http://www.smokinglifestyle.net/ Smoking Lifestyle en-us Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:09:56 GMT 1440 CPG-Nuke Dragonfly Smoking Lifestyle News http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.smokinglifestyle.net/images/logo.gif http://www.smokinglifestyle.net/ http://www.smokinglifestyle.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1714 March 12th 2008 - The Other Side of the Fence - FORCES International Round Table - Gian Turci puts on the guise of an antismoker for this session of the Round Table. His debating partner, Winston Smith, is an admirer and collaborator of FORCES. Antitobacco is under strict command to avoid any debate with our side (“the debate is over," though really, it never happened.) On the other hand the mass-media, that always cater to the minimum public IQ denominator and to political correctness, seem to feel they should show some sort of token debate — while making certain that the smokers’ side loses all the time. That is done by either cherry-picking weak representatives, by giving disproportionate time allowance to the prohibitionists, and/or by insuring that the host is a fierce supporter of the Healthist ideology. All in all the duty of the press, as they see it, is to make smokers look bad. Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:09:56 GMT http://www.smokinglifestyle.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1713 March 11th 2008 - A passionate appeal - We are glad to present the first of a series of videos produced by our German correspondent Alexander Schoppmann. In this passionate opening appeal, Schoppmann tells us why he has joined the fight against lifestyle control and "public health," and why he has created his own political party in Germany. Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:03:16 GMT http://www.smokinglifestyle.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1712 March 11th 2008 - Bomb on 'Public Health' Is Big Hit with Public - We continue our coverage of the Minnesota "Theatre Night" movement with a press release from the wise and savvy lawyer who is championing liberty in that ban-beleaguered state. Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:58:56 GMT http://www.smokinglifestyle.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1711 March 10th 2008 - Germany Fighting Back Ever Harder - In Germany, on 28 February, a second huge protest of restaurant operators and smokers took place. Continuing and expanding activism is being planned. Stimulated by the smoking ban, the VEBWK, the Association for the Preservation of the Bavarian Inn Culture, has passed the mark of 30,000 subscribers. It has also collected, as of 29 February, 106,511 petition signatures calling for abolition of the smoking ban. Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:56:33 GMT http://www.smokinglifestyle.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1710 March 10th 2008 - The Show Must Go On - Minnesota bar owners struggling with red numbers due to the oppressive smoking ban are standing their ground in the face of threats from state health officials. Following up on our report from last week, "theater night" has caught on with more than a hundred establishments around the state and most plan to continue exploiting the loophole in spite of some heavy saber-rattling by antis in various capacities around the state. The defiant are communicating, as for instance with these web sites: (Link 1) (stored version) (Link 2) (stored version). Furthermore, attorney Mark Benjamin, a leader of the revolt, promises to defend the oppressed for free: (Link 3) (stored version) (Video). Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:41:07 GMT http://www.smokinglifestyle.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1709 March 8th 2008 - Help a hero: The Tony Blows Fund - Very much like Nick Hogan, Tony Blows is a landlord - the landlord of the Dog Inn in Hereford, England, to be exact. He has put his livelihood at risk to show all publicans that the British smoking ban is wrong and unjust. With 27 pubs closing per week Tony has made a brave stand against this law that is killing off your pubs, one by one. Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:21:34 GMT http://www.smokinglifestyle.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1708 March 7th 2008 - Reading Between the Lines - We take good news where we find it. In this era of media laziness and special interest shilling we sometimes find it in the strangest places. Last week the Marin Independent Journal regurgitated a press release from anti-tobacco that essentially proved that anti-tobacco education is counterproductive. The story was another cry for censorship in films, but in an inept attempt to bolster tying the "R" rating to all movies that contain tobacco smoking, a great case was made to discontinue California's absurd anti-smoking education. Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:13:16 GMT http://www.smokinglifestyle.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1707 March 7th 2008 - Pint and Fag Marathoner - Britain's oldest employed man, at age 101, has now taken up a new avocation. No, not playing draughts, and no, he's not taking up knitting either. Buster Martin is in training to become the oldest-ever entrant in the London Marathon, in fact, the oldest ever in any marathon, anywhere. He says beer and cigarettes are what keep him going. Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:09:46 GMT http://www.smokinglifestyle.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1706 March 6th 2008 - Worth more than one listening - This radio interview with Dr. Geoffrey Kabat is about five years old but it could have been recorded yesterday. Nearly five years ago the famous, gigantic study of James Enstrom and Geoffrey Kabat on passive smoking in California demonstrated conclusively that there is no way to associate passive smoking with any disease. For that reason Kabat – and particularly Enstrom – were attacked viciously by the antitobacco ideologues and the junk scientists on the payroll of either “public health” institutions or the pharmaceutical industry. The assault extended to the British Medical Journal, that “dared” publishing an immense and scrupulous study that demonstrated – conclusively – that the passive smoking “dangers” are an epidemiological fraud because they cannot be measured. Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:05:24 GMT http://www.smokinglifestyle.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1705 March 6th 2008 - Britain Is a Miserable Dump - Visiting North Carolina (USA), where anti-smoker laws remain relatively in abeyance, gives Phil Williams perspective on miserable Great Britain. Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:57:39 GMT