Ex-Surgeon General Says White House Hushed Him
Carmona, a Bush nominee who served from 2002 to 2006, told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that political appointees in the administration routinely scrubbed his speeches for politically sensitive content and blocked him from speaking out on public health matters such as stem cell research, abstinence-only sex education and the emergency contraceptive PlanEatery smoking ban becomes law
Source: The Washington Post (online), July 11, 2007
Gov. John Lynch signed a law yesterday banning smoking in New Hampshire’s bars and restaurants.Davis poised to snuff smoking outdoors
Source: Concord Monitor, June 20, 2007
The Davis County [Utah] Board of Health is expected to vote today whether to ban smoking at outdoor public places.Homes next target for smoking ban
When the board takes up the question today at its 7 a.m. meeting, it will consider research into the effects of secondhand smoke, a report by the U.S. Surgeon General and public comment.
Source: Deseret Morning News, June 12, 2007
The Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Hawaii, which spearheaded the controversial Smoke-Free Workplaces law, now wants to extend smoke-free regulations into Hawaii’s condominiums, apartments and townhouse units.Planet Earth banning common light bulbs
Source: Star Bulletin (online), May 29, 2007
They’re unwanted in Cuba, Hugo Chavez is trying to kickCouple driven out of home for smoking
them out of Venezuela, Australia and Canada are on timetables to get rid of them, the European Union says they soon simply won’t be available and now the U.S. is considering new rules that effectively would ban the incandescent light bulb.
Source: WorldNetDaily, March 22, 2007
In a ruling that squarely undermines the premise that an Australian’s home is his castle, a tribunal has ordered a Sydney couple to stop smoking inside their city-centre apartment because the smell was upsetting neighbours.Big mother is watching with new laws in mind
Source: The Telegraph (online), March 11, 2007
Some California lawmakers want to change your ways. They’ve planted a crop of proposals this year, “nanny” bills as they’re called, that would restrict the use of artery-clogging trans fat, common in fried and baked foods and linked to heart disease, in restaurants and school cafeterias. Bar smoking at state parks and beaches, and in cars carrying children. Four additional bans were listed.Davis considers banning smoking at outdoor sites
Source: Los Angeles Times (online), March 8, 2007
The Utah Indoor Clean Air Act pushed smokers outdoors. So if an outdoor ban happens, where else can smokers go?Delray to designate beach smoking zones
In Davis County, they may have to get creative, because the county may ban smoking at outdoor public places.
Source: Deseret Morning News, March 8, 2007
Smokers will soon have their own special sections of sand along the Atlantic Ocean. City staff is creating smoking areas on the city’s biggest money maker, almost 2 miles of pristine beach that attract 1.2 million people a year.Next for NYC Trans Fat Ban: Enforcement
Source: Palm Beach Post (online), December 12, 2006
City officials are promising to be gentle when it comes to enforcing the first-in-the-nation ban on trans fats, which restaurants will have more than a year to rid from their food.NY bans most trans fats from restaurants
But the food industry fears the ban _ approved last week _ will lead to hefty fines against kitchens that inadvertently fail to remove the artificial fats from every item on the menu.
Source: Breitbart, December 10, 2006
The law is believed to be the first of its kind in the United States and will require restaurants including McDonald’s Corp. to eliminate trans fats by July 2007.Smoking ban approved in British Virgin Islands
Source: Reuters, December 5, 2006
Smokers will not be allowed to light up in enclosed public places, including bars and restaurants, or within 50 feet of a door or window to such a space, many of the narrow, winding streets of the capital, Road Town, would effectively be off limits to smoking.Laws prohibit smoking around children
Source: CNN, November 30, 2006
"We are very rapidly moving to protect children from secondhand smoke," says John Banzhaf, executive director of Action on Smoking and Health. "Even from their own parents and grandparents."School bans pro-life T-shirts, fliers
Source: USA Today (online), November 28, 2006
Belmont to be first U.S. city to ban all smokingA Virginia high school barred a Christian student from distributing materials and wearing a T-shirt that declared opposition to abortion, prompting a legal response.Source: WorldNetDaily, November 18, 2006
Belmont is set to make history by becoming the first city in the nation to ban smoking on its streets and almost everywhere else.Suit Challenges Louisville’s Smoking Ban
Source: The Daily Journal (online), November 16, 2006
The ordinance passed by the Metro Council last month would tighten a measure that went into effect a year ago. It is set to take effect in July.Smokeless and clueless in Omaha
Source: ABCNews (online), November 14, 2006
Not only did the city council [Omaha, Nebraska] cave into the pressure of the anti-smoking Nazis banning cigarettes in 97 percent of public places but this group of tyrants went further than any in America thus far. City officials in Omaha, with the support of the police department, called on citizens who witness violations of the new prohibition to call 911 to report them.See a smoker in Omaha? Dial 9-1-1
Source: WorldNetDaily, October 25, 2006
Omaha banned smoking in public Oct. 2. Penalties are $100 for the first offense, $200 for the second and $500 for the third and subsequent infractions.Beijing to ban smoking ads, vending machines
Source: World Net Daily, October 22, 2006
Provisions of the treaty are spelled out in the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. In general, the treaty requires signatories to enact certain bans on tobacco advertising and outlawing cigarette vending machines.Cigarette smokers’ revenge
Source: WorldNetDaily, August 31, 2005
Across the country, nearly 5,000 municipalities require 100 percent smoke-free workplaces and/or restaurants and/or bars. Some localities go even farther. In Montgomery County, Md., councilmen approved one of the most restrictive anti-smoking measures in the nation, setting stiff fines for people who smoke in their own homes if it offends their neighbors.China’s 350 million smokers
Source: WorldNetDaily, May 5, 2005
China has added some 30 million new smokers, according to the most recent survey, bringing to 350 million the total number of mainlanders who light up and consume one-third of all the cigarettes smoked in the world each year.NYC busts shop owner for ashtray
Source: WorldNetDaily, May 26, 2004
A business owner who left an ashtray sitting out in his shop has been fined $6,000 by New York City’s health inspector, who was enforcing the city’s tough, new anti-smoking law.Global tobacco treaty approved
Source: WorldNetDaily, November 8, 2003
"Politicians have no right ordering Americans not to smoke — much less people halfway around the world," Neale said. "Smoking is a personal choice, not an international crisis."Taxpayers propping up Big Tobacco
Source: WorldNetDaily, May 23, 2003
Judd Gregg, R-N.H., chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, known as the HELP Committee, is proposing legislation that, in the words of a committee summary, "grants FDA authority to regulate the production, distribution, labeling and marketing of tobacco products to protect the public health."
Source: WorldNetDaily, November 13, 2003
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