City smoking ordinance under a cloud - Galesburg, IL

City smoking ordinance under a cloud - Galesburg, IL - The Register-Mail

The City Council introduced a city smoking ordinance in 2010. O’Day had attempted to argue that the ordinance was unconstitutional because it treated bars unfairly compared to other businesses. But the motion to challenge the constitutionality of the ordinance was denied by Judge James Stewart. During West’s jury trial, O’Day successfully argued that the city could not prove that West knew people were smoking inside Harley’s Pub, given that the bar was busy at the time.

O’Day has been on something of a crusade against the smoking ban. He took cases against the state smoking ban pro-bono and has now taken on the city’s smoking ordinance, although he is now charging those he defends. O’Day does not smoke himself but said he believes bar owners have the right to allowing smoking on their premises.

For every ten lawyers I despise there is one I respect.

Letters: Stubbing out cigarettes can breathe new life into you

Letters: Stubbing out cigarettes can breathe new life into you - Scotsman.com News

The message from the study is not that if you want to live to be over 100 you should smoke, drink and not exercise (or that it makes little difference), it is that there are rare people who will live to be over 100 almost regardless of what they do.

Putting the findings in context, the larger body of research of which the new study is just one part indicates that, for most people, lifestyle factors do make a very large difference to life expectancy. Sir Richard Doll in his landmark Doctors Study observed an average ten-year difference in life expectancy attributable to smoking.

Oh good,tobacco control giving more great advise on how to live.

Sometimes it is more about quality of life than anything else.I know of  a great many people who have had their happy social lives destroyed by the type of thinking tc dispenses regularly.

It makes me too mad to finish whatever I was going to say.

Does Smoke-Free Living Hurt Civility? - Edward Tenner - Life - The Atlantic

Does Smoke-Free Living Hurt Civility? - Edward Tenner - Life - The Atlantic

I don't smoke, hate second-hand smoke, was tormented while living in Washington by smoke from an adjacent apartment, and accept the overwhelming medical case against even casual water-pipe smoking. Still, I'm just short of a third cheer for the anti-smoking movement I support. I wonder whether there is a hidden cost to our healthier lifestyles, especially in giving up tobacco's role as a political and social lubricant

Not a totally positive story,but worth reading anyway.
It's a sort of surprise to see someone who hates smoking thinking that it may not be all negative.

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.

Mental Health, Smoking and Greed (A Real Blogger Writes)

http://elizabethspeacepointblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/mental-health-smoking-and-greed.html?spref=tw

Elizabeth has written a fine blog post and I am proud to have read it.
I love it,go to her blog,read it now.
I'm not even going to quote her here,her blog deserves every visit it gets from my link(most likely one.)