Dining permits cheaper if smoking banned - Business (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Dining permits cheaper if smoking banned - Business (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Councillor Houssam Abiad runs a cafe in Rundle Street in the city and pays about $500 per year for his outdoor dining permit.

While he supports the council's trial, he say he is unsure banning outdoor smoking will make sense for his business.

Nice,when a member of your counsil doesn't want to implement the program it might be a clue that the program is a piss poor idea .

Weight of public opinion - Boston.com

Weight of public opinion - Boston.com

Taxed up the wazoo, forced to pay hundreds of extra dollars for health insurance, tossed out in the rain and snow to sneak a few puffs of the dreaded cancer sticks - smokers are the deadbeat dads of the public health landscape. Here in Boston, there is a move afoot to ban smokers from public housing. In New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is ticketing cigarette smokers in public parks.

“The effort of smokers to invoke their civil rights gained no traction,’’ Callahan writes, “and the public health community made no moves to come to their aid.’’

Sounds like the world just isn't ready to treat the overweight people like smokers,yet.
I am sure that their time will come soon enough though. :(

Metro rejects anti-tobacco ads over policyNWCN.com Washington - Oregon - Idaho

NWCN.com Washington - Oregon - Idaho

An ad campaign to promote healthy lifestyles has been rejected by King County Metro Transit.

Anti-tobacco ads, which depict a girl asking stores to sell fruit instead of tobacco, were rejected by Metro because they do not comply with its advertising policy.

You have to read to the end.
The staggering amount of grant money thrown at anti-smoking and healthy living messages boggles my mind.
Again nothing snarky to say,I think reading 50 or 60 of these stories a day and trying to decide what to put here is eroding my sense of humor.