By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg puts many other officials to shame when it comes to promoting strong smoking bans.
His latest target: City officials may pass rules to halt smoking in hundreds of city parks and along miles of city beaches.
More power to you, Mr. Mayor, in your effort to cut smoking even further, which helps slash medical expenses for low-income people.
Meanwhile, the people of Missouri and Kansas can't even get one of their state legislatures to approve a statewide ban on smoking.
How pathetically weak both states have been.
Lawmakers ought to grow a spine and follow Bloomberg's actions of earlier this decade, when he and other elected city officials got tough with smoking.
The move has paid off. Fewer and fewer people now smoke in the city, mostly because it's illegal to do so in many public places.
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Spammers' Convention!
Wow, Yael, you got 4 of the 10 worldwide pro-smoking spammers on this one! They love to swarm anyone who disagrees with them.
You must be doing something right to seem such a threat to their businesses, whether it be a ventilation company, a convenience store, tobacco farm or whatever!
Good work!
Smoking ban sources
Just a reminder of the sources of the bans and the coalitions, more concerned with "social change" than the bans themselves:
http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?ia=143&id=14912
And what the 99 million dollars was going to. Note on page seven the "inside -out", provision going for patios later, AFTER business owners spend thousands of dollars to build them to accommodate their smoking customers, clearly showing that the tobacco control activists have ABSOLUTLY NO CONCERN about local issues or businesses.
http://www.no-smoke.org/pdf/CIA_Fundamentals.pdf
Here's the "model ban" from page eight that many communities copied, printed, and passed. It's the "smoking ban for dummies" It only takes a few minutes to fill in the blanks naming your community, the administrators names, and blanks to customize it to your community according to the width of your sidewalks.
http://www.no-smoke.org/document.php?id=229
That's right, let's tax
That's right, let's tax smokers to the hilt, and then take away their preference to smoke on their privately owned property and then in the great outdoors too. Perfect! Use their taxes against them, make them do the anti-smoking brigades bidding! We need to get rid of these lawmakers who keep giving one population anything they want and elect those that abide by the U.S. Constitution.
Google worlds oldest
Google worlds oldest smokers, you'll find ALL the worlds oldest people are or were smokers! The benefits of smoking tobacco have been common knowledge for centuries, and big pharma knows this and would wipe out the competition. From sharpening mental acuity to maintaining optimal weight, the relatively small risks of smoking have always been outweighed by the substantial improvement to mental and physical health. Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Tourette's Syndrome, even schizophrenia and cocaine addiction are disorders that are alleviated by tobacco. Tobacco shows promise to prevent colon and prostate cancer and the endorsement for smoking tobacco by the medical establishment is good news for smokers and non-smokers alike. The revelation that tobacco is good for you is trumped by the pharmaceutical industry's plan to substitute the natural and relatively inexpensive tobacco plant with their overpriced and ineffective nicotine substitutions with 98% failure rates for quitting for 1 year or more. Big pharma has spent billions demonizing the pleasure of smoking using social engineering and profits from bans that destroys private businesses. Follow the money!
Bans are devastating!
Smoking bans absolutely devastate the tavern industry. People stay home to drink when they can’t smoke. Over 300 bars in Ohio closed the first year alone of the smoking ban. There are 327 documented closings due to the smoking ban in the Minneapolis area including the last VFW there. Most of the bars affected are privately owned, and these bans trample private property rights. Most small bars are not affiliated with big chains, they are mom and pop bars that become virtually worthless after a ban. Close to 90% of the weight of tobacco smoke is composed of oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and plain water (1989 Report of the Surgeon General p. 80). This mix is usually called “fresh air.” For this we take away property rights? So that someone’s smoke-free preference can trump an owners rights? I read an article about a boy that OD'd on Nicorette gum given at school without parental knowledge. So, very quietly, pharmaceutical nicotine is pushed on 12 year old kids. If anyone doubted that the anti-smoking crusade leads back to Johnson & Johnson, the cat is totally out of the bag! Smokers Welcome, Non-Smokers Welcome, Anti-Smokers Buy Your Own Business!
Smoking bans
Isn't that what happened during prohibition?
The 'drys' took over the levers of government and passed laws to forbid the selling of Alcohol?
History is just about to repeat itself.
Prohibition never works.
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Smoking bans
Smoking bans means: It is against the law to use or permit a legal product on 'private' property.
Is this the American Way??
The land of the Free?
Praise to our MO Lawmakers
for having the spine, as YT laments they don't have, to say no to these fascists who are convinced they, like any good fascist, know what's good for me and will pass laws to make sure I do what they want.
If smoking is so damm bad YT, why aren't you writing columns to demand that MO return any of the smoking settlement? You hypocritically will take the money and pass additional taxes and then bitch about it. Have a spine and refuse to take the blood money YT!!
Smoking in parks
Really? 7,000 killed by SHS in NY. The EPA could only get 3,000 killed off with their fraudulent report, in the whole U.S. The ACS had to withdraw their Ad in the TIMES; claiming 53,000 die a year when they could not provide proof. In fact none of the figures claimed by Tobacco Control have ever been proven. Not one person has even been proven to have died due to SHS. This move to ban Smoking in parks is nothing less than Bloomberg’s, attempt to satisfy his own agenda. It is not about protecting or keeping Children from becoming addicted to Smoking. Laws should never be passed to discriminate against a minority.
Health nuts will do anything to make their life styles enforced on others. This push for Smoking Bans is a Marketing Plan by Big Pharma to sell their Smoking Cessation Products. It’s never been about Health, it’s about Profit. It is time to stop this Life Style enforcement and control of private business, for Profit.
Millions of Tax Dollars have been wasted, business have been ruined, jobs have been lost, people have had their lives ruined and some have even lost their lives, illegal trade in Tobacco is loosing Tax Dollars and causing crime and all because of this fraud of SHS kills. This is one of the biggest lies that has become the accepted truth by being repeated on a 24/7 basis. The only Profit in this goes to Big Pharma in their sales of NRT’s. The rest is a total loss for everyone.