Smoking Bans Do Not Reduce Heart Attacks - Forbes

Smoking Bans Do Not Reduce Heart Attacks - Forbes

That chart comes from the blog of a young English researcher, Chris Snowdon. As you can see, following smoking bans in some cities the number of heart attacks went up. In others, little or no change. In some, a few, it dropped considerably: and those are the only ones that get reported.

Cherry picking your data this way is, as I’ve said, given the technical term “lying through your teeth”.

It’s worth having a look around Snowdon’s blog, you’ll be surprised at quite what you’ll find there.

Brian Monteith: I long to outlive health fascism

Brian Monteith: I long to outlive health fascism - Edinburgh Evening News

The research raises serious questions about public health policy - for if there is little that can be done to keep people alive, why does the bully state go to such lengths to control our behaviour? Are politicians not more dangerous to our health than our own sinful desires?

It is of course perverse that the public health police ignore the logic of their own argument - for if smoking, drinking and eating beyond moderation were that bad then letting people do so would save billions for the public purse.

Light up in Glens Falls parks and face jail time

Light up in Glens Falls parks and face jail time

* Lighting up a cigarette at city park or playground could soon land a smoker in jail for up to 15 days. The Common Council adopted a local law to prohibit smoking of cigarettes, cigars, pipes or any other form of tobacco products at city-owned parks, pools, beaches, playgrounds and other outdoor recreation areas. The city already had a smoking ban put in place several years ago by a Common Council resolution, but there were no penalties for violation.

Fifteen days.
No sarcasm left,just shock and awe.