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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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 />
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.
<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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<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>
“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" />
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>.
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 />
If passed the legislation would prohibit smoking in any public place including restaurants and cafes in 2015. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has been persistent in pushing for this legislation.<br />
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<p>John Dalli resigned after the EU Commission’s anti-fraud office, OLAF, said that a Maltese businessman attempted to influence EU tobacco legislation through his connection with the commissioner.<br />
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This is not a surpise, how many have been paid off, wined and dined or given a "paradise" vacation to ban smoking? Lots.</p>