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We would like to introduce you to the TRUTH about bans.
THIS, folks, is HOW Tobacco Control LIES.
The American Cancer Society, American Lung Association and other Tobacco Control, big pHARMa funded organizations sell smoking bans to legislators, voters and city council members with the promise that "SMOKING BANS DO NOT HARM BUSINESS". If you're a bar owner in a city, county or state with a smoking ban, you know that's a lie. Bar owners have furiously contacted legislators, city council members about the 45%-60% loss of business they've incurred since smoking bans. In Ohio, the Ohio Department of Health surveyed 5,000 Ohio adults. They used the results of the survey in a report to the legislature. What ODH left out of the report was the survey they did asking 1) are you a smoker or non-smoker and 2) do you visit bars more often, less often or about the same. The survey results supports what bar owners have been saying:
About the same: current smokers 59.8% non smokers 75.3%
MORE often: current smokers .7% non smokers 6.8%
LESS often: current smokers 39.5% non smokers 17.9%
Do the math. In Ohio, smokers make up approximately 20% of the adult population. 38.8% (39.5-0.7)
overall go to bars LESS. After being promised bars would see all these "new customers" of non smokers, the truth is 11.1%
overall (of 80% of the adult population) go to bars LESS. This supports bar owners claims and it was withheld from Ohio legislators and the media. You can
view it here (figure 5).
Adult-only establishments
are hurt by smoking bans. Now this kind of unrest among angry small business owners puts a crimp in Tobacco Control's paychecks so...what do they do? They put out articles like this one that appeared in the Sacramento Bee Newspaper November 30, 2011.
READ this article closely. Do you see anything wrong with it?
It states, in part "...the CDC Foundation and CDC have launched a new initiative to study the economic impact of smoke-free policies on restaurants and bars in nine states...While the health benefits of smoke-free policies are clear, the perception that they might negatively affect restaurant and bar business can pose a barrier to the broader introduction and acceptance of these policies." It goes on to say "the initiative is made possible by a partnership grant from Pfizer" and that the "findings will be summarized in educational materials and shared with local businesses and business groups".
To even a blind person, it clearly shows in order to get rid of the "barrier to broader introduction and acceptance" of smoke-free policies, they have to dispel the "perception" about losses to business. They've ALREADY announced the "findings will be summarized in educational materials and will be shared with local businesses and business groups". Folks, THEY HAVE ALREADY DECIDED THE OUTCOME OF THIS STUDY!!!!!!
Do you really think if the true loss numbers of 45%-60% to businesses are discovered that they'll SHARE those results with businesses and business groups? Can you see this "educational material" going to bar owners saying "Dear bar owner - you're going to lose money, LOTS of money when we get a smoking ban in your community or state, but we want to dispel the perception because it poses a barrier (a threat) to our further destruction of your property rights and our ability to get a smoking ban in your community"?
Here's the even more disgusting part. Who sits on the CDC Foundation Board of Directors? David Satcher. Who sits on the Board of Directors of Johnson & Johnson? David Satcher! Who makes and profits from Nicorette gum, Nicorette Lozenges, Nicoderm, Nicoderm CQ and Nicotrol? Johnson & Johnson! Even more blatant is the CDC Foundation is getting a grant from Pfizer to do the study!!!! Who do you think sells Chantix? PFIZER!
Big pHARMa (Johnson & Johnson) uses their non-profit (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) to fund smoking bans with grants.
RWJF owned, in 2006 when Ohio's ban was effective, 42,343,491 shares of Johnson & Johnson stock.
Johnson & Johnson (and RWJF) profits from the sales of Nicorette, Nicoderm and their McNeil Company's Nicotrol.
We've dedicated an entire page to RWJF (see Anti Smoking Groups) however this summary deserves the front web page. (suggested reading for historians should include: Sherman Act, RICO, artificial stock inflation, insider trading, legislative rent seeking and most importantly, violation of the False Claims Act)
RWJF AND THOSE THEY FUND HIDE THE HARM OF J&J NRT PRODUCTS, THEY HIDE THE FACT THAT MORE PEOPLE QUIT SMOKING UNASSISTED WITHOUT NRT WHILE PUSHING THE GOVERNMENT AND INSURANCE COMPANIES TO NOT ONLY FUND NRT BUT TO FUND LONGER USE WHEN LONGER USE CREATES HEALTH PROBLEMS AND DOES NOT INSURE SUCCESSFUL QUITTING. We get visitors to our site rountinely who Google "will my hair grow back if I quit Nicorette?"
SEE THIS GlaxoSmithKline 2010 press release - FOLLOW THE MONEY WITH "ATTUD" AND "SRNT", AND TOBACCO CONTROL LEGAL CONSORTIUM.
18. February 2010 03:59
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Consumer Healthcare, marketer of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) products, including Nicorette®, NicoDerm® CQ® and Commit®, applauds two leading smoking cessation organizations for their efforts to improve the regulation of smoking cessation aids designed to help people quit smoking.
A citizen petition, filed jointly by the Association for the Treatment of Tobacco Use and Dependence (ATTUD) and the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT), urged the FDA to adopt a more flexible regulatory approach to expand access to and use of NRT products. These smoking cessation products have helped millions of people around the world quit smoking and, as a result, have significantly reduced their exposure to the risks of cancer and other smoking-related diseases. THIS IS LOBBYING!!!!
WHO FUNDS SRNT?
SRNT Supporters
SRNT is pleased to receive financial support from the following organizations in support of our mission to promote the generation of new knowledge concerning nicotine in all its manifestations:
Government Sector
National Cancer Institute
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Private Sector
American Cancer Society
American Legacy Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Public Sector
GlaxoSmithKline
Johnson & Johnson/McNeil AB
Pfizer
WHO FUNDS ATTUD?
FDA Citizen Petition On Friday February 12, 2010 the Association for the Treatment of Tobacco Use and Dependence (ATTUD) and the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) submitted a
Citizen Petition to the FDA asking they adopt a more flexible evidence-based regulatory approach to the treatment of tobacco dependence and that Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) labeling indications and instructions be modified to be consistent with current science. This is the culmination of over 2 years of work by ATTUD and SRNT members (including Jonathan Foulds, Matt Barry, Mitch Zeller, Kathleen Dachille, and Ken Wassum). Funding for this initiative was originally provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. A critical part of the petition process was the writing of a white paper, Barriers to the Use of Smoking Cessation Medications. The petition urges the FDA to provide health-concerned smokers with more flexible pathways towards becoming tobacco-free, such as using nicotine replacement products (NRT) in combination, using NRT for a longer period of time, using NRT to reduce tobacco use while trying to quit, and making NRT available in true one-day pack sizes. The full petition and the accompanying review white paper are attached. Financial support was provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as well as a grant from the Tobacco Control Legal Consortium for the legal services provided by Kathleen Dachille at the University of Maryland Law School. |
WHO FUNDS THE TOBACCO CONTROL LEGAL CONSORTIUM?
Tobacco Control Legal Consortium
The Tobacco Control Legal Consortium is America’s award-winning legal network for tobacco control policy. Drawing on experts in its eight affiliated legal centers, the consortium works to assist communities with tobacco law-related issues, ranging from smoke-free policies to tobacco control funding laws to regulation of flavored cigarettes.
Major Funders
Partners
All the while, RWJF and J&J profit from the laws THEY bought with grants. But what is even more sinful is the BILLIONS of dollars spent on J&J products, PUSHED BY THOSE WHO RECEIVE FUNDING BY THE NON PROFIT OF JOHNSON & JOHNSON WHILE KNOWING FULL WELL THAT MORE SMOKERS QUIT UNASSISTED THAN BY USING NRT PRODUCTS - MORE PEOPLE QUIT GOING COLD TURKEY!!!
Big pHARMa's form of addictive nicotine (NRT)
· MINORS ARE ABLE TO PURCHASE NRT
Study in Bio Medicine News showing 80% of the time, minors were able to purchase without being asked for ID
· NRT INEFFECTIVE
Dr. Michael Siegel's rapid response to this BMJ study
· An Effective Intervention? | · 5 April 2009 |
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· Michael Siegel,
Professor
Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA, 02118 · Send response to journal:
Re: An Effective Intervention? | · It appears to me that the conclusions of this paper are highly slanted. With a long-term smoking cessation percentage of only 1.6%, one can hardly call NRT treatment an "effective" intervention in this situation. Even though the 1.6% abstinence rate is better than the 0.4% achieved with placebo, how can one call the 1.6% success rate with NRT to be "effective?" · In fact, the logical conclusion from this paper is that NRT was a dismal intervention. The overwhelming majority of smokers - 98.4% - failed to achieve long-term sustained abstinence with NRT treatment. · Given the presence of a financial conflict of interest with a pharmaceutical company that manufactures nicotine replacement products, it certainly has the appearance that this conflict has biased the interpretation of the findings and the study conclusion. · I can't quite think of another intervention for which a 98.4% failure rate would be considered a success. · Competing interests: None declared | |
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· MORE SMOKERS QUIT COLD TURKEY
Australia study that examined 511 studies published in 2007 and 2008 "Nicotine replacement therapy is over-promoted since most ex-smokers quit unassisted"
Health authorities should emphasize the positive message that the most successful method used by most ex-smokers is unassisted cessation, despite the promotion of cessation drugs by pharmaceutical companies and many tobacco control advocates.The dominant messages about smoking cessation contained in most tobacco control campaigns, which emphasize that serious attempts at quitting smoking must be pharmacologically or professionally mediated, are critiqued in an essay in this week's PLoS Medicine by Simon Chapman and Ross MacKenzie from the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney, Australia. This overemphasis on quit methods like nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) has led to the "medicalisation of smoking cessation," despite good evidence that the most successful method used by most ex-smokers is quitting "cold turkey" or reducing-then-quitting. Reviewing 511 studies published in 2007 and 2 008 the authors report that studies repeatedly show that two-thirds to three-quarters of ex-smokers stop unaided and most ex-smokers report that cessation was less difficult than expected.
The medicalisation of smoking cessation is fuelled by the extent and influence of pharmaceutical support for cessation intervention studies, say the authors. They cite a recent review of randomized controlled trials of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) that found that 51% of industry-funded trials reported significant cessation effects, while only 22% of non-industry trials did. Many assisted cessation studies—but few if any unassisted cessation studies—involve researchers who declare support from a pharmaceutical company manufacturing cessation products.
American Cancer Society's own publication shows: (pg 25, Table 3)
Important to note after we linked to the ACS' publication showing they KNOW more people quit cold turkey, it mysteriously disappeared from their website. Luckily, I kept a screen capture of it. Note the URL so you know we didn't make this up.
Followed recommended therapy (drug therapy and/or counseling)
Current Smokers 15.1% ---- Former Smokers 6.8%
Quit "cold turkey" or slowly decreased amount smoked
Current Smokers 82.4%--- Former Smokers 91.4%
Yet the ACS was awarded a RWJF grant to lobby for federal money to pay for NRT. The ACS previously "sold" their logo to be used on NRT packaging for a cool $1,000,000. When "cold turkey" is proven to be the best way to quit smoking (and their own publication reports it), why then do they take RWJF's grant money to push the use of their addictive nicotine?
· NRT IS HIGHLY ADDICTIVE (Johnson & Johnson moved the nicotine addiction from Big Tobacco to Big pHARMa)
Have you seen this Jessica Simpson interview on Jay Leno? She's ADDICTED TO NICORETTE and never smoked a day in her life. She said it's "like a party in her mouth".
· NRT USERS REPORT ADDICTION AND HEALTH PROBLEMS
These are just some of the comments made by Nicorette users.
It most certainly is addictive. The problem is that it works just like cigarettes or smokeless tobacco does--you get a quick fix of nicotine, can regulate levels up and down as needed for stress, etc., and personally I liked the taste. I have been off a few times but get major withdrawal symptoms.
| Have been chewing gum since I was 27, originally to quit smoking (1 pack/day) but 19 years later am still chewing it! Over the years I have suffered with severe hair loss since about age 27! Am now 46 and have only 50% of my hair left! Some people have suggested menopause could be the cause for the hair loss - but not when I was 27! That's when my hair started to fall out - and that's when I began to constantly chew this gum! I replaced my addiction for cigarettes with an addiction to nicotine gum |
| If I stop from a 4mg dose, I feel great the first week, more energy and life is better because the 4mg pieces are certainly overdosing me and cause lethargy - yet I STILL CONSUME them. If I stop from the 2mg dosing (about 20/day) I sleep for about 2 days then feel pretty good. The worst part for me is about a month after stopping. Terrible depression sets in. Please note: I HAVE NEVER SMOKED. I also now have severe gum recession requiring tissue tranplantation, thinning hair and don't heal quickly after injuries. |
| It's really difficult to stop using! It's nico-crack! Stay away if you can. I started doing some research and even the FDA doesn't have any information on most of the nicotine products. Most of the studies I found were funded by the same companies that make the gum. I'm deliberately being mislead. |
| This drug is addictive and the whole point of flavoring it now is to get new customers, making this market as bad or worse than the cigarette market. Drug dealing is drug dealing, whether you're "protecting us" from carbon monoxide or not. |
I was able to quit smoking right away with Nicorette. I was also addicted to it right away. I chew 30 + pieces of 4mg daily. At one point I used Zyban to break the gum chewing habit and it worked for approximately 8 months. Ended up back on the gum and have been cheweing it ever since. Since I have found it for $16 dollars for 105 pieces, I don't have any incentive to quit and have never experienced hair loss or tooth decay. Would love to quit though, don't like the control that it has over me.
| This is not the person taking the gum but his wife writing this to you. The mood swings got worse, He started getting panic attacks more and more, He has now suffered two slight strokes which the doctors can't understand why because he doesn't have the markers to have them. I think the FDA should find people to run it that actually care about people not what drug company is going to throw money their way. I strongly urge people not to ingest this substance it could cost you your life. I am puting his gender, age,and years ingesting this crap. |
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| Initially used to stop smoking. Now have been using on and off for 20 years plus. Constantly reassured self it was less harmful than smoking so OK. Consider NRT an unregulated, expensive scam. As hard to quit gum as smoking - have stopped now for 2 days and am determined to keep going - 20 years ingesting this poison has been too long. |
| I found this website looking for a linkage between hair loss and Nicorette. I have been very addicted to Nicorette and managed to reduce the number to 7 per day when I became extremely ill and could not tolerate any. My only choice was to go back to smoking. What a relief! I feel much better on cigarettes. (I am smoking a brand I don't like to cut down on the addition.) I was trying to find a job, but was going around with a scarf because of hair loss. Why did I wait so long? I think we have been made so ashamed of smoking, we will put up with anything to stop. Something is wrong with that thinking. I continued to take Nicorette way longer than I should have. My comment: Wake-up folks! Do we need to lose our hair before we Get off Nicorette? |
i think i'm now addicted to the gum nearly 8 months after stopping smoking.
I have been taken Nicorette 2mg gum for 2 years. This helped me stop smoking however caused me to be addicted to the gum. Side affects seemed very small at first but as time went on i started with sore throats and headaches. Then the hairloss started which i couldn't get my head around and neither could my GP. Now off the gum and suffering the cravings. I will not go back to the gum as the long term side effects are to severe. Could someone let me know if the hair grows back or am i resigned to being bald?? Also why are all the side effects not listed on the leaflets?
this is really bad stuff better off smoking
I believe I am more addicted to nicorette than I ever was to cigarettes. I went through a stressful time and resumed a chewing-which I had given up 3 years prior and now it's been 4 years and my habit had gotten out of control. I do want to tell those of you out there that are trying to quit-you can do it!!! I went to the doctor a couple of weeks ago and he put me on a medication for anxiety...little did I know that my out of control gum chewing frenzy-like behavior must have been anxiety, because I decided to finally quit. It's only been 3 days, but I am doing just fine and will get this giant monkey off of my back for once and for all!! Good luck to all of you-let's show 'em that we're not going to be tricked anymore!!!!
I've been addicted to this gum for 20 years. I would rather have this gum than smoke a cigarette. I'm so addicted to this gum that I think it will be harder to quit than cigarettes. I was a closet smoker so never smoked freely all day long like I do with this stupid gum. I have it in my mouth all day long. I plan on quitting tomorrow! This will be my second try. I found this website doing a search on the topic and now wonder if my recent hair loss issue is possibly related to my long term nicorette use? This should be enough to motivate me to quit (vanity can be a powerful reason). There is no way this gum is totally benign...it's a chemical that's being ingested into our bodies. It's evil
I have found that Nicorette and all nicotine gum is extremely addicting. It did help me quit smoking, but now I can't quit the gum. I've tried many, many times over the past 2 years to quit the gum. I even switched to the Commit lozenges and became addicted to those then switched back to Nicorette. The side effects are awful. If I had it to do over again, I would keep trying to quit smoking going cold turkey.
have now substituted cigarette addiction for nicorette addiction. despite cutting down, cannot eliminate nicorette gum completely.
I do not recommend taking this drug, and if you are on it, consider quiting as soon as possible. Years ago I used it to quit smoking. At that time I basically subsituted one addiction for another. It was very difficult to quit. About 4 years ago I had significant stress and chose nicorette to help me cope in lieu of smoking again. Here I am 4 years later and I was just able to quit this week. This blog with symptoms listed was very helpful. On Monday I cut down to 7 pieces, Tuesday 4, Wednesday 1, and Thursday and Friday none. I feel the uneasiness of withdrawal still, but it is good knowing that I am done with the drug for good. I am drinking a lot of fluids, chewing spearmint gum, and excercising. Not a pretty site, but it will be over for good soon. I threw out my remaining nicorette, and feel that I am done with it for good. I feel that more information will come out on this drug in the future, and it will not be positive. I hope all people who are having trouble with this drug, take the time to be uncomfortable for a week, and give it up. Good luck to everyone.
Horrible stuff. All it does is keep my nicotine addiction going. Having another go at weaning myself off it, but it's not easy, just get so depressed and end up irritable and weepy. It solves nothing. Someone is making shedloads of money out of people's misery, and in a couple of decades there'll probably be loads of health problems linked with nicotine gums that were kept secret from us for years, just like with cigarettes before. Should be available on prescription only.
i might not be smoking now after 2 years .but keep chewing the gum all day long for 2 years .
I used this to quit smoking 10 years ago and am still addicted to the gum. In those 10 years, I have chewed it while being a smoker, chewed it while taking Chantix, and now, thank heavens, I'm only chewing the gum. I think it might be giving me headaches, but only when i use too much. I finally read the literature last night, and realized that i overdose almost daily. So i'm rationing it now, with the goal of tapering off to a quit. But bottom line is, i'm addicted to it. I get panicky when i'm out, and will take a break during the work day to run to the drug store to get more.
I decided to try nicorette in college. I had never smoked before (not even once), and became addicted. 7 years later, I am still addicted and have a host of physical problems including high blood pressure. This medication should not be available without a prescription.
Horibble drug! Can someone please let me know if your hair grows back after quiting the gum.Had the thickest hair to almost bold in the 6 monts while chewing the gum! PLEASE HELP!!! email me at prinsjaco@gmail.com
Like many people, I am addicted to nicorette gum. I have used it now for 6 years.
I have been using nicorette gum for over than 6 years. it helped me to quit smoking but I got addicted to it .I feel I am poisioning myself gradually. I started to have a serious health issues. smoking would be better. I won't advise anyone to use any nicorette product or any other nicotien products. smoking is better or at least try to quit without using anything.
I have been chewing 20 to 30 2mg pieces a day for about 15 years. I am so addicted. I am petrified to quit. I think about it and I have tried many times but can never quit. I am afraid of the long term affects on my health such as throat cancer.
Nicorettes were effective at helping me to quit smoking 12 yrs ago and I've never smoked again since. But just weeks after quitting and starting Nicorettes, I discovered that although I wasn't inhaling tars and dangerous gases, I was just as addicted to 4mg gum as I was to cigarettes - and probably more so, since unlike smoking, I was able to chew gun anywhere, anytime. After 12+ yrs of chewing 4mg Nicorettes at the rate of 20-30 pieces a day, I recently ended up in the back of an ambulance on the way to ER with PVC's, extremely high pulse (150+), and dangerously high blood pressure. The diagnosis was TIA - mild stroke, due to my brain not getting enough oxygen; for 20+ min, I was unable to read/comprehend simple words and follow simple verbal instructions. I have NO DOUBT that the symptoms were the result of nicotine overdose, as I chewed 30+ 4mg pieces that day. Since stopping Nicorettes completely and no longer comsuming nicotine of any kind, my pulse is 65, blood pressure 119/8
I used to smoke for a while and quit for a while off and on. In comparison to Nicorette gum quitting cigarettes is far easier than quitting the gum. I was averaging about 10-15 pieces of 2mg per day and this stuff is really hard to stop taking. I am genuinely afraid for my health taking this product.
Here's some TRUTH. READ the actual ballot language of Issue 5, voted on in November, 2006, and tell me they didn't put exemptions for family owned and operated businesses, private clubs and outdoor patios just to get "YES" votes, only to have NO EXEMPTIONS written into the law. How is that LEGAL?
TRUTH: Bans of any kind invariably infringe upon a Right guaranteed by the Constitution. In the case of
smoking bans they infringe upon several, most of all private property rights. Just because the public
is "invited in" does not make it a public place. Places PAID FOR by the public (libraries, city hall,
etc.) are PUBLIC places. These businesses are not OWNED by the public; they are owned by
American People.
TRUTH: Bans are built on lies. These lies are propagated by organizations and businesses who stand to
profit by these bans. Look further into our website for proof.
TRUTH: Bans are BAD FOR BUSINESS - see the rest of our website
TRUTH: If secondhand smoke was really such a public health issue that it had to be banned in all workplaces,
public and private, then why is it that in ALL of the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation's existence
(98 years) has there only been 1 claim filed alleging harm from secondhand smoke and THAT
claim was disallowed because the claimant could not prove the causal relationship.
Ohio is currently saddled with Issue 5, the Ohio Smoking Ban guised as the Smokefree Workplace Act. It essentially eliminates smoking everywhere but in your home, your car, and outdoors (limited outdoor use permitted). Opponents of Ohio Bans will prove that Issue 5 is based on lies, infringment of Property Rights issues (and three other Constitutional Amendments), and is hurting businesses in Ohio.
"Who Really Profits from Smoking Bans? Not bars!
Opponents of Ohio Bans say Follow the Money"
BOYCOTT THE OHIO LOTTERY!!
Because the State of Ohio is facing HUGE budget deficits, Governor Strickland is looking into allowing video gambling at Ohio Racetracks. While we are totally in favor of generating revenue for the State of Ohio, we believe we the State of Ohio should be about generating revenue for everyone. We are NOT opposed to this idea.
HOWEVER, the "will of the voters" was for no gambling (casino-turned down in November 2008). The "will of the voters" was for exemptions from the Smoking Ban for FAMILY OWNED BUSINESSES and PRIVATE CLUBS. If the Governor doesn't mind going against the will of the voters in favor of generating revenue for the State of Ohio, then the Governor should mind supporting the will of the voters in favor of generating revenue for the Hospitality Industry.
Until the State of Ohio exempts family owned businesses and private clubs from the smoking ban law, we are calling for a BOYCOTT OF THE OHIO LOTTERY!!!
Let's use Tobacco Control's logic by calling for this ban:
- It's ok to harm yourself by playing the lottery..just not others around you (the financial ruination affecting your spouse and children)
Look at the litter from those nasty scratch-offs
Why should "we" have to pay for addiction counseling?
We could probably get the "faith based" initiative groups to sign on
Custodial rights should be given to the non-lottery playing parent. After all, it doesn't matter who the better parent would be, it's about protecting the children.
Employers should not hire those who play the lottery. Lottery addiction impacts productivity, lost days, and we must make sure they don't steal to feed their habit.
What do those keno games do to their eye sight? They should be forced to take breaks. And we, the citizens, shouldn't have to pick up the tab for glasses or eye exams through taxes of Medicare/Medicaid.
They should pay MORE for their health care than non lottery players or maybe they shouldn't be allowed to get health insurance
Lottery players to pay for SCHIP.
Lottery tickets should be kept out of ALL businesses. It doesn’t matter that 70% of the businesses already banned lottery tickets from being allowed in their business. The other 30% must also be lottery ticket-free. Whether business owners already were lotto-free based on customer demands doesn't matter. They must ALL be lotto-free.
Lotto scratchers are (what does the propaganda say?) oh yes, uneducated, make less money and we need to hate them like the smokers. In fact, smokers are attacked and beaten because they smoke.
I’m sure we can get grant money from the mental health people for studies to PROVE the cost and harm from addition to the lottery (UCSF Medical School study concluded “Source of Research Funding Influences Studies on Health Effects of ETS” therefore it’s safe to assume the same applies regardless of the subject).
Our Lottery Control organization can form 2 organizations; one that is tax exempt, one that is not that can lobby but we’ll all be housed in several Central Ohio locations with property valued at over 3.4 MILLION DOLLARS but don’t expect us to pay property taxes. We’re a non-profit and it shouldn’t matter that we use the same building, people, assets, utilities, etc. for both functions. We are not going to pay property taxes (even though we claim to care about the children) and we can pay ourselves $800,000 a year with the CEO of the American Cancer Society.
Warning signs of addiction are not enough. People can’t make informed decisions for themselves. We must control their behaviors.
The “majority” should make the decision on whether or not people can play the lottery.
What chemicals are in the black scratch-off substance? Should we keep those tickets away from children?
We can claim there’s no economic harm from Lottery Control. If State Employees from the Lottery Commission (and others from lack of sales) lose their jobs, we’ll just keep saying there’s no economic harm. If you’re busted in a lie, you keep the lie going. Never admit it was a lie.
So what if children lose school funding? Lottery control knows what’s best.
Who choose a lottery-free state?
Using Tobacco Control logic, it doesn't matter if the state loses money (just like the hospitality industry). After all, we MUST protect people who don't ask for or WANT our protection. Except for the nursing homes and lottery stores, they can be exempt. The lottery control doesn’t apply to them. Or, we can get a ballot initiative and LIE about exemptions for many of these businesses that we really don’t mean to exempt. That way, more people will vote “yes” and we can take it back after the vote.
TOTALLY ABSURD, RIGHT?
THE STATE OF OHIO DOESN'T CARE THAT THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY IS LOSING MONEY
LET'S BOYCOTT THE OHIO LOTTERY UNTIL THEY DO!