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The Property Rights Newsletter

January 29, 2010 - Issue #555

"People deserve freedom...
it is the most precious of all commodities."
- John McCain

NO SMOKING - Yes You Can Says Federal Judge. Federal U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon sided with electronic cigarette makers as he criticized what he called the FDA's "tenacious drive to maximize its regulatory power," saying he found its interpretation of the law "unreasonable and unacceptable" in his 32 page opinion. "This case appears to be yet another example of F.D.A.'s aggressive efforts to regulate recreational tobacco products as drugs or devices," Judge Leon wrote. Over the last year, the FDA had been unlawfully seizing shipments of e-cigarettes coming into the U.S. and engaging in a smear campaign by releasing misleading information regarding the safety of e-cigarettes...

The Property Rights Newsletter

January 29, 2010 - Issue #555

"People deserve freedom...
it is the most precious of all commodities."
- John McCain

NO SMOKING - Yes You Can Says Federal Judge. Federal U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon sided with electronic cigarette makers as he criticized what he called the FDA's "tenacious drive to maximize its regulatory power," saying he found its interpretation of the law "unreasonable and unacceptable" in his 32 page opinion. "This case appears to be yet another example of F.D.A.'s aggressive efforts to regulate recreational tobacco products as drugs or devices," Judge Leon wrote. Over the last year, the FDA had been unlawfully seizing shipments of e-cigarettes coming into the U.S. and engaging in a smear campaign by releasing misleading information regarding the safety of e-cigarettes...

Property Rights for all include Smokers Rights!

R.J. Reynolds Publishes Cigarette Ingredients by Brand; Shows Stupidity of FDA Tobacco Law and Demonstrates that Anti-Smoking Groups are Full of Crap. By Michael Siegel. Unless the anti-smoking groups are willing to concede that Winston cigarettes are safer or less addictive than other brands, then they are completely full of crap. And since the anti-smoking groups would not in their right mind assert that Winston cigarettes are safer or less addictive then other brands, they are completely full of crap. ...In other words, they are all full of crap.

Chew: Britain’s Royal College of Physicians has found that smokeless tobacco is 10 to 1,000 times less dangerous than cigars and cigarettes. Furthermore, doctors Brad Rodu and Philip Cole of the American Council on Science and Health have found that smokeless tobacco is 98 percent safer than smoking.

PETITION: Stop the Pipe Tobacco Tax. H.R. 4439, A tax increase of 775%, from $2.83 to $24.78 per pound. This is nothing more than an attempt to rope in taxes from roll-your-own cigarette tobacco. The roll-your-own industry has re-labeled cigarette tobacco as pipe tobacco to be taxed at a much lower rate.

From The Mailbag

GA: Study: Workplace Bans Don't Extinguish the Habit.
IN: Cigar Store Owners Express Concern Over Proposed Bans.
MO: Southeast smoking ban: Little known and largely ignored.
MT: Video gambling revenue falls 18 percent with the new ban.
NV: Bring back SB372 to remove some restrictions on the ban.
OK: ALERT: SB1809e, Smoking in public places-Modify provisions.
SC: Smoker Power. Don't just sit there - do something.
UT: Mood of America Says No New Taxes in Utah.
Cyprus: Smoking ban, is it working? Gradually it will be ignored.
Scotland: Mary Scanlon Proposes Removal of First Three Sections of Tobacco Bill, includes the section that prohibits tobacco display.
Spain: Split on smoking ban, being debated in the halls of power.
Tahiti: Refines anti-smoking legislation, ban on hold for a year.
UK: Hypocrisy, Or Down-Right Lies? You Choose. Confirmation from the House of Commons Commission has confirmed what we already know... the big cover-up at Westminster regarding their members-only smoking rooms.
UK: Watch Phil Williams: Two faced lying bloody bastards.

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