Audry Silk, CLASH
Have a seat and listen to Audrey Silk of Clash take on Cynthia Hallett of Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights.
No Smokers?
<i>After Tobacco</i>, a new book by economic researchers Peter Bearman, Kathryn Neckerman and Leslie Wright, tries to put together what would happen if the 46 million Americans who smoke all decided to quit cold turkey<br />
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States would loose revenue, we come out about even with health care costs and we would all become fatter! What’s the point?<br />
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Data Shows No Decrease in Heart Attacks
The Anti’s have had many messages over the years to lobby for smoking bans which have ranged from "save the children, to save your pet, to save the workers". <br />
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They have said over and over against that heart attacks decrease after a smoking ban is implemented. Two recent studies<span style="font-style: italic;">: </span><i>Rand Changes in U.S. Hospitalization and Mortality Rates Following Smoking Bans and Duke Clinical Research Institutes Anti-Smoking Laws and Acute Myocardial Infraction </i>have proven that there is no decrease in heart attack rates from a smoking ban.<br />
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A new study published in <em>Journal of Community Health</em> likewise finds no decrease in heart attacks after a smoking ban has been implemented.<br />
True or False?
New York boast that smoking rates have gone down to 14% of the population is this true or false? In our opinion it is false.<br />
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Many New Yorkers have found ways around paying eleven to twelve dollars a pack. How? They grow their own, purchase from nearby states or order from the Internet.<br />
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The author states that someday soon smokers will be in a cage in Central Park. Really? Is this how we treat people who are doing nothing illegal? Shameful and appalling behavior against one’s fellow man.<br type="_moz" />
Group Claims Ohio Department of Health Report Bias
For the past two weeks, news organizations covered story after story regarding a press release issued by the Ohio Department of Health and an eight page Executive Summary titled "Analysis of the Impact of Ohio’s Smoke-Free Workplace Act". In both the press release and Executive Summary, ODH referred to a study on heart attacks prior to and since the smoking ban, sales tax revenue and opinions of over 5,000 Ohio adults surveyed in 2009.
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