Retrospect Song: Smoke Smoke Smoke (That Cigarette)

September 10, 2010 – Issue #583

Prohibition makes a crime out of things that are not crimes.
A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon
which our government was founded.
– Abraham Lincoln (1840)

Listen to Jeremy Richards Interview with Lockwood Phillips, WTKF 107. Smoking bans and government intrusion.
Read More: Jeremy Richards, Director of Historical Research, Citizens Freedom Alliance, Inc.

GA: Bastions of Camaraderie, Other Businesses Threatened by Smoking Ban, Says Cigar Association.
NY: Federal judge extends order barring state tax on some cigarette sales by 2 NY Indian nations.
USA: An Inconvenient Liberty. Where rights begin and end.
USA: Michael Siegel. On Enstrom Firing, FIRE Asks UCLA: How Can It Be that Environmental Health Research Falls Outside the Mission of the Environmental Health Department?
Canada: Saskatchewan cracks down on smoking. School property ban, pharmacy sales, smoking in cars.
Canada: Store owner beats cigarette display charge. He fought the charge, saying it infringed on his right to freedom of expression. In a decision Wednesday, provincial court judge Judge Claudine MacDonald agreed with Gee and found him not guilty.
France: So Much for the Smoking Ban. By Karen Fawcett. There aren’t enough police in the world to hand out fines to all the perpetrators of cigarette smoke.
Nigeria: Nigerian Government Reaches out to IPPA. This would not have happened without your support. The credit goes to you.

Australia: Regulator cautious over suicide link to anti-smoking treatment. HUNDREDS of people have considered killing themselves while taking the popular anti-smoking pill Champix and another 15 have committed suicide on the medication.
Greece: How will the new Greek smoking ban affect your travels?
UK: Two 19-year-old men have been jailed for 42 months each for attacking a German man after he lit a cigarette inside a Norfolk pub.
Wales: Last orders for struggling Welsh pubs. It is not just a problem in the Valleys. According to the British Beer and Pub Association, 156 pubs closed across Wales in 2009 alone.