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| Anti-tobacco extremists' are using many of the tactics, used to ban alcohol in the 1920's. |
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| Smokers Rights, Non-Smokers Rights and Private Property Owner's Rights Should Everyone's Rights Be Protected? Clearly the answer is yes. It is in our own interest to defend our neighbors rights as if they were our own. Ultimately, it is by defending your rights that I preserve mine. The quote " I may not agree with what you are saying but I would die for your right to say it" means just that. |
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| The Facts About Second Hand Smoke If SHS really is as dangerous as the government, political organizations and charities claim, efforts to prevent it and contain it are justified. But is it? We're bombarded by endless proclamations telling us of its horrors. These claims are usually accompanied by impressive sounding numbers. Are smokers really hurting every stranger in the vicinity? The answer to that question is obvious once you know the facts..... |
| Smoking bans turning teens into smokers! Contrary to what many people believe about the positive outcomes of smoking bans, a national two-year study by the Melbourne Institute has revealed, that rather than keeping Aussie teens away from smoking, a “rebellion effect” among 18 to 24 year-olds, may actually be prompting them towards picking up the habit. |
| Do smoking bans really make people quit Smoking? Anti smoking crusaders have said that smoking bans may help people quit smoking. However this theory that smoking bans will somehow affect the behavior of cigarette smokers fails to materialize in fact, like so many of their predictions. According to the Centers of Diseases Control, the percentage of former smokers in the United States in 2005 was 24.8%, virtually unchanged from the 24.7% rate in 2002. This time period is important because smoking bans took effect in Delaware in 2002, Florida and New York in 2003, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine and Massachusetts in 2004, and various municipalities enacted anti-smoking laws and tax hikes during this 3-year period. (read more) |
| Teenagers are exposed to more messages about smoking, than ever before. Would it surprise you to learn that this increase in exposure; may be causing a increase in smoking? It should be a surprise that these messages are not coming solely from the tobacco companies, but from anti-smoking lobby groups and state health departments. In fiscal year 2005; 538 million dollars of public money will be spent by state governments on smoking awareness messages. (158 million dollars more than is spent on lung cancer research) This includes exposure on television, in newspapers, on buses and trains and even in classrooms. (read more) |
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| Click here to review a list of Second Hand Smoke Studies Decide whether these studies offer positive or certain proof of its dangers |