Smoke For The Birds
The finch and house sparrow like to line their nests with cigarettes butts. <br />
New Study
The New England Journal of Medicine published a new study (although they have know this for 20 years) that behavior modification of smokers, drinkers and fatties will cost everyone additional taxes because people will live longer and collect benefits (i.e. social security and medicare). DUH!<br type="_moz" />
Government Lost Appeal
<p>A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected the government’s request for the full court to hear a case on the Food and Drug Administration’s graphic tobacco warning labels, setting up a potential Supreme Court showdown with Big Tobacco.<br />
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The Department of Justice has 90 days to appeal the case to the high court. A spokesman declined to comment on whether it would.</p>
State Bonds Decline
California officials have tapped reserves for payments on two series of state tobacco bonds due to insufficient tobacco settlement revenue, according to notices filed with Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board on Monday.
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Kalifornia
Hard to believe there still are some rebel smokers in California but they are in Fullerton!<br type="_moz" />
Kosovo
Kosovo passed a smoking ban in 2010 which has largely been ignored. The new plan is to ban it in 100% of indoor places but allowing it outdoors.<br />
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"Skender Syla, WHO Kosovo representative, said that the goal is to protect citizen health without compromising smokers’ right to smoke". We know her statement is a damn lie, the WHO wants to ban smoking globally by 2020.<br />
Australia
<p class="intro">Legislation has come into effect in Australia meaning all cigarettes must be sold in identical packaging. The law, the first of its kind in the world, survived a constitutional challenge by tobacco companies.</p>
Auto-Saved Document [Steve Milloy]
Mr. Milloy’s latest analysis of EPA’s new standard of air quality and smoke. Worth the read.<br />
Digging A Hole
<p>’When it comes to describing medical findings, researchers may need to tone it down a bit, according to a group of heart journal editors’.<br />
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