Smoke Free Wisconsin=Big Pharma=Astroturf

Over the past few months Smoke Free Wisconsin has been campaigning to restore taxpayer funding to Tobacco Control. Over the last few weeks I have been showing their ties to Big Pharma! I showed their ties to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) . I also showed their ties to Pfizer. [...]

Pfizer busted!

WASHINGTON – Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest drug maker, will pay a record $2.3 billion civil and criminal penalty over unlawful prescription drug promotions, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
The department said the $2.3 billion settlement included a $1.2 billion criminal fine, the largest criminal fine in U.S. history. The agreement also included a criminal forfeiture [...]

Tax increase comes with big lies!

The Marshfield News-Herald has a column that is so full of lies and disinformation that it is almost laughable.
On Tuesday, the price of a pack of cigarettes jumps another 75 cents. That new tax, added to the federal tax increase in April, makes total taxes on a pack of cigarettes $3.53 — and a total [...]

Beat the tax

As Smoke Free Wisconsin gloats about the draconian tyax increase there are measures that one can take to beat the tax and make these self righteous do gooders pay their fair share.
SmokeFree Wisconsin supported these increases because research has shown that significant increases in the cigarette tax will deter young people from starting to smoke [...]

Yet another classy anti.

Leandro Reyes, 21, and Hannah Miller were outside the tavern having cigarettes along with others from the establishment, when Arneson, who knows Reyes as a schoolmate from Madison Area Technical College, came by.
Arneson, the criminal complaint against him says, told another female smoker, “You really shouldn’t be smoking.”
Reyes later told police he responded to [...]

Astroturf?

The phrase Astroturf has been used recently to discribe groups such as ours that fight against the nanny state and against excessive taxes. It is a term that has gained quite a bit of popularity as of late but it is not anything new. From a 1998 Tobacco Control document.

Historically, two of the [...]

Liar in Chief!

Like Comrade Doyle, Obama promised that our taxes were not going to go up. Comrade Doyle increased the taxes on cigarettes by $1.75 per pack in the last two years! The liar in chief said that he has only cut taxes on those making less then $250,000.00. He conveniently forgets the fact [...]

Military, Your nanny is after you!

As you fight for freedom around the world your nanny wants to take your freedom of choice away.
U.S. soldiers are trained to handle deadly weapons and smoke out enemies but they may soon find that they aren’t allowed to handle cigarettes and light up a smoke.
Pentagon health experts are pressing Defense Secretary Robert Gates to [...]

Scientific McCarthyism, the mind of Tobacco Control

While I don’t always agree with Dr. Siegel, he is at least one that tries to present facts and not follow the cult movement.  It is high time that people ,{especially polticians)  wake up to the fact that these laws are based on a cult of eletist groups and not hard core science.  Smoking bans [...]

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