Posted on 01/29/2003 4:26:21 PM PST by Max McGarrity
Joe Cherner vs. Jacob Sullum
If you are going to be in New York City on February 5 (next Wednesday), you are invited to take part in a live taping for National Public Radio (NPR) about smokefree workplace legislation.
What: NPR's Justice Talking (audience participation encouraged)
When: Wednesday, February 5, 2003, 6:30pm-8:00pm
Where: Baruch University's Newman Conference Center (151 East 25th Street), Room 750
Who: Jacob Sullum, Senior Editor, Reason Magazine vs.
Joe Cherner, President, SmokeFree Educational Services, Inc.
How: Reserve your place at www.justicetalking.org/upcoming.asp (click on "join the audience")
or call Joy Cerequas at 212-316-3636
Cherner will argue that ALL workers deserve a smokefree work environment. Sullum will argue that business owners should decide their own smoking policy.
Currently airing on more than 70 stations in the U.S., NPR's Justice Talking is quickly becoming America's source for insight on the hot-button legal issues we all read about, think about and talk about every day. The weekly, one-hour program is moderated by veteran NPR correspondent Margot Adler and features the nation's leading advocates who face off in down-to-earth, free-wheeling debate. Taped before a live audience, each debate begins with a feature report that provides the human story behind the topic, prepared by a talented team of public radio correspondents. Margot Adler asks her own challenging questions and then fields questions from the diverse and knowledgeable audience.
Recognized by the New York Times for its "quality and depth," Justice Talking has been the recipient of several awards including the Nancy Dickerson Whitehead Award for Excellence in Reporting, the New York Festival's Gold Medal Award, and the Civic Mind Award for excellence in public education about the law.
Join the debate! Attendance is free but seating is limited, so visit www.justicetalking.org/upcoming.asp and click on "join the audience" to reserve your place.
- "Justice Talking ... is a substantive and thought-[provoking program that ... captures the tough challenges legislators face in coming up with policies that balance public [concerns]. By giving both sides equal time, the program explores the complexities of the issue ... [it] is an example of journalistic excellence" Leslie Stahl
I don't know about that Musket...I think they used to be pathetic, but now their funny.....JMHO
FMCDH...(hi Max...PUFF!)
Now that NPR is involved, however, we probably will learn the terrible effect that workplace smoking has on fairies. I used to listen to NPR but changed the station every time they begin a story about fairies being close to normal. It is amazing how often they broadcast that message.
Um, you know that the alleged health dangers of secondhand smoke have been found to be nonexistent, right? The arguments of supporters of these bans always reduces to "I don't like smoke". Well, neither do I, but that's not a sufficient reason to deprive the business owner of his property rights.
NPR doesn't even have to be involved - just the fact that Cherner is involved tells you that.
Because we're smokers, Cherner believes he and his "partner" are better parents than my husband and I. he's a major proponent of gay "adoption."
I'm glad to know that your hatred of smokers goes so far that you side with the fairies you claim to despise over of the rights of business owners and conservatives who believe in the true meaning of parenthood, marriage, and freedom from the nanny state.
You are a typical anti - they are all hypocrites.
My, what a novel concept.
Anti-smoking crusade a threat to civil rights, U.S. author warns
"Government efforts to clamp down on cigarette smoking pose a threat to civil liberties, a U.S. author says. Jacob Sullum, author of For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health, delivered a speech in Montreal last week that blended smokers' rights with individual freedoms in a manner that is rarely heard in public forums.
Sullum told a luncheon audience of about 50 people organized by the conservative-minded L'Institute Economique de Montreal on Thursday that adult consumption of cigarettes should be a private matter, not a public-health issue.
"Treating risky behaviour (cigarette smoking) like a contagious illness has troubling implications," Sullum said. "If the government is authorized to discourage personal decisions that might lead to disease or injury, there is no end to the interventions that could be justified, and no safe harbour for individual freedom."
Sullum, a senior editor at Reason magazine, argued that government moves toward a cigarette-free society denies the minority rights of smokers.
Regarding second-hand smoke, it should be up to property owners to decide whether or not they tolerate cigarettes on their premises, he said.
As for government-run services and buildings, he suggested that both smokers and non-smokers can be accommodated.
As Sullum sees it, the only legitimate curb on the freedom to smoke comes with limiting access to minors.
Well, that's might white of you. How about if we wait until we're in the smoker-friendly BUSINESS OWNER'S AIR to light up? Surely you wouldn't have a problem with that? Or do you, like tacis and other totalitarian jerkwads, think ALL air belongs to you?
Anti smokers do not believe that applies to them.
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