January 2011

The Indiana State Legislature is considering a state wide smoking ban, again.&nbsp; Hang in their Hoosiers and just say &quot;no&quot;!&nbsp; What you don’t need now in this recession is bars and restaurants to close and more unemployment.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Right now you still allow people to chose where to eat and where to work and that is how it should be!&nbsp; Don’t believe the propaganda!&nbsp; Special interest groups will be telling you it is good for business, it isn’t.&nbsp; Of course there will be the usual study done by the American Cancer Society that always show the same 70% of the people want it..&nbsp; The don’t.&nbsp; Lies, lies and more lies.&nbsp; <br />
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Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group announced they will ban smoking in their rented cars, and will fine you $250.00 if you smoke in the car. <br />
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Unless they have a well trained nose sniffer at every drop off location, how are they going to prove it?<br />

The new Surgeon General simply put is – fat.&nbsp; She could loose weight but apparently has chosen not too.&nbsp; Why is that important?&nbsp;&nbsp; People in glass houses shouldn’t throw rocks and she is throwing them.&nbsp; Isn’t she suppose to be an example of the governement’s model of physical health?<br />
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Her recently released report on second hand smoke lacks credibility as does she .&nbsp; If there was one ounce of truth in her report,&nbsp; 20 and 30 year olds would be dying from atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) and they are not.&nbsp; One would assume then that everyone over 50 would be dead from heart disease or cancer and they are not.<br />
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The new Surgeon General, is simply put fat.&nbsp; Why is that important? People in glass houses shouldn’t throw rocks.&nbsp; She can loose weight but she has chosen not too.&nbsp; Because her latest report on second hand smoke lacks credibility, and common sense.&nbsp; If her report had any ounce of truth twenty and thirty year old’s would be dropping like flies of a heart attack.&nbsp; People over 50 would be dead.&nbsp; Neither is happening.&nbsp; The myths of second hand smoke were begun to sell smoking cessation devices.&nbsp; The major pharmaceutical companies earn $42 billion dollars from sales of the patch, gum, inhaler, lozenge, pill and a new vaccine called NicVax.&nbsp; <br type="_moz" />

Last week we reported that the Health Minister of Greece was going to make an announcement regarding the smoking ban, which has been ignored by the people.&nbsp; He certainly did.&nbsp; He is hiring more inspectors to enforce the ban and increasing the fines to a substantial amount.&nbsp; Up to $13,350.00 for bar and restaurant owners and $500 Euros for individuals.&nbsp; More than 40% of the citizens of Greece smoke. Time for a new government.&nbsp; Kick this bum out!&nbsp; He is suppose to represent the people not implement laws that the people don’t want.<br type="_moz" />

Spain’s smoking ban that came into effect on January 2,&nbsp; is not going over too well.&nbsp; The argument is between the people and the government.&nbsp; It is a fight between bureaucratic regulation of social life and those who are for tolerance and liberty.&nbsp; Liberty should win, free people should have free choice, without free choice a democratic government becomes a dictatorship.<br />

France has decided to stop airbrushing famous figures who smoked.<i> &quot;The falsification of history, the censorship of works of the mind, the denial of reality must remain the heinous marks of totalitarian regimes,</i>&quot; read the bill before parliament Wednesday. We agree. History should not be rewritten.<br type="_moz" />

A drunk passenger, who was flying from France to the United States, was reportedly smoking in the lavatory.&nbsp; It took three Air Marshall’s to subdue him. No tobacco was reported, but they did find a bottle of Bailey’s Irish Cream liquor in his carry-on bag that was almost empty. The author of the article said &quot;The account reads like something out of a movie to scare air travelers&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp; Really?&nbsp; What could be scarier than drunken passengers and TSA strip searches?<br />

Violence against smokers is not news, people have been shot for lighting up.&nbsp; The Anti’s say they don’t hate people who smoke but they have managed over the past 18 years to install unsubstantiated fear into the hearts of the American population.&nbsp; Fear equates to violence.<br type="_moz" />

Dr. John Lilly does not believe that second hand smoke is a health issue but a political movement.&nbsp; Anti’s have immediately discredited Dr. Lilly’s article.&nbsp; This is the standard procedure for any doctor or scientist that disagrees with them, they will do everything in their power to silence him, pick a reason because they will use all of them.&nbsp; Dr. Lilly’s original article has already been removed and so it begins.<br type="_moz" />