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CONTENTS
1. Backlash Against Smoking Law Huge
2. Jobs Up In Smoke
3. Bars, Cafes File Suit In Smoking Fight
4. Easing Of Smoke Ban Gets Mixed Reaction
5. Irish Traditionalists Won't Butt Out
6. The Center For Science In The Interest Of Publicity
7. In the West, Bad Smoke Signals
8. We Are Everyday People
9. From The Mailbag
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"Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information."
John Erskine, American author and educator (1879-1951).
Backlash Against Smoking Law Huge:
A prison went on riot alert, a bar issued its employees gas masks, and now the layoffs have started.
British Columbia is having a tough time facing up to new laws that make it illegal to smoke in public places, including bars and restaurants.
Jobs Up In Smoke:
According to Vance Campbell of the B.C. Coalition of Hospitality Organizations, "business is down in B.C. anywhere from 10% to 90%, depending on the type of the establishment and its location." The coalition estimates nearly 700 jobs have been lost. Even though air scrubbers can render indoor air cleaner than it is outside, the WCB haughtily dismissed the proposal, saying it didn't go far enough to ensure a safe and healthy environment (for unemployed workers, presumably).
Bars, Cafes File Suit In Smoking Fight :
Challenge Waterloo's right to issue ban. By Tony Reinhart. After weeks of threats, 100 bar and restaurant owners have filed a lawsuit against Waterloo Region over its tough anti-smoking bylaw.
Dozens more are offering moral and financial support for the suit, which claims $106 million in damages and questions the region's constitutional authority to ban smoking.
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Easing Of Smoke Ban Gets Mixed Reaction:
The Board of Health's surprise change of heart on restaurant smoking has gladdened some restaurant owners but left the board's chairwoman fuming about a triumph of politics over public health.
Irish Traditionalists Won't Butt Out :
As sure of it as anything in this world, Liam Craven crossed his arms, closed his eyes and announced, as if it was a solemn oath, ''It'll never happen in Ireland.''
The Center For Science In The Interest Of Publicity:
At CSIP, we've put hundreds, sometimes even dozens of hours into exhaustive research to prove that just about everything you like, or can like, is bad for you. And we aim to wipe out all these things in your lifetime, however truncated it might be due to the evil influences of science and technology and your unwitting participation.
In the West, Bad Smoke Signals:
What I fear, and you should fear even if you hate smoking, is that we have lost our spirit as a people. In the 1920s, our parents and grandparents gave the thumb-to-the-nose against Prohibition of liquor.
If we bow to them now, these hookers and bribe takers, only Hitler wins.
From The Mailbag:
Southeastern Legal Foundation
Celebrate America 2000
Saturday, April 29, 2000, 6:00
Cobb Galleria Centre
Atlanta, Georgia
--- Keynote Speaker ---
Judge Kenneth Starr
Master of Ceremonies Entertainment
Sean Hannity Capitol Steps
Call Eric Dial for information
(800) 474-8313
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International Tobacco Expo
March 28 - 30, 2000
The Rio Suites Hotel Convention Center
Las Vegas, NV
(800) 859-9247
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Sean Penn was scouting a church for a possible movie location, when he paused to light a cigarette. Someone told him to put it out, else he fear the wrath of Hell. Sean chortled and said, "I was married to Madonna - I've already been to hell!"
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We Are Everyday People:
Smoker's T-Shirts:
Warning: Anti-Smokers are Hazardous to Your Health and Freedoms.
Cultivators Handbook of Native Natural Tobacco:
By Bill Drake. The latest indoor/outdoor growing techniques.
BILL OF NO RIGHTS:
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that a whole lot of people were confused by the Bill of Rights and are so dim that they require a Bill of No Rights.
Here's My Simple Plan:
to completely eliminate the Federal Deficit and eliminate all personal financial problems for every American!
Let's Tax Cigarettes at $5000 per pack!!!
Do Asset Forfeiture Laws Forfeit Our Rights?
Louisiana state police stopped Cheryl Sanders for speeding. Claiming to believe that she was a drug dealer, officers hauled her off to jail and strip-searched her. No drugs were ever found, however, and Ms. Sanders had no prior arrest record. Nonetheless, the police seized her car "on suspicion." It took her seven months and thousands of dollars to get her car back.
Canad Inns
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