Parents Quit Smoking Before Child Has Surgery

According to the Mayo Clinic parents who smoke are more likely to quit if their child goes through surgery, a study shows. They worry about the effect secondhand smoke will have on the child as he or she recovers.<br />
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The Anti’s have everyone so scared they have lost common sense.&nbsp; Generations of Americans have had surgery, including children in smoking households with little to none health effects.<br type="_moz" />

Outdoor Bans Not Justified

<p><i>Claiming the mantle of science only works when you&rsquo;ve got the facts to back it up, explains an expert who supported indoor smoking bans. Michael Siegel, a professor of community health sciences at Boston University, accuses officials of &ldquo;purposely avoiding the critical issue here, which is that secondhand smoke in parks is simply not a significant source of secondhand smoke exposure.&rdquo;</i><br />
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The heath nannies don’t need proof they just want smoking banned entirely by whatever means is necessary.<br />
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Rethinking the Tobacco Ban

<p>The Save Our Pubs and Clubs campaign has prepared a report which claims traditional inner city pubs have suffered the most since the introduction of the ban four years ago this week.</p>
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Connecticut

Taxes are out of control in Connecticut, beginning in July there will be a tax increase on many items, including tobacco.<br type="_moz" />

Europe

While smokers in America sit back on their butts watching smoking bans being implemented along with enormous &quot;sin taxes&quot; and do not speak out, Europe isn’t.&nbsp; They are busy investigating ASH and calling for them to stop being funded by the government.<br />
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&quot;ASH&nbsp;receives huge amounts of money from&nbsp;the taxpayer and sadly, like so many publicly funded bodies with too much money and too little scrutiny it has NOT gone about its task well. ASH&nbsp;has now become a fat, over-staffed, political, and single-minded organisation hell bent on eradicating smoking from the face of the earth, <strong>by whatever means necessary</strong>.&quot;<br />
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Alabama

Alabama legislators have rejected a smoking ban for the 15 year!&nbsp; The nannies are whining!&nbsp; <br />
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The legislators have chosen to allow people in their state the freedom to choose, we support that attitude!&nbsp; Freedom is what this nation is about not prohibition.<br type="_moz" />

Nanny State

&quot;If that pack of Marlboros is going to look like a page from a medical textbook, shouldn&rsquo;t bottles of Bud carry pictures of car crashes, or cirrhotic livers, or beaten wives?&quot;<br />
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People will still smoke, the proposed graphic photo’s are going to have little effect.<br />
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Michigan Rethinking Smoking Ban

Four separate bills have been introduced by state Reps. Doug Geiss, D-Taylor, Tom McMillin, R&ndash;Rochester Hills, and Tim Melton, D-Pontiac, as well as state Sen. Rick Jones, R-Grand Ledge, that would allow smoking in Michigan businesses in either smoking rooms, on outdoor patios or in licensed clubs, including veterans&rsquo; organizations.&nbsp;
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