The United Pro Choice Smokers Rights Newsletter
Issue # 6: 03/12/99
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In this issue:
1. New Jersey: The Great American Smoke-in
2. Utah State Legislature Passed Bill HB 132
3. RJR Nabisco Sells Its International Tobacco Businesses
4. Senate Panel Votes To Keep Tobacco Funds For States
5. Tobacco Chain Takes Swipe At Prop. 10
6. Landmark Sunset Strip Billboard Comes Down
7. Infection And Heart Disease
8. Senate Voting Record - The Tobacco Bill
9. Read This Newsletter On a Web Page
10. 800 # For Local or State Law Information
11. Blow Struck Against Smoking Bans
1. The Great American Smoke-in. New Jersey Smokers Online - Let the Revolution begin!
"Passive" Smoking is a thing of the past! The Great American Smoke-in
class action suit against the State of New Jersey on behalf of New Jersey smokers.
2. Utah State Legislature Passed
Bill HB 132, requires "small" cigarette manufacturers to either sign the tobacco
settlement and pay "their share" of the settlement OR place money into an escrow account, to insure against future lawsuits
by the state. ( HB 132 Ensures that Utah will receive its payments from the national tobacco settlement even
if the tobacco market takes a dip. HB 375 Implements the system that will ensure Utah receives its payments from the
National Tobacco Settlement.)
3. RJR Nabisco Sells Its International Tobacco Businesses:
BBC News Article, The buyer is Japan Tobacco (JT) who will now own the international rights for well known cigarette brands
such as Camel, Winston and Salem.
Yahoo / Associated Press article and
Nando Media article.
4. Senate Panel Votes To Keep Tobacco Funds For States:
By Adam Entous / Reuters. ``This will settle the issue once and for all.''
5. Tobacco Chain Takes Swipe At Prop. 10:
By Ethan Rarick / Times Captial Bureau. With the quick slide of a driver's license, Cigarettes Cheaper owner hopes to
repeal the law that imposed a 50-cents-per-pack state tax.
6. Landmark Sunset Strip Billboard Comes Down:
Fox News / Reuters. Another Hollywood landmark has gone up in smoke.
7. Infection And Heart Disease: Article by
Carol Thompson, from Smokers' Rights Action Group.
8. Senate Voting Record - The Tobacco Bill:
Smokers Fighting Discrimination's summary of votes cast in the Senate on two issues: 1. Reject Effort to Pull Tobacco Bill from Senate Floor.
2. Limit Plaintiff Lawyer Fees in Tobacco Cases.
9. Read this newsletter on a web page. Please pass it along to friends. Thanks!
This issue.and
Past issues.
10. For information about your local or state laws, call the Smokers Rights Action Line at 1-800-333-8683.
Blow Struck Against Smoking Bans
The campaign to ban smoking in restaurants was struck a severe blow July 17, when U.S. District Court Judge William
Osteen ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wrongly declared secondhand tobacco smoke a dangerous
carcinogen.
The 1993 EPA report was the basis for most of the smoking bans now affecting restaurants and taverns across the
country.
In unequivocal language, Judge Osteen ruled, "Using its normal methodology and its selected studies, EPA did not
demonstrate a statistically significant association between [secondhand smoke] and lung cancer."
This comes hard on the heels of a United Nations/World Health Organization (WHO) study that reported no significant
link between passive smoking and lung cancer.
The ramifications of these findings are difficult to predict. Logic would suggest that if smoking bans in California and other
places are based on faulty science, they should be overturned.
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