An interview with big brother

I know I have posted the following before but it needs repeating

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 [...]

Expose tobacco control and big Pharma

Has anyone noticed with the next draconian cigarette tax coming next week that there has been a massive increase in Chantix commercials in the last two weeks even though an anti smoking site admits it is ineffective. Groups like Smoke Free Wisconsin like to bring up how much the tobacco companies spend on lobbying yet [...]

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 [...]

Politics-Health Care

I normally try to keep other political issues out of my posts on this blog but it has gotten to the point where they are inseparable. Most smokers already feel that it is politically correct to discriminate against smokers. After all it has become politically correct to discriminate against us in public housing.
WPSD-TV in Paducah [...]

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 [...]

Property rights, what are those?

To those that attempt to claim that smoking bans are not about property rights, here is your wake up call.

It’s not just indoor public places in Eau Claire where lighting up is prohibited. Now residents of a south side, owner-occupied housing complex will have to snuff out smoking in their homes, the most recent sign [...]

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 [...]