The United Pro Choice Smokers Rights Newsletter

Issue # 40: 11/05/99 Brought to you by:

The Smoker's Club, Inc.

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In this issue:
1. Toxic Toxicology:
2. Respiratory Health Effects
3. State Laws Concerning Tobacco Sales
4. Cancer Sufferers Abandon Tobacco Case
5. Previously Sealed FBI Investigation
6. Tobacco Cos. Block British Ad Ban
7. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
8. We Are Everyday People

1. Toxic Toxicology: By Anne Fennel. National Toxicology Program has actively undermined the process by which risk assessments should be conducted. NTP overlooked a substantial body of evidence showing uncertainty, vagueness, and lack of statistical support of what is and is not carcinogenic. In addition, NTP conducted its assessments in a manner reminiscent of a rubber stamp proceeding, which favored politics over science.

2. Respiratory Health Effects: By Carol Thompson. In fact, the death rates from asthma among children less than five years old are lowest of all age groups. This makes anti-smoking demagogues' habitual use of children to incite public hysteria doubly despicable.

3. State Laws Concerning Tobacco Sales: We Card. It’s important to know the laws and regulations regarding the sale of tobacco products. Here you’ll find an overview of FDA regulations, state laws and how law enforcement is involved with the “We Card” program.

4. Cancer Sufferers Abandon Tobacco Case: BBC News. Their decision effectively brings to an end any chance that tobacco companies can be sued by former smokers who have developed cancer, according to the BBC's legal expert Joshua Rozenberg.

5. Previously Sealed FBI Investigation: Exposes The Real Truth Behind the Movie 'The Insider' Should Disney shareholders be concerned that their company is knowingly running false and defamatory statements about another company just to promote a film? For a copy of the complete FBI affidavit, visit brownandwilliamson.com

6. Tobacco Cos. Block British Ad Ban: Yahoo. The companies, however, contended that there was no urgency, because advertising only affected consumer choice of brands and did not encourage anyone to smoke. ``It is a pity that we had to take this action,'' said Paul Sadler of Imperial Tobacco.

7. Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Index Librorum Liberorum. A common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.

8. We Are Everyday People:
*** Song Contest: Forces. Here are the lyrics, please add the music in the style of your choice. If you win, your tape will be featured on Forces.

*** Obesity Is Soaring In America: By Shelly Hill. A study released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that the number of Americans considered obese _ defined as being more than 30 percent over their ideal body weight _ soared from about one in eight in 1991 to nearly one in five last year. … CDC Director Jeffrey P. Koplan said a national strategy is needed to combat obesity.

*** New Zealand: Forces. As smokers, the government is threatening me that if I get cancer or a nicotine related illness I will have to pay for its treatment. WHAT??? AGAIN??? In this country 2 thirds of the cost of a pack of 25 cigarettes that I smoke per day is tax.. Which means I pay about $30more a week than a non-smoker. Where is all this extra tax going?

***Cash and the 'Carry Tax': By Declan McCullagh. US currency should include tracking devices that let the government tax private possession of dollar bills, a Federal Reserve official says. The longer you hold currency without depositing it in a bank account, the less that cash will be worth, according to a proposal from Marvin Goodfriend, a senior vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

*** Moral Fanatics Blow Smoke: By Tom Oleson. None of this really has anything to do with where or when people should be allowed to smoke, except that there is no convincing science - at least no science that would convince anyone who was not already converted that secondhand smoke is seriously bad for anybody.

*** Happy New Year: Y2K Viruses Ready: ZD Net. More than 30,000 threats from computer hackers and virus writers who say they will release new viruses to herald the new year and the new millennium have been logged by the FBI and other law enforcement groups, said Lou Marcoccio, worldwide research director at the technology consulting firm Gartner Group.

Crime is contagious; if the government becomes a lawbreaker it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
Olmstead v. U.S., 277 US 438.
"When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril."
Harry Truman.
Freedom By Faith

As airport smoking policies are ever changing, please call The National Smokers Alliance at 1-800-224-3322 to find out if an airport you're travelling to or from accommodates smokers.
NSA Links for Airline, Amtrack and Cruise Line information.

Do not support the pharmaceutical companies, they fight against us, and then want us to use their nicotine delivery system. This idea is cheaper than their gum and great for work, public buildings, airplanes…

Just roll a pinch of tobacco into a stick of chewing gum.

Thank you for your continued help in creating this newsletter!

For information about your local or state laws, call the Smokers Rights Action Line at 1-800-333-8683.