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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.
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. | | Join FREE - Home - Events - Forum - Videos - Please Help - © |
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Issue #545
The Property Rights Newsletter
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. 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. |    | | Join FREE - Home - Events - Forum - Videos - Please Help - © |
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Issue #544
The Property Rights Newsletter
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. 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. 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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Issue #543
The Property Rights Newsletter
October 9, 2009 - Issue #543
"There are times when silence has the loudest voice."
- Leroy Brownlow |  Total silence from the antismoking mass media droids. By Thomas Laprade. If the intention of "public health" is to inform the public about the consequences of smoking on health as it proclaims, why don’t we see "warnings" such as: "Smoking Protects against Parkinson’s Disease," or "Smoking protects against Alzheimer’s Disease," or "Smoking protects against Ulcerative Colitis" and so on, alongside with the other speculations on "tobacco-related" disease? Isn’t the function of public health to tell the citizens about ALL the effects on health of a substance? Obviously not. "Public health," today, is nothing more than a deceiving propaganda machine paid by pharmaceutical and public money to promote frauds, fears, and puritanical rhetoric dressed up in white coats.
Why Do Schizophrenics Smoke Cigarettes? By Dirk Hanson. Of particular interest is the interaction between nicotine and dopamine in the nucleus accumbens and prefrontal cortex. Several of the symptoms of schizophrenia appear to be associated with dopamine release in these brain areas. A 2005 German study concluded that nicotine improved cognitive functions related to attention and memory. “There is substantial evidence that nicotine could be used by patients with schizophrenia as a ‘self-medication’ to improve deficits in attention, cognition, and information processing and to reduce side effects of antipsychotic medication.”
Michael Siegel: Yet Another Supposed Public Health Victory from the FDA Tobacco Law Goes Down the Tubes: Ban on "Light" Cigarettes Will Have No Effect. Either way, the rest of the story is that the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids' and other anti-smoking groups' promises about the FDA tobacco legislation were false promises. They were pure propaganda, rather than science-based or evidence-based claims. And now the chickens are coming home to roost. IN: Second hand medical intervention. Court: Employer must pay for weight-loss surgery. The Indiana Court of Appeals decision, coupled with a recent Oregon court ruling, could make employers think twice before hiring workers with health conditions that might cost their companies thousands of dollars at a shot down the road.
NV: From the right, a new source of news. Activist says service will be objective in how it writes, not in what it writes about. Chuck Muth, "If I write, it will be news reporting - no adjectives, adverbs or bias."
PA: Proposed Cigar Tax Burns Pennsylvania Tobacconists.
TN: Silo Cigars Celebrates First Anniversary in Farragut, TN Oct. 15.
WA: This could be the only good thing to come out of this recession, raiding the MSA funds and all the anti programs go bankrupt.
USA: The International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association.
Canada: Ontario trucker fined for smoking in rig. Police fined a driver $305 for smoking in his rig, which the law considers his workplace. “I mean, where are they going to stop? It’s ridiculous. That’s his environment, that’s his home, he’s by himself . . . This has just crossed the line. There’s got to be limits.”
UK: 21st October, licensees meeting in Oxfordshire.
UK: Inez Ward to advise BII on tied pub tenant training. |   | | Join FREE - Home - Events - Forum - Videos - Please Help - © |
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Issue #542
The Property Rights Newsletter
October 2, 2009 - Issue #542
"A lie told often enough becomes truth."
- Vladimir Lenin |  Sweet Lies About Kids and Smoking. The FDA's new ban on flavored cigarettes won't prevent teen smoking. By Steve Chapman. When it comes to cigarettes, the federal government can blow smoke with the best of them. When I asked an FDA spokesperson what portion of the cigarettes smoked by teens are flavored, she told me the agency doesn't know. So how does it know they serve as "a gateway for many children"? How does it know that banning them will have any effect on the number of new tobacco addicts? Actually, it doesn't.
The myth of the smoking ban health miracle. Update: New Study Purports to Show that Smoking Ban in Iceland Reduced Heart Attacks and Unstable Angina Within First 5 Months; However, Study is Severely Flawed and Conclusions are Invalid.
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
NY: New York Mayor Proposes Smoking Ban in City Parks. By Theodore J. King. 84% polled in NY Daily News said NO!
OH: Challenge to Ohio Smoking Ban and Seizure of Tavern.
WV: Parkersburg West Virginia Tea Party Pictures.
USA: Listen: John Wayne and the Pledge of Allegiance.
USA: Watch: Red Skelton and the Pledge of Allegiance.
USA: Watch: Make Mine Freedom (1948)Cold War-era cartoon uses humor to tout the dangers of Communism and benefits of capitalism.
Africa: Foreign Aid Conundrum: Debate Continues.
Canada: Ontario files $50-billion suit against tobacco manufacturers.
Scotland: Minister Misleads Parliament and Should Resign.
UK: Christmas comes early for Britain's cigar aficionados.
UK: Photos and report of Forest at the Labour conference.
UK: You are invited to join Forest, The Free Society and The Freedom Association at the Conservative party conference in Manchester: 5th October.
UK: Watch: Third-Hand Smoke. A discussion of 'Third-Hand Smoke' referring to the unproven science deployed by its advocates to curtail personal freedom. Gawain Towler points to smokers banned from seeing their children in hospitals and also the enforcement of no smoking bans within the EU. This is useful viewing for all interested in personal freedom and its gradual erosion in modern society.
The World: Report Debunking UN's Global Warming Alarmism is Backed by 31,478 U.S. Scientists. |  | | Join FREE - Home - Events - Forum - Videos - Please Help - © |
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Issue #541
The Property Rights Newsletter
September 25, 2009 - Issue #541
"It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the
ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each
dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own."
- Herbert Hoover |  UK NHS antismoking ads: This past week took things to a new level though as the Antismokers' highly paid PR machine produced a slick special effects video showing what fun it is to literally beat a smoker to a bloody death....
NHS Birmingham East and North is hoping the campaign will get through to "hard to reach" smokers – specifically white males aged 35-55 in the C2DE socio-economic category – living in the most deprived parts of the area.
WHILE... Anger as visitors flout St Richard's Hospital smoking ban at hospital. "It is not just the visitors, people are sat outside in wheelchairs smoking. I have complained several times to the reception staff, sitting literally two metres away from the smokers, who have informed me they are aware of the problem but there is nothing they will do about it." Smokers are standing underneath the banner which says no smoking.  NY: Mayor Doesn’t Always Live by His Health Rules. HE dumps salt on almost everything, even saltine crackers. He devours burnt bacon and peanut butter sandwiches. He has a weakness for hot dogs, cheeseburgers, and fried chicken, washing them down with a glass of merlot. And his snack of choice? Cheez-Its.
NY: Anti-Smoking Groups' Scientific Arguments Don't Hold Water.
WV: Health Board says NO, Votes Down Berkeley County Smoking Ban, and Butch Pennington Smokers Rally. The board also felt that the issue was a matter of freedom of choice, and if people don’t like to be around smokers than they should stay away.
Scotland: National Association of Cig Vending Machine Operators.
South Africa: Smoking laws... the new apartheid. By David Bullard.
UK: Campaign alert with artist David Hockney and Simon Clark.
UK: Simon Eldon-Edington, California dreaming - about the ban.
USA: When you thought you'd seen it all... Jon Stewart on ACORN. 
The World: The myth of the smoking ban health miracle. By Christopher Snowdon. Restrictions on smoking around the world are claimed to have had a dramatic effect on heart attack rates. It's not true. Although the story quickly went around the globe, no one seems to know where the figure came from. It’s all rather strange. Basing journalism on anonymous sources is commonplace in the world of politics, but it is surely not necessary in the realms of science. |  Top Ten Reasons
Not to Raise Tobacco Taxes
John Nothdurft, The Heartland Institute. | | Join FREE - Home - Events - Forum - Videos - Please Help - © |
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Issue #540
The Property Rights Newsletter
September 18, 2009 - Issue #540
"Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens."
- William Beveridge |  An Absence of Tobacco Evidence. By Patrick Basham, Cato Institute. The government knew that this claim, and the evidence that it was based on, was not true. Recently released DoH correspondence shows that the government was told in a March 2009 email that removing tobacco displays in Canada 'has not caused a decline in tobacco sales or discourage[ed] kids from smoking'. Yet, the anti-tobacco lobby continues to push for even more far-reaching tobacco control legislation. This past week, Action on Smoking & Health (Ash) trumpeted a new study about the influence of tobacco packages as proof that putting all tobacco products in plain packages was now required. Ash's Deborah Arnott told the BBC that: "This research shows that the only way of putting an end to this misleading marketing is to require all tobacco products to be sold in plain packaging." What Arnott did not tell the BBC was that she and Martin Dockrell, Ash's campaign manager, were not only two of the authors of the very study they so fulsomely praised, but Ash, along with the DoH, paid for the study.
Global Tobacco Control Will Be Exposed. Former tobacco control frontman David Goerlitz has published further exposure of the corruption and appalling practices that continue to jeopardise the tobacco control industry. Budget, Avis Rental Cars: Beginning Oct. 1, Avis and Budget will become the first major rental-car companies to ban smoking in their entire North American fleets and to impose a cleaning fee of up to $250 on customers who smoke in the cars.
CA: Jury orders Philip Morris to pay $13.8 million to Bullock.
FL: Hav-A-Tampa shuts its factory and lays off about 495 employees, closing a factory that has been operating since 1902.
NY: Bloomberg says NO and backs away from park ban idea.
PA: IPCPR Urges Lawmakers, Governor to Reduce Spending.
WA: Spokane says NO. Park Board has reversed its springtime decision to phase in an outright ban on smoking in parks.
Croatia: Says NO and smoking ban is watered down by the govt.
UK: Smokers Rights News and articles from Freedom2Choose. |  
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Issue #539
The Property Rights NewsletterSeptember 11, 2009 - Issue #539"No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood."
- Anonymous
Champix Kills: But Don’t Tell The Smokers! By Chris Holmes. How stupid are you, all you medical professionals who are just sitting on your hands and pretending it is okay to keep taking the incentives and keep your mouths shut about killer drugs like Champix? You keep pretending nicotine replacement is a real medication even though you know it doesn’t work at all, you keep prescribing Prozac and Seroxat even though we all know now that they didn’t perform any better than placebos in the trials… Your professional credibility is rotting away even as I type this, and the stench of your corruption is making even the most conservative of patients wince. If you continue down this road there will BE no medical profession, it will all become Medico-Pharmaceutical Inc.
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Issue #538
The Property Rights NewsletterSeptember 4, 2009 - Issue #538"Whenever the government assumes undelegated powers,
its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force."
- Thomas Jefferson
 USA Legal Challenge to FDA. Commonwealth Brands, Inc. has today joined with a number of other companies including the R.J.Reynolds Tobacco Company, Lorillard, Inc. and Conwood Company in filing an action in Federal Court against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regarding the recently enacted Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. This action is designed to protect the plaintiffs' First Amendment right to free speech.
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Issue #537
The Property Rights NewsletterAugust 28, 2009 - Issue #537"The essential characteristic of socialism
is the denial of individual property rights."
- Ayn Rand
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Issue #536
The Property Rights NewsletterAugust 21, 2009 - Issue #536"The mind is like a parachute - it works only when it is open."
- Frank Zappa
 Medical News: Nicotine improves brain function in schizophrenics. Mohammed Shoaib, a psychopharmacologist from the University of Newcastle, in the north of England, commented that nicotine-based therapies would offer a significant advancement over current treatments, which do little for the cognitive problems seen with the disease.
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Issue #535
The Property Rights NewsletterAugust 14, 2009 - Issue #535"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done."
- C.E.Stowe
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Issue #533
The Property Rights NewsletterJuly 31, 2009 - Issue #533"Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous,
that there will be no cakes and ale."
- William Shakespeare
 Soda Tax: This soda tax scheme is the latest to surface as liberals scramble to try and figure out how to pay for their proposed government take-over of health care.
Beer, Wine, and Spirits Tax: State Budgets Get Boost from Alcohol Tax Increases... will lawmakers be willing to stand up to the powerful lobbying of Big Alcohol?
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Issue #532
The Property Rights NewsletterJuly 24, 2009 - Issue #532"Smokers are now the only minority whose minority
status is quoted as justification for abuse."
- Joe Jackson
Obama Lied! By Michael J. McFadden.
Obama said, and I quote exactly as you can see in the original clip, "The only tax change I've made in the 6 months I've been here is to cut people's taxes." He said that - despite the clear and recorded fact that he raised cigarette pack taxes by 150% and raised the tax on one of the poorest well-defined minority groups in the country, smokers so poor they roll their own from shreds of tobacco and scraps of paper by OVER TWO THOUSAND PERCENT (from $1/lb to $24/lb).
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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.