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Extortion In Texas

"University administrators around the state are considering campuswide tobacco-free policies as a result of new rules established by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas. In January, the institute’s oversight committee adopted a policy that requires grant recipients to have policies prohibiting tobacco use in buildings and structures where financed research is occurring, as well as at the outdoor areas immediately adjacent to those buildings". 
 
If the Universities in Texas do not ban smoking on campus, including outdoors or they won’t get any grants.  It is extortion by bullies. Disgusting.

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Smokers Losing Child Custody

In at least 18 states, courts have ruled that subjecting a child to tobacco smoke is a factor which should be considered in deciding custody. 
 
Courts sometimes consider the smoking habits of others who may have contact with the child, such as grandparents, friends, and “significant others” when making custody decisions. 
 
You can be an alcoholic, do illegal drugs but you can’t smoke.  Are you angry enough now to become politically active?

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Oklahoma

A bill that would gradually make Oklahoma the first state to raise its legal age to purchase tobacco to 21 has passed out of a House committee. The House Public Health Committee approved the bill with a 7-5 vote last week, and it is slated for review in the full House. 
 
This is ridiculous, if they want to smoke, they will find a way.

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Chicago

The American Heart Association is pushing a bill in Chicago to add an additional tax  $1.00 per pack.  Why?  To plug up a hole in Medicaid.  
 
Again, we have a 501(c)3 lobbying for legislation, which is in violation of IRS Regulations.

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THE NEW FRONTS: OUTDOOR & CAMPUS SMOKING BANS

An excellent piece by Michael McFadden on the creeping intrusion into Outdoor Recreational Smoking

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Debunked

A recent study implied that smoking bans in bars and restaurants also influence a decrease in allowing smoking at home. 
 
The<a href="http://boltonsmokersclub.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/a-survey-smoking-bans-do-not-cause-increase-in-smoking-at-home/"> Bolton Club</a> has debunked the study for us.

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New York

As a new state ban on smoking on outdoor platforms and concourses of the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North takes effect this week, supporters expect the strongest enforcement of the law to come from an unusual source: passengers. 
The next time someone lights up on the platform, they can say, "Hey, idiot, don’t you see the sign over there?’ That’s very empowering for them and that’s social pressure. That’s how society works." 
 
Really?  Someone should not put their nose in other’s business because they may not like the response they get.

By webmaster, 13 years ago

Alcohol Needs Global Regulation

According to the World Health Organization, alcohol kills more than 2.5 million people annually, more than AIDS, malaria or tuberculosis. 
 
In a commentary appearing today (Feb. 15) in the journal Nature, Sridhar argues that the WHO should regulate alcohol at the global level, enforcing such regulations as a minimum drinking age, zero-tolerance drunken driving, and bans on unlimited drink specials. Abiding by the regulations would be mandatory for the WHO’s 194 member states. 
 
WHO has no elected officials, and is responsible to no one.  That doesn’t stop them, they are still coming after tobacco and now alcohol. If you thought you escaped from the health police because you didn’t smoke think again.  You are next.

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Why Solar Power is Permanently Inefficient

In his latest column, Edmund Contoski details why solar energy is inefficient, and how the government’s bolstering of "green energy" companies  is likely to result in economic calamity.

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Outdoor Pollution A Threat

While everyone goes on and on ad nauseam about outdoor second hand smoke, the real culprit is dirty air.  
 
Reuters Health) – Living in a crowded city or near a busy highway may be tied to a higher chance of having a stroke or losing your memory, new research suggests. 
 
A study published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine found a higher risk of stroke after "moderate" compared to "good" air quality days in Boston-area residents, especially when traffic-related pollution was high. 
 
And another report in the same journal documented a faster long-term decline in thinking and memory skills in women living in higher-pollution areas of the United States.

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