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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

FDA your new nannie

The President is due to sign into law granting the authority to regulate tobacco to the FDA. If you look at the string of e coli outbreaks and the fact that they have become little more then a rubber stamp for Big Pharma
Critics have questioned whether the FDA is ready to handle an entire [...]

Smoking ban gets hearing with little notice

We can thank Amy for this one.
Madison – State Sen. Jon Erpenbach (D-Waunakee) has given the public barely 24 hours notice before holding a hearing on a bill to ban smoking that is suddenly racing through the Legislature.

The ban on smoking in workplaces, including restaurants and bars, stalled in recent years but is now on [...]

Dirty politics?

Just to show how far smoke free Wisconsin have their noses up our politicians, well you know. Next Wednesday there is a public hearing on the smoking ban. You will find no notification on these hearings anywhere on the internet. Only smoke free had this information. Most of us are not paid [...]

New study vindicates Dr Siegel

We don’t hate to say I told you so.  But here it is in black and white.
U.S. state and local governments are increasingly restricting smoking in public places. This paper analyzes nationally representative databases, including the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, to compare short-term changes in mortality and hospitalization rates in smoking-restricted regions with control regions. In [...]

Hearing Updates

Comrade Doyle slipped both a smoking ban and a $0.75 increase in cigarette taxes in his budget. You are encouraged to attend the following public hearings and put a stop to this madness.
Sparta
Monday, March 23
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
American Legion Hall
1116 Angelo Road
Milwaukee Metro
Wednesday, March 25
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
State Fair Park
Banquet Room #2
640 [...]

Smoke Free Wisconsin another bogus poll

Smoke free Wisconsin has come up with yet another bogus poll.
“This is strong evidence the vast majority of people in Eau Claire, and especially the ones who patronize area bars and restaurants most frequently, prefer smoke-free air,” Katie Wilson, a member of the Tobacco Free Partnership of Eau Claire said.
The problem with this poll [...]

The End of a Legacy?

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In response to the ongoing financial downturn and its effect on its long-term reserve funds, the American Legacy Foundation’s Board of Directors has made the difficult decision to shift its programs to population-based strategies for maximum impact of the more limited dollars spent. In accordance with this approach, the Foundation’s competitive [...]