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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.
More: Ban Videos. - More: Celebrities Smoking. | | | Join FREE - Home - Events - Forum - Videos - Please Help - © |
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Issue #573
The Property Rights Newsletter
June 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 |  GA: Perdue signs truck seat belt law in Dalton. Georgia has joined the rest of the nation in requiring seat belts for all motorists -- even those who operate pickup trucks.
MA: Proposes Anti-Tobacco Propaganda Where Tobacco is Sold. "I meet men and women in their seventies and eighties who have smoked two or three packs a day since adolescence and appear in better respiratory shape than some younger people who do not smoke," said Andre Weil, M.D., the so-called father of integrative medicine and author of several best-selling books promoting general health and healthy aging. Helfer also cited evidence that cigarette smokers have a reduced risk of developing Parkinson’s disease and that a similar effect has also been noticed in epidemiological studies of Alzheimer’s disease.
SC: Vote! Primary runoff is on June 22nd, there are still a half dozen statehouse races to be decided and, of course, the Republican Governor candidate.
USA: Rand Paul: Like MLK, but different. He also is against government telling restaurants to ban smoking - Paul thinks non-smokers can simply "choose" to visit other restaurants (and bars).
UK: MP wants smoking ban lifted. "It's just crazy that people are being forced to stand outside and people who live near pubs are left complaining about the noise generated by them."
UK: Watch: Overturn the smoking ban or regret not doing so.
PA: Cigar Store Owners Say Increased Pa. Tobacco Taxes will Lower Tax Revenues. Rendell’s budget proposal would increase cigarette taxes by 10 cents per pack and impose new taxes on other tobacco products, including cigars, snuff and pipe tobacco.
USA: The War on Cigarettes. by William Wilson. For starters, the same vicious cycle that brought us Al Capone and his band of murderous thugs in the 1920s – and which made Pablo Escobar one of the richest men in the world in the 1990s – will be back for another bite at the taxpayer-funded apple. Just last month in Virginia, for example, a contraband cigarette smuggler pleaded guilty in court of hiring a hit man to murder two people that he suspected of stealing his bootleg cigarettes. According to media reports, the man’s gang was hoping to make a cool $1 million by selling nearly 400,000 cartons of cigarettes in New York City – where taxes alone on a pack of smokes are $4.25. Amazingly, New York lawmakers are seeking to add another $1 to this already obscene amount, an increase which will only fuel additional bootlegging – and additional violence.
Australia: Tobacco Black Market. "It is not hard to grow and, given it looks like big spinach, might not normally attract much attention. I have been told the Tax Office loses $400 million a year in excise due to illegal crops. Given the size of government excise, chop chop is very cheap and it is often sold under the counter by weight by unscrupulous tobacconists, grocers and even service stations." | Click to watch: Cute Animal World Cup
You're a good soldier, choosing your battles.
Pick yourself up, and dust yourself off.
Get back in the saddle, you're on the front line.
Everyone's watching, you know it's serious.
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Issue #572
The Property Rights Newsletter
June 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!
Dutch Minister: Admits smoking ban is partial failure. Small bars, which are often unable to create the required separate zones for smokers and non-smokers, increasingly allow their clients to smoke indoors.
Bulgaria: EU Commissioner Scolds Bulgaria over Eased Smoking Ban. EU commissioner for health and consumer policy, John Dalli, has expressed regrets over the Bulgarian government's decision to delay the full smoking ban in public places.
IA: Video: Lack of Enforcement of Iowa Smoking Ban.
MI: Law Banning Smoking On Beaches Ignored. Beachgoers are lighting up in the water and on the beach. Some don't know the ordinance exists, others don't care.
NC: Brunswick County rejects smoking ban on its land. Carter, a Sheriff's Office detective, said the ban would be unenforceable.
NC: The owner of Gate City Billards Country Club will continue to allow smoking in his establishment.
OH: Clevelanders share a passion for a tasty meal on a cozy patio. Smokers have found a legitimate -- and largely legal -- public place to congregate. In the wake of the 2006 decision by Ohio voters to ban smoking in public buildings and workplaces, patios have become Ohio's de facto smoking section. |
Montreal Grand Prix Returns - By Lynda Duguay
Lobbying shouldn't be part of cultural events;
yet the Anti Smoking extremists have... | | Join FREE - Home - Events - Forum - Videos - Please Help - © |
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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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Issue #566
The Property Rights NewsletterApril 30, 2010 - Issue #566"One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws,
but conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Abuse of power against a section of the population: Proposes to Increase Tobacco Taxes by Up to 300 Percent. What if Kansas’ state sales tax went from 5.3 percent to more than 15 percent? How about paying state sales tax of 75 cents per gallon of gas instead of 25 cents? Those are among the questions being asked by the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association as Kansas legislators consider ways to raise tax revenues instead of lowering expenditures as it seeks to close a budget gap of over $400 million.
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Issue #565
The Property Rights NewsletterApril 23, 2010 - Issue #565"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to
life; secondly, to liberty; thirdly to property; together with the right
to support and defend them in the best manner they can."
- Samuel Adams
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Issue #564
The Property Rights NewsletterApril 2, 2010 - Issue #564"That the sole object and only legitimate end of government
is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty,
and property, and when the government assumes other
functions it is usurpation and oppression."
- Alabama, Declaration of Rights Article I Section 35
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Issue #563
The Property Rights NewsletterMarch 26, 2010 - Issue #563"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom."
- Justice William O. Douglas
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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.