Showing posts with label smoking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label smoking. Show all posts
Sodas, Cigarettes And The Nanny State Neo-Prohibitionists
A Washington Times editorial. Michael R. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, is all but forgotten, but he’s not gone, exactly. Like a New York Yankee who swings for the fences and misses on the first two pitches, His Former Honor took his Big Gulp ban to the state’s highest court Wednesday, hoping to avoid a strikeout. Two lower courts ... MORE
Science: E-Cigs Could Save Hundreds Of Millions Of Lives
As U.S. politicians try to ban the device ... A group of 53 leading scientists has warned the World Health
Organization not to classify e-cigarettes as tobacco products, arguing
that doing so would jeopardize a major opportunity to slash disease and
deaths caused by smoking. The UN agency, which is currently assessing its position on the
matter, ... MOREStudy Finds E-Cigs Help Smokers Quit Better Than Patches
by Brian Stallard. No wonder big tobacco wants them banned. New evidence has surfaced that suggests using electronic cigarettes
may actually help tobacco smokers kick their harmful habit. However,
past studies have shown just the opposite, meaning that the consensus is
still unclear even as the facts are finally coming in. A study recently ... MORE
FDA And Big Tobacco Join Forces To Choke Out E-Cigs
Anti-smoking device in the crosshairs. Depending on what happens next, the electronic tobaccoless smokes will either rot in the land of once-hyped forgotten gadgets, or would-be smokers will instead spend late nights puffing away in a hip sweet-smelling vape lounge with a beer in one hand and a pimped-out mod in the other. ... MOREJacob Sullum: The 'Tobacco Products' That Aren't
FDA's slow-motion ban of e-cigs. The option-reducers never rest. The first time the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) moved to
regulate electronic cigarettes, it tried to ban
them. Last month it took a different approach that may
ultimately have a similar effect. Much will depend on whether the
FDA irrationally decides to treat e-cigs ... MOREWalter E Williams: Bizarre Arguments And Behavior
Deceivers and control freaks. Some statements and arguments are so asinine that you'd have to be an academic or a leftist to take them seriously. Take the accusation that Republicans and conservatives are conducting a war on women. Does that mean they're waging war on their daughters, wives, mothers and other female members of their ... MOREThe Boom In Smuggling To Avoid Cigarette Taxes
by Jonathan Berr. Another government-provoked black market. More than half of the cigarettes sold in New York State are smuggled
in from other places to avoid the Empire State's taxes on smokes, which
have soared nearly 200 percent since 2006, according to a report issued
by the conservative Tax Foundation. New
York is the highest net ... MORELA City Council Bans Anti-Smoking Device In Public
by Jacob Sullum. Who says no one likes cancer? As expected, the Los Angeles City Council today voted unanimously to ban vaping everywhere that smoking is banned, including indoor workplaces and outdoor locations such as parks, beaches, and restaurant patios. Although one of the main rationales for the ban is that children might ... MOREJacob Sullum: Vaping Gives Politicians The Vapors
Banning e-cigarettes because they look like real thing. A few weeks ago, as the New York City Council's health committee
considered a ban on using electronic cigarettes in public, several
fans of the battery-powered devices sat in the audience,
demonstrating their operation. "I'm watching puffs of vapor go up
in this room," ... MOREPassive Smoking -- Another Of The Nanny State's Big Lies
Passive smoking doesn't give you lung cancer. So says a new report publicised by the American Cancer Institute
which will come as no surprise whatsoever to anyone with a shred of
integrity who has looked into the origins of the great "environmental
tobacco smoke" meme. It was, after all, a decade ago that the British Medical ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: The End Of Private Property
In the era of the American police state. If the government can tell you what you can and cannot do within the privacy of your home, whether it relates to what you eat, what you smoke or whom you love, you no longer have any rights whatsoever within your home. If government officials can fine and arrest you for growing ... MORETibor R. Machan: Coping With Smoking
Smoking regs should not undermine individual rights. Laws forbidding business proprietors from permitting smoking in their offices, cinemas, aircraft, stores, etc. are now legion. But such government-mandated prohibitions ignore the rights of those who don’t mind smoking as well as those who wish to live in a tolerant society. ... MORE
Nick Gillespie: Clueless Crusade Against E-Cigaretters
The attempt to ban the alternative to cancer sticks. H.L. Mencken famously defined puritanism as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” He might have been describing contemporary anti-smoking activists, that dour band of fuss-budgets constantly on the prowl for new ways to make life slightly ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Bit By Bit Strategy
A relentless march of busybodies and tyrants. There's a move on to prohibit Washington's football team from calling itself "Redskins," even though a 2009 U.S. Supreme Court decision said that it has that right. Now the name change advocates are turning to the political arena and intimidation. The NCAA has already banned the University of ... MOREProhibition Lite Is Making RYO Cigarettes All The Rage
by Jeffrey A. Tucker. A month ago, I was sitting with some college students for lunch. After we ate, two of them took out loose-leaf tobacco and rolling papers, with filters and all. They started rolling cigarettes at the table. In some way, it looked more like poverty than a charming anachronism. Puzzled, I asked why they were doing this. The ... MORE
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