Law & Public Safety
Cigarettes and Door Knobs
New York’s mayor Michael Bloomberg is at it again. This time, it’s not soda’s he’s banning, but the sale of cigarettes to anyone under the age of 21. Apparently, “Bloomberg…
Tobacco Control
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Undeterred By Soda Defeat, Nanny Bloomberg Goes After Tobacco Displays
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s hubris remains unchecked despite losing a legal battle to ban the sale of large sugary sodas. Now he’s going after tobacco displays. A new…
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N.C.’s smoking czar “spooked” by pushback against ban
File this story in the “should I laugh or should I cry” department. Incredibly, at least one state official is just starting to realize that business owners will try to…
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Is Smokeless Tobacco the Next Target?
As the war on tobacco use expands, is snuff and chew the next target of the nanny-staters? In today’s Carolina Journal, I write about what nearly happened in the Orange…
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Minnesota outdoing our anti-smoking nazis?
We’ve come a long way, Baby ? but ve ztill haff far to go!
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State indoor air laws do not reduce smoking in most venues
According to a new NBER study, state clean indoor air laws (SCIALs) reduced the fraction of bartenders who smoke. But SCIALs did not reduce smoking among workers in other venues…
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Accurate Info on the Senate Smoking Ban Law
The Senate Health Care Committee passed a new version of the smoking ban bill that would go well beyond simply banning smoking in restaurants and bars. The Senate may vote…
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Crisis du Jour: WHO, are you kidding?
The World Health Organization parodies itself and pronounces a “global tobacco epidemic“: Tobacco use killed 100 million people worldwide in the 20th century and could kill one billion people in…
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Huckabee joins Hillary to compete for the anti-smoking vote
The statist impulse is hard to resist when it comes to cigarettes. And at the end Mike Huckabee apes the scaremonger’s contention, “Cigarettes are the only product that we have…
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Re: tobacco legislation
Jenna hits the nail (for those of you over 50, no pun intended) on the head. Nothing the government has done so far is really about getting people to stop…
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Re: Germans … anti-smoking
I posted this on the Lockerroom before:
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RE: Soda Ban
Joe – To answer your question, Barry Popkin is the guy who said that we should regulate soft drinks in the same way we regulate cigarettes – using special taxes…