Monday, December 12, 2005

Backlash Begins: Boston Globe Says Anti-Smoking Actions Going Too Far

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In an editorial today, the Boston Globe states that despite its vigorous support for all sorts of anti-smoking policies, it thinks the ant...

Anti-Smoking Groups Fail to Respond to Double Challenge; Show that they are Talking Out of Both Sides of their Mouths

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So far, I have failed to see any evidence that either the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids or Ignite have responded to my double challenge , c...

New Study Shows Proposed FDA Legislation is Philip Morris' Dream Come True

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A study in the current issue of the Journal of Public Health Policy provides an analysis of the proposed FDA tobacco legislation supporte...
Saturday, December 10, 2005

Scotts Miracle-Gro to Begin Firing Smokers

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Scotts Miracle-Gro, based in Marysville, Ohio, has announced plans to begin firing smokers in an effort to reduce health care costs for the...
Friday, December 09, 2005

Tobacco Control Leader Speaks Out Against WHO's Discriminatory Employment Policy

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In an op-ed commentary in today's Sydney Morning Herald , Dr. Simon Chapman, Professor at the School of Public Health at the University...

Weyco Announces Plan to Charge Employees if their Spouses Smoke

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In a CNN interview broadcast online yesterday, the president of Okemos, Michigan-based Weyco, Inc. announced his plan to implement a $1,000...

Trends in Heart Attacks in Lewis and Clark County Show Prematurity of Helena Study Conclusions

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In a rapid response to the original BMJ study which concluded that a 40% decline in heart attack hospital admissions in Helena, Montana w...
Thursday, December 08, 2005

The Tobacco Control Movement: Why the Unique Distaste for Scientific Discussion and Challenge?

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As a public health researcher and practitioner in a School of Public Health, I have had fairly broad exposure to a number of fields of publi...

Parental Presence During Interviews Could Explain Connection Between Movies and Smoking

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In an online rapid response letter published in the journal Pediatrics , Dr. Joel Moskowitz, Director of the Center for Family and Communit...
Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights Refuses to Accede to Author's Demand to Remove Article from Website

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In a letter to Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights (ANR), I demanded to have an article which I authored removed from their website. My ar...
Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Coke Next Item on Agenda for Anti-Tobacco Lawyers

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According to articles in the Washington Post and Beverage World Online , a coalition of lawyers that was previously successful in suing Big...

British Health Secretary Defends Exemption of Private Clubs from Smoking Ban

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According to an article in The Publican , British Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt defended the government's exemption of private clubs...
Monday, December 05, 2005

Rest of the Story Author Expelled from Tobacco Control List-Serve; Dissent is Met with Censorship

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The author of this blog was expelled from the tobacco control list-serve tp-talk (which stands for tobacco policy talk) Friday. In a message...

World Health Organization Will Not Hire Smokers

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According to an Associated Press article Friday, the World Health Organization (WHO) will no longer hire smokers. According to the article:...

Don't Like the Direction the Program is Going

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It seems to me that whenever a coach of a collegiate or professional sports team is fired, the reason provided is that the general manager o...
Saturday, December 03, 2005

Comment Policy

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Given what I've been through in the past couple of weeks on the receiving end of personal attacks in public forums, I want to make sure ...
Friday, December 02, 2005

Anti-Smoking Advocate Calls for Censorship of this Blog

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In an email sent directly to me , an anti-smoking advocate has called for censorship of my expression of my opinions - in the form of a peer...

What A Scientific Response (Rather than a Personal Attack) to My Helena/Pueblo Analysis Might Look Like

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Dr. Siegel: I read with interest your analysis which failed to show any immediate, substantial decline in hospital admissions for heart att...

Disrespect in the Tobacco Control Movement: For Individuals and for the Science

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I want to comment today on two areas of disrespect that I have recently noted in the anti-smoking movement that I hope will be corrected in ...
Thursday, December 01, 2005

This is the Anti-Smoking Movement???

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Is this what the anti-smoking movement is all about? In response to my post yesterday which provided a detailed analysis questioning the cl...

Anti-Smoking Advocates Have No Interest in Even Discussing the Science; The Agenda Cannot Be Challenged

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In response to my post yesterday which provided a detailed analysis questioning the claim that smoking bans lead to immediate and drastic r...
Wednesday, November 30, 2005

When You Don't Like What You Hear, Attack the Messenger - But Don't Discuss the Issues

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In response to my post yesterday which provided a detailed analysis questioning the claim that smoking bans lead to immediate and drastic r...