The United Pro Choice Smokers Rights Newsletter


March 17, 2000 Issue # 59 The Smoker's Club, Inc.
CONTENTS

1. Group Will Sue Princeton Over Smoking Ban

2. What Law? Diners Keep On Puffing

3. Feds Deploy "Peeping Tom" X-ray Machines

4. Tobacco Discovered As Agent For Proteins To Make Medicine

5. Tobacco Settlement Debate Smolders

6. The Humidor Magazine

7. Temperance & Prohibition

8. We Are Everyday People

9. From The Mailbag


"Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always."
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965).

Group Will Sue Princeton Over Smoking Ban:
The New Jersey Licensed Business Association will sue the Princeton Regional Health Commission if it passes a strict ban on public smoking, an association official said yesterday.

What Law? Diners Keep On Puffing:
I don't enforce the law," said Raju Mirchandani, who owns two East Side bistros, Le Bateau Ivre and L'Ivre. "I prefer to leave it on a courtesy basis." Mr. Mirchandani said 90 percent of his clientele smokes, "so the majority rules." He has had inspectors come in and post the necessary signs. "But in most cases, people ignore them, and we look the other way." And nobody complains? "You get the odd person who snarls at the smoke, but they don't say anything. They just don't come back."

Feds Deploy "Peeping Tom" X-ray Machines:
At six major airports around the country the federal government is currently using highly sensitive X-ray machines that can view a person naked - including revealing private body parts.


Tobacco Discovered As Agent For Proteins To Make Medicine:
Lifesaving drugs could soon be produced more efficiently, naturally and economically with the help of tobacco.

Tobacco Settlement Debate Smolders:
Researcher angers anti-smoking forces: Herberman said anti-smoking billboards aren't working and questioned the value of smoking cessation and prevention programs in testimony last month in Pittsburgh before the state House Appropriations Committee.

The Humidor Magazine:

Temperance & Prohibition:
Just think "tobacco" everywhere you see "alcohol." Would Dr. King perceive "zero-tolerance of smokers" any less seriously than "zero tolerance of blacks"?


We Are Everyday People:

Clot Drug Errors May Kill 1,500: About 1,500 U.S. heart attack victims may die each year because they receive the wrong doses of clot-dissolving drugs given to hundreds of thousands of patients, a study estimates

Infectious Mental Illness?: He has strongly supported legislation that allows courts to enforce the medication of patients in the community.

Public Agenda Online: For Election 2000, we have supplemented our nonpartisan coverage of issues with new features, including briefings on policy options and public attitudes as well as easy access to the candidates' positions.

Historic District Plan Is A Pure Power Play: I do not want your help and I will not calm down. The only reason we are having this discussion is the fact that there is a group of people who don't like what others are doing and they want the power to control them. These "volunteers" are dedicated to their agenda and are the only ones interested in serving on this commission. I suggest they go home and find a private cause for their excessive free time and energy.


From The Mailbag:

It is death by association. If you smoke and get it, it is from smoking, no account is taken that you may have a family history IE genetic, or that you worked all you life in a sick building, or that you live under an airport, or that you live in or close to a horticultural area where fertilizers cause the bloody thing.
Joy Faulkner

Whiteley vs. Philip Morris Cos. (PM), in which 40-year-old Leslie Whiteley claims PM, RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co. and several dozen asbestos companies are responsible for her lung cancer. The defense has pointed out that cigarette TV ads no longer existed when she started smoking in 1972, and package health warning labels were in place. Further, Ms. Whiteley reportedly smoked marijuana and up to two packs of cigarettes a day despite doctor's orders to stop during her four pregnancies. These factors only raise the stakes, according to Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Bill Pecoriello. "A loss in Whiteley and the market says look, you lost one here where plaintiff started smoking after warning labels went on packs and there wasn't the ideal, sympathetic plaintiff" (Reuters)

In New York, Justice Charles Edward Ramos of State Supreme Court in Manhattan dismissed 14 union health plan lawsuits against cigarette manufacturers that had sought to recover compensation for alleged smoking-related illnesses, writing that "the alleged damage to these named plaintiffs is too remote and indirect to maintain the instant suits. Furthermore, due to the fact that the alleged fraudulent conduct was known to the general public years ago . . . the claims are untimely pursuant to the statute of limitations" (Bloomberg)




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