The Property Rights Newsletter October 9, 2009 - Issue #543 "There are times when silence has the loudest voice." - Leroy Brownlow | ||
![]() Why Do Schizophrenics Smoke Cigarettes? By Dirk Hanson. Of particular interest is the interaction between nicotine and dopamine in the nucleus accumbens and prefrontal cortex. Several of the symptoms of schizophrenia appear to be associated with dopamine release in these brain areas. A 2005 German study concluded that nicotine improved cognitive functions related to attention and memory. “There is substantial evidence that nicotine could be used by patients with schizophrenia as a ‘self-medication’ to improve deficits in attention, cognition, and information processing and to reduce side effects of antipsychotic medication.” Michael Siegel: Yet Another Supposed Public Health Victory from the FDA Tobacco Law Goes Down the Tubes: Ban on "Light" Cigarettes Will Have No Effect. Either way, the rest of the story is that the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids' and other anti-smoking groups' promises about the FDA tobacco legislation were false promises. They were pure propaganda, rather than science-based or evidence-based claims. And now the chickens are coming home to roost. NV: From the right, a new source of news. Activist says service will be objective in how it writes, not in what it writes about. Chuck Muth, "If I write, it will be news reporting - no adjectives, adverbs or bias." PA: Proposed Cigar Tax Burns Pennsylvania Tobacconists. TN: Silo Cigars Celebrates First Anniversary in Farragut, TN Oct. 15. WA: This could be the only good thing to come out of this recession, raiding the MSA funds and all the anti programs go bankrupt. USA: The International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association. Canada: Ontario trucker fined for smoking in rig. Police fined a driver $305 for smoking in his rig, which the law considers his workplace. “I mean, where are they going to stop? It’s ridiculous. That’s his environment, that’s his home, he’s by himself . . . This has just crossed the line. There’s got to be limits.” UK: 21st October, licensees meeting in Oxfordshire. UK: Inez Ward to advise BII on tied pub tenant training. | ||
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