The United Pro Choice Smokers Rights Newsletter
Issue # 36: 10/08/99
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In this issue:
1. Communist Goals (1963)
2. Smoke And Mirrors In Lawsuit Land
3. Antismoking Group Sues Tobacco Firms
4. Smokers More Honest, Better at Math than Non-Smokers
5. Judge Dismisses Blacks' Tobacco Lawsuit:
6. Smoking and the Health of Others: Fact Sheet
7. Government's Two-Faced Tobacco Policy
8. Fascism And The Campaign To End Smoking
9. We Are Everyday People
1. Communist Goals (1963): Uhuh.
Extension of remarks of Hon. A. S. Herlong, Jr. of Florida in The House of Representatives. 45 goals.
2. Smoke And Mirrors In Lawsuit Land: By Jonathan Rauch.
It has given all Americans -- beginning, of course, with Bob Dole, and not excluding tobacco-bashers -- a vital stake in the defeat of this wretched lawsuit.
3. Antismoking Group Sues Tobacco Firms: Yahoo.
``We would expect it to fall down at the first hurdle,'' Brady said. ``Our initial reaction is one of surprise really at the bizarre nature of the suit. It really is a quite unique and novel approach to try to have a fund set up for people who do not yet smoke and for people who smoke who may or may not get ill.''
4. Smokers More Honest, Better at Math than Non-Smokers: The Hittman Chronicle.
This proves scientifically that when smokers exaggerate they only double their numbers, but when non-smokers lie they quadruple them.
5. Judge Dismisses Blacks' Tobacco Lawsuit: Associated Press.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that accused the tobacco industry of violating the civil rights of blacks by specifically trying to sell them menthol cigarettes.
6.
Smoking and the Health of Others: Fact Sheet: Forest.
Despite the fact that the Hirayama study has been so discredited, it invariably appears in reviews of studies by the anti-smoking industry to support their claims that environmental tobacco smoke is a danger to public health. ...
A scientific debate consists of four main stages. First, a hypothesis is proposed (in this case, that environmental tobacco smoke is a danger to health). Second, it is tested through research and observation. Third, it is criticised. And finally, those criticisms are answered or further research conducted. We are currently at the third stage of the debate on the effects of environmental tobacco smoke. The anti-smoking industry has yet to respond to these criticisms.
7. Government's Two-Faced Tobacco Policy: The Boston Globe.
When you hear a figure like 427,743 ''premature'' deaths from smoking (according to the Centers for Disease Control, that is the annual average, 1990-94), bear in mind that nearly 60 percent of those deaths were people 70 or older, nearly 45 percent were people over 75, nearly 17 percent were people over 85. With what certainty in those cases can the government establish ''smoking-attributable mortality''?
8. Fascism And The Campaign To End Smoking: By Pierre Lemieux.
The Nazis were known, and admired, for implementing the most progressive public health policies in their time. They applied state-of-the-art research and regulation to occupational, environmental and lifestyle diseases. Cancer was declared "the number one enemy of the state." Nazi policy favoured natural food and opposed fat, sugar, alcohol and sedentary lifestyles. The existing temperance movement against alcohol and tobacco became more active under the Nazis, who were involved in what Prof. Proctor calls "creating a secure and sanitary utopia."
9. We Are Everyday People:
*** Practical Guide to Protesting: Freeper Action Network.
*** Some Unhappy With Anthrax Vaccine: By Catherine Strong.
Top military commanders told Congress today that the mandatory program to inoculate soldiers with an anthrax vaccine is imperative because several nations are developing the biological weapon for use in battle.
…``We are the guinea pigs,'' Heemstra said. ``It's a serious safety issue. People are sick.''
***Study: Obesity Can Shorten Lifespan: By Katharine Webster.
The study, the largest ever done on obesity and mortality, found that overweight people run a higher rate of premature death. And this was true even among people who didn't smoke and were otherwise healthy during their middle years.
***A letter to Barbara Bush By Sean Gonsalves .
Please remind him that hundreds of thousands of mothers, wives and children cry themselves to sleep at night, hoping and praying to live long enough to see their loved ones free. Please ask your son to promise you that if he becomes president, he will think long and hard about the injustices of our nation's longest war - the 'war on drugs.'
A new Easy Petition is now posted on http://www.geocities.com/~msrc/easypets.htm protesting the Gephardt proposal for a new $.85 per package cigarette tax.
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your
chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
Samuel Adams, 1776. Freedom By Faith
Revised judicial oath:
"I solemnly swear to tell the truth as I know it, the whole truth as I
believe it to be, and nothing but what I think you need to know."
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