Too many children are still targeted by big tobacco. Now is not the time abandon the truth campaign

14 Sep 2004

Statement of John L Kirkwood, President and CEO American Lung Association
Now is not the time to abandon the truth campaign, because, the truth is that tobacco companies still market to kids. Too many children and teens are still targeted by big tobacco. Each year, the tobacco industry spends in excess of $11 billion to market its deadly product. Every day 6,000 children under 18 start to smoke for the first time, close to 2,000 of them become established daily smokers. This is intolerable. The earlier a smoker starts, the more likely he or she is to die from tobacco use. Now is not the time to abandon the truth® campaign.
The truth® campaign is key to the work being done across the nation to reduce tobacco addiction. Coupled with meaningful policy change that has increased cigarette taxes and eliminated smoking in public places in many communities and states, the truth® campaign’s message has hit the mark with teens, using unique language and imagery that teens understand. The truth® campaign is edgy, pointed, sometimes funny and often deadly serious but always tells the truth® about the tobacco industry.
The American Legacy Foundation took the truth® to the teens of America. The 1998 Master Settlement Agreement between 46 states and the tobacco industry compelled payments that endowed the Legacy Foundation to fund an education campaign -- the truth® campaign. The clear intent was for this to be a sustained approach. Despite public pronouncements, the tobacco industry has not truly changed. It is still marketing to kids. The unvarnished truth® provided an effective, creative counter punch to the Marlboro Man. Still, more than 1 in 4 high school students smoke. We need the truth® to maintain the fight. We need the truth® to confront the next class of kids susceptible to tobacco.
At the time of the Master Settlement, the attorneys general repeatedly stated publicly that reducing teen smoking was the goal. We understood that in order to sustain this effort, the education campaign would have to continue. We call on the state attorneys general to amend the Master Settlement Agreement to continue to fund the truth® campaign. The courts should compel the industry to fulfill the intent of the Master Settlement Agreement and fund the effective truth® campaign.
For 100 years, the American Lung Association has been the lead organization working to prevent lung disease and promote lung health. Lung disease death rates continue to increase while other leading causes of death have declined. The American Lung Association funds vital research on the causes of and treatments for lung disease. With the generous support of the public, the American Lung Association is “Improving life, one breath at a time.” For more information about the American Lung Association or to support the work it does, call 1 800 LUNG USA (1 800 586 4872) or log on to http://www.lungusa.org.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=13391

 

New guide to asthma safety at work

14 Sep 2004

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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=13392

 

Reservation Gas Station Sparks Price War Cloquet, Minn
Sep 14, 2004 6:41 am US/Central
(AP) The new tribally owned gas station on the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation is offering cheap gasoline -- so cheap that it's started a local price war.
The price war that started after the station opened in August has delighted consumers, stymied competitors and may represent a new test of independence as the tribe exercises its growing economic muscle. It also has captured the attention of state regulators who enforce laws against predatory pricing.

http://wcco.com/localnews/local_story_258074543.html

 

MILD DRINKING DURING PREGNANCY DEFENDED -England

BY O.VERGNAULT
11:00 - 14 September 2004 A Bristol health expert has urged mums-to-be not to panic over reports that even small amounts of alcohol could harm an unborn child

watch as tide turns towards alcohol ban

 

Survey shows majority backs public smoking ban MARSHFIELD, WI

and the survey says

 

Judge's turn to be judged

ALBANY - An attorney for suspended City Court Judge Henry Bauer was contrite Monday in front of the state Court of Appeals as he fought for his client's judicial career.

 judge being judged

AMA threatens WA Govt with legal action over smoking- Australia

On National Quit Day, the Australian Medical Association (AMA) has threatened to take legal action against the Western Australian State Government on behalf of people who contracted illnesses as a result of passive smoking.

The AMA says the Government has a responsibility to protect staff at pubs and clubs by banning smoking.

President Paul Skerritt says the Gallop Government should follow the lead of the Queensland Government to outlaw smoking in all enclosed spaces and on many public beaches.
"It's very much an industrial safety problem," he said.

"It could be solved by the Western Australian Government with the sweep of the pen today if they wanted to go the way that the Queensland government have.

"It is something that should be fixed immediately."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200409/s1198883.htm

 

Mankato Rejects Smoking Ban Sep 14, 2004 6:51 am Mankato, Minn. (AP) http://wcco.com/localnews/local_story_258075340.html

 

Manitoba asks students to pick anti-smoking ad

The Manitoba government is asking almost 120,000 students to decide whether they want their next anti-smoking campaign to be delivered with wry humour, graphic realism or a heartwrenching personal touch.

ads won't stop current smokers

 

King of New York
He doesn’t dismiss this suggestion out of hand. "Maybe [the attacks were politically motivated]. Who knows? But I think the wheels are falling off this administration."
His clash with Mayor Bloomberg, a former friend, about the right to smoke in New York is scarcely less bitter. Since the city outlawed smoking in the workplace (one of the models for Jack McConnell’s proposed ban in Scotland) Carter has been repeatedly caught flouting the law. He was reportedly dobbed in by a Vanity Fair staffer. "In a city of eight million people, they have 12 inspectors - and they’ve been to my office three times. I think the fine is 200 for three times, then it’s 2,000 dollars." He laughs and gives a little shrug that suggests that this isn’t much of a deterrent. "I find it a vague form of harassment.
"There was never one mention of this smoking ban before the [mayoral] election," he adds - something the First Minister might also like to ponder. "The fact is, it does change the tenor of the city. I’m convinced that a big muscular city like New York is very dependent on being a magnet for young people to come here and stay up late at night, to smoke cigarettes, to drink, to talk, to succeed at whatever they came to New York for.
"If you start taking away those things, they’ll find another city to go to. And when they do, New York will become middle-aged very quickly. Once it becomes middle-aged, you lose so much of the energy. Then even the middle-aged people find it boring."
Carter was once one of those young people who came to smoke and drink and make their fortune. Born in 1949, he spent his earliest years in Europe, where his father was stationed with the Royal Canadian Air Force, before growing up in Ottawa’s suburbs. At 25 he became editor of the Canadian Review, but there were already signs that he saw his future in the States.
http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=1062372004

 

No call for pub smoke ban - UK

Health Secretary John Reid has said he believes there is no "overwhelming" public demand for a smoking ban in pubs, as claimed by some lobby groups.

Junior health minister Melanie Johnson said on Thursday the government would be "taking action" on smoking in public places in forthcoming White Paper.

But Dr Reid suggested an outright ban in pubs was not on the cards.

lobby groups not public behind ban

Cancer Campaign Targets Pubgoers - UK
Pubgoers are being targeted by a campaign to raise awareness of bowel cancer.
Charity Colon Cancer Concern (CCC) hopes its risqué slogan “Sh*t Scared” will get the attention of the public in efforts to cut deaths from the disease.
Celebrities including former Bond girl Honor Blackman and Emmerdale actress Elizabeth Estensen are helping to launch the 18-month campaign tomorrow.
 http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3486051

 

Bracken contamination could cause cancer Sep 12 2004- Wales

 DRINKING tap water could be to blame for a high number of gastric cancer incidents in Wales during the 1980s and 90s, according to scientists in Denmark.

Bracken-contamination-could-cause-cancer

 

U.S. To Open Tuesday 280 Billion Dollar Big Tobacco Suit AFP: 9/13/2004

WASHINGTON, Sept 13 (AFP) - No settlement talks were underway Monday, one day before a federal lawsuit seeking 280 billion dollars from tobacco companies was set to open, US Department of Justice officials said Monday.

The case, which took five years to reach trial on Tuesday, alleges that the country's largest tobacco companies manipulated nicotine levels, lied about the dangers of smoking, and targeted young teens with multibillion-dollar advertising campaigns.

http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=27077

 

The EPA'S Flawed Study of Environmental Tobacco Smoke & Lung Cancer

 

Economics of NHL lockout

The hockey league's labor deal expires at midnight tonight, and a work stoppage threatens the entire season.

By Susan Bourette | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor

TORONTO – Brian Smyth is already bracing for a winter of misery.

"It's going to be a long, cold, lonely season," he says, sitting in a downtown Toronto sports bar festooned with hockey posters, banners, and jerseys. "Hockey is our lifeblood. Without it, there will be no joy. Nothing to celebrate or talk about."

high check to business

 

Tweed - Council votes to support examination of no-smoking bylaw

 by Shannon Binder Bray  Tweed , Ontario   09.13.04

* around Belleville, Ontario

Although Councillors Jim Flieler and Jo-Anne Albert voted against it, a motion was passed at the Municipality of Tweed's September 7 meeting to support a request made by the Municipality of Hastings Highlands (Maynooth area) with regard to the county wide no-smoking bylaw. The request, aimed at the County of Hastings, is for the County to "revisit [the bylaw]—with a view to permitting designated smoking rooms" within area municipalities. The designated rooms would be an alternative to the already established "total ban" and would allow establishments the opportunity to regain lost revenues as a result of the bylaw.
 island county to pass bylaw

 

30-Something Smokers Prone To Heart Attacks PITTSBURGH, PA

Study: Heart Attack Risk 5 Times Greater In Men

http://www.wpxi.com/health/3727222/detail.html

 

Experimental Smoking Vaccine Shows Promise 9/13/2004
 

Clinical trials indicate that an experimental vaccine is showing early signs of effectiveness in helping people stop smoking, Peer View Press reported Sept. 7.
 http://www.jointogether.org/sa/news/summaries/reader/0,1854,574597,00.html

 

'Cigar papers' sold as taste treats, but officials say they're all about pot

By DAVID PERRY, Sun Staff

Ah, the Royal Blunt. A 3- by 5-inch sheet of tobacco and premium paper that comes in 13 flavors including sour apple, chocolate, watermelon, black cherry and cognac is selling for about a buck apiece at area convenience and liquor stores.

http://www.lowellsun.com/Stories/0,1413,105~4746~2387921,00.html

 

Kelly Snuffs Out Smoking Ban
Sep 13, 2004 12:28 pm US/Central
St. Paul (WCCO) St. Paul Mayor Randy Kelly snuffed out a smoking ban for his city Monday.
http://wcco.com/localnews/local_story_257132845.html

 

Rip-roaring battle for Edwards’s seat in N.C.
By Peter Savodnik

The Hill spent the first 10 days of the post-convention season on the campaign trail in four Senate battleground states — North Carolina, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Colorado. All have open seats; two being vacated by Republicans, two by Democrats.
http://www.thehill.com/news/09142004/northcarolina.aspx

 

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The Effect of Air Pollution on Lung Development from 10 to 18 Years of Age

W. James Gauderman, Ph.D., Edward Avol, M.S., Frank Gilliland, M.D., Ph.D., Hita Vora, M.S., Duncan Thomas, Ph.D., Kiros Berhane, Ph.D., Rob McConnell, M.D., Nino Kuenzli, M.D., Fred Lurmann, M.S., Edward Rappaport, M.S., Helene Margolis, Ph.D., David Bates, M.D., and John Peters, M.D.

 Abstract http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/351/11/1057

The Great Obesity Scam By Alan Caruba September 13, 2004
CNSNews.com Commentary from the National Anxiety Center
 Is the day far off when the federal government will decide what you eat and how much? The assault on the personal freedoms of Americans continues unabated. First it was the decision whether to smoke or not and now it involves the food you ingest.
 Obesity scare continues to fuel gov't size

 

Pub's smoke-free week result is a draw Liverpool Echo Sep 13 2004

Fiona has now designated half the pub smoke free on a permanent basis.

Ban went so well only half of pub non-smoking

Huckabee at Southern Governors Meeting in Virginia  RICHMOND, VA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2004 - Posted at 7:55 a.m. CDT

http://www.kait8.com/Global/story.asp?S=2292160&nav=0jshQpqx

 

ERI talking alarms target fly smokers  England
RUTH ARMSTRONG HEALTH REPORTER

TALKING smoke detectors have been brought in by health chiefs in a bid to crack down on smoking outside the Capital’s main hospital.
When someone lights up near one of the sensors a recorded message is blared out, telling the smoker to stub out their cigarette.
Last week world experts gave their views on the matter at a national conference in the Capital.

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1074312004

 
Smoked out - uk
But the rather Draconian measures now being taken to discourage smoking at the main entrances of the hospital seem rooted in a desire to improve the hospital’s image rather than a concern about people smoking.
Whether health chiefs like it or not, smokers do have the right to smoke. The majority of patients and visitors will accept that they cannot do so inside the hospital building and they will respect that.
But the fact that some computerised messages will bark at smokers who dare to light up at the ERI’s main entrances seems unlikely to persuade them to stop.
Indeed, trying to send smokers to separate shelters to light up could even lead to some people becoming more entrenched in their habits.
If it is true that most smokers do actually want to quit, then why doesn’t the health service try offering these people more support to do so?

http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=1074772004

 

BERRYVILLE.- Missori
* The JPs extended the smoking ban in county buildings to add the new jail.

JP's extend ban in county buildings to a new jail

Smoking Bylaw is immoral, not health based says Judge

 

bylaw about control, not health     smoking bylaw immoral

Where's the corporate responsibility?
should Altra be allowed to speak at University?

Corporate responsibility

 

Killer corporate responsibility
*second article on page
OK Mr. Brown ("Who defines corporate responsibility" Sept. 10), I feel very, very, very sorry for you. Really though, I don't. I watched my grandmother die of emphysema and lived with her one-legged, bedridden body for the first 13 years of my life. Moral of the story - life ain't fair. She smoked because she wanted to, needed to, whatever. She still made the decision herself well after the surgeon general of the United States of America warned against smoking. It was 1969. Your attempt to gain sympathy doesn't make me feel sorry for you - it makes me sick.
 http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2004/09/13/Opinion/The-Firing.Line-716631.shtml

 

Report: Texas 2nd in spending money to lobby Legislature

They say everything's bigger in Texas, and political lobbying is no exception. A report issued Wednesday by Texans for Public Justice, a non-partisan research organization, says Texas is second only to California in dollars spent to lobby the Legislature.
"Those doing the lobbying are not the average Joe, that's for sure," McDonald said.

news notes lobbyists get large funding

 

NZers urged to join Aust class action against tobacco companies 13 September 2004

* Yes, make the economy run better through litigation (not)
New Zealanders are being urged to join an Australian class action court case against tobacco companies.

Australian case plaintiff Ms Cauvin, 40, suffered from emphysema and was a lung transplant recipient. She had been smoking regularly since she her early teens, ASH said.

ash solution- sue till they go bankrupt

 

Pill, Anyone?

Americans are no strangers to using chemicals for altering their mental state. No, we don't mean marijuana or ecstasy for recreational purposes, but rather good old No-Doz caffeine tablets -- or just a pot of coffee -- to stay awake cramming for a final exam, or an over-the-counter sleeping pill to get some rest.
 http://www.techcentralstation.com/091304A.html

 

Teen anti-tobacco group pushes for FDA regulation

Members of a teen anti-tobacco group held a press conference Thursday in Fairfield to lobby Iowa's congressional delegation for legislation that could make tobacco subject to regulation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Students used as pinion

 

Casinos in Nebraska will affect other games

 Charity dollars

 

Firefighter Killed As Wildfire Turns Deadly GROVELAND, Calif.

The Mariposa County Sheriff's Department arrested a 34-year-old man Sunday on charges of purposely setting the fire with a match inserted inside a cigarette. The man, Brian Chambers, 34, is also considered a suspect in a string of other purposely set fires in Mariposa over the last two weeks, Grizzell said.

"The problem with this one is it's in difficult terrain. we have low humidity tonight and the fire behavior is very dangerous," he said.

Chambers was being held on $75,000 bail early Monday.

Arsonist uses cigarette to start fires

 

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John Stossel is co-anchor, "ABC News 20/20" and author of"Give Me A Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Scam Artists, and Cheats and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media," due out early next year.

http://www.acsh.org/healthissues/newsid.97/healthissue_detail.asp

 

Political correctness is stubbing out our liberty- Scotland
GERALD WARNER

WE fight not for glory, nor riches, nor honours, but for freedom alone - that which no honest man surrenders, except with his life... Put that fag out! Don’t you know there’s a war on - a war against individual liberty?" http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=1071802004

 

Adcock works behind scenes Sunday, September 12, 2004

Health commissioner's background lends itself to combating bioterror

 http://www.laramieboomerang.com/news/more.asp?StoryID=101884

Institute for Cancer may close unless injected with funding.

They owe the government $5.7MILLION, after audit discovers that grant money misspent.  The money is supposed to be spent on cancer related research.  This is the second time the organization has been found to be improperly spending funding.   Last time it was $4 MILLION that got spent improperly, in 2000.  How many times will the public allow for shoddy budgeting? 

"They have taken $5.7 million and spent that on things other than grants-related research," said Michael Miller, a spokesman for the National Cancer Institute, the government's main agency for funding cancer research. "Yes indeed, they do owe those funds."

http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/091104/a01p11cancercenter.html

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Each day, billion people choose to die rather than quit smoking
Re: Cigarette smoke is not dangerous, July 20, 2004

The letter writer makes two absurd claims. She mentions more than once that non-smokers are a minority and that cigarette smoke is not dangerous.---------

Alfonso Tinebra,

Hamilton

Minority facts

 

You were talking about an open area (a park).  I didn’t mention restaurants.  If you want to talk about restaurants, go to one and ask how they have been affected.  You can just go to davehitt.com /facts/banlinks.html for some owners’ results on the ban.    

Where did I say that it dissolves into nothing?  I did say that it was a nuisance rather then a danger.  This is based on a science called Toxicology.  It’s a science, where the dose is in the poison.  I am aware that there is smog, and you get more exposure to cancer causing agents in pollution then you would from smokers. 

Is it reasonable to inflate the size of the local government just because California does it?  California also, this month, is banning Silly String.  Now you try to be a reasonably sized government that would watch all kids & adults, and fine, or jail them in order to stop them from using Silly String.  I would not recommend that you hire someone at a cost of over $100,000 a year for a nuisance.   (This is how much Thunder Bay council got for a Smoking bylaw officer from the provincial government.)  I mention this because once you have a law you also have to enforce it, so this means there’s a cost to the public.  I am not even talking about the freedoms you are losing by enforcing this bylaw.  When is a person allowed to do as they wish?  In your assumption, nonsmokers have more rights then smokers. 

The stats he gives are based on a computer program.  It is based on an EPA study that a Judge said used junk science, and vacated.  Sure later the EPA withdrew it, but it still came to conclusions before it was completed.   There are studies that say that cancer is caused by genetics rather then by smoking.  If you need more information just go to forces.org, or smokersclubinc.com.  Get a scientific view of the fear mongering going on by some of society.  When you can give me 3 names of conclusively affected people from the danger of smoke in the park, I will no longer oppose losing a freedom and wasting of my tax dollars on a nuisance.

I also wonder I can not find my article in the search engine.  I type in cigarette, smoking, and parks.  With no result, yet I can find both of his articles.

Smoking ordinance pros, cons heard; economic concerns raised
Jim Romsaas
Mesabi Daily News
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 08th, 2004 11:52:36 PM
VIRGINIA — Numerous individuals for and against a no smoking ordinance in Virginia got equal time at a special City Council meeting Wednesday.
The impact on businesses was debated, as was the right of customers to make their own choice on entering a smoking establishment. The council took no action on the ordinance, which some would like to see on the November 2005 ballot.
But it was the concern of a negative economic impact that took center stage.
That is a real fear by business owners, according to Pat McKone, senior director for Tobacco Control Programs of the American Lung Association of Minnesota in Duluth. However, after Duluth passed its smoking ban “the economic scare was not at all realized,’’ she said.
“It’s not finance?’’ according to J. R. Roczniak of Oaky’s Arrowhead Bar, who said a ban would put his bar out of business. “This is my living. Let me please serve the public what they want.’’
Dave Christenson, owner of the Virginia Bowling Gardens said he has already made Sunday afternoons for non-smokers, but it hasn’t exactly worked out. “My business on Sundays is basically nil.’’
McKone said the data from Duluth shows that the food and beverage industry has not been hurt by a smoking ban. Duluth’s smoking ban toof effect in January 2001.
Retail sales for food service without alcohol jumped 13.5 percent from 2000 to 2004 and food service with alcohol increased nearly 20 percent in that same time period, according data from the Duluth sales tax department, which McKone provided to the council.
Not every business is harmed, but many have a lot of trouble, said Kenn Rockler, executive director of the Wine, Beer & Spirits Federation of Minnesota. He said restaurants with smoking bans have lost anywhere from 12 percent to 43 percent.
After the one-hour smoking ban debate, McKone questioned Rockler’s figures. She said it has to be backed up with data, not with anecdotal information.
No matter the figures, Christenson said, “I believe it should be left up to the individuals. It should be a choice,’’ not the city speaking for the businesses.
Regarding choice, McKone said the workers need to be accounted for. “This is about their additional exposure at work.’’
McKone and Cheryl Bisping, Smoke-Free Air Coalition of Northern St. Louis County spokesperson, were backed up by Dr. Gene Kishel of Virginia and former Duluth City Councilor Gary Eckenberg on the need to protect people from the dangers of secondhand smoke.
None of those against the ban doubted the dangers of secondhand smoke, but Rockler said, “There is an air handling solution.’’ Ninety-eight percent of smoke migration can be stopped, he added.
The council took no action, but Bisping was pleased those favoring a smoking ban got to finish the presentation that was interrupted last month.
From here, she plans to continue educating the public and work on putting it to the voters.
“I would like to see it on the ballot,’’ Bisping said.
 
Jim Romsaas covers Virginia government and schools and oversees the Teen Connection.

Town listens to both sides

 

Iowa's oldest known man dies at 109 INDEPENDENCE, Iowa

Iowa's oldest known man has died. September 11, 2004

Joe Steier of Independence, who turned 109 last month, died on Wednesday.

Steier's family says he was a huge Chicago Cubs fan. He was one of the few fans around who could remember his favorite team's last world championship -- in 1908.

His family says the night he died, his great nieces were at his side, whispering play-by-play of a Cubs victory to him.

Steier's longevity flew in the face of several credos of healthy living. He chewed and smoked tobacco most of his life, giving up his pipe at age 103. And, he always ate bacon and eggs for breakfast.

http://www.whotv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2227795

 

If I Ruled the World - Melissa Porter August 25, 2004
By Roger Crow, PA Features

Melissa Porter, 31, was born in Manchester. She has an honours degree in marketing and has worked as a marketing manager and a professional relocator. On the advice of some friends, she put together a show reel and was snapped up as a presenter by Granada’s Men and Motors. Melissa has worked on Put Your Money Where Your House Is on UK Style and currently presents Get a New Life on BBC Two. She has also presented the BBC series To Buy Or Not to Buy, and Escape to the Country. She is single and lives in London.
WHAT WOULD BE YOUR FIRST ACT AS RULER?
“I’d introduce a law where everyone has to be polite and respectful to each other and if anyone’s rude or vents any unnecessary aggression, they’d be punished.”
WHO WOULD BE YOUR MOST TRUSTED ADVISER?
“Based on that polite law, I think someone like Carol Smillie.”
WHOM WOULD YOU BANISH?
“Anne Robinson and Simon Cowell, although maybe I’d make an exception for Simon because he is fairly sexy. I find both of them quite rude but I know it’s all in the name of fun.”
WOULD YOU BE A DICTATOR OR A BENEVOLENT LEADER?
“Definitely a dictator. There’s two ways of doing things – my way and the wrong way.”
WHO WOULD YOU SINGLE OUT FOR A KNIGHTHOOD AND WHY?
“I would give a knighthood to anyone involved in charities, care-workers, foster parents, nurses, doctors, and people who work in the emergency services.”
WHO WOULD YOU SEND TO THE TOWER OR PUT IN THE STOCKS?
“TV production managers. They can go right down to the stocks. I work in such a creative industry, and there’s always a conflict between those who are creative and the bean-counters.”
WHICH LAW WOULD YOU ABOLISH?
“I’d abolish the five-day working week. I reckon if you work smart as opposed to hard, as long as you’ve done all your work then you should be allowed to go home.”
WHAT LAW WOULD YOU INTRODUCE?
“No smoking. You wouldn’t be allowed to smoke anywhere.”
WHICH BUILDING WOULD YOU DEMOLISH AND WHY?
“The Millennium Dome because it’s a complete waste of money. I’d demolish that but then actually, it’s not even a building is it? It’s more of a tent. Aren’t they deciding who they’re going to sell it off to at the moment to change its usage? I know it’s costing us a fortune, just to add insult to injury. ”
WHICH RULER OR MONARCH DO YOU MOST ADMIRE OR HAVE MOST IN COMMON WITH?
“I’d say I have most in common with Margaret Thatcher because we both seem to have bad hair days on a regular basis.”
IF YOU COULD CHANGE THE NATIONAL ANTHEM FOR ANOTHER PIECE OF MUSIC, WHAT WOULD IT BE AND WHY?
“Probably the Black Eyed Peas’ Shut Up song. That would be a dedication to all my favourite production managers.”

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3404490

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LAX REGISTRATION: Disregard for data blurs cancer count
The Asahi Shimbun

Many prefectures are slipshod when it comes to reporting vital data on cancer patients, adding to difficulties doctors face in dealing with the nation's No. 1 killer.

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National Cancer Center officials reviewed the cancer registry system and revised upward by about 30 percent the health ministry's estimates of the annual number of cancer cases, from 480,000 to 620,000.(IHT/Asahi: September 10,2004) (09/10)

http://www.asahi.com/english/nation/TKY200409100156.html

 

A reluctant Codey will succeed McGreevey as N.J. governor

BY KAITLIN GURNEY Knight Ridder Newspapers

 WEST ORANGE, N.J. - (KRT) - In the realm of politics, Richard Codey is no Jim McGreevey.

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/special_packages/election2004/9623348.htm

 

Gas station can’t sell tobacco for nine months Belleville, Ontario-

09.09.04

The Minister of Health and Long-Term Care has issued an "automatic prohibition" order prohibiting a Belleville gas station from selling and storing tobacco for a period of nine months. Effective August 30, 2004, the owner of Mr. Petro Gas located at 455 Dundas Street West, Belleville will be prohibited under the Tobacco Control Act from selling and storing tobacco within its premises. In addition, signs referring to the prohibition will also have to be posted in plain view of the public within the premises for the nine months. The signs state "We cannot sell tobacco because we were convicted of tobacco sales offences. Smoking is a major health hazard."
The prohibition is a result of three tobacco sales convictions within a five-year period. The retailer was convicted by the Hastings & Prince Edward Counties Health Unit in August 2002 for failure to post age restriction signs and then twice again in May 2004 for selling tobacco to a person under the age of 19.
"The Tobacco Control Act provides for an automatic prohibition," said Roberto Almeida, Tobacco Control Officer for the Health Unit. "A tobacco sales offence, as defined in the Act, includes selling to someone under 19; selling single cigarettes or kiddie packs; failing to post age restriction and health warning signs; and operating a cigarette vending machine.
"This will have a substantial impact. Although the business is currently closed, the prohibition essentially prohibits the current operator and or any other person from selling tobacco at the location for the period in question," stated Almeida. "Tobacco sales make up a significant portion of all sales in a business like Mr. Petro Gas. Hopefully, this will lead to more retailers taking greater care in respect to posting the required signs and checking customers’ ID to ensure they are of age."

 

Ontario gas bar loses permit

 

County feels heat from smoking survey

By Joshua Nichols
Sun Newspapers
(Created 9/9/2004 1:53:38 PM)

It may have been intended to stir up only opinions on youth tobacco prevention, but a Dakota County survey also stirred up some heated emotions.

“We are walking on eggs here with a situation that obviously had the potential for volatility,” said Patricia Adams, the director of Dakota County Public Health. “But we need to make more progress with youth prevention efforts and that was the key behind this assessment.”

At issue is a telephone survey conducted for the county by Grassroots Solutions, a national consulting firm based in St. Paul. The survey was designed to assess how current youth tobacco prevention efforts are doing and what other potential efforts would be supported.

“This gets to personal liberty issues,” Commissioner Mike Turner said. “I received many calls from people thinking that we were looking at banning smoking in private homes. I think a line may have been crossed here.”

Ann Wiesner of Grassroots Solutions said the main job of interviewers conducting the survey was to simply listen.

“As we talked to people, some of them would talk about bars and restaurants and we would say that this is more about smoke-free environments in general,” Wiesner said.

The issue may have gotten more confused because of some of the questions asked in the survey, Adams said.

“The assessment did include some questions about smoking rules in people’s homes, so I think that some people might have misunderstood that,” Adams said.

Adams said the county has worked with public school districts for years to promote the benefits of smoke-free homes, but is not suggesting that a ban should be discussed.

However, Turner said from what his constituents had told him, the survey seemed looser.

“It seemed far more free wheeling to the point where it became more of a probe,” Turner said. “You can’t show a bias in something like this because once you ask it, it becomes public policy. When you put your name on our Web site, you are representing the county.”

Other county commissioners said Turner wasn’t the only one to receive calls about the assessment.

“The implication was that Commissioner Turner was the only one on the end of a lot of bullets,” Commissioner Will Branning said. “That wasn’t the case. I think we all were.”

The biggest problem about the assessment, which the board agreed to having done this past spring, might have been its coinciding with other events, Commissioner Joseph Harris said.

“In real estate it’s location, location, location and with a survey it’s timing, timing, timing,” Harris said. “This was going on as many communities got caught up in the topic of a smoking ban. We probably should have waited for the smoke to settle.”

Board Chairperson Nancy Schouweiler agreed the timing was unfortunate and created the wrong impression that the county was actively considering some form of smoking ban. Although the issue was discussed at the board’s Aug. 24 meeting as the Community Services Committee, the board did not consider any specific ordinances and instead opted to re-affirm a 2002 resolution deferring to the state Legislature on the issue.

“This county has not discussed any sort of change in a smoking ordinance since the decision in 2002,” Schouweiler said. “We certainly did not give staff direction to do so now.”

As for the survey itself, Adams said the Public Health Department received a wide variety of feedback from the effort.

“We’ve seen everything from people saying we should do everything possible to prevent smoking to saying the government has no role to play in smoking,” Adams said.

Adams said the assessment will be used to expand prevention efforts for youth in the community. The county will work with school districts on strategies as well as communities on increasing compliance checks and other measures, she said.

http://www.mnsun.com/story.asp?city=Apple_Valley&story=142855

 

Dr. Kelley’s Do-it-Yourself Book

one answer to cancer

Reviewed after 32 years
1967 — 1999

By Dr. William Donald Kelley, D.D.S., M.S. 1999

http://www.whale.to/a/kelley.html

 

Epidemiology. 1997 Nov;8(6):678-80.
Is infant immunization a risk factor for childhood asthma or allergy?

Kemp T, Pearce N, Fitzharris P, Crane J, Fergusson D, St George I, Wickens K, Beasley R.

Department of Medicine, Wellington School of Medicine, New Zealand.

The Christchurch Health and Development Study comprises 1,265 children born in 1977. The 23 children who received no diphtheria/pertussis/tetanus (DPT) and polio immunizations had no recorded asthma episodes or consultations for asthma or other allergic illness before age 10 years; in the immunized children, 23.1% had asthma episodes, 22.5% asthma consultations, and 30.0% consultations for other allergic illness. Similar differences were observed at ages 5 and 16 years. These findings do not appear to be due to differential use of health services (although this possibility cannot be excluded) or con-founding by ethnicity, socioeconomic status, parental atopy, or parental smoking.

PMID: 9345669 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

 

Interesting website The truth Campaign

http://www.truthcampaign.ukf.net/mainpages/magazines.html#8

 

St. Mary's fights no-smoking law
WebPosted Sep 10 2004 08:58 AM ADT
ST. MARY'S FIRST NATION  —  St. Mary's First Nation near Fredericton is rejecting a provincial law that will ban smoking in public places on Oct. 1.

NB natives smoke

 

Bar Owner Fined for Violating Smoking Ban

(Buffalo, NY, September 9, 2004) - - The owner of a popular Elmwood Avenue bar and restaurant has been fined for defying New York's indoor smoking ban.

The Erie County Health Department slapped fines totalling 2,000 dollars on Rick Naylon for two separate violations at Jimmy Mac's.

Naylon has been battling in court for a waiver, and his case goes before the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court next week.

http://www.wivb.com/Global/story.asp?S=2281695&nav=0RapQkkt

 

Cracker Barrel Settles In Racial Discrimination Suit

A Tennessee-based restaurant chain says it has settled a number of racial discrimination lawsuits.

The lawsuits accused the 497 store chain of segregating African-American customers in the smoking section and denying them service.

sit with the other lepers

 

*Trendy hotel in Dublin Ireland is up for sale.  The recent customers include Bono of U2 fame, Obie trice, these are just a few.  It is known as the place to go to be seen, in Dublin.

http://www.hotpress.com/music/news/2753012.html

 

Vitamin C May Improve Smokers' Blood Circulation
Fri 10 September, 2004 18:33

By Amy Norton

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A dose of vitamin C may give a quick boost to the poorer-than-average blood circulation seen in healthy young smokers, a Japanese study suggests.

SOURCE: American Heart Journal, August 2004.

vitamin c antioxidant

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