That the American Cancer Society and the Tobacco companies actually agree on something. What is it? The Affordable Care Act allows insurance companies to charge smokers 50 percent more than patients who do not use tobacco. This stipulation goes into effect in 2014. It can only be changed by the state.<br />
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If both sides were really serious about this discrimination against smokers, it would never have appeared in the act to begin with.<br />
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A full smoking ban is running through the Russia Parliment, will it pass? Will it pass, we don’t know yet.<br type="_moz" />
Over the last 20 years, California’s tobacco control program cost $2.4 billion – that is real money – but it reduced health care costs by $134 billion in pretend money, according to a new estimate from the director of the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education.<br />
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<b>They use the estimate that every year an estimated 443,000 people in the United States die from smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – the problem is there is not a single death that can really be attributed to second-hand smoke and even first-hand smoke is fuzzy. Half of lung cancer patients never smoked and only 10 percent of smokers get lung cancer so trying to broaden the pool by making all those deaths due to cigarettes is more agenda than data.</b><br />
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Exactly what we have been saying for years.<br type="_moz" />
Bethel Finalizes <b>Tobacco Tax</b> Ordinance. By Mark Arehart, KYUK – Bethel | February 8, 2013 – 4:15 pm. The Bethel City Council has finalized an ordinance to impose a tax on all tobacco products sold in the city. The tax is similar to one found in Anchorage.<br />
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Stanton Glantz, a rabid anti-smoker, claims the Tea Party was backed by Big Tobacco. He doesn’t mention that the attack on smokers was backed by Big Pharma.<br type="_moz" />
The American Heart Association, American Cancer Society, American Lung Association and Tobacco Free Kansas Coalition are praising the Kansas Health Foundation for launching its new ad campaign reminding Kansans about the dangers of secondhand, or environmental, tobacco smoke.<br />
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The "usual suspects" are at it again.<br />
Governor Jindal is considering a major tax increase on tobacco products, after objecting to it for the last two years. Recently the Governor had said that the Republican Party can’t be the "stupid party" seems he should be rethinking his latest stupid idea.<br type="_moz" />
Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine’s parliament) has registered a bill that permits smoking at restaurants and cafes, but only in specialized places, Ukrainska Pravda online edition reported referring to the press service of the non-factional deputy Lev Myrymsky.<br />
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The author of the bill offers that a complete ban on smoking to concern only establishments of state and municipal ownership.<br />
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Progress in the right direction!<br type="_moz" />
From Frank Davis blog: "Lock up your partners, children and valuables: the smokers are coming! No, the British are not donning their redcoats and heading for the Americas, nor are the French lower classes preparing to storm the Bastille again, but something of great importance has been happening in Europe this last week.
<p>Serious legitimate protest is occurring against the ramparts of European anti-smoking government. It’s been largely unreported in the press, but demonstrations of considerable size have recently occurred both in Belgium and Bulgaria. (<em>And also now in Ukraine – see Latest News below</em>)."<br />
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European’s are putting American’s to shame!</p>
Scientists argue the gun lobby has thwarted attempts to explore factors behind misuse of guns, following a familiar and largely successful playbook: that of the <b>tobacco companies.<br />
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One lie begets another lie.<br type="_moz" />
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