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Issue #581
The Property Rights Newsletter
August 20, 2010 - Issue #581
"You can fool some of the people all of the time,
and all of the people some of the time,
but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
- Abraham Lincoln |  Four degrees of separation. Obesity gains ground in the fight for funding in the United States. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is now spending over ten times as much on obesity as on anti-smoking. When people with whom we are closely associated gain weight, such as a spouse, sibling, neighbor or friend, we are also at an increased risk of gaining weight. For example, if your friend becomes obese, you have a 177 percent increased risk of becoming obese. If your friend's brother becomes obese, your risk is still increased. The increased risk goes out to four degrees of separation.
Smoking in the movies: 5th hand smoke? Ultimately this attack on tobacco in films has nothing to do with people smoking. It is an attack on history and verisimilitude. It is a further erosion of a medium already sadly lacking in any dedication to social realities. It is an aesthetic affront on adult sensibilities. It is just plain ridiculous.
Islamabad: Tobacco Control Cell out to build awareness on alarming concepts. Towards smoke-free homes and cars. Third hand smoke.
Does this anti-smoking ad constitute child abuse? There is a controversy raging about an anti-smoking ad depicting a small boy crying after his mother leaves him alone at a subway station. The commercial begins with the image of the mother holding the little boy's hand; suddenly, we see him alone in a sea of people. He looks around for his mother and begins crying - you can hear the cries and see the tears. Detractors say this commercial is emotionally abusive to the child because he is too young to act and obviously really thought he was alone, and he was really crying.
 UCLA School of Public Health Fires Professor James Enstrom, Apparently Because It Does Not Like the Direction of His Research Findings. Dr. Enstrom happened to find that there was no significant relationship between PM2.5 exposure and overall mortality, at least during the time period 1983-2002. How can we ever have objective environmental science research if faculty members are scared that if they report negative findings, they are going to lose their jobs?
MA Housing ban: The five-member Housing Authority voted unanimously to institute a blanket prohibition on smoking in all 111 of its apartments and the 20 scattered-site homes they operate in town.
OR Nannys: It’s a storm in a glass of lemonade: a 7-year-old girl attempts to run a lemonade stand, only to be shut down by health inspectors because she doesn’t have a $120 licence.
VA 13 arrested for smoking in Falls Church. Police made the arrests at the following restaurants: Hai Lua, Pho Bien, Café Nho, Café Le Mirage, Tay Do and Hoa Vien Quan. All of the restaurants are in the 6700 block of Wilson Boulevard in the heart of Seven Corners.
USA Military: Send smokes again to the troops starting Aug. 27. The new law prohibited the friends and families of troops deployed overseas from sending care packages through first class mail. The U.S. Postal Service initially said customers could only use Express Mail to ship tobacco products in order to comply with the law. But military families protested because Express Mail packages cannot be sent overseas. |  | | Join FREE - Home - Events - Forum - Videos - Please Help - © |
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Issue #580
The Property Rights Newsletter
August 13, 2010 - Issue #580
"Ten years ago we got laughed at for playing "The Slippery
Slope Card." Today we'd have to play a whole deck
before anyone questioned it."
- Michael J. McFadden | Antis Rewrite History
Winston Churchill's cigar airbrushed from picture. In a reproduction of the picture, hanging over the main entrance to a London museum celebrating the wartime leader, he has been made into a non-smoker through the use of image-altering techniques. It is unclear who is responsible for doctoring the photograph, with the museum – The Winston Churchill's Britain at War Experience – claiming not to have noticed the cigar was missing. John Welsh, manager of the museum, admitted he was shocked to learn of the alteration, but declined to reveal who was responsible for the display and for enlarging the image.
 More: Smoking In Cartoons. Snuffing out Goofy's cigarette, The Great Disney Smoke-Out, Editing out history and Tom and Jerry, No smoking to be the rule for Turner cartoons in Britain, Smoking in Tintin cartoon breaks Turkish law.
More: Smoking On Screen, TV and film, around the world. Sherlock Holmes without his pipe?! USA movies blasted for smoking including Mama Mia, Alice in Wonderland, Avatar, Land of the Lost...
The price of freedom. By Michael J. McFadden. When Hungary agreed to join the EU it was largely with an eye to the better trade position and ease of travel and security that such membership would bring. The vast majority in favor of such membership never imagined that it would bring with it pressures for the government to begin sticking its nose into private lives and choices in a way not seen since the Soviets and their tanks ruled the streets. | | | Join FREE - Home - Events - Forum - Videos - Please Help - © |
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Issue #579
The Property Rights Newsletter
August 6, 2010 - Issue #579
"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.
And the tigers are getting hungry."
- Winston Churchill |  Third Hand Smoke Causes Leprosy! By Michael J. McFadden, Mid-Atlantic Regional Director, Citizens Freedom Alliance. Did you know that third hand smoke can cause Leprosy? Wounds that never heal? Flaming,festering, flatulent and pustulent, putrescently oozing oncologically orange orifices of ichor and slime and gore? Well, OK, it may not BE Leprosy, but it's just LIKE Leprosy. And they haven't REALLY found that thirdhand smoke causes it yet, but they're paying a researcher a quarter of a million dollars in the hope she can show it to be so. 
More Second Hand Smoke Articles.
More Third Hand Smoke Articles.
More Fourth Hand Smoke Articles.
More Fifth Hand Smoke Articles.
| From The International Mailbag |
Canada: No smoking ban for Vancouver parks and beaches for now.
Canada: Vote for Kerry Diotte, City Council Ward 11, Edmonton.
China: Ten Chinese people imprisoned for smoking. The Global Times story did not say how long the Zaoqiang-10 were detained for, but it said that Chinese public opinion was divided on the case.
UK: Raigmore Hospital's no smoking ban ignored. The health board said allowances were made in some circumstances, such as relatives who were distressed about a loved one. IN: Marion County. More smoke ban talk even when current pact works. Those that want to light up go to an adults-only bar.
MO: Missouri State University Faculty and Staff Wellness Update.
SD: Don't be fooled by the Nicoderm funded lobbyists who forced this issue on South Dakota. Vote NO on Law 12 if you value Freedom, and let business owners decide what's best for them and their customers.
TN: A smoking ban will hurt the campus community. Now, instead of having to avoid one person smoking a cigarette on a pathway, someone who is averse to cigarette smoke will have to figure out how to get around twenty folks all together smoking at the same time.
TX: Tobacco sting. Retailers that refused to sell to minors were also acknowledged with a certificate of congratulations for compliance.
USA: Cruise Line Bans Smoking on Its "Freedom" Ship. Carnival has announced it is “testing” the idea of banning smoking in cigar bars on its cruise ships. | The Slippery Slope After Tobacco |
 USA: Watch Reason Video: Nanny of the Month: San Francisco Soda Banner Mayor Newsom. | 
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Issue #578
The Property Rights Newsletter
July 30, 2010 - Issue #578
"What is dangerous about extremists is not that
they are extreme, but that they are intolerant.
The evil is not what they say about their cause,
but what they say about their opponents."
- Robert F. Kennedy |  County ‘Dons’ keep selling smoke-free agenda. By Jim Waters. These facts are ignored by Hahn, who must justify getting federal money by citing “accomplishments” – even those that erode freedom and small business owners’ constitutionally endorsed private-property rights. And of course, she and her fellow ban supporters deny the economic impact of a smoking ban.
CA: Santa Monica Council Expands Residential Smoking Ban. "It’s the classic the road to hell is paved with good intentions," Council member Gleam Davis said. "What we are doing here is walking a very thin line trying to weigh and protect the rights of non-smokers and the rights of tenants."
GA: "Just Say No" to Savannah’s Proposed Smoking Ban. "Jobs and businesses truly are at stake here, as well as the rights of business owners to declare whether or not smoking should be allowed in their establishments. If government was to declare no smoking in its facilities, then so be it. If a restaurant owner decides that his place of business will allow smoking, then that’s his right, as well. If patrons and potential employees don’t want to patronize a place that allows smoking, they have the right to go somewhere else," he said.
PA: Court sides with police on smoking, smoke 'em if you got 'em. The justices ruled that municipal officials cannot ban officers from smoking in police cars or using smokeless tobacco in non-public workplaces unless the ban is part of a collective bargaining agreement.
Scotland: Achieving Smoke-free Mental Health Services. This is one of the reasons that we oppose publicly funded smoking cessation: the authorities are pushing to deprive vulnerable people any autonomy as to how they self medicate. This is blatant market manipulation.
UK: Big Brother spying tactics rejected. The leader of Staffordshire Moorlands District Council has vowed that the authority will never resort to spying on residents.
UK: Smoking ban extension that would outlaw lighting up outside pubs is axed. The last government had proposed enlarging ‘smoke-free’ zones to include the areas around building entrances, but this has been shelved.
World: A Battle Anthem For Veterans and Smokers. New words to a Bob Dylan favourite: Blowing In The Wind. | | | Join FREE - Home - Events - Forum - Videos - Please Help - © |
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Issue #577
The Property Rights Newsletter
July 23, 2010 - Issue #577
"To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming
too many calories is like saying that the only cause
of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party."
- Adelle Davis | USA: Department of Health and Human Services. HHS commits $10 million to curb tobacco use, obesity. Of the 10 organizations receiving $1 million grants, seven organizations will receive funding for obesity prevention and three will receive funding for tobacco prevention and cessation. A contract for $28 million recently was awarded to the Academy for Educational Development. This new media contract also will develop consumer materials for First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign aimed at preventing childhood obesity.
USA: Health Executive Order from The White House. Establishing the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council. Not later than March 23, 2011, the Chair, in consultation with the Council, shall develop and make public a national prevention, health promotion, and public health strategy (national strategy)...
Fatty foods may cause cocaine-like addiction. A new study in rats suggests that high-fat, high-calorie foods affect the brain in much the same way as cocaine and heroin. When rats consume these foods in great enough quantities, it leads to compulsive eating habits that resemble drug addiction, the study found.
 A lawsuit to get toys out of Happy Meals? "McDonald's practice of dangling toys in front of children is illegal, regardless of what meal the child eventually gets. Not only does the practice mobilize “pester power,” but it also imprints on developing minds brand loyalty for McDonald's.
The Calorie Police. By Jason Kuznicki. Part of being free is being free to make bad choices, to take risks, and to bear the consequences. Part of being free is that you, personally, may decide what you eat or drink. It’s a liberty so elementary that our founders never even imagined that it would need protection, but today, it does. (These same founders also rioted when the British taxed their tea. Which I’m sure Parliament only did for their own good anyway.)
MORE: Obesity articles from The Property Rights Newsletter. GA: Roswell City Council considers outside smoking ban.
GA: Savannah's smoking rules may tighten loopholes.
MI: Smoking ban hurting the business at Michigan bowling alleys.
NC: IPCPR Urges Courtesy, Not Ban, at Bus Shelters.
NJ: Tobacconists Say Denville, NJ Ban Penalties "Over the Top."
NM: Judge rules a woman is allowed to smoke in her own yard.
NY: Catastrophic Industry Failure Linked to Cigar Tax Increase.
NY: Warn Bloomberg About Extending Ban to Parks, Beaches.
OH: The Havana Martini Club in Cincinnati is closed.
OK: Smoking to be allowed again in some Oklahoma prisons.
Canada: Dwindling membership sounding taps for Legion branches. | 
Antis: What to expect
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Issue #576
The Property Rights Newsletter
July 16, 2010 - Issue #576
"No matter where you go, there you are."
- B. Banzai |  Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children? By Tim Andrews. We now live in a country that is based upon risk-minimisation to the extreme. It is now viewed as legitimate for our government to do everything to minimise any potential negative effects on our lives, even if we enter them of our free volition (just think of the war on obesity, on smoking, on alcohol and so on). The nanny state rules supreme, and it is only natural that such a protective mindset is applied to the youngest of our society - to an even greater degree in fact. Yet I ask – at what cost?
At more and more companies, smokers need not apply. By Chris Reinolds Kozelle, CNN. Gary Nolan, a spokesman for Citizens Freedom Alliance: The Smoker's Club, is annoyed by the ban but supports private businesses' right to hire anyone they want. "If you go in for heart surgery, do you really care if your surgeon smokes?" Nolan said. Dr. Michael Siegel, a Boston University professor of public health, said the policy is an invasion of privacy and keeps qualified medical professionals away.
Tobacco Harm Reduction: Chris Snowdon recently posted an excellent analysis of a recent New England Journal of Medicine article that calls for bans on smoking in non-single-family homes. This has all sorts of interesting implications including class-based discrimination (I would bet that most of the wealthy activists who are calling for these restrictions own detached houses and so would be immune from such restrictions they want to impose on others), ongoing nonsense about the effects of ETS, and various other matters. NY: Judge Delays Ruling on PACT Act & USPS Delivery.
WI: Bartenders and tavern owners adjust to smoking ban. If your bartender is a little more surly than usual, please try to understand.
USA: ATF: Federal government tax revenue on alcohol, tobacco and firearms were up 41% to $20.6 billion in 2009.
USA: Big Tobacco won’t have to pay $280 billion.
Canada: Smoking Stats Generate Fireworks! In Ontario, there are more smokers today than there were 40 years ago.
Netherlands: Dutch bars defy two-year-old smoking ban. "It is mostly small bars with no staff (apart from the owner) that do not respect the law," Wiel Maessen, secretary of the Save the Small Cafe Owners anti-ban group, told AFP.
Scotland: Response to Tobacco Display Ban Consultation. The regulations are designed to block the visibility of tobacco to anyone not making a purchase – to a degree that Belinda Cunnison describes as ‘fanatical ‘International evidence does not show drops in smoking in any country that has implemented a display ban.
UK: Click here to rate the repeal of the Smoking Ban and add your comments in support of repeal on the Deputy Prime Minister's new Your Freedom site.
UK: Watch: We Love Cigarettes. A love of nicotine unites all peoples across the globe, regardless of colour, wealth or creed. Where religion and politics have failed tobacco has succeeded, but at what cost? Includes James Leavey, United Kingdom Regional Director, Citizens Freedom Alliance: The Smoker's Club.
UK: Save the Pub comment from overseas. By Robert Deitz, II. | The Slippery Slope After Tobacco |
Cholesterol: Big Pharma lies about statin drugs finally exposed in British Medical Journal. Statin drugs, in other words, helped 271 people but harmed 443 people.
Second Hand Smoke: Epidemiologists warn that falsified claims of secondhand smoke being a hazard makes a mockery of their science. |  | | Join FREE - Home - Events - Forum - Videos - Please Help - © |
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Issue #575
The Property Rights Newsletter
July 9, 2010 - Issue #575
"Liberty cannot be caged into a charter
or handed on ready-made to the next generation.
Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.
Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves."
- Florence Ellinwood Allen |  The Economic Losers From Smoking Bans. This is an OBVIOUS attack against liquor permit holders in the State of Ohio. An entire industry has been targeted for extinction. Read the full Report.
More: OH Ban Damage
More: Smoking ban leader reports death threats
More: Site search for more Ban Damage in the Newsletter.
 Ten reasons why the smoking ban stinks. By Joe Jackson. What’s needed is not just the repeal of the smoking ban and other petty, oppressive laws, but a return to healthy scepticism, fairness, and common sense. Thousands of products, from household cleaners to cosmetics, contain higher levels of toxic chemicals than tobacco – and are still harmless. | The American people deserve better... the truth! |
 False Information from Center for Tobacco Products is Concerning; FDA Actions Should Be Guided by Science, Not Politics. By Michael Siegel. While it is one thing for the advocacy groups like the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids to make the false assertion to the public that flavored cigarettes are a major gateway for youth addiction to cigarettes, it is truly worrisome to see the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products making the same false claim. The only existing brands of cigarettes in those flavors that I am aware of were marketed by R.J. Reynolds for a brief period from 2004 to 2006, but were voluntarily removed from the market in 2006. Thus, mint, chocolate, cinnamon, coconut, and strawberry cigarettes play no role in youth smoking initiation and the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act's prohibition of these flavors will remove zero cigarette brands from the market and have no effect whatsoever on youth cigarette smoking. I think the public deserves better.
Why the Center for Tobacco Products and the anti-smoking groups have to hide the truth and deceive the public, rather than simply telling the truth, is beyond my comprehension. Clearly, politics - and not science - is at work.
FDA Commissioner Falsely Asserts that Flavored Cigarettes are a Gateway for Teen Smoking. We deserve the truth and unfortunately, we're getting political speak, not the truth. That's perhaps to be expected when it comes from politicians, but it's unacceptable when it comes from federal health officials. | Watch a clip from:
The Onion Movie - Smoking Ban.
Smoking in the USA has been restricted to a single room in Iowa.
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Issue #574
The Property Rights Newsletter
July 2, 2010 - Issue #574
"In a time of universal deceit,
telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
- George Orwell |  UK: Smoking ban U-turn appeal. Smoking ban rebel Hamish Howitt claims he was forced to close his Happy Scots bar because of the smoking ban. Mr Howitt, who flouted the ban at his DelBoy's Sports Bar on Rigby Road, Blackpool, for 18 months, racking up many court appearances and thousands of pounds, said: "This blanket ban has destroyed the industry.
USA, KS: Restraining order delays state smoking ban in Wichita. "To make a long story short, the state law will not be enforced in the city of Wichita on July 1," said Harry Najim, who sought the restraining order on behalf of three Wichita businesses — Mort's Cigar Bar, Walt's Sports Bar, and Phoenician Room and Heat Cigar Bar & Hookah Lounge.
USA, MO: Smoking ban booted by council members. O'Neal offered two amendments before the public comment period began Monday. One, he said, corrected an inadvertent change that would have banned smoking in private homes where meetings are held. 
USA: High court turns down both sides in tobacco fight. It prevents the administration from trying to extract billions of dollars from the industry either in past profits or to fund a national campaign to curb smoking.
Pandemic Virus Update... WHO disease-mongers have Big Pharma ties. Financial conflicts, false panic, rash decisions, wasted money and secret panels — with the identities of many so- called flu experts still protected, like witnesses in a mafia trial.
| Watch these videos from real victims of bans... |
KS: Shelia Martin, A Bar Owner's Perspective.
MI: Reactions to the smoking ban.
NY: George Koodray on Russia Today, Smoking ban divides New Yorkers. Despite tough anti policies NY continues to light up.
USA: The Onion Movie- Smoking Ban. Smoking within US borders has been restricted to a single room in Iowa. More Onion.
Greece: The "Phoney War" on Smoking.
Syria: Smoking ban burns Syrian businesses.
Turkey: Smoking Ban in Turkey Poses No Easy Task.
Turkey: Protest Against Smoking Ban.
Turkey: Man Shot Dead for Enforcing Smoking Ban.
UK: Simon Cowell chats about the smoking ban.
UK: FOREST, Amend the Smoking Ban.
UK: Simon Clark, Save Our Pubs And Clubs.
UK: The Buck Inn. Another victim of the smoking ban.
UK: Homage to the Smoking Ban Hero's. Dedicated to the brave publicans who are facing bankruptcy but still fight this dreadful smoking ban.
UK: Pubs losing trade because of the smoking ban are fighting back by allowing smoking and saying, enough is enough.
UK: The Smoking Ban Loophole, this is a research center, not a bar.
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Issue #573
The Property Rights NewsletterJune 18, 2010 - Issue #573"I am proud to be paying taxes in the United States.
The only thing is I could be just as proud for half of the money."
- Arthur Godfrey
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Issue #572
The Property Rights NewsletterJune 11, 2010 - Issue #572"It is curious that physical courage should be so
common in the world, and moral courage so rare."
- Mark Twain
 Denmark Update: From The Smoker's Club, European Regional Director, Wiel Maessen, we have some GOOD NEWS from the Dutch. They have just had elections, and the party (VVD: The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy) that is the strongest critic of their smoking ban has now officially captured the most seats of any party in their parliament!
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Issue #570
The Property Rights NewsletterMay 28, 2010 - Issue #570"In a time of universal deceit,
telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
- George Orwell
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Issue #569
The Property Rights NewsletterMay 21, 2010 - Issue #569"When people begin to accept dictates from governments of what they are not supposed to say and do, for their own and collective good, they begin to forget all the liberties that previous generations knew. The Nannies are out to remake our society, and smokers are their lab rats"
- Theodore J. King
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Issue #568
The Property Rights NewsletterMay 14, 2010 - Issue #568"Never, never, never give up."
- Winston Churchill
 See the new website: Lighten Up with James Leavey. Britain's most smoker-friendly journalist, broadcaster, photographer, PR and speech consultant, he was editor of the world famous The FOREST Guide to Smoking in London (and Scotland), and chief taster for Cigar Buyer magazine, and has smoked cigars in voodoo ceremonies in Brazil, on stage at the Royal National Theatre in London, in Vienna's sewers, in Dublin's main prison and on desert islands. James is also the British correspondent of The Smoker's Club, and Citizens Freedom Alliance, Inc.
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Joe Jackson Smoke, Lies And The Nanny State
The Research of David Kuneman 
Watch Phil Williams Videos
Rest of the Story. Michael Siegel
Arnold and smokers rights
Johnny Depp has vowed to defy bans.
Catherine Zeta Jones and private planes
Mel Smith defies Scotland's ban.
Bad NY air for heroes.