Smoke Free whining again

Smoke Free Wisconsin is whining about the budget cuts, Due to the fact that they have been caught in more lies then I care to count and the fact that tobacco control is a lobby group pushing to strip property owners of their property rights and therefore stripping the people of freedom of choice, I [...]

American Cancer Society lies yet again

Dr Michael Siegel points out in his blog The rest of the story that the ACS is caught in yet another lie.

As we know, the truth is that Philip Morris – the largest company within Big Tobacco and the company with the overwhelmingly highest amount of lobbying expenditures in Congress – supported the bill and [...]

South Dakota organizer successfully delays statewide smoking ban

Larry Mann, who represents the Video Lottery Establishments of South Dakota and at least 16,776 petitioners provided enough signatures to delay a new smoking ban which was scheduled to be implemented July 1, 2009 until voters can decide the issue on the November 2010 ballot.

Yup no economic harm

Sales have been hurt by the spread of indoor smoking bans, which have forced people to go outside to smoke.
TAMPA – Tampa will lose part of its cigar heritage in August when Hav-A-Tampa shuts its factory near Seffner and lays off about 495 employees, closing a factory that has been operating since 1902.
The company announced [...]

X rated cartoons

Popeye to be given 18 certificate for smoking pipe
Films featuring the cartoon character Popeye could be given an 18 certificate because he smokes a pipe.
NHS managers at Liverpool’s Primary Care Trust says its plan to ban the promotion of smoking in films, including cartoons, could mean problems for the spinach-loving sailor if he ever makes [...]

Majority Does NOT Support Smoking Ban: Gallup Poll

PRINCETON, NJ — By 52% to 46%, more Americans disapprove than approve of the new law expanding the federal government’s power to regulate the manufacturing and marketing of tobacco products. Opposition is especially strong among smokers.
Implications
Even as fewer Americans are smoking today than in the past, and as those who do smoke report smoking fewer [...]

American Cancer Society Lies to American Public About Effects of FDA Tobacco Legislation

Dr Siegel strikes again.
Also Deceives Public About Big Tobacco Opposition to Bill
Telling the Truth Would Have Required Admitting that the Bill is a Public Scam Which Does Little to Protect Children from Cigarettes But Lots to Protect Cigarette Sales
In a communication sent to the American Cancer Society’s (ACS) network of advocates throughout the nation (including [...]

Another Kool-aid drinker

(Mark Peterson, a West Bend resident and University of Wisconsin Washington County philosophy professor, is a blogger who publishes at www.the-motley-cow.blogspot.com.) Had this to say about us.
Some of the Ban-the-Ban pundits and politicos are still stuck in denial but Wisconsin’s Tavern League – the folks most affected by the ban – showed [...]

Velvet Glove, Iron Fist

Michael J. Mcfadden does a very good review of Christopher Snowdon’s book  Velvet Glove, Iron Fist.
While not as strongly focused on Antismokers’ psychological language tricks and dubious scientific deceptions underlying smoking bans as my own Dissecting Antismokers’ Brains, Chris Snowdon does not neglect these areas
and on the contrary has done an excellent job of showing [...]

Steve Kagen

http://kagen.house.gov.

Dear Mr. Keith,

Thank you for allowing me to listen to your concerns about smoking. I appreciate you taking time to share your views with me.

I have spent my entire adult lifetime as a physician, and have always discouraged patients from smoking.  [...]