Florida plans to ban the sale of matches and lighters to teens. Under the legislation, if a store clerk is caught selling a lighter or matches to anyone under 18 years old, they’d be slapped with a $500 fine and up to 60 days in jail. <br />
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That’s going a bit far. How are you going to light the camp fire without matches?<br />
Frank Davis blog today, tells it like it is smoker’s are angry and they should be. The question is why aren’t you getting off the sofa yelling and screaming "we aren’t going to take it anymore"? Why aren’t you voting the bums out on the local, state or Federal level if they have voted for a smoking ban?<br />
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This is a must read. Get angry and do something!<br type="_moz" />
Karen Messer, professor and director of biostatistics at Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego recently published a study in the<i> American Journal of Preventive Medicine</i>.<br />
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The results published that people smoked at home (imagine that) especially with older children. Needless to say the health nannies are all over this. Now they want to "promote smoke-free homes among smoking families are needed, and this study can help identify populations that would benefit from such interventions".<br />
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Just how soon will they be entering your house for a sniff?<br type="_moz" />
<p>Rep. Susan Davis (D-Calif.) has introduced a bill that would ban smoking in all federal buildings. The Smoke-Free Federal Buildings Act, introduced Friday, has four co-sponsors, among them Del. Eni F.H. Faleomavaega (D-American Samoa). The Pacific island territory Faleomavaega represents has a law banning smoking in all public places.</p>
<p>Davis’ bill would prohibit smoking in and 25 feet around all facilities owned or leased by the federal government. Smoking sections would not be allowed inside a federal facility.<br />
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Yes, on Capitol Hill and the Supreme Court and other government agencies people can smoke in their offices. Smoking bans are only for peasants, not for legislators. This bill was DOA and not even read but that doesn’t stop the press from reporting it.</p>
<p>Targacept and AstraZeneca’s drug failed in its first late-stage clinical trial, the companies developing the drug said Tuesday.</p>
<p>Shares of the drug’s main developer, Targacept, plunged 57 percent in early trading Tuesday morning to $8.23. AstraZeneca paid $200 million up front in a deal announced in 2009 for rights to the drug, known as TC-5124.<br />
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What a shame – not!<br />
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<p>WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (Reuters) – A federal judge blocked a U.S. rule requiring tobacco companies to display graphic images on cigarette packs, such as a man exhaling cigarette smoke through a hole in his throat.<br />
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U.S. District Judge Richard Leon sided on Monday with tobacco companies and granted a temporary injunction, saying they would likely prevail in their lawsuit challenging the requirement as unconstitutional because it compels speech in violation of the First Amendment.</p>
<p>Is sanity returning?</p>
<p>The Greenbelt secondhand smoke trial came to a quick conclusion today after a lengthy trial. Judge Albert Northrop ruled David Schuman deserved no compensation for his claim that his neighbor’s secondhand smoke created a nuisance that Greenbelt Homes Inc. (GHI) failed to solve.</p>
Northrop said that the level of secondhand smoke entering David Schuman’s townhouse was not an actionable nuisance. Nor did he see bad faith in GHI’s handling of Schuman’s complaints.<br />
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A reasonable Judge.<br type="_moz" />
New Hampshire is complaining about loosing $4 million in taxes from tobacco after they reduced the state tax by ten cents per pack to encourage smoking? You can’t have it both ways banning smoking indoors and outdoors, demonizing people who do smoke, and then depend on tobacco taxes to balance the state budget. If you want more sales than allow smoking in bars and restaurants.<br />
Tired of paying outrageous taxes on tobacco many New Yorkers are rolling their own using pipe tobacco. The senior city attorney Eric Proshansky said "If you take pipe tobacco and you roll paper around it, it’s a cigarette." Really?<br />
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Overtaxing a legal product leads to bootlegging similar to Prohibition and lost tax revenue to the state. We have little sympathy for the tax man or Bloomberg who created the black market.<br />
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We have heard there are many bars that allowing smoking after hours. Right on!<br />
Next week Mayor John Duran and Council member John D’Amico will request that our City Attorney draft an ordinance that will exempt West Hollywood from State Senate Bill 332, which would allow landlords to ban smoking in their buildings. Fortunately for West Hollywood tenants the law does provide a provision that municipalities can exempt existing tenants from the legislation but only if they enact enabling ordinances prior to January 1, 2012.<br />
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Best get a moving!<br type="_moz" />