Recent Anti-Tobacco-Nazi Efforts and News

[TommyBB]

http://www.wect.com/Global/story.asp?S=13609385

Cigar Rights of America commends member and author (The War on Smokers and the Rise of the Nanny State) Ted King for participating in an Oklahoma political rally, and noting the legislation that would grant more local authority over smoking ordinances. That legislation needs to be defeated.
http://www.bartlesvillelive....com/d...ma-legislature

Tacoma, Washington: LOSE Another local health department out of control, and being a threat to free enterprise. This time, in Tacoma, Washington.
http://www.mynorthwest.com/category/...out-in-Tacoma/

Jopin, Missouri: WIN Cigar Rights of America commends the Joplin (Missouri) City Council for dropping the proposal for a workplace smoking ban, that would reached into bars and restaurants. Smoke Free Joplin did not get their way.....
http://www.joplinglobe.com/local/x62...ps-smoking-ban

Minnesota Petition: WORK CRA launched a petition to the Minneapolis, Minnesota City Council, as they were (are) pressing to ban cigar "sampling" in the shops of retail tobacconists. The proposal is still out there. Stay tuned. Banning smoking in your local cigar shop, is in the opposition's playbook.
http://www.startribune.com/local/111011154.html

Michigan: Unintended Consequences More adverse economic impact as a result of the Michigan smoking ban. Time for some amendments in January.
http://m.freep.com/news.jsp?key=770076&rc=lo

Kentucky: Suing over ban. Another great coalition files a lawsuit to block a smoking ban, this time in Kentucky. CRA supports Northern Kentucky Choice and the League of Kentucky Property Owners!
http://www.wlwt.com/r/26008251/detail.html

Kansas: Possible Win? New Governor With a new Governor in Kansas, time to press for some changes to their (new) statewide smoking ban. The (political) climate in right for change.
http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2010/10/...n_in_peril.php

Indiana Once again, Cigar Rights of America will be fighting the proposed statewide smoking ban legislation in the state of Indiana.
http://www.nwitimes.com/news/state-a...36b2aa68d.html

[TommyBB]

Juliette Tworsey
Mr. Glantz makes an interesting observation:
"... Some employers argue they will not hire smokers because it raises
health insurance premiums. However, there is no evidence that the
percentage of smokers in a company has any effect on the company's
premiums. Indeed, the fallacy of this argument is demonstrated by the
...fact that Massachusetts has the fourth-lowest smoking rate in the United
States and the highest

Boss can’t be buttinsky - BostonHerald.com
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opi...icleid=1300680

[tonycsmoke]

The new SG report is going to conclude that a "whiff of second hand smoke can kill".

[Rob G]

Originally Posted by tonycsmoke

The new SG report is going to conclude that a "whiff of second hand smoke can kill".

I thought the new report said that "the mere thought of smoking is detrimental to ones health."

[gui_tarzan]

When they make stupid statements like that it reduces (or kills) their credibility and no one will listen to them anymore, risking the chance of missing accurate information.

[Rob G]

Originally Posted by gui_tarzan

When they make stupid statements like that it reduces (or kills) their credibility and no one will listen to them anymore, risking the chance of missing accurate information.

Logically one would draw that conclusion. But in reality there are millions of people who truly believe that any contact with any form of tobacco is deadly.

[TommyBB]

WELL now!!

First Nationwide Study Finds No Link Between Smoking Bans and Reductions in Heart Attacks

Jacob Sullum | December 20, 2010

Last year, criticizing a CDC-commissioned report from the Institute of Medicine that endorsed highly implausible claims of immediate, substantial reductions in heart attacks resulting from smoking bans, I noted that the authors had ignored the most comprehensive study of the subject, which found no such effect. Now that study, which at the time of the IOM report was available as a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, has been published by the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Instead of looking at small cities with volatile hospital admission numbers—the M.O. of studies that linked smoking bans to dramatic reductions in heart attacks—the authors of the new study, led by Kanaka Shetty of the RAND Corporation, used nationwide data to see if smoking bans were associated with changes in hospital admissions or mortality. "In contrast with smaller regional studies," they write, "we find that smoking bans are not associated with statistically significant short-term declines in mortality or hospital admissions for myocardial infarction or other diseases." In fact, "An analysis simulating smaller studies using subsamples reveals that large short-term increases in myocardial infarction incidence following a smoking ban are as common as the large decreases reported in the published literature."

Since 2003, when activists began claiming that workplace smoking bans immediately cut heart attacks by 40 percent or more, I've been saying that some jurisdictions will see such drops purely by chance, while others will see no change or increases of similar magnitude. Before you can say that smoking bans are associated with short-term declines in heart attacks (leaving aside the biological plausibility of such a link), you have to show that the first phenomenon is more common than the other two. Anti-smoking activists such as Stanton Glantz, preferring to cherry-pick examples that fit their theory, have never done that, and now we can plainly see why: It isn't true. Although heart attacks do decline in some places with smoking bans, there are just as many places where they rise. On average, the difference between jurisdictions with smoking bans and jurisdictions without smoking bans is essentially zero.

[gui_tarzan]

Sent to my representatives along with my comments.

[TommyBB]

Vote in this poll.
State of Indiana is considering an total indoor ban.
From the Terre Haute Tribune-Star

[KatDad]

Done. Thanks for the heads up.