In this issue:
1. Anti-tobacco Gestapo: Past and Present
2. Smoking Ban: Bad for Business
3. Police Cite Another Smoker At Farley's
4. Anti-smoking Law Has Many Choked With Anger
5. Restaurateurs Rebel Against Smoking Bans
6. Smokers' Subsidy Snuffed, Attack on McCain Irks Philip Morris
7. Japan to Offer Tour for Smokers
8. We Are Everyday People
9. 800 # For Local or State Law Information
1. Anti-tobacco Gestapo: Past and Present:
By Alexander Rose. National Post. Modern campaign echoes rhetoric of Nazi health-fascists.
Thanks to the Ministry of Science and Education, and the Reich Health Office, posters were produced depicting smoking as the
typically despicable habit of Jews, jazz musicians, Gypsies, Indians, homosexuals, blacks, communists, capitalists, cripples,
intellectuals and harlots. Zealous lobbyists descended into the schools, terrifying children with tales of impotence and racial
impurity.
2. Smoking Ban: Bad for Business:
By William P. Fisher. President and CEO, American Hotel & Motel Association.
Operators should be allowed to run their businesses in a manner that suits their customer base. Differing locales call for
different tolerances and accommodation of customer requests -- in every possible regard.
3. Police Cite Another Smoker At Farley's:
By Martha Dooley. Sun-News. "There's a real fine line between enforcement and harassment," she said of Saturday's
smoking bust at Farley's. She said it should be up to business owners whether to allow smoking.
4. Anti-smoking Law Has Many Choked With Anger:
By Adam B. Ellick. Indianapolis Star/News. Hooters manager Martin Dove said that since the ordinance passed, he's been losing $4,000 a week.
Many customers are flocking to food-serving bars where smoking is permitted. The Gin Mill's profits have increased 15 percent since the ordinance took effect.
5. Restaurateurs Rebel Against Smoking Bans:
By Jack Stewardson. Standard-Times. "It's a dictatorship," said Bruce E. Rex, owner of the Ferry Street Cafe in Fairhaven. Rex, one of the organizers of the SouthCoast Citiizens for Freedom said the smoking ban is, "The same thing they had in Nazi Germany."
6. Smokers' Subsidy Snuffed, Attack on McCain Irks Philip Morris:
By Bill McAllister. Washington Post. "We've been saying that this organization has been independent from its inception and, if this doesn't prove that, I don't know what will," he said with a laugh. "We're going to keep on going with the resources we have."
7. Japan to Offer Tour for Smokers:
The Associated Press. Starting in September, Tokyo-based Nikko Travel will offer overseas tours especially for smokers, a report in the national Mainichi newspaper said Sunday.
Tour participants will fly on Malaysia Airlines and Italy's Alitalia, two carriers that still allow smoking on international flights, the report said.
8. We Are Everyday People:
*** WWF Move Causes Death of 3 Year Old Boy: About.com.
The WWF denies any responsibility in the death of the 3 year old. The federation's television programs carry a TV14 rating.
*** Australian Net Censor Law Passes: By Stewart Taggart.
The rules -- which take effect 1 January, 2000 -- enable Australian government regulators to order domestic Internet service providers (ISPs) to take down indecent or offensive Web sites housed on their servers, and also require they block access to certain domestic or overseas-based content.
9. For information about your local or state laws, call the Smokers Rights Action Line at 1-800-333-8683.
Iberia To Ban Smoking on All Flights, By The Associated Press 7/3/99
MADRID Spain (AP) -- The Spanish airline Iberia will ban smoking on all flights as of Sept. 1.
In recent years, Iberia has permitted smoking in restricted areas on flights of more than 90 minutes.
Iberia said in a statement that it decided on the total ban due to studies pointing to the health danger of smoking in crowded and enclosed areas, the daily El Pais said.
UP IN SMOKE: In 1990, New Zealand passed its Smokefree Environments Act.
Advertisements which use words or images to "promote smoking behavior"
are banned. So how is it working? Cigarette sales increased by 2.1
percent last year, and the percentage of people who smoke is a steady
26 percent. "Whenever a government tells people that something is not
good for them, they often rebel," says magazine editor Bill Ralston. He
has reason to be concerned: the government thinks stronger oppression
is in order, so it is now punishing magazines and newspapers that dare
to publish "pro-tobacco words," and he was forced to stop publishing
his years-old column on cigar smoking. It also took action against The
New Zealand Listener, which ran a factual article about how tobacco
farmers are faring under the new law. (Christian Science Monitor)
...Time for publishers to stop writing about tobacco and start writing
about recall elections.
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