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   IN THE MEDIA
Secondhand Smoke and Heart Disease
07/31 Edmund Contoski - American Liberty
The State of Minnesota creates a new enemy
07/11 Bob Smith - City Pages Babelogue
Vets sent to front lines in the smoking wars
03/13 Joe Soucheray - Pioneer Press
Smoking bans are NOT about smoking, 12/16 by Bob Smith, City Pages Babelogue
Smoking ban will crimp charitable gambling 12/15 by Craig Westover, Pioneer Press




THE ANTI-TOBACCO RECIPE FOR SUCCESS

1. Choose an industry
2. Regulate the industry.
3. Tax the industry.
4. Sue the industry.

When one source of money dries up, return to Step 1 and repeat.

Smoking policies and smoking-lounge locations at dozens of U.S. airports




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THE TRUTH ABOUT THE EFFECT OF SMOKING BANS ON RESTAURANTS
"...banning smoking in tableservice restaurants by a government entity on the local level has had a positive effect on some restaurants, no effect on many and a negative effect on many more."
read the study done for the National Restaurant Association (PDF file)
U.S. Navy Submarine study:
passive smoke exposure appears to be minimum.
read it here
Why I voted against
the Statewide Smoking Ban

by Minnesota State Senator Tom Neuville





Smoking Bans causing BIG LOSSES
in Charitable Gambling
Here are the charitable gambling receipts from the first 2 months of the smoking bans, compared with the same period of 2004.

Hennepin County: TOTAL BAN
2004 Revenue: $33,878,728.43
2005 Revenue: $27,081,432.68
Loss in Revenue Under Ban: $6,797,295 - DOWN 20.06%

Ramsey County: PARTIAL BAN
2004 Revenue: $23,761,344.83
2005 Revenue: $21,968,159.08
Loss in Revenue Under Ban: $1,793,185 - DOWN 7.55%

Anoka County: No Ban
2004 Revenue: 17,917,542.93
2005 Revenue: 19,078,346.99
Gain in Revenue Under Ban: $1,160,804 - up 6.48%

Dakota County: No Ban
2004 Revenue: 11,529,092.90
2005 Revenue: 11,692,802.21
Gain in Revenue Under Ban: $163,709 - up 1.42%

Wright County: No Ban
2004 Revenue: 7,622,489.45
2005 Revenue: 7,771,401.80
Gain in Revenue Under Ban: $148,912 - up 1.95%

This data is from the Minnesota Gambling Control Board, which does not take a position on the policy issue of the smoking ban, but closely monitors all sales activity throughout the state as part of their regulatory efforts.


Tell us what you think of the elitist and insulting (and misspelled) response from St. Paul Councilman Dave Thune, a supposed "public servant" and representative of the citizens, in response to a letter from Sue Jeffers. The letters are in our discussion forum.

Economic losses due to smoking bans
in California and other states
The overall order of magnitude of the bar and restaurant retail growth losses in all smoker unfriendly states, except Utah, was about 25%. - read the details
The economic loss of the New York State smoking ban:   • 2,650 lost jobs   
• $50 million in worker earnings   • $71.5 million in gross state product - see the study, and the appendices (pdf).
Fight Smoking Bans.
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Over a decade of evidence countering the rabid claims of fanatics that secondhand smoke is deadly and exposes the politically correct lie that smoking bans are a matter of Public Health.







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