU treaty… ?
while Environnmental smoke never killed a single person! And of course with Nicotine products that smokers have to consume on flights, trains, at the office… and will they now put Nicotine gum spenders in the Denmark bars like in UK?? (And drink spenders to get rid of the waiters likein NL?
http://www.davehitt.com/facts/who.html
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/05/07/who-evidence.html#skip300x250
http://raucherbewegung.eu/smokersforum/showthread.php?tid=145
http://raucherbewegung.eu/smokersforum/attachment.php?aid=20
http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2007/11/anti-smoking-groups-admit-to-knowingly.html
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Austrian Smokers Movement
www.raucherbewegung.eu
French Smokers-Voters
www.electeurs-fumeurs.fr
Complete smoking ban on the way
26.03.08
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– A Newsletter Reader
Smoking detectors ready for action
By The Copenhagen Post
17.12.07
With the New Year, occupational health authorities will begin handing out fines instead of good advice to companies that violate workplace smoking laws
A five-month phase-in of the national smoking ban comes to a sudden halt this January, when a force of 500 inspectors hit the streets to ensure that companies abide by the law. The team expects to pay unannounced calls on as many as 25,000 workplaces in 2008.
Last August, a law prohibiting smoking in the vast majority of workplaces took effect. But until now, instead of issuing fines, the Working Environment Authority has issued warnings and given companies instructions on how they can live up to the new regulation.
But with the change of the year fast approaching, the ‘hammer is ready to fall’, according to authority assistant director Lis Gamborg.
First time violators of the smoking ban will be fined DKK 2000 (EUR 266), subsequent violations will result in DKK 5000 and DKK 10,000 fines.
Although inspectors are standing by and ready, the police, who are responsible for issuing the fines, say they have done little to prepare for the extra workload.
Some members of parliament expressed concern that that would mean violators reported by inspectors would go unpunished. They propose allowing the Work Environment Authority to issue its own fines.
Anti-smoking law nips problem in butt
The Copenhagen Post – Copenhagen,Sealand,Denmark
That would be Douse Day, when the kibosh was put on their cigarettes, cigars and pipes, as a nationwide smoking ban took effect at all public buildings and …
Danish grumblings over new smoking ban
South Asian Women’s Forum – New Delhi,India
Denmark is the last of the five Nordic countries to introduce a smoking ban. Danish smokers who flout the law will not be fined but can be asked to leave …
Denmark bans smoking in public places, bars and restaurants
August 15, 2007
COPENHAGEN, Denmark: Denmark on Wednesday joined the swelling ranks of European countries that have banned smoking in bars, restaurants and other public places.
“One day, we will only be allowed to smoke on Himmelbjerget (one of the highest points of elevation in Denmark),” he said, according to Danish news agency Ritzau.
* In 1950, when everybody smoked, 500 died of lung cancer. Today, only 24 % smoke, yet 3500 died of lung cancer in 2005.
* The cigarette sales increase is due to lowering of taxes, that has halted cross border trade in cigarettes accros the border from Germany.
* Smoking rate of 24 % is identical to the smoking rate in Norway, which is conveniently disregarded. Cancer mortality is lower in Norway. The old cherry picking trick.
* Long waiting lists are especially critical for lung cancer patients, which compounds further the problem of cancer mortality. This problem in Denmark is known, and is not unique to lung cancer. There are problems recruiting physicians and nurses. Patients are sent abroad for treatment. Smoking rates have nothing to do with this structural problem.
– Soren
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Cancer rate among the world’s highest
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A deadly trio of poor lifestyles, too much smoking and long waiting periods for cancer treatment are undermining cancer prevention efforts and combining to give the country one of the world’s highest mortality rates for the disease, reported Berlingske Tidende newspaper this weekend.
700 Bar owners in Denmark are to start legal challenge against danish government.
From the website of www.rygervalg.dk , contact? Kim : kims@edb.dk
Johnny Beck, Landlord? of Lumskebugten Bar : contact : lumskebugten@stofanet.dk , http://www.barguide.dk/places/place/1618 Lumskebugten Havnegade 33 7100 , Vejle telephone (+45) 40 58 82 07
Bar Pusterummet. Frydenlundsalle 9 8210 ?rhus V Tel.: (+45) 86 15 87 22
Translation by Jan Jensen, www.rygerpartiet.dk
http://politiken.dk/indland/article327942.ece (danish)
http://www.bt.dk/article/20070619/nyheder/706190410/ (danish)
http://www.business.dk/article/20070619/fritid/70619003/ (danish)
Parliament passes smoking ban
Parliament has passed its much-discussed smoking law, though the battle over the right to light up rages on?
A new smoking law that will go into effect 15 August was passed by parliament Tuesday. The ban will make it illegal to smoke at nearly all public and private workplaces and schools.
Smokers from across the country puffed away outside the house of parliament Thursday in protest of new anti-smoking legislation. In a second day of demonstrations nearly 10,000 smokers and restaurateurs handed politicians a petition signed by 61,000 people demanding a revision of legislation that will ban smoking in the vast majority of indoor public spaces.
Cafe and restaurant owners protest Danish smoking ban
April 18, 2007
Hundreds of Danish cafe and restaurant owners and their customers protested on Wednesday outside parliament against a ban on smoking in public places due to be introduced on August 15.
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March 28, 2006
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Denmark bans smoking in public places, bars and restaurants August 15, 2007COPENHAGEN, Denmark: Denmark on Wednesday joined the swelling ranks of European countries that have banned smoking in bars, restaurants and other public places.
Dear madam, dear sir,
Sweet toothed smokers could pay for proposed tax reform Smokers: The war is in progress 27. 27. juli 2009 Jacob Wenzel ?There is open war among smokers and nonsmokers, says Denmark’s Smoke Association who believe that anti-smokers exaggerate the dangers of passive smoking. ?Denmark Smoke Association believes that anti-smokers exaggerate the dangers of passive smoking. ?Denmark Smoke Association sees the trend to more complaints about smoke from neighbors as the latest battle in the war between smokers and nonsmokers.? They believe that anti-smoking debate the nature of a real war, and according to spokesman Soren H?jbjerg association is ready for war and will win it. ?But it is clear that tenants are in panic and complain that his neighbor smokes when both interest groups, politicians and the media blowing the threat of passive smoking up to unrealistic heights, said the association. ?”I think this is not strange for the news and the newspapers are full of stories of how dangerous passive smoking is, and it’s clear that people are starting to become interested in it,” says Soren H?jbjerg to Newspaq. ?He responded to it has emerged that more and more tenants complain that neighbor smoke seeps into their apartment.? But the association casts doubt as to whether passive smoking is really so dangerous that most anti-smokers claim. ?Among others, the French tobacco research and smoking cessation specialist, Professor Robert Molimard has also announced that the only people who are at risk of smoking is smokers themselves. In Denmark it is estimated that 2,000 people die each year from passive smoke.? But the figures are totally blown out of proportion, said the researcher. ?Anti-tobacco lobby, for example, consists of the Heart Association and Cancer Society, counting both smokers and former smokers even with the stats show . According to him, the real death toll from passive smoking in Denmark closer to a round zero. ?Soren H?jbjerg may well understand that you can be bothered by the smell when you are not themselves smoke.? But on the other hand, one can not expect that you will never feel anything from a neighbor. ?When you live in an apartment, so in fact share a property with other people. Somewhere, then we are forced to find themselves in the neighbor’s activities can sneak in for a while. Especially if it is an older building, “says the rygerfork?mperen. Sweet toothed smokers could pay for proposed tax reform Sweet toothed smokers could pay for proposed tax reform Smokers: The war is in progress 27. 27. juli 2009 Jacob Wenzel ?There is open war among smokers and nonsmokers, says Denmark’s Smoke Association who believe that anti-smokers exaggerate the dangers of passive smoking. ?Denmark Smoke Association believes that anti-smokers exaggerate the dangers of passive smoking. ?Denmark Smoke Association sees the trend to more complaints about smoke from neighbors as the latest battle in the war between smokers and nonsmokers.? They believe that anti-smoking debate the nature of a real war, and according to spokesman Soren H?jbjerg association is ready for war and will win it. ?But it is clear that tenants are in panic and complain that his neighbor smokes when both interest groups, politicians and the media blowing the threat of passive smoking up to unrealistic heights, said the association. ?”I think this is not strange for the news and the newspapers are full of stories of how dangerous passive smoking is, and it’s clear that people are starting to become interested in it,” says Soren H?jbjerg to Newspaq. ?He responded to it has emerged that more and more tenants complain that neighbor smoke seeps into their apartment.? But the association casts doubt as to whether passive smoking is really so dangerous that most anti-smokers claim. ?Among others, the French tobacco research and smoking cessation specialist, Professor Robert Molimard has also announced that the only people who are at risk of smoking is smokers themselves. In Denmark it is estimated that 2,000 people die each year from passive smoke.? But the figures are totally blown out of proportion, said the researcher. ?Anti-tobacco lobby, for example, consists of the Heart Association and Cancer Society, counting both smokers and former smokers even with the stats show . According to him, the real death toll from passive smoking in Denmark closer to a round zero. ?Soren H?jbjerg may well understand that you can be bothered by the smell when you are not themselves smoke.? But on the other hand, one can not expect that you will never feel anything from a neighbor. ?When you live in an apartment, so in fact share a property with other people. Somewhere, then we are forced to find themselves in the neighbor’s activities can sneak in for a while. Especially if it is an older building, “says the rygerfork?mperen. Sweet toothed smokers could pay for proposed tax reform
