The Property Rights Newsletter July 27, 2012 - Issue #674 "Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water." - W.C. Fields | |
![]() CA: Anti-smoking activist declared a nuisance, being evicted. By Michael J. McFadden. "Birke, an attorney, has said he is not against smokers but says there is much evidence that secondhand smoke is a health threat and a public nuisance." Really? OK Mr. Birke: Please produce just a SINGLE study that would show that people smoking outdoors harms people's health. - "I'll keep going until the last court makes the very last decision," Birke said. ![]() GA: Atlanta Parks. Jeremy Richards, Ph.D., The Southeast Regional Director of the Citizens Freedom Alliance lists compelling evidence for why smoking bans often do not work. It is true that even these outdoor Mayor Bloomberg-esque bans have had some popularity recently. However, in my research on tobacco prohibitions I have discovered that many of the smoking bans (both outdoor and even some indoor) have begun to fail. USA: Ban-Ban-Banzhaf. John Banzhaf III, former cruise ship dancer, anti-smoking wibbler and ambulance chaster extraordinaire, joined Twitter over a year ago and has so far been rewarded with 46 followers, some of whom are not bots or people who heartily despise him. His tweets are almost entirely limited to links to his own self-written press releases, but occasionally he cuts out the middle man and lets us know what is really on his mind... World: Smokers Blogs. Watch instant postings to your favorite blogs. | |
Let me first say I am not a smoker; however I am opposed to Atlanta City Officials to even think of banning smoking outside. It is an outrage for them to want to endanger a person's health forcing smoking of all kinds inside. | |
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