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It's time for a full scale congressional investigation
Congress.org ^ | September 9, 2006

Posted on 09/10/2006 7:02:08 AM PDT by SheLion

Jobs are being eliminated by special interest activist organizations

Now that air quality test results by the likes of the American Cancer Society are proving that the secondhand smoke kills argument is completely fabricated.

http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2004/04/american-cancer-society-test-results.html

It's time for lawmakers to investigate why this fallacy has permeated the local government debate.....and specifically who is funding and spreading that false information.

http://www.rwjf.org/about/founder.jhtml

The "who" is in large part the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. And since RWJF is an affiliate of the Johnson & Johnson Company (the manufacturer of competing nicotine product interests Nicoderm & Nicoderm CQ), it stands to reason that the role of RWJF's funding of smoking ban efforts is for their own financial benefit.....not for health concerns as some would have you believe.

http://www.alza.com/alza/tl_1991
http://www.alza.com/alza/tl_2001

At the very least, because of the appearance of impropriety, and the fact that tens of thousands of people in the hospitality and ventilation industries are being negatively impacted by these special interest funded smoking bans;

http://www.smokersclubinc.com/banloss3.htm

congressional hearings at the state and federal levels should convene immediately before any future consideration of smoking bans at any level (city, county, state, or federal).

And should it be discovered that there is indeed a conflict of interest, the culpable party (RWJF) should be forced to compensate those of us negatively affected by the false data which resulted in arbitrary and unnecessary smoking ban laws.

Clearing the Air encourages all hospitality associations, ventilation / filtration manufacturers, gaming associations, and even the tobacco manufacturers nationwide to demand such an investigation......one powerful voice in unison, cannot go ignored.


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To: SheLion

Very little of our discretionary money goes for eating out anymore; so many places have banned smoking, it just isn't the same.

I don't like eating an expensive dinner with little children running around, I like going out where I can enjoy excellent food, a good bar, and freedom to smoke, or not as I choose.

No wonder the restaurants where they ban smoking are going broke. Sometimes Hub and I like to go out on a "date" together, and we aren't looking for family atmosphere or nanny restrictions, we are looking for a place where reasonable adults can enjoy adult company.

The smoke-nannys are going to have to face the people someday. But first, smokers are going to have to quit apologizing and feeling guilty for enjoying an adult habit that funds a lot of government programs.

The lying sacks that promote this health-nazi propaganda can just eat my ... dust.


41 posted on 09/10/2006 11:57:57 AM PDT by Judith Anne (Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
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To: Humble Servant

This quagmire is quite parallel to the DEA going after marijuana.

Why can't conservatives band together to stop the Nanny State?


42 posted on 09/10/2006 12:07:11 PM PDT by 308MBR (Milkin' and a churnin', picking cotton, raising "heck" and balin' hay!)
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To: SheLion
It is time to take the gloves off.

I think more people are coming out of the ether over this issue.

The Smoking Jihadis are metastasizing into other areas, spreading hysteria through junk science and catering to the worst impulses in human nature.

Carving people out, demonizing them and taxing them into oblivion - hateful and dangerous behavior by hateful and dangerous people.

The national symbol should be a sheep.

43 posted on 09/10/2006 12:30:44 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: ccmay
Your whiny, insulting posts are unpleasant and disgusting.

I'm all in favor of banning them from public places.

44 posted on 09/10/2006 12:32:24 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: Judith Anne
The smoke-nannys are going to have to face the people someday. But first, smokers are going to have to quit apologizing and feeling guilty for enjoying an adult habit that funds a lot of government programs.

The lying sacks that promote this health-nazi propaganda can just eat my ... dust.

Without a doubt!

The RWJF and Big Pharm tried hard to put a huge guilt trip on smokers.  When that didn't work, now they are telling non-smoking friends and family that smokers are killing them with the second hand smoke.

This is all BS!  Big Pharm just wants smokers to stop so they will buy the very expensive stop smoking DRUGS!

I'm tired of it.  I'm tired of them trying to put a guilt trip on me, and I'm tired of all the lies and propaganda against smokers.

And I am sick to death of hearing all the private businesses that are closing and the wait staff losing their jobs just because of this reform school smoking ban.

It's time for this to STOP!

45 posted on 09/10/2006 1:05:05 PM PDT by SheLion ("If you're legal, you can fly with the Eagle!" - Michael Anthony)
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To: Madame Dufarge
Carving people out, demonizing them and taxing them into oblivion - hateful and dangerous behavior by hateful and dangerous people.

The national symbol should be a sheep.

Yep!  I have noticed more private businesses taking the anti's to court over the smoking bans.  And it's about time.

I guess California and Maine were the scapegoats.  When the rest of the US saw what is happening to CA and ME, it woke the rest of the country up!

46 posted on 09/10/2006 1:07:30 PM PDT by SheLion ("If you're legal, you can fly with the Eagle!" - Michael Anthony)
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To: SheLion

LOL


47 posted on 09/10/2006 1:09:31 PM PDT by Mr.Unique (Back in the day...)
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To: SheLion
Good, go for it.

Actually Rush read a report from the WHO a year or more ago about second hand smoke not being a health risk.

48 posted on 09/10/2006 3:10:35 PM PDT by Dustbunny (The BIBLE - Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth)
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To: elkfersupper
Or is that just too much to ask?

Yep. You stay home. Is that too much to ask? You're the one with the drug addiction, not me. It's your problem, not mine.

-ccm

49 posted on 09/10/2006 4:24:22 PM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order)
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To: William Terrell
To inflict your intestinal gas on others is likewise rude. And, yes, it is a choice; you can hold it and go elsewhere.

Only a drug addict would equate his habit with a natural physiological process.

-ccm

50 posted on 09/10/2006 4:26:00 PM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order)
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To: Madame Dufarge
The Smoking Jihadis are metastasizing into other areas, spreading hysteria through junk science and catering to the worst impulses in human nature.

I said before, I don't give a damn about the science, "junk" or otherwise. It's simply a disgusting, selfish, and offensive habit that irritates practically all non-smokers and ruins any evening out.

When you blow smoke into a non-smoker's airspace, it's as offensive as if I lit a stink bomb under your chair or heaped a pile of feces on your dinner table. Should I be allowed to do this to you in a restaurant under the rubric of "individual rights"?

Your whiny, insulting posts are unpleasant and disgusting. I'm all in favor of banning them from public places.

You're quite free not to read them. Unfortunately, I am not free to avoid breathing. Keep your smoke out of my air.

-ccm

51 posted on 09/10/2006 4:27:25 PM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order)
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To: ccmay
You're the one with the drug addiction snooty attitude, not me. It's your problem, not mine.

There, all fixed.

52 posted on 09/10/2006 4:38:15 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: ccmay
Keep your smoke out of my air.

If you've discovered a way to own air, please FRepmail me.

We can make a fortune.

53 posted on 09/10/2006 4:41:37 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: elkfersupper
FRepmail

Make that "FReepmail".

Sticky key.

54 posted on 09/10/2006 4:43:34 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: ccmay
It's not the process. It's the smell. You acknowledged it in your prior post.

55 posted on 09/10/2006 4:49:58 PM PDT by William Terrell (Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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To: Dustbunny
Actually Rush read a report from the WHO a year or more ago about second hand smoke not being a health risk.

Right.  Here is an excerpt of what Rush said: "The World Health Organization actually did a study on secondhand smoke which showed that it doesn't even make people sick, much less kill them. Now, it makes people uncomfortable. ..... but it doesn't kill."

56 posted on 09/11/2006 3:43:25 AM PDT by SheLion ("If you're legal, you can fly with the Eagle!" - Michael Anthony)
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To: SheLion
Well imagine this! The trouble is that the word is not being spread except on the Internet. This should be shouted from the roof top, but it gets nothing outside of this medium.
57 posted on 09/11/2006 7:00:16 AM PDT by Sunshine Sister
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To: Sunshine Sister
Well imagine this! The trouble is that the word is not being spread except on the Internet. This should be shouted from the roof top, but it gets nothing outside of this medium.

We have quite a few other outlets that we use also, besides Free Republic.

Check out the Newsletter, updated weekly for news in your area:

The United Pro Choice Smokers Rights Newsletter


58 posted on 09/11/2006 8:21:14 AM PDT by SheLion ("If you're legal, you can fly with the Eagle!" - Michael Anthony)
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To: SheLion

Thanks! I'll do that!


59 posted on 09/11/2006 10:04:07 AM PDT by Sunshine Sister
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To: Sunshine Sister
Thanks! I'll do that!


60 posted on 09/11/2006 10:18:53 AM PDT by SheLion ("If you're legal, you can fly with the Eagle!" - Michael Anthony)
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