$200 Million In Lost Revenue

Illinois May End Casino Smoking Ban | News & Features | Cigar Aficionado

Imagine that number on a global scale.

Another state did Iowa. Iowa passed a smoking ban but expempted their casinos from it.

Surely there must be a reason why smoking bans harm governments,people and states.

Property Rights

If I pay taxes in a buisness that I own why does the state,the town,the county,the WHO, have the authority to tell me what I can and can't allow my patrons to do?

Sometimes people get fed up.

And other times the lies become clear.

When is enough enough?

How much money,power,control,jobs do the anti's have to wrest away from us before we become like this or like this?

New year wish - Tshering Tobgay’s Blog

New year wish - Tshering Tobgay’s Blog: "Bhutan"

What a strange law.

No idea how it could be enforced.

It's sad looking at this because if I read this right ,there is no question that this is a road that we will all be walking down eventually.

Albert Einstein said of prohibition 


"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this."

People just forget history I guess.

Nick Gillespie On The Nanny State

Nick Gillespie On The Nanny State

A simple message,accept personal responsibility for the choices you make.

The government's job is not to be my parent,my priest,my friend or the one who enforces that my choices are limited.

An Update From Richard White

From Richard White ............................................

Hi guys,

I just got off the phone to Liz and her husband, unfortunately Philipina 
moved out today but on the plus side the family are just settling her 
into a new home where she's allowed to smoke, so all's well that ends 
well i guess - better there than the nazis eh?

Anyway, regarding the plans to send her the e-cig, Liz was really 
grateful for that and has provided me the new address, i'm sure you can 
understand that i won't be printing it online because it's direct to her 
apartment, so (Kate in particular!) if there are any updates or news 
regarding getting her one, can the person contact me directly and i'll 
sort the address out?

Liz was also grateful for the petition itself and found it bizarre that 
the story was in papers in various provinces - so you can imagine the 
reaction when i told her about all the blogs and multi-national 
signatories! I'm still going to email the petition though, perhaps with 
an extra note notifying them that we're aware of the move but we still 
have a voice. They still need to be made aware that their actions aren't 
tolerable, so i'll just email it over tomorrow (Michael, if you have any 
more names since i emailed it to you please send it back and i'll add 
them to the new ones i got). (Martin, as you asked earlier, i'm 
currently at 80 names, not bad for 3 days i reckon)

Now, i've only emailed the 4 of you because the whole thing went so damn 
out of control that i couldn't possibly email everyone who contacted me. 
So if you could all do what you did before on blogs, groups, emails and 
whatever magic you unleashed, but this time mentioning that it's now 
closed and my inbox can stop being pounded hopefully.

If you do manage to do that, please put a huge thankyou from me, i 
didn't expect it to get so much attention, there's still a lot of caring 
people around and it should give us a lot more hope and determination 
that our fight isn't a lost cause. And also tell everyone to give 
themselves a pat on the back for the hard work, everyone pulled together 
really well and although we didn't get her to keep her home, we still 
united for a good cause so there's nothing to stop us going from 
strength to strength from here.

Cheers everyone
Rich


-- 
Author of Smoke Screens: The Truth About Tobacco
http://www.smokescreens.org
http://www.smokescreensthetruthabouttobacco.blogspot.com

Thanks to Kate from Vaper's Network for sending this to me,and thank you to the 

Austrian Smokers Movement  for reminding me that I have a blog and should use it.

Ranting About The Framework

YouTube - Legislation Against the Tobacco Industry

Depressing.

Makes me wonder when the WHO is finally going to be done.

Do they not see that the things they do affect everyone?

Farmers,elderly people,parents, children?

Every lie costs someone something,not tobacco control of course but it costs everyone else something.

Children are afraid their parents will die in agony and horrific pain,elderly people afraid they will be thrown out of their homes,farmers in the third world afraid they will no longer be able to make a living.

I wonder how many jobs have been lost since so many contries ratified the WHO's framework for Tobacco Control.

Not just jobs lost to smoking bans but jobs lost to the WHO Framework ,I bet the statistics on that would be amazing reading.

Survey reveals doubts over Turkey's smoking ban

Survey reveals doubts over Turkey's smoking ban -

Well there you have it in black and white.

Anything and everything you have heard before about how smoking bans damage economic well being.

It says something when people report that 64 % of non smokers believe that smoking should be allowed in public places.

That is a big percentage of people.

I am so happy to read stories like this,they give me hope even when there is so little of it these days.

Another Charity Boards The Gravy Train

National Families In Action Launches "But What About The Children?" - TheStreet

It's all the same.

Every single one of these groups want to "protect the children".

Protect them from what living?

In this case the all powerful evil enemy is Marijuana,in this case the stuff California is trying to legalize.

"We allowed alcohol and tobacco to be sold for too many years without effective regulation, and we've paid a terrible price in terms of early use, addiction, and all of those deaths," said Rusche. "If policy makers decide to legalize a third addictive drug, it's imperative that we use our 150 years of knowledge and experience to protect our children from becoming the target market of the marijuana industry."

Ya sure,it's the fault of the government for not doing enough to protect us.

Someday and maybe I won't live to see it but someday these people and groups like theirs will no longer exist.

I hope I live long enough for that to happen.

Oddly enough I don't use controlled substances,but I think we should be able to legally use them if we want to.

I have these fantasies of a world where we are treated like adults and no one tries to say what vise is good and what vice is bad.

No one tries to control us or shame us and no one is living off my tax dollars or anyone else's.

Someday I imagine a world where adults are responsible for their own behavior and the behavior of their children.

I like the world I created in my head,I'm only sad I don't already live in it.