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Issue #546

The Property Rights Newsletter

November 6, 2009 - Issue #546

"Smokers being forced outside.
Abuse is abuse, no matter what the excuse."
- Nick Melnyk

Michael Siegel - Tobacco Policy Blog:
Op-Ed in NY Daily News Exposes Misleading Scientific Claims of Anti-Smoking Groups; Now Health Groups, Not Just Big Tobacco, are Deceiving the Public.
Published Study Shows No Effect of New Zealand Smoking Ban on Acute Cardiac Events During First Year; Study Not Considered by IOM Committee Report.
Data from Australia Show No Effect of Smoking Bans on Heart Attack Admissions.
Anti-Smoking Researcher Claims that Smoking Bans Reduce Heart Attacks Within Minutes of Implementation.
More: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary. Michael Siegel has 20 years of experience in tobacco control, primarily as a researcher.

From The Mailbag

AL: Florence Smokers ignore the park smoking ban.
CA: A new kind of smoking gun. Transfer DNA tracing resources from murderers and rapists... to smokers?
IN: Given the IndyStar's editorial position, I challenge it to stand by its beliefs and show its dedication to the truth with two acts...
KS: Topekans Against The Ban. IT'S YOUR PROPERTY.
MO: St. Louis County, lots of exemptions including casino floors.
USA: THE TOBACCO DANCE. By Felt Lair, 1998. We are engaged in another Civil War... both sides can get nasty at times.
USA: Covert smoking ban promoter RWJF president, Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, is on list of visitors to Obama White House.
Ireland: Smoking rate soars up to one third the Irish population, despite the smoking ban and higher taxes.
UK: Confessions of a fashionista: As I brush cocaine off the fax machine, I don't think my office cares about the smoking ban.
World: List of Smokers Rights and Property Rights groups.

Fun: Watch: The Fun Police. You have been warned.
Nanny: Watch: Reason.tv's Nanny of the Month for October 2009.
Neighbors: Watch: Rush Limbaugh - Health Hysteria in America.

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CA: DNA to catch smokers

Transfer DNA tracing resources from murderers and rapists to smokers?

AL Florence

Florence Update

Issue #545

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October 30, 2009 - Issue #545

"I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time."
- Mark Twain

Presidents Who Smoke: 61% of all U. S. presidents smoked tobacco. As the legendary story reveals John F. Kennedy gave orders to Press Secretary Pierre Salinger to round up as many Corona cigars (JFK's favorite) before signing the Cuban trade embargo. Salinger later reported 1,200 Coronas in his possession. It was not until the Clinton administration when an absolute no-smoking policy was implemented in the White House and Hillary happily removed all the ashtrays from the premises. So where might Barack Obama sneak a smoke? It's rumored that Willie Nelson fired up on the White House roof when invited to spend a night, though we doubt it was tobacco he was smoking.

From The Mailbag

IN: Indianapolis says NO, Council votes to table smoking ordinance.
MT: Continued smoking in reservation bars, casinos boosts business. We look forward to seeing MO bans collapse too.
SC: ALERT: Florence City Council members to propose city smoking ban. (After a failed attempt in 2005.)
Canada: Dr. Stella Daskalopoulou Anti Junk Science. By Michael J. McFadden... something makes me think that this "One Cigarette Is Deadly" study may just possibly be biased a bit toward producing and promoting a certain desired perception.
Canada: Judge says NO and Ruling lets federal inmates puff away outdoors. The ruling applies to all federal penitentiaries in Canada. Smoking rules in provincial jails vary by province.
Canada: Peel says NO, rejects proposal to ban smoking in tenants homes... officials said restricting tenants rights to do what they wish in their own homes wouldn't stand up in court.
Croatia: Says NO and gives up on smoking ban. Owners of small cafés can now decide themselves whether to allow smoking or not. When the ban was introduced, it met with widespread protests.
Scotland: Increasing heart disease has steadily paralleled the rise of motor vehicle use... encourage many Scots who currently drive, to walk or use healthy bicycles instead.
UK: Watch: Welcome to Britain, eternal darkness and despair.

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Canada Dr. Stella Daskalopoulou Anti Junk Science

Study Says Even One Cigarette Harmful

USA Presidents Who Smoke

Issue #544

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October 23, 2009 - Issue #544

"Hatred paralyses life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

CDC-Commissioned Report Says More Evidence Is Needed to Decide Whether Smoking Bans Are Good. By Jacob Sullum. Yet the people conducting these reviews are not neutral observers either; as reflected by Benowitz's comments, they are committed partisans in the push to extend strict smoking bans across the country. AND Michael Siegel's Analysis Reveals that Institute of Medicine Report Failed to Include Data that Found No Effect of Smoking Bans on Acute Coronary Events in 3 Countries.

From The Mailbag

OH: Toledo Bar Wins Smoking Case. Bar owners who try to keep their customers from smoking can't be penalized under the state's anti-smoking law just because a patron disobeys.
OR: Hillsboro ban in parks, looking into smoking areas.
SC: North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey looks back on 15 years.
SC: Springdale bans smoking; 2 others consider it.
USA: National tobacco case. Attorneys from around the country descended Wednesday on the federal courthouse in Bangor for a conference on a class-action lawsuit against the makers of light cigarettes. At least 20 lawsuits from around the country have been combined.
USA: The American College Health Association (ACHA) has adopted a NO TOBACCO USE policy and encourages colleges and universities to be diligent in their efforts to achieve a 100% indoor and outdoor campus-wide tobacco-free environment.
Canada: Prison inmates want prohibition on tobacco overturned.
Malaysia: Teacher Forces Student to Smoke 42 cigarettes as punishment, for having a cigarette and lighter.
Nigeria: Will Moghalu restore confidence in banks?
Sweden: Court gives woman OK to smoke in her own garden.
UK: Action on Champix and Other Cessation Medications.
UK: Says NO. "The Government has ditched plans to ban smoking in cars when children are passengers."

Defiance And Ban Damage Hurts Everyone

A Bartender's Letter. By Sheila Martin. This world we live in can be such a lonely place. What on earth will happen to them? I don't know.
Dead: Missing patient found buried, had looked for a spot to smoke.
Employment: B.C. woman claims smoking ‘disability’ cost her job.
Video: Heartless nurse anti-smoker telling smokers to die.

The Slippery Slope

Apple refuses to fix a smokers computer. That makes this a case of discrimination, which is illegal in every state.
Bacon: Step away from the bacon: Processed meat is the latest thing to cause cancer according to the health police.
Body Odor Ban: Honolulu City Council members are considering a proposal to ban riders from buses if their body odor is too stinky.
Fat: Childhood Obesity Report Calls For Government Regulations to Limit Access to 'Unhealthy' Restaurant Chains.
Flags: Oregon Apartment Complex Bans Flying the American Flag. Not only from their dwellings but also their vehicles.
GMO: Genetic engineering is completely different from traditional breeding and carries unique risks, dangerous foods. A close examination reveals that industry manipulation and political collusion – not sound science – was the driving force.
Light Bulbs vs. The Nanny State. Watch this video from ReasonTV.
Naked: Man Arrested for Being Naked in His Own Kitchen.

Phil Williams
Watch: Ashbusters 4, Turning Point.
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HI Body Odor Ban

The ACLU of Hawaii called the bill vague and open to discriminatory enforcement.

OR Hillsboro

... councilors did ask Parks and Recreation representatives to study the possibility of designated smoking areas in some larger parks.

USA American College Health Association

ACHA Position Statement