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 [...]

Voting as a group!

It has been suggested by a Democrat that we are a partisan group and that we favor one party over another. From the remember these legislators page.
Lenny Hand, on July 2nd, 2009 at 9:39 am Said:
As a long time member of the Racine city tavern league it was rare that the T.L.W. asked [...]

Is this what’s in store for Wisconsin

The so called Progressives can’t even enforce a ban where they already have them and they want to repeat their failures here!
At dozens of bars and private clubs in the Miami Valley the state’s public smoking ban has literally gone up in smoke.
Two years after Ohio voters approved a smoke-free work environment for public places, [...]

I ♥ the Nanny State

If there’s one thing that truly baffles me, it’s the seemingly uncompromising love of the coddling hand of government that so many people are exhibiting lately.
Yes, ok, I understand that for some reason people are running scared from their own shadows in recent times, and there is such a powerful selfishness permeating through people’s attitudes [...]

If you thought it would end with smoking…

You’re wrong. Very wrong.
We have seen a surge of interest in controlling drinking and alcohol here in WIsconsin with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal’s “WASTED in Wisconsin” series… Amongst others.
However, this article was on CNN’s front page tonight. Be afraid, folks. Be very afraid.
Study: Paying more for alcohol saves lives
Higher taxes on alcohol can make a [...]

The doctor and his ego… A lesson in weighting importance

A doctor with a big ego giving his opinion on the necessity of smoking bans? Say it isn’t so.
Well, it is so. And I can’t help but to laugh at the silliness of Mr. Orvis Johnson and his ego as he pleads his case in favor of the proposed FDL smoking ban. Yet, I can’t [...]

Smoke Free WI in my own backyard??

It would seem that the agents of fascism were in my own small town… And I didn’t even know it. This little gem is from their blog:
Last week I paid a visit to a number of counties along the western part of the state. This time of year is absolutely beautiful in Polk, Clark, Trempealeau, and [...]

From the IPCPR

International Premium Cigar and Pipe Dealers Association: Spreads truth to
head off Wisconsin smoking ban
http://wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=139214
Wisconsin’s local and state legislators need to wake up to the truth about
smoking bans before it is too late, according to Chris McCalla, legislative
director of the International Premium Cigar and Pipe Dealers Association.
According to McCalla, smoking bans are bad for business, defile [...]

Hero of the week: Dawn Smet

This is a wonderful letter to the FDL Reporter:

Smoking ban infringes on freedom of choice
Smoking ban supporters have determined us to be so incapable of personal choice and decision that we have abdicated to “government” the role of making personal decisions for us.
Lengthy arguments have been presented for years by both sides of the smoking [...]

No good choices in AD 88, 4 – mixed in AD 2, 5, 6

Assembly District 88
Soletski:
” I have supported the ban in the past. It is time to make this change. We are encircled by states that have implemented the ban, and they are doing fine. I am an ex-smoker, and I don’t support this to persecute smokers. Five years from now, we’ll look back on this and [...]