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Free Republic Smokers' Lounge 3rd Annual Yearly Threads Edition
Puff List ^ | 6/18/04 | francisandbeans

Posted on 06/18/2004 7:50:16 PM PDT by Just another Joe

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Be back after while. Taking a soak break.


41 posted on 06/19/2004 10:04:33 AM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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And now the next installment.

Democrats scoff at statewide smoking ban
Higher cigarette tax needed to cut smoking, backers say
Maine: Two bars cited after smoking complaints
Cigar-loving Schwarzenegger upsetting anti-tobacco groups
Governor Wants to Smoke
CIG-BAN BURNS
Maine: Smoking ban suffocates profits at area bars ~ and so it starts....
The Trouble With Tobacco Bonds
Cigar-loving Arnie plans a 'smoking plaza' at state capitol
Mass: Smoking ban hits a snag
'Breathalyzer in every car' bill passes house (NM)
Arnold wants his stogies at work
OHIO: Angry smokers vow to fight cigarette bans
Lung Cancer Vaccine Study Produces 'Exciting' Results
Nunn wants smoke ban in Capitol
Maine:Council to consider smoke-free city zones~Aren't We Sick Of This Yet?
Measure Would Ban Smoking In All Public Buildings
Md. smoking ban smolders
Florida: Smoking ban snuffs out some Indian River County businesses
The WHO accused of rewriting FCTC clause
Giuliani May Endorse Arnold & Pataki Will Do Fundraiser
Effective Technology Could Help Prevent Smoking Ban
State looks to raise its tobacco fund share fund share (PA)
Florida: Ormond mayor airs smoking ban idea
In Havana, hundreds roll in for cigar festival
US agency proposes 10 point plan to cut smoking
Hollywood smoke fires ire, call for changes in ratings
Maine:DHS creates smoking rules for foster homes, vehicles
Report: Woman Catches Fire From Cigarette (at psychiatric day-care center)
Soda pop tax eyed to ease health costs
Science Wars: We need to free science from the Commissars who now control it.
N.C. determined to stop teen smoking
Tobacco dispute stirs in House`Member criticized for ties to small cigarette-makers
How's business since smoke has cleared? (Dallas smoking ban - restaurant sales est. down 25%)
CIG BAN LETS BARS OFF THE HOOKAH
Florida: Cigarette tax sparks a debate
Group wants no smoking in cars
South Dakota: House panel rejects smoking bill
Report suggests smokers may be less costly to society after all
Smoker Opts For Longer Prison Term (Canadian couldn't handle smoke-free jail)
Separate smoking rooms could snuff out state ban
States bent on collecting tax on Internet purchases

42 posted on 06/19/2004 11:00:43 AM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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Here comes another

GA: Senate Passes Public Smoking Ban ~Barf Alert
Double drink prices, urges doctors. More social engineering
World's oldest man dies at 114 Premature death due to smoking? HA
Sheriff Won't Hire Smokers Discrimination, pure and simple
NYC Mayor: Gay Couples Merit Equal Rights But smokers don't
Stressed troops turn to smokes, alcohol, prayer
Study: We're Eating Ourselves to Death We warned 'em
Students end smoking ban after university bar sales slump University gets a lesson in free market theory
R-Rating Sought in Some Smoking Films Utopia movies only need apply
Pinko Reporter Peter Arnett Marries Much Younger Woman- PR Flak For Cigarette Company
Smoking Ordinance Takes Effect Thursday - police ready to enforce it (Fayetteville, Arkansas) Another bullet in property rights
W.Va. should tax tobacco products according to risks Let's TAX those risky behaviors
Passage Urged for Budget Amendment for Public Health; Tobacco Tax-Reduce Deficit,Cut Teen Smoking Have tobacco users make up the shortfall. Yah, that's the ticket.
EPA Studies Chemicals Emitted From Microwave Popcorn Linked to Lung Disease [POPCORN ALERT] SO, it IS the dose that makes the poison
THE END OF PRIVATE PROPERTY
HEALTH DEPT. RAIDS MIKE 'CIGAR' HOTEL (NYC)
Farewell to a FReeper FRiend - Max McGarrity One of our own is gone
War looms over FDA regulation of tobacco
RJR to cut leaf buys
Physicians and Health Activists Call for Renewed Focus on Tobacco Prevention
Nicotine gum to hit shop shelves
Florida: For restaurants' banned smokers, it's great outdoors
US tobacco firms reject calls for no-smoking drive
Anti-Smoking Ad Campaign Could Go off the Air Without Tobacco Money (Ironic...) Oh, the humanity of it!
Two initiatives take aim at indoor smoking
[Michigan's GOP] Speaker supports higher cigarette tax than [its liberal Democrat] governor
The Truth About the Truth.com
City Bans Outside Smoking In Front Of Kids And so it continues in the logical progression (for antis)
Ohio:Warrant issued in smoking ban battle~geesh!
Mike's No Drag On Brazen St. Pat's Party Puffers
Maine:Cigarette taxes, fees might offer last resort~GAG alert!
Tobacco Industry Faces U.S. in Trial~GAG alert!
Bar Owner Blames Smoking Ban For Rape
CALIFORNIA SMOKING BAN -- AT THE BEACH?
NYC: Mike's run may go up in smoke
Does Smoking have Any Health Benefits?
Ireland, inhale for freedom
Trouble brews in Ireland over smoking ban Sweeping new law called unenforceable
Back tax asked on cigarette
Revenues up 9% in New York Bars
Fake Cigars Get Rolled in Cuba Case (Cohiba)

43 posted on 06/19/2004 1:13:19 PM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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Time for the next one.

Pub smokers fume as Irish ban begins
California Cities Ban Smoking at the Beach
Girl Banned From Prom For Smoking Away From School
Smoking's giving drinking a bad name
Surgeon General Calls on Americans to Face Facts About Drinking
Habits: A Smoke Much Sweeter
Governor signs smoking ban, 17 other bills(Idaho Smokers Alert!)
Living with smokers ups death risk: study This one didn't get much exposure. Take a look.
Smoked out
Some money managers find value in booze, smokes, gambling and war
Cigarette taxes in N.J. sending smokers to Delaware (going up to $2.50 verus 55 cents in DE)
Cigarette Tax Increase Will Force Layoffs, Close Stores and Increase Crime
11 Charged In Cigarette-Smuggling Ring
Beer ads full of boos for Bloomy
Federal court tosses out N.Y. smoking-ban lawsuit
Norwegian County Backs Smokers' Rights (a basic human right)
You Can't Trust the Drug "Experts"
(Michigan) House to take up cigarette, liquor tax increases, estate tax continuation
Federal court tosses out N.Y. smoking-ban lawsuit
'Uprising' begins to overturn smoking ban'
Secondhand smoke poses heart attack risk [junk science alert]
Are We Serfs?
Anti-smoking smokesreen
Mississippi House Parties split over cigarette tax (Guess which is which)
Governor Haley Barbour says he'll veto cigarette tax, if it passes
L.A. to get 13 miles of smoke-free beaches
Calif. Bill Would Ban Smoking in Car with Kids
Smoking ban a cancer on business, bar owners say
Arizona House votes to OK guns in bars, restaurants
Fury as airport ban goes up in smoke (repeated Irish airport evacuations due to smoking US troops)

And of course it wouldn't be Friday without - Sex in space worries Nasa
Sierra Club Title: "Jeanette"
Smoking declared a basic human right
Bill banning smoking in autos carrying children passes Assembly committee
Pot smokers aren't terrorists
Offensive "Truth" Ads
Obesity Becoming Major Global Problem (Actual title!)
Former Bills Star Thomas Arrested for Drug Possession
Applebee's will ban smoking
U.S. Joints Tobacco Treaty
Alcohol lawsuits target ads
Crusaders for the Nanny State
New York City Claims Drop in Number of Smokers

44 posted on 06/19/2004 1:32:35 PM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: Just another Joe
Let's go again.

SMOKE SCREENING
Denver: Tobacco funds snuff anti-smoking efforts
Teacher Accused Of Breaking Student's Arm
United States Caves In to UN Tobacco Policy
Tobacco States Fume Over Bush Remarks
Bootleg cig biz red hot
(Michigan) House may vote on 75-cent-per-pack increase in state cigarette tax
The Greatest Evil Congress needs to butt out of our business.
House votes fails to increase the cigarette tax (Michigan House)
'Smokers hut' plan sparks debate
Panel recommends banning all indoor public smoking in Cleveland.
Tyranny of the majority: Smoking ban is just plain wrong
La. Jury Orders Tobacco Cos. to Pay $590M
Pennsylvania Planned Parenthood Conducts Anti-Smoking Drive
Smoking and survival in centenarians
D.C.: Smoking-Ban Proposal Won't Appear on November Ballot
No more smoking, ever, in Oregon schools
Taps for Union Colony Brewery (Another smoking ban casualty)
House set to reconsider increasing cigarette tax (Another vote tomorrow - Here we go again)
Cigarette ban ignites new dating ritual
Michigan House approves cigarette tax increase (55-53 - 13 Turncoat Republicans)
Bad Cartoons Make Bad Citizens
Report questions mold as health hazard (junk science again hit our pocketbooks)
Surgeon general expands list of diseases linked to smoking
U.N.: Smoking kills people seconds apart
Bad Taste - We Owe It To Our Kids (Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act)
Tobacco Firm may have Spied on Opposing Lawyers: Were tobacco lawyers being watched?
U.N.: Death Toll From Tobacco-Related Diseases Projected to Increase Dramatically
UN wants governments & individuals to accept smoking contributes to poverty
Celebrating World No Tobacco Day
A Tobacco Watershed
Gov. Granholm warns schools of cuts without cigarette, liquor tax increases
Smoker's saliva a 'cocktail of chemicals'
Maine:Six months on, opinion still split on smoking ban
FLASH: Lung Cancer Drops Among Women, Broad Survival Rates Rising...
Appeals Court Snuffs Pierce County Smoking Ban
Russia to raise tax rate for unfiltered cigarettes by 30%
Lobbying Day in Albany..this coming Tuesday
Defiant smokers reject calls to butt out...
'Cigar Marine' gets hero's homecoming
Cigarette Smuggling Linked to Terrorism

45 posted on 06/19/2004 1:51:13 PM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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And the last entry for this years threads.

Mayor sets out to silence New York's characterful cacophony Another Bloominidiot thread that shows where the 'idiot' portion of the name came from.
Taxes for terrorists: Aiding the enemy, one pack at a time
Advocates push for a ban on all smoking in Cincinnati bars,restaurants and workplaces.
NY:Group: Smoking ban hurts business
Alcohol rivals tobacco for health impact: WHO
Next up: Candy tax
Local Bars Still Feeling Some Effects of State Smoking Ban(Should waivers be granted?)
How an obese girl's death became a political issue
Shoes come second in smokers' homes
RI: House approves smoking ban (Even for public servants)

46 posted on 06/19/2004 4:33:55 PM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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They sure do keep us busy, don't they.

BTW, Happy Father's Day!!!!!!!!!!


47 posted on 06/20/2004 4:29:33 AM PDT by Gabz (RIP President Ronald W. Reagan 1911-2004)
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Apple Skoal comes out today!!!


48 posted on 06/21/2004 9:02:25 AM PDT by ICX (Makin movies, makin songs, and fightin' round the world!)
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Apple Skoal comes out today!!!

Ah, well, the anti-tobacco league will say it's only flavored so that children will use it.

49 posted on 06/21/2004 9:14:04 AM PDT by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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