Mayor Thomas Menino of Boston thinks banning indoor and outdoor smoking isn’t enough. Now he wants to ban smoking inside your apartment, condo’s or townhouse’s.<br />
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This man is seriously misinformed or has been paid off, or brainwashed. There is no clinical evidence that second hand smoke is harmful, yes I did say that. No clinical evidence, none, zip, nada! <br />
A Judge in Wisconsin has temporarily blocked a state crackdown on roll-your-own cigarette machines. <br />
<p>Judge Juan B. Colás granted the injunction Friday evening and set a hearing for Nov 23. DOR officials say they’re disappointed with the decision.<br />
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Department of Revenue may be but we aren’t. Go Wisconsin!</p>
Your tax dollars at work. The FDA and NIH are planning to interview 40,000 people asking why they smoke? What’s the attraction? <br />
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Do we really need to spend money in these hard economic times to find out? The answer is simple, they enjoy it. Just like people enjoy, soda’s, beer, wine, potato chips and "fatty foods". <br />
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Life is short and if you can’t have a smoke, a coke or a beer with pizza what’s the point? <br />
American charitable nonprofits are behind all smoking bans, their original mission was to find a cure for cancer, heart and lung disease. Now their mission is advocacy which is really lobbying, finding a cure seems to be gone from their vocabulary.<br />
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Costa Rica does not have a smoking ban in their country but they are under heavy pressure to pass legislation to ban public smoking and increase the tobacco tax. <br />
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To the politicians in Costa Rica don’t believe the hype by the American’s. Overtaxation creates a black market and smoking bans are bad for business.<br />
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Europeans have not taken to smoking bans, the result is that many countries have backtracked on the ban. Smoking is allowed in France, <a href="http://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com/2010/09/smoke-and-pancake.html">Netherlands</a>, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7533132.stm">Germany</a>, <a href="http://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com/2009/11/what-have-balkans-ever-done-for-us.html">Croatia</a>, <a href="http://www.algarveresident.com/0-12985/algarve/smoking-ban-altered-in-portugal">Portugal</a>, <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/belgium-expands-smoking-ban-to-all-cafes-casinos-2243449.html">Belgium</a>, <a href="http://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com/2010/02/are-you-listening-burnham.html">Denmark</a>, <a href="http://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com/2010/02/smoking-bans-on-ropes.html">Macedonia</a>, <a href="http://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com/2010/03/poland-rejects-total-smoking-ban.html">Poland</a>, the <a href="http://www.radio.cz/de/rubrik/tagesecho/kein-generelles-rauchverbot-in-tschechischen-restaurants-vorgesehen">Czech Republic</a> and several other countries relaxed their smoking bans (or introduced limited bans from the outset). <br />
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While smokers in the US and Canada sit back and take whatever smoking ban is passed with barely a whimper, it is a pleasure to know others are not. <br />
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Change can come but you have to do something first. Let’s hope our friends "across the pond" influence the people of North America to start standing up for themselves.<br />
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Illinois increased taxes on cigarettes by $2.00 a pack what’s the result? A black market. In this case, both smokers and businesses have begun exploring the increasingly lucrative black market trade for smokes. So much so, in fact, that the county is now spending even more resources and money to chase down the scofflaws and pay out “snitch fees” for people to turn in their neighbors.<br />
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This is obscene and must stop. Tobacco is a legal product and should not be overtaxed to the point of "snitch fees". This sounds more like the old USSR than America.<br />
There is a major campaign to increase taxes on cigarettes by $1.00 per pack. This has been brought to you by the American Cancer Society to continue to fund their war on smokers and to fund themselves. Right now they are working in Maryland.<br />
Since the state would not change the smoking ban to include bars in Louisiana, the anti’s are now going parish to parish. This is all too familiar. They are like the plague, the go county by county, till they remove all options from owners of bars and restaurants. What’s wrong with free choice, oh right, there is no way but their way. The American people are just to stupid to make a choice.<br />
MUNCIE — Local tavern owners on Monday testified they’ve lost business — and one is likely to close this week — as a result of the enhanced smoking ordinance enacted by Delaware County officials in August. <br />
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Delaware County Licensed Beverage Association, four local fraternal organizations and a tobacco shop requested a temporary injunction which stems from a lawsuit, aimed at overturning the measure.<br />
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We wish you well! Vote the bums out who voted for the smoking ban!<br />
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Rolling your own in the state of Wisconsin may become a thing of the past. The state wants to collect the same taxes as they do on brand name tobacco cigarettes. There will be no advantage of rolling your own and the state’s greediness will only cause more unemployment in this economy.<br />
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