The American Cancer Society, American Lung Association and the American Heart Association is supporting an $1.00 per pack cigarette tax in California. The initiative will be on the 2012 ballot, money is to be used for cancer research and smoking prevention programs. Translation it will be put into the general funds to bail out the state. The Usual Suspects have never seen a tax on tobacco they didn’t like. <br type="_moz" />
For $25.00 plus tax you can roll your own cigarettes with a high speed compression machine. Takes about 10 minutes, produces 200 cigarettes and is now available in 20 states. Save money, instead of giving it to the tax man.<br type="_moz" />
Missouri lawmakers turned down a bill which would have banned smoking at the State Capitol. Seems like the odds of a state wide smoking ban in Missouri are about nill. <br />
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If lawmakers want the option to choose what they want to do in their private offices so should the public.<br />
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A new ploy by the anti’s or are they just showing their true colors? Smoking in cars with children should be banned whether or not science can prove any negative effects, according to Ray Dawson of the University of Leeds and published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.<br />
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Lawmakers are being urged not to let science get in the way of sound policy when it comes to laws on children’s exposure to second-hand smoke in cars.<br />
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The "science" they have relied on so dearly to ban smoking globally has just gone up in smoke, along with their sanity which was questionable to begin with! Lawmakers are being urged not to let science get in the way of sound policy when it comes to laws on children’s exposure to second-hand smoke in cars.<br />
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A federal judge has struck down New York City’s plans to place gruesome ads in places where tobacco is sold. The decision will likely be appealed by health officials. Nonetheless, the decision represents a victory for common sense in the face of what would become a dangerous and destructive trend affecting not only tobacco users, but anyone who engages in any activity that might come under the scrutiny of public health.<br />
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A link to the Yahoo! News/AP article is available at the link below.<br />
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TIME Magazine is reporting that smoking bans in<a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2041389,00.html?xid=rss-fullworld-yahoo"> Spain </a>and <a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1949817,00.html">France</a> are being roundly ignored by both smokers and business owners.<br type="_moz" />
In a continuing and disturbing trend, over sixty Chicago smokers face losing their homes if they refuse to quit smoking. While one would reasonably expect that free people should be able engage in a perfectly legal practice in the privacy of their own home, public health’s agenda of lifestyle management is now reaching into our very living rooms.<br />
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An article form UPI.com is avaiable at the link below.<br type="_moz" />
In concluding his 8-part series on the monetary system, Edmund Contoski summarizes the worldwide demand for gold throughout history and delineates the forces that make a return to a gold-based international monetary system inevitable.
Beauty Skool blogger Mistress Justine Brown has a New Year’s resolution: she’s going to take up smoking at age 60. Why? As she explains in her blog (linked below), taking up smoking is her "eminently stylish, rakish, devil-may-care" way of rebelling against the "batallions of finger waving nannies".
Business owners and tobacco users around the world owe a round of applause to the fine work that’s been done by Opponents of Ohio Bans. They’ve caught anti-smoking activists and state officials engaging in redhanded ballot fraud, and the crimes committed should send a shiver up the spine of any lover of freedom and democracy.<br />
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FORCES strongly encourages its readers to closely monitor the events taking place in Ohio in the weeks to come, and spread the word regarding anti-tobacco’s blatant criminality in the OhioGate scandal.<br />
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