March 2012

The Surgeon General reported that teenage smoking is up, however, the age’s she is talking about is 18 to 26.&nbsp; At 18, it is legal to purchase cigarettes and they are also considered adults.&nbsp; The entire report is misleading because we are not talking about children but legal adults.&nbsp; The SG call for more taxes and restrictions on tobacco, what else is new?<br />
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We can only hope that the current administration will change next year and the persecution and hatred campaigns against adults, enjoying a legal product, will stop.<br />
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<div class="StoryBody"><b class="Dateline">INDIANAPOLIS — </b>The American Cancer Society is lobbying against a weakened smoking ban state lawmakers are considering as it becomes apparent the statewide measure is not likely to cover Indiana’s bars and taverns. <br />
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ACS lobbyist Amanda Estridge said Thursday she has been asking supporters of a statewide smoking ban to vote against any measure that exempts bars.<br />
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The want all or nothing, looks like it will be nothing.&nbsp; The legislature only has two more days left in this session.</div>

The McTear decision in Scotland — the one where the judge denied a lawsuit against the tobacco companies for a smoker’s lung cancer — the Bolton Smokers Club has produced a nice worthwhile analysis and summary of the case.<br type="_moz" />

It’s time for taxpayers and politicians to understand who really pays the price for the ‘clean air’ smoking ban laws enacted….those of us in the hospitality industry.&nbsp; We link to Clearing The Air for more.<br />
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A joint House-Senate committee has reached a preliminary compromise on a statewide smoking ban.&nbsp; There are quite a few exemptions even so it does not mean that anything will pass this year.
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Read Audrey Silk, Founder, Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment (C.L.A.S.H.)

The Senate State Legislature has begun debating a bill that would ban smoking in cars with children under the age of 8.<br />
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Isn’t it amazing that the biggest bubble of humanity, baby boomers, had mother’s that smoked and drank, road in cars with someone smoking, grew up around SHS, worked in offices for most of their careers with smokers and are still alive?<br />
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Ban smoking in cars does not stop parents from smoking in the house, oh yeah I forgot, that the next step getting inside your homes.<br />

<p>The U.S. Food &amp; Drug Administration (FDA) has filed a notice of appeal in U.S. District Court in Washington seeking to overturn Judge Richard Leon’s February 29 decision that the government’s rule violates the tobacco companies’ rights to free speech.<br />
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The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington is scheduled to hear arguments next month on the government’s challenge to a ruling Leon issued in November that canceled a September 22 deadline for tobacco companies to begin displaying images such as diseased lungs and a cadaver with chest staples on an autopsy table on the top half of the front and back of all cigarette packages.It is unclear whether the three-judge panel will consider yesterday’s appeal on April 10.</p>
<p>No suprise, this administration will take it all the way to the Supreme Court.</p>

ALEXANDRIA, VA &ndash; A supposed &ldquo;new&rdquo; report from Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and several affiliated groups claims that convenience stores are complicit in enticing underage tobacco use, among other claims. But, NACS spokesman Jeff Lenard countered, there is more &ndash; actually less &ndash; than meets the eye in the report.
<p>&ldquo;Calling it a &lsquo;new report&rsquo; is a stretch with both words, because the supposed findings aren&rsquo;t new and they aren&rsquo;t findings,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;What is true, and omitted from this report, is that convenience stores sell legal products in a lawful way, and that is true with all products.&rdquo;<br />
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TFK wouldn’t know the truth if it bit them in the behind.</p>

The Ley Antitabaco (antismoking law) that was approved last week and is now in doubt due to a historic Constitutional Court decision last Friday aims to curb smoking in public places, including the workplace, and attack head on the problem of the causal smoker.<br />
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We hope the Court tosses this one out!<br />