The United Pro Choice Smokers Rights Newsletter
Issue # 44: 12/03/99
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In this issue:
1. Smoking Allowed At Bar
2. Behavioural Vaccines: Gateway To Hell
3. Tobacco Showdown Is Set
4. Smoking Ban Ignites Maine Rebellion
5. Glantz "Tourism" Study
6. Smoking Out The Rrule Of Law
7. States Hurt by Poor Cigarette Sales
8. We Are Everyday People
1. Smoking Allowed At Bar: By John Woolfolk.
Owners of a smoker-friendly Santa Cruz bar believe they have found a loophole around the state's law against lighting
up at pubs -- and to prosecutors' frustration, at least one local judge has agreed.
2. Behavioural Vaccines: Gateway To Hell: By Gian Turci.
Unless the health cartel is ruthlessly brought under control now, the cubical starships of Star Trek: The Next Generation will indeed fly not through space, but through our schools, universities, homes, and workplaces. Those ships will be loaded with vaccinated, possibly microchip-implanted "healthy" and non-smoking Borg who will be on a mission to identify and absorb those few who are still the victims of such misguided, unhealthy concepts as independent choice and self-determination -- or even state-disapproved joys like eating fat or red meat, smoking and drinking. Indeed, all those concept are, and they'll always be, great dangers to those who want to pull the strings of social control.
3. Tobacco Showdown Is Set: By Joan Biskupic.
The Supreme Court this week will begin deciding on the government's most formidable effort ever to stop smoking, as public pressure against the tobacco industry increases.
4. Smoking Ban Ignites Maine Rebellion: By Michelle Emery.
Hofsaes, McLaskey, and Dick Metayer have turned their eateries into smoking establishments. And Hofsaes is launching a petition drive to get a referendum on the November ballot to repeal the ban.
''The state Legislature has completely overstepped their bounds in trying to dictate how free enterprise works,'' said Hofsaes, who quit smoking 15 years ago. ''Freedom of choice and enterprise should not be determined on a state level.''
5. Glantz "Tourism" Study: National Smokers Alliance.
Smokers are resilient, and business owners fight to protect their livelihood. Calling something a "smoke-free restaurant ordinance" doesn't make it so. If smokers are displaced from the marketplace, there are economic consequences, as occurred in Mesa. But the accurate study of those effects requires objectivity and precise economic understanding.
6. Smoking Out The Rule Of Law: By George Bragues.
Stripping most legal defences from tobacco firms, but not from other makers of dangerous products, augurs a return to arbitrary rule
7. States Hurt by Poor Cigarette Sales: The Associated Press.
A decrease in cigarette sales may turn out to be a costly trend for states and tobacco opponents intending to funnel millions of dollars from the tobacco settlement into health care and anti-smoking campaigns.
8. We Are Everyday People:
*** Ben & Jerry's "Tasty Toxins": By Tracee Cornforth.
The authors of the study report that according to Ben & Jerry's and U. S. Environmental Protection Agency standards, the level of dioxin measured could cause about 200 "extra" cancers among lifetime consumers of Ben & Jerry's ice cream.
*** Cigarette Gifs To Use: About.com.
*** U.S. Threatens Medical Privacy? By Jon E. Dougherty.
New federal regulations governing the control and use of medical records will do little to fulfill the Clinton administration's promise of protecting medical privacy, say critics, but will instead move government closer to digitally warehousing medical information on all Americans, while providing third parties easier access to private medical records.
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-- Albert Einstein
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