Missouri
<div>The usual suspects are supporting a Proposition to increase the tax on cigarettes by 90 cents per pack. The justification is also the same old tired argument.<br />
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Santa Alert
Pamela McColl a former smoker, spent $200,000 of her own money to self-publish her updated version of the classic poem mentioning "The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth. And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath".<br />
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From Think Scotland
WHAT FRESH HELL is this? Via the ever-excellent Christopher Snowdon (whose book “The Art of Suppression” everyone should go out and buy), we learn that the World Health Organisation is pushing for a worldwide ban on electronic cigarettes, presumably because it has nothing better to do now that it has eradicated malaria and AIDS.
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Desperate
A new study was of 15 people was presented to American College of Chest Physicians’ annual meeting in Atlanta. They used them as lab rats were once used – stuffing them in a small room and piping in tobacco smoke. They call this "science" really we call it junk. The Jenkins study done in 16 cities when smoking was allowed in actual bars, did not show the same results as this fake piece of nonsense.<br />
Canada
Fat tax is a bad idea. Food is food, and the only proven road to good health is a combination of moderation and exercise. A surtax on foods identified as “junk” would be a punishing measure that would hurt busy families that enjoy the odd pizza night.
Kalifornia
<p>Santa Monica City Council gave final approval Tuesday to a law that bans smoking in all apartment and condo units occupied after November 22.<br />
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"The Moral Statistician" Mark Twain on Nicotine Na
<p><strong>The Moral Statistician.</strong></p>
<p>I don’t want any of your statistics; I took your whole batch and lit my pipe with it.</p>
Smoking Lowers Skin Cancer
“We detected trends between lower melanoma risk and longer duration of smoking, intensity of smoking in current smokers and pack years smoking”. <br />
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This is an epidemology study and since the anti’s can’t have anything positive about smoking, we are sure another epidemology study will appear with the reverse results. "Studies" that are dependent on questionnaires can easily be manipulated to yield whatever results that are wanted.<br type="_moz" />
EPA’s Lies
As the video says, The Environmental Protection Agency is <a href="http://epahumantesting.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/2012-09-21-complaint-as-filed.pdf">being sued</a> for exposing human subjects to levels that greatly exceed its own daily exposure limits in a number of experiments, in which the subjects are exposed to – and not just any subjects but <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x5rRkWE23Ag#t=79s">those who are particularly at risk</a>.
Chicago
County Board President Toni Preckwinkle wants to increase the price of a pack of cigarettes by $4.67. If passed smuggling will become very popular in Chi-town. <br />