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Issue #714
The Property Rights Newsletter
May 24, 2013 - Issue #714
"This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear
the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me."
- Rodney Dangerfield |  USA Underwear That Senses Cigarette Smoke. The University of Alabama has received two grants totaling $402,721 for the project, which so far has produced a "very early prototype" of the monitoring system, which - in its current state - fits like a vest. The goal of the three-year study is to "develop a wearable sensor system comprised of a breathing sensor integrated into conventional underwear." The Personal Automatic Cigarette Tracker (PACT for short) is intended to accurately measure when and how often people smoke as well as how deeply they inhale. The real-time information would be used to design strategies for smoking cessation. "We are trying to eliminate the need for self-report from people about how much they smoke, when they smoke, how many puffs they take from the cigarette," he said.
 NY weight limit. Too Fat, Too Furious: NYC bike-share riders fume over city's weight limit. Too fat for fitness? New York City has its limit - apparently a 260-pound one. New York has become the epicenter for the national battle against obesity, largely due to Mayor Michael Bloomberg's push for various bans to bring about a healthier lifestyle, including super-sized sodas and trans-fats.
 Processed Meats Declared too Dangerous for Human Consumption. The World Cancer Research Fund recently completed a detailed review of 7,000 clinical studies covering links between diet and cancer. Upon conclusion they are stepping out and bluntly stating that processed meats are too dangerous for human consumption and consumers should stop buying and eating processed meats. What are processed meats? Processed meats include bacon, sausage, hot dogs, sandwich meat, packaged ham, pepperoni, salami and nearly all meat found in prepared frozen meals. Processed meats are usually manufactured with a carcinogenic (linked to promote and cause cancer) ingredient known as sodium nitrate.
 Coffee Lowers Liver Disease Risk, Plus Five Other Benefits. That cup of coffee you enjoy every morning could do more than help you wake up; it could reduce your risk of liver disease. Results of a new study note that that drinking coffee on a regular basis is associated with a lower risk of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). But stick around: there are five other benefits from drinking coffee as well. Alzheimer's disease, Breast cancer, Endometrial cancer, Stroke, Type 2 diabetes.
FL: Ban against buying pipes. CS/HB 49 - 2013. In an attempt to stop the sale of bongs and other marijuana related paraphernalia, Florida has passed a bill to ban the sale of the following: Metal, wooden, acrylic, glass, stone, plastic, or ceramic smoking pipes, with or without screens, permanent screens, or punctured metal bowls. Water pipes. Carburetion tubes and devices. Chamber pipes. Carburetor pipes. Electric pipes. Air driven pipes. Chillums. Bongs. Ice pipes or chillers.
NZ: Psychiatric patients are refusing treatment because they cannot smoke at DHB facilities, the High Court has been told. ONE News spoke to a mother, Jenn, whose son took his own life after a lifelong battle with a personality disorder. He was a heavy smoker and Jenn says he smoked to keep calm, but when the smoking ban in his local mental health unit came into place she believed it stopped him seeking help. "He constantly kept telling me, he didn't want to go in there, that he couldn't go in there, that he needed to have a smoke," she said. His story was mentioned as part of the civil case which has been brought by two former psychiatric patients.
UK: You are invited to attend Forest's Smoke On The Water, our annual boat party. This year's event takes place on Tuesday 18th June, 2013. Our vessel, The Elizabethan, is a Mississippi style paddle steamer with an external walkway and plenty of room to smoke while enjoying the conversation and the scenery. (Did we mention this a smoker-friendly event?)
USA: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary. By Dr. Michael Siegel. Sacrificing Children's Health for Politics: American Cancer Society Sinks to a New Low. I reveal that the American Cancer Society has admitted that Dr. Phillips is correct. This is no longer just a theory. This is a bona fide explanation for the ACS position on this issue.
Wales: Ban Damage. Terrible news from Wales - for the health freaks and those that want to guard our bodies as if their own! In six years of smoking ban terror, stigmatisation, denormalisation, hatred, open discrimination and killing of businesses left, right & centre it transpires that smoking prevalence has decreased by one whole percent. WOW!
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Issue #713
The Property Rights Newsletter
May 17, 2013 - Issue #713
"Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him
medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered."
- Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace |  No Benefit Seen in Sharp Limits on Salt in Diet. In a report that undercuts years of public health warnings, a prestigious group convened by the government says there is no good reason based on health outcomes for many Americans to drive their sodium consumption down to the very low levels recommended in national dietary guidelines. As sodium levels plunge, triglyceride levels increase, insulin resistance increases, and the activity of the sympathetic nervous system increases. Each of these factors can increase the risk of heart disease. Although the advice to restrict sodium to 1,500 milligrams a day has been enshrined in dietary guidelines, it never came from research on health outcomes, Dr. Strom said. Instead, it is the lowest sodium consumption can go if a person eats enough food to get sufficient calories and nutrients to live on.
MORE: Articles about salt.
Study: Fish oil doesn't help prevent heart attacks. Eating fish is good for your heart but taking fish oil capsules does not help people at high risk of heart problems who are already taking medicines to prevent them, a large study in Italy found. The work makes clearer who does and does not benefit from taking supplements of omega-3 fatty acids, the good oils found in fish such as salmon, tuna and sardines.
MORE: Articles about fatty acids. MORE: Articles about trans fat.
UK - Queen's Speech: Bad news for healthy lifestyles? Sometimes it is what is omitted rather than what is included that is the most telling. In terms of the health aspects of the Queen's Speech, that could certainly be true. And, what is more, it arguably kick-started a wider debate about unhealthy behaviours more generally from the quality of school dinners to drinking habits. It is a point made by Prof Lindsey Davies, of the Faculty of Public Health. "When it comes to policy decisions that affect everyone's health, it's actions, not words, that make a difference," she says. "From compulsory seat belts to the smoking ban, we've seen that governments of all political persuasions need to show leadership and courage to protect people's health.
MO: New Opponent Emerges in Smoking Ban Fight. As the battle rages on in St. Joseph over the future of a city-wide smoking ban, an out-of-town advocate has joined the debate. "I know what has to be done. I know what the arguments are. I know what's possible. I'm a seasoned warrior in this battle and I'm definitely going to try and help out if I can," said Bill Hannegan, of Keep St. Louis Free.
NJ: Revel casino recovery plan OK'd by NJ regulators; smoking ban abandoned. So with over a dozen casinos in AC, there weren't enough nonsmokers who hated smoke so much to make even a single casino viable? And yet the Antismokers insist, over, and over, and over again, that smoking bans don't hurt business. somebody must either be incompetent, or they are lying. Which is it?
PA: Nonsmoking is killing tax revenue. Pennsylvanians are buying fewer cigarettes, according to state sales tax collections. While that may be good news on the health front, a recent decline in cigarette tax collection means a bigger-than-expected revenue gap as the commonwealth scrutinizes a tight budget.
Canada: BC - Nelson business told to remove tobacco plants from window. Comment magazine publisher Michael Chesney was told Monday to remove the tobacco plants from his Victoria Street storefront or face a fine under the Tobacco Control Act. He was given two days to either remove them or face a fine of $575 each day they remained on display.
Turkey: World Tobacco cancels Istanbul trade exhibition. World Tobacco Turkey 2013 was cancelled after the hosting exhibition centre rescinded permission to hold the trade fair less than one month before the 29 May start, organisers said. "We were astounded by this arbitrary and completely unjustified decision. No advance notice whatsoever had been given in spite of our staff being in daily contact with the convention centre. The event has been scheduled for two years," WT said.
Netherlands: Listen online! Revolution FM is a project of a number of radio producers who have decided to join forces. The main studio in Paris and program studios in Haarlem, Aachen and London in an optimal way using the possibilities that internet radio has to offer. (Revolution FM is een project van een aantal radiomakers die besloten hebben hun krachten te bundelen.)
Scotland: Smoking ban and cheap supermarket prices blamed as Scotland loses 147 pubs in six months. Paul Waterson, chief executive of the Scottish Licensed Trade Association, said the dismal statistics showed the smoking ban, the recession and cheap supermarket booze had taken their toll on traditional watering holes. He said: "The industry have never recovered from the smoking ban and have never had the same influx of people coming in." | 
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Issue #712
The Property Rights Newsletter
May 10, 2013 - Issue #712
"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."
- President Barack Hussein Obama II |  Senate passes internet sales tax bill amid opposition from conservatives. Bill to overturn 1992 court decision has support of Obama, Amazon and Walmart - but its future in the House is uncertain. The legislation would overturn a 1992 supreme court ruling that said a state could not force a retailer to collect sales tax unless the retailer had a physical presence in the state. The largest online opponent is eBay, which has campaigned against the bill and organised a mass protest by its sellers. Other opponents include numerous conservative and antitax groups.
NOTE: The Constitution for the United States of America. Article 1, Section 9, Clause 5: No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.
President Obama's cigarette tax up in smoke. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Washington's highest-profile smoker, broadly condemned Obama's proposals for new tax revenue but didn't address the proposed cigarette tax hike. And the Washington press was so disinterested in the idea that Boehner wasn't asked about the tax during two press conferences he held to discuss the budget. A Boehner spokesman said House Republicans are so opposed to new spending programs that it doesn't matter how Obama proposes to fund them.
NYC cigarette tax fight hampered by low fines. High taxes have emerged as the No. 1 weapon in the war on smoking. The more cigarettes cost, research has shown, the fewer people buy them. That is one of the reasons six states are considering proposals to hike tobacco taxes. But the effectiveness of that strategy is being undercut in the home of the nation's highest tobacco taxes - New York City - by light penalties for merchants caught selling cheap cigarettes smuggled in from low-tax states.
Denmark abandons the soda tax. How about tobacco and liquor tax next? A soda tax in Denmark didn't lead to people drinking fewer sugary beverages. Instead, they just headed next door to Germany, where sodas were cheaper. Well, I'll be damned. In short, the Danes have had the same experience with the soda tax as they did with the disastrous fat tax. The decision comes months after the government in Copenhagen repealed a similar tax on foods with high concentrations of saturated fats - dubbed the world's first "fat tax." The measure was introduced with the intent to incentivize healthier eating, but authorities said it ultimately just drove up food prices and put jobs in jeopardy. The message is clear. These policies are unpopular and people will search out cheaper alternatives whenever they can find them. Happily, the Danish government has come to terms with reality and is now rolling back prices.
USA Airline tickets told to hide tax. Muzzling free speech about taxes. These three low-cost carriers compete for the most price-conscious travelers, and they want to tell those travelers which portion of a ticket's cost the airlines control. The government, far from regulating to prevent customer confusion, is trying to prevent customers from understanding the taxes and fees that comprise approximately 20 percent of the average airline ticket.
John Dalli - the facts finally emerge. After months of rumour and conspiracy theory, the results of OLAF's investigation into former EU Health Commissioner John Dalli have been made public. John Dalli's friend, Silvio Zammit, attempted to solicit a bribe from Swedish Match, claiming that he was working on behalf of Dalli and could get the snus ban overturned. This is confirmed by a recorded telephone conversation. Neither Zammit nor Dalli's friends in the Maltese and EU media are denying this aspect of the investigation.
UK Hospital cigarette ban has gone up in smoke. HEALTH officials have admitted a ban on smoking at Oxfordshire's hospitals has failed to stub out the problem. They are reviewing the situation as a "matter of urgency" after receiving complaints about staff and other people lighting up, despite the habit being outlawed at all four of their sites.
UK Freedom 2 Choose: Message from the Chairman: Lively debate on plain packaging at University College, London. - News in brief. - F2C Articles and official Blog, and more.
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Issue #711
The Property Rights Newsletter
May 3, 2013 - Issue #711
"Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless
effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction."
- Erich Fromm |  Scientist Steven Eaton jailed for falsifying drug test results. Eaton, 47, was working at the Edinburgh branch of US pharmaceutical firm Aptuit in 2009 when he came up with the scam. If it had been successful, cancer patients who took the drug could have been harmed, the court was told. Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard how Eaton had manipulated the results of an experiment so it was deemed successful when it had actually failed. He had been manipulating his results since 2003, it seems, including tests for compounds from Roche and AstraZeneca. These included a variety of drugs, from anti-cancer agents to anti-depressants. (He has been given a three-month prison term.) Also - Very few researchers have served jail time for scientific misconduct. Scott Reuben was sentenced to six months' prison for health care fraud and Eric Poehlman got a year and a day for faking a grant application. Luk Van Parijs was given six months of home detention and 400 hours of community service for fraud in papers.
Chantix: Smoking-cessation drug linked to violence. - Critics see conflict of interest as Obama admin advises doctors on prescriptions. - Running the Business of Science. - and more!
AZ: Arizona legislation calls for music therapist licensing. Some nationally certified music therapists contend that the wrong music, or even perhaps the right music improperly used, can be harmful. So they want state legislators to limit who -- besides them -- can practice the discipline. It not only would have the state Department of Health Services license the therapists but also make it a crime, with a potential 30-day jail term, for just about anyone else to use music therapy. (Since the 1940s, music therapy in the United States has benefited patients, improving their cognitive functions and emotional well-being.)
NY: Oscar winning actor Jeremy Irons: "It's The Nanny State; It Is Terrible." A dig at Nanny Bloomberg and his many infantilising policies, including this one. "I think the smoking ban is a tip of an iceberg of society - the leaders of society telling us how to be. I think it's not their business. I think it is their business to tell us to care for and respect each other and each others happiness and each others health, and we are responsible enough to do that."
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NY: New York Cops Will Arrest You for Carrying Condoms. Like most laughably cruel tricks of the justice system, you probably wouldn't know that you could be arrested for carrying condoms until it happened to you. Arrest is always violent. The NYPD may or may not break your ribs, but the process of arrest in America is still a man tying your hands behind your back at gunpoint and locking you in a cage. Holding cells are shit-encrusted boxes, often too crowded to sit down. Police can leave you there for three days; long enough to lose your job. If this seems obvious, I say it because the polite middle classes trivialize arrest. They talk about "keeping people off the streets." They don't realize that the constant threat of arrest is traumatic, unless it happens to them or their kids.
OH: No E-cigarettes in some Casinos. "In keeping with the spirit of the state's nonsmoking law, electronic cigarettes are not permitted," said Bob Tenenbaum, spokesman for Hollywood Columbus, whose employees are forbidden to smoke at work or even at home, and can be fired for breaking the rule. E-cigarettes are permitted at the Horseshoe casinos in Cleveland and Cincinnati and the recently opened ThistleDown racino near Cleveland. "Customer feedback is the reason we allow them," said Jennifer Kulczycki, spokeswoman for Rock Ohio Caesars, which operates all three. Smoking is allowed at the casinos in the neighboring states of Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
VA: Virginia government prosecutes homeowner with criminal charges for backyard chickens that produce organic eggs. And all are there with blessings from Gugal-Okroy's neighbors, with whom she had consulted beforehand. "Burdensome rules, regulations and inspection requirements -- many of which are indecipherable except to lawyers and bureaucrats -- now impede the ability of health-conscious individuals and small farmers to raise and produce their own food free of corporate contaminants," said John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute. "This case speaks to a growing problem in America today, namely, the over-criminalization and over-regulation of a process that once was at the heart of America's self-sufficiency - the ability to cultivate one's own food, locally and sustainably."
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Issue #710
The Property Rights Newsletter
April 26, 2013 - Issue #710
"I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear."
- Martin Luther King, Jr. |  Glantz - Hating smokers doesn't help anyone. By Deborah Hill Cone. But why did this erudite tweedy man make me, a non-smoker, want to drive straight to the nearest dairy and buy a pack of fags with a picture of rotting teeth on it? It could be just that I am bloody- minded and contrary. But there is something else as well. Smoking is bad. But going around trying to make people - even non-smokers who don't smoke and may never smoke - angry and hateful strikes me as being a really unhelpful thing to do. Not to mention banning screenings of Casablanca. We should question the intentions of any group that insists on disdain towards other people as a membership requirement.
Smoking keeps its cool. By Luben Raytchev. Smokers get a bad rap nowadays. With smoking-approved public areas reduced to the fringes, and with the ever-increasing stigmatization of smoking, smokers seem to be retreating further and further into the corners of society. Generally speaking, smoking - if only by the illusion of what the law designates as cigarette-friendly territory - appears to have become a clandestine activity. And smokers, especially among their non-smoking friends, might sometimes feel a bit like pariahs. On the one hand, smoking leads to social condemnation, but on the other to a feeling of rebellion and cool. Perhaps, the more public health initiatives berate smoking, the more symbolic it becomes. Smoking, it seems, is destined to retain its cool.
Why legalize pot and ban tobacco? They want to fine and even arrest people for smoking tobacco but it appears you can smoke marijuana anywhere even though the smell makes some people sick. Have your say at The Forum.
NY: Raise smoking age to 21? First he wanted to hide cigarette cartons in bins or closets behind store counters. Now, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to raise the age to legally buy cigarettes to 21 from 18. The proposal, announced Monday by city Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley and city council Speaker Christine Quinn, is the latest in a string of attacks on Americans' vices, from salt to soda.
OK: Oklahoma House approves state property smoking ban. The bill now goes to the governor for her signature. Republican Rep. Pat Ownbey says the bill would be more durable than the current executive order, which can be changed by a governor at any time. He said Tuesday he wasn't sure what the penalty would be if someone defied the ban.
Canada: Richards Report - Getting Tough On Criminals Who Profit From Youth Smoking. By Doug Watt. The smoking issue is a touchy one. I feel that the more regulation we have in place, the more we will see contraband product in the marketplace. Smoking is a lifestyle choice and many people still partake. Incredible as it may sound, the science to back up many of the stereotypical health issues of smoking (such as the slogans that are printed on the packaging) has not been conclusively proven.
Ireland - Dentists want a role in tobacco control. Dentists have called on the HSE to give them a key role in the State's tobacco control strategy, similar to the practice in Sweden. The Irish Dentists' Association (IDA) said its members were "ideally placed" to advise patients on smoking's risks.
Lebanon protest. Caught on tape: Woman defiantly smokes on Lebanese airline. When the woman refused to stop smoking, the flight attendant said she was going to call the captain. "Go call him. Go call everyone and come here," said the defiant woman as she continued to smoke.
Scotland - Commonwealth Games. The anti-smoking charity ASH Scotland is launching a campaign for an outright ban on smoking at the Games. "The event must not be hijacked by public health campaigners who are determined to impose their views on everyone else."
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Issue #709
The Property Rights Newsletter
April 19, 2013 - Issue #709
"Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department."
- David Packard |  Fight over cigarettes gets colorful. The war over cigarettes has a new battleground-- colored packaging. Anti-smoking groups say using colors like gold and silver to show the difference between cigarette packages is deceiving. But, smokers say it would be deceiving to take those colors away. Fox 25's Kisha Henry shows us the argument. "How is a smoker going to know if he is getting the product he wants to buy?" counters David Kuneman, the director of research for the Citizens' Freedom Alliance. He says removing colored packaging would be a case of "unequal protection." Aside from the health debate, he says there's a taste difference. "People have a right to know when they're buying a product, how it's going to taste before they pay for it," says Kuneman. He compares the argument to light beer or light food. "Consumers of all of those products are still allowed to go into a store and read a lable that says light or regular, so that they know what they're buying. Those products taste different, too. So, why can't that be true of cigarettes?" he asks.
SC - Bryant smoking bill snuffed out. State Sen. Kevin Bryant's effort to give employers the right to refuse to hire and even to fire smokers was snuffed out Wednesday. "People shouldn't be punished because they smoke," said Sen. Kent Williams, a Democrat from Marion. "To say that I am not going to hire you because you are a smoker really concerns me." Democratic Sen. Glenn Reese of Lake Bowen accused Bryant of pursuing "Gestapo tactics" against smokers. "I don't think you can fire them for smoking on the back porch at home," Reese said.
NC - Anti Money: By Pam Parker. Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids received $8 million grant. Where are the reporters of old who investigated stories like this? RWJF is JOHNSON & JOHNSON'S "foundation" who CREATED AND FUNDED the front group "Tobacco Free Kids". RWJF can't legally lobby for smoking bans and increased taxes so they give these "grants" to TFK to do it. Ever wonder WHY they want smoking cessation "treatments" paid for by insurance and Medicaid? Because Johnson & Johnson owns nearly every over-the-counter nicotine REPLACEMENT PRODUCT there is!
This is a clear case of the "tail wagging the dog." By Sheila Martin. Pharma created the "second hand smoke myth," bribed the public health community and academia, and the money started pouring in. Grant spongers in public health, in our universities, our once respected non profits, and our government, have to eat. They eat grants. The pro ban, individual freedom killing dog, has a long pharmaceutical tail and a ravenous appetite to expand their power and get more money. And our tax paid employees certainly don't care where money comes from. ALL money is good money to them, it seems. We will never be able to pay them what they think they are worth! And the more laws they push, the bigger they get. Like a blood filled tick on the pro ban dog. Only this tick NEVER gets enough, and it NEVER falls off!
How Working Kills Smokers: By Susan Rosenthal. Governments are addicted to tobacco revenue. Instead of spending their tobacco revenues on smoking-prevention programs, states are using the money to balance their budgets. No matter how loudly they shout about the dangers of smoking, governments are addicted to tobacco revenue. And they need people to keep smoking because states have borrowed from future tobacco revenues to meet growing budget deficits. Sterling found that air pollution is the primary cause of lung cancer in the United States. Lung cancer rates are higher in cities than in the countryside, and higher in larger cities than in smaller ones. The risk of getting lung cancer increases for people who migrate from areas with lower cancer rates to areas with higher cancer rates.
Africa: Free Market Foundation attacks "apartheid-style" liquor, tobacco laws. "When I read this Gauteng Liquor Bill, I think: has Verwoerd's ghost somehow occupied the minds of Gauteng legislators? This is Verwoerd and Vorster and Strijdom reincarnated," Free Market Foundation executive director Leon Louw said in Johannesburg this week. He said measures such as better public education on life choices would be more effective in curbing the consumption of liquor and tobacco.
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Issue #708
The Property Rights Newsletter
April 12, 2013 - Issue #708
"Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very
definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective."
- Bertrand Russell |  NZ "Sterilise smokers" comment outrage. A suggestion by a Palmerston North city councillor that Maori women be sterilised to stop them smoking in front of their children has outraged councillors and Maori health advocates. He said if the aim was to stop adults role-modelling smoking behaviour, and given 41 per cent of Maori women smoked, perhaps they should be sterilised. Maori Party co-leader and Associate Health Minister Tariana Turia said the comments were "absolutely appalling", and the media had a responsibility to report them.
 Federal Tax Alert - Obama Tobacco-Tax for Pre-Kindergarten Draws Opposition. Even before President Barack Obama officially proposed a federal cigarette tax increase to fund preschool programs, tobacco companies and sellers lined up against it while anti-smoking groups praised the plan. "The idea of increasing taxes on low- to middle-income Americans at this time is ludicrous," said Bryan Hatchell, a spokesman for Winston-Salem, North Carolina-based Reynolds American Inc. (RAI) "As middle-income Americans struggle to make ends meet in a very slow economic recovery period, this is not the time to hit them with higher taxes."
SC Warning: Smoking May Cost You A Job. Now, some companies want to get rid of smokers in the workplace. But it's against the law in South Carolina, as well as in 28 other states that ban discrimination against tobacco-users. "It is not government's role to tell a business owner how they operate their business and how they spend their money," said Sen. Kevin Bryant, R-Anderson. That protection for smoker could soon be repealed if Bryant's measure is passed. The lawmaker believes companies should be able to hire or fire workers that use tobacco products off-the-clock.
MA Warning: Arlington, Town Holds Off on New Tobacco Regulations Vote. The Board of Health will take up the regulations again next month. In addition to the proposed age change, (18 up to 21) which would apply to all tobacco products, the regulations would prohibit the sale of tobacco and nicotine-delivery products in all retail locations that have a pharmacy or drug store, cap the number of tobacco sales permits at the current number (and reduce that number through attrition over time) and ban the sale of "blunt wraps" outright, among other items, such as single cigars under $2.50.
IN: Tobacco Free Indiana concerned about possible funding cuts. The group wants lawmakers to reconsider a budget proposal that slashes funding for prevention programs by almost 40 percent. Tobacco Free Indiana said if the cuts go through, it’ll lose $3 million in funding.
OK: Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Alternatives Association (CAASA) reports the Oklahoma Bill to Tax E-Cigarettes and More - has been defeated.
USA: The Skinny on Anti-Obesity Soda Laws. By Michael L. Marlow. Imposing per-ounce levies or limiting serving sizes is a futile pursuit. I have two big gripes with such paternalistic public-health initiatives: The proposals aren't grounded in data or compelling economic models, and soda taxes might catalyze a dismal chain reaction, with escalating government intrusions on personal freedom.
Intentional or Unintentional: By Frank Davis. There was nothing unintentional about it at all. "Smokers will be exiled to the outdoors." We might also look at the particular words she chose to use. She used the word "exile". In Webster's dictionary, "exile" is defined as "the state or a period of forced absence from one's country or home." Exile was often used in antiquity as a form of punishment which removed people from society, very often permanently, without actually killing them. She could have used any number of other words, but she chose a word with a very precise meaning.
Australia: The Australian Law of Growing Tobacco Plants. It really is incredible and my heart bleeds for our Australian cousins.
UK World's largest cigar auction. Many of the world's wealthiest smokers will flock to Britain's capital on Monday 10 June 2013 for vintage, rare and mature cigars and cigar-related lots at C.Gars Ltd's 8th Vintage Cigar Auction at Boisdale Canary Wharf.
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Issue #707
The Property Rights Newsletter
April 5, 2013 - Issue #707
"If you're going to be crazy,
you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up."
- Hunter S. Thompson |  Smokers Have Mental Disorders, Eh? By Frank Davis. I wonder how they decide what constitutes a 'mental disorder'? Given that they say that 70% of smokers want to give up smoking, perhaps anyone who doesn't want to give up smoking is deemed to be insane, and in need of 'treatment'. Oh, and if you smoke grass or drink alcohol, that's more evidence of 'mental disorder'. Stephen Spiro: that's another name to add to the list of antismoking nutter doctors that need to be kicked out of the medical profession. At the moment, they can cheerfully demonise and ostracise hundreds of millions of people all over the world, and keep their fat salaries and their big houses and their high status jobs. Because there's no come-back. There's nothing to restrain them from calling (as they have done) for smokers to be more or less expelled from society. They're completely unaccountable.
 NJ Bergen County: South Bergen towns moving toward smoke free parks. Smokers' rights advocates, however, feel that smoking bans can be imposing on privacy rights, and believe that anti-smoker activists are using children as a "propaganda tool." "The reason for banning smoking outdoors in a park doesn't have to do with health, it has to do with what the anti-smoking movement in the last 10 years has been calling 'denormalization,' the effort to make smokers and smoking seem abnormal and deviant," said Michael J. McFadden, Northeast Regional Director of Citizens Freedom Alliance and The Smokers Club.
 Samoa Air charges passengers by their weight. Amid a growing debate about how to price airline tickets for so-called passengers of size, an airline that's become the world's first airline to charge passengers by weight is defending its decision, saying it's the system of the future. "People have always travelled on the basis of their seat but as many airline operators, know airlines don't run on seats - they run on weight," he said. "We have worked out a figure per kilo. This is the fairest way of you travelling with your family or yourself. You can put your baggage on, there are no separate fees because of excess baggage - a kilo is a kilo is a kilo."
 Australia: Glenelg won't enforce beach smoking ban. SMOKERS will be able to light up on the Cape Bridgewater foreshore after Glenelg Shire voted down a motion to enforce a smoking ban on patrolled beaches. The decision breaks ranks with other south-west councils, including Warrnambool and Moyne which have given council officers power to slap on-the-spot fines for anyone caught with a lit cigarette between the flags. At Glenelg's monthly council meeting last week members also voted to hold off on spending cash on no-smoking signs at the popular Cape Bridgewater Beach.
UK Flapjacks Ban: Canvey Island school bans triangle shaped flapjacks. (Shaped like a slice of pizza.) A spokesman for the Health and Safety Executive said: "We often come across half-baked decisions taken in the name of health and safety, but this one takes the biscuit. "The real issue isn't what shape the flapjacks are, but the fact that pupils are throwing them at each other - and that's a matter of discipline, and has got nothing to do with health and safety as we know it.
World: Smokers Blogs. Watch instant postings to your favorite blogs. |  Tell your town, city, county, state, or country that you are sick of this. You fell for it, but don't need to continue to fall for it. For the sake of the children, protect the freedom to use your own good sense where any and all legal products are concerned and keep the world free from overpaid petty tyrants. What kind of world do you want to leave your children? Read more! | | Join FREE - Home - Forum - Research - Please Help |
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Issue #706
The Property Rights NewsletterMarch 29, 2013 - Issue #706"Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another,
and under that another, and they all make you cry."
- Derrick Jensen
 Smoking bans KILL businesses - FACT! The longer this idiotic smoking ban goes on the more the anti tobacco movement show their intolerance to other peoples pleasures, and of course, the more businesses will die. The problem they now face is one of looking either fair minded or simply plain stupid-and I'm afraid that the latter is far outstripping the former! This interview lays the 'TC bones' out for all to see - oh what liars they really are! Let's look at a few of these media reported 'plain stupid' facts that show these people up for what they truly are.
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Issue #705
The Property Rights NewsletterMarch 22, 2013 - Issue #705"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."
- Frederick Douglass
 Mississippi Passes Anti Bloomberg Bill. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been making headlines and enemies over the past year due to his dictatorial edicts against food, drink, pain killers and guns. Perhaps because he is one of the 10th richest people in the United States, he feels he has the right to impose restrictions upon how much food, drink and painkillers people in his city are allowed to have. To prevent Bloomberg or anyone who idolizes him from trying the same kind of tyrannical restrictions in their state, the Mississippi legislature just passed a bill that they are referring to as the "anti-Bloomberg bill." The bill prevents any community in the state from imposing similar Bloomberg restrictions...
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Issue #704
The Property Rights NewsletterMarch 15, 2013 - Issue #704"He that is of the opinion money will do everything
may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
- Benjamin Franklin
 Alleged Conflict of Interest on FDA Tobacco Panel. By Jeff Edgens. As far back as 2010, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sent a letter to the Inspector General calling for an investigation into the TPSAC and the conflict of interest of several of its members. CREW singles out Drs. Neal Benowitz and Jack Henningfield, both of whom have consulting connections with pharmaceutical companies, to develop smoking cessation products. Benowitz works for Pfizer, the maker of Chantix, a smoking cessation drug. Henningfield consults with the maker of Nicorette gum. A third member of the panel, Dorothy Hatsukami, has received grants to study the effects of a nicotine vaccine.
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Issue #703
The Property Rights NewsletterMarch 8, 2013 - Issue #703"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
- Frederick Douglass
 There's a new dawn coming folks! In a country that is showing severe signs of complete insanity which, bizarrely, is completely the fault of those that should know all about sanity - the health freaks - there has been a glimmer of hope that sanity may now be starting to spread. We all know by now that smoking, drinking alcohol or gluttony is frowned upon from a great height by the new world rulers known as the World Health Organisation. Now I am at odds with this, as you may well know by now, for if the figures from Africa are even remotely accurate then the 700,000 deaths supposedly caused by smoking in the EU bloc absolutely pale into insignificance next to the (minimum) "1 child every 3 seconds" of each day dying of malnutrition & disease in stricken Africa. One death per 3 seconds would equal 10,512,000 deaths per annum - so the WHO, yet again, only accord figures to the projects they wish to promote. Of course you also need to take into account the fact that African figures are helpless children.
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Issue #701
The Property Rights NewsletterFebruary 22, 2013 - Issue #701"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live
in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."
- Nelson Mandela
THE ANTI-TOBACCO RECIPE FOR SUCCESS
1. Choose an industry.
2. Regulate the industry.
3. Tax the industry.
4. Sue the industry.
When one source of money dries up, return to Step 1 and repeat.
By S. Phillipe
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