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CONTENTS
1. War On Smoking Always Has Room For Another Lawyer
2. Nicotine Found To Have Some Benefits
3. Smokers Support Local Businesses
4. Anti-Tobacco Doubletalk on Smoking Rates
5. Glendening Decries Tobacco Fund Frenzy
6. Foes Of Smoking Ban May Get Unlikely Ally
7. A Tobacco Giant Backs FDA Role
8. We Are Everyday People
9. From The Mailbag
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"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
-- Douglas Adams
War On Smoking Always Has Room For Another Lawyer:
By Dave Barry. Just when you think the War on Smoking cannot possibly get any more entertaining, up pops a new batch of lawyers to save the day.
Before I tell you about the latest legal wrinkle, let's review the key points in the War on Smoking so far:
Nicotine Found To Have Some Benefits:
Scientists are finding significant beneficial effects from nicotine, tobacco's main ingredient, especially for neurological disorders like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases and Tourette's syndrome.
There are also hints that nicotine could have effects on depression, attention deficit disorder and schizophrenia.
Smokers Support Local Businesses:
By Darren C. Parro. This is a free country and I want my right to be able to freely choose what I want to do, not have my decisions dictated to me by some non-smoking city council member who is up for re-election.
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Anti-Tobacco Doubletalk on Smoking Rates:
Or Who's Smoking What? By Wanda Hamilton. One thing is clear: Whether 70% of Massachusetts kids smoked in a recent survey, as Rep. Meehan claimed in August of l999 or whether only 30.3% of them did, as the Massachusetts Department of Education survey claimed in November of l999, there are more kids smoking in Massachusetts in l999 than in l990, four years before Massachusetts began taxing smokers to pay for a $75 million-a-year program to keep kids from smoking.
Glendening Decries Tobacco Fund Frenzy:
Gov. Parris N. Glendening today lambasted lawmakers who want to divert Maryland's share of the national tobacco settlement from cancer research and education for use on myriad smaller, localized and sometimes "odd" projects.
Foes Of Smoking Ban May Get Unlikely Ally:
The last thing Stephen Hanna wants to become is a pro-tobacco poster boy. But Mr. Hanna, a former smoker who is paying a high price for his habit, wouldn't mind being known as a champion of free enterprise.
A Tobacco Giant Backs FDA Role:
Philip Morris Cos., the nation's largest tobacco producer, is willing to allow the Food and Drug Administration to regulate the marketing of cigarettes for the first time, a top company official said yesterday.
We Are Everyday People:
Petition to Legislators Sponsored by: Perry Elrod:
The Smoking Voters of the United States need to be represented by the legislators they have elected.
Smoker's Take Back Your Rights:
Make a spot in their place of business for us smoker's if they want our money .We pay the same as a nonsmoker , give us our rights .
Smokers Interactive Calendar:
Add your dates and events.
Smokers Message Board:
Please feel free to use this board to post your opinions and views on the No-smoking topic or anything that takes your fancy.
Smokers United Chatroom:
Fridays from 5 pm Pacific to stay up to date on what's happening around the country. Monday evenings not moderated.
"Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair."
George
Burns, American comedian (1896-1996).
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But are we sure that this is what the antismokers really want? I mean, if everybody would stop smoking tomorrow, they would be out of a job, and the state would be broke!
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In order for the predator to survive, it must make sure that prey survives as well.
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From The Mailbag:
A peer-reviewed study of 173 bartenders, waiters and waitresses, conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Laboratory, concluded that the workers' level of exposure to ETS is a good deal lower than the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's acceptable air quality limits. Further, the study says such exposure has decreased in recent years, likely due to improved ventilation methods (PR Newswire 2/23).
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. (B&W) will put on a concert event to support the Center for Women and Families on Saturday, July 15th at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium in Louisville, Kentucky. It will feature on the same stage major country entertainers Reba McEntire, Trisha Yearwood, Martina McBride and Leann Rimes (PR Newswire 2/23).
While I am in favor of helping the children of this state I do not believe a tax that discriminates against smokers is the way to fund such programs. More important, this unfair tax could set the stage for future unjustified taxes against other minority groups in this state.
Please, voters, read between the lines and see it as it is: A tax that singles out a group of people to foot the bill for all. We must not allow this to happen. Vote yes on Prop. 28 and repeal this unfair tax.
BEN FOSS, Baldwin Park
Philip Morris U.S.A:
Company Seeks Open Dialogue with American People.
RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company (RJR) will re-introduce Doral cigarettes via a new advertising campaign on March 1st. The No. 2 top-selling brand in the U.S. is now "jampacked" with extra tobacco, which RJR says will amount to approximately 200 more puffs per pack
A new wave of National Smokers Alliance-funded TV and radio ads attacking Arizona Senator and presidential hopeful John McCain (R) are airing in Michigan and Virginia.
They've changed the recording and it is still funny: 1-800-578-7453
Miami, Florida's Engle trial, psychiatrist Eric Kaplan testified that, after meeting one of the plaintiffs who claims to have a cigarette-related illness, and after examining the records of another, he believes neither were "addicted" to smoking (AP 2/29).
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