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Home Page We would like to introduce you to the TRUTH about bans. 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 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? 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!
| Voters don't get to vote on everything If voters can decide what happens with business (private) property, the same can hold true with residential (private) property. Example: Case Study: I Feel Sugar is Bad for Children I can get enough people in a frenzy believing the same I could probably find a couple of bad studies done by others who believe sugar is bad, those showing the bad affects sugar has on children. (Of course the outcome of the studies are predetermined as these people are just like me). Obviously, I won't use any studies that show the opposite findings. I'll be careful which studies I use and which ones I don't. I feed the media (because I have money from Nootrasweet who will profit from a sugar ban and I have a few studies). I prey on the fact no common person nor opponent of a sugar ban can read my studies; therefore, you must believe what I tell you, and why would I lie? I'm doing it for your children's good. I actually get enough signatures to get it on a ballot. In the meantime, Nootrasweet, who paid me to start this frenzy, buys the company that makes Splinda (They might as well corner the market on sugar replacement). I get money behind me to advertise on TV saying that "53,000 children per year will die if they use sugar". (After all, I have a couple of studies few can understand and I have money behind me). I next actually get a law passed not allowing parents to feed sugar to children under 16 year olds. Probably most of the people who voted for this law didn't even have children under 16 but they decide this for you anyway.
Questions: Should it matter that I got grants from the Nootrasweet people to pay for these "studies" and the media blitz? Should I be allowed to pick only the studies that prove my point that sugar is bad? Should I be allowed to create a ban that profits me and the people who paid me to get this ban passed as law? (You lose but who cares? I win and make a lot of money) Should the Nootrasweet people, who paid me to start this frenzy, be allowed to buy up the companies who make the alternatives to sugar? Martha Stewart went to prison for less than that. Should the voters be allowed to decide your family values for you even though they probably don't have children under 16? Should I be allowed to create a public panic-induced campaign to impact what happens in your family? In your home? In and on your PRIVATE PROPERTY? Should voters be allowed to tell you what you can and cannot do in your home?
I would hope your answers are all "NO!". So why was this allowed to happen to businesses when there is NO difference at all? The same thing happened to business owners in Ohio. You'd be OUTRAGED that I took money from the people who profited by you losing the ability to raise your children how you see fit. What's the difference? The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is getting rich off the grants they paid out to the American Cancer Society to lobby for them to have smoking bans nationwide so their Johnson & Johnson company can make money off the nicotine replacement therapies and programs they have. If this were only about wanting to protect us, why did J & J buy Pfizer OTC Division in 2006 for $16.6 billion just to get Nicorette? It doesn't take a study to answer that question! By the way, they promised a per-share gain by 2009. JnJ posted a 40% jump in profit 1st Q. 2008. With help from the American Cancer Society, through grant funding @ almost 1 million dollars to market nicotine replacement therapy and a $70,000+ grant to lobby Medicaid to pay for nicotine replacement therapy, the goal is in the bag. Not 6 days after Issue 5 was passed by the voters in Ohio who voted, the Ohio Department of Health got a "grant" from the Robert Wood Foundation for $150,000. Oh what a tangled web we weave.......
This page was last modified on Friday, January 09, 2009 01:55:51 PM | REAL DEATHS THERE IS NO SAFE EXPOSURE TO SMOKING BANS 11/29/2008 LOWELL, Mass. -- A 7-Eleven worker was stabbed to death outside a Lowell store during a smoking break Saturday morning, police said. Lowell police responded to reports of a stabbing at about 6:45 a.m. Witnesses said Mazen Alwarad, 37, of Lowell, has just left the store when he was attacked by three men in the parking lot. Alwarad was taken by helicopter to Beth Israel Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Alwarad had a family and had been working there since July, according to 7-Eleven. 7-Eleven said it appears to be a random act of violence. Workers will be offered counseling. Anyone with information is asked to call Lowell police at 978-937-3242 .
10/02/2008 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Relatives beat a Malaysian couple to death in a ritual apparently meant to help the man to stop smoking, police said Friday. The couple died of head injuries after being beaten with broomsticks and motorbike helmets during a family gathering at a Kuala Lumpur home Wednesday, said Ku Chin Wah, head of the city's crime investigations department. One of the couple's sons and three other relatives remain in custody. Four other detained family members have been released, Ku sai
09/19/2008 Kampala - A man was lynched by an irate mob in a bar in Eastern Ugandan after refusing to stop smoking despite repeated requests from fellow drunken patrons, an official said Friday. The incident was the first deadly attack targeting a smoker since a 2004 ban on smoking in public places was imposed in the East African nation. "The man was killed by a mob," Tororo Resident District Commissioner,Samuel Mpimbaza-Hashaka told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. "Even if someone commits an offense, there is no way mob justice is allowed to take course and lead to loss of life," he continued. The lynch party, which was drinking a local potent brew known as "enguli" in Nagongera village, pounced on the deceased man on Thursday night after he refused to throw away a cigarette he was puffing on inside the bar. The official penalty for smoking in public is a fine of up to 50 dollars.
Centraila, Illinois - Darrell R. Adams, died 02-01-2008 when he stepped outside Dottie's Bar to smoke a cigarette, as the new Illinois law mandated effective 01-01-2008. When he stepped outside, he fell down the steps, broke his neck and died. This wouldn't have happened had he been allowed to smoke indoors with other adults over the age of 21.
May 5, 2008 - Police Search for Man Who Killed Over Cigarettes BALTIMORE (WJZ) - A woman is murdered over cigarettes. Police are asking for help as they try to catch the killer. Police say the killer asked the victim and her boyfriend for cigarettes. When Dawn Shipley, 29, did not hand them over, the man produced a handgun and shot her. She died a short time later at Shock Trauma. Ms. Shipley leaves behind a 9 year old son named Norman. The family does not have the money for a funeral so the Dawn Shipley Memorial Fund has been set up with donations to be made at any Provident Bank Branch.
09/28/2007 Cleveland Gas Station Attendant Beaten While on Cigarette Break. Warning: this video is disturbing This man was beaten for 7 minutes with a brick by a man waiting for the attendance to leave his safe work environment to smoke a cigarette. The beating was caught on the security system cameras. Police say this is the worst beating they've seen where the victim actually lived
03/15/2004 Bar Owner Blames Smoking Ban For Rape PUEBLO, Colo. -- A Pueblo bar owner says the smoking ban that forced his female employee outside is directly responsible for her rape. When the woman went outside the Irish Brew Pub for a cigarette break last month, a 33-year-old man attacked her, dragged her into an alley and raped her. Owner Ted Calantino says people like his employee wouldn't be exposing themselves to dangerous situations if it weren't for the recent smoking ban. City Councilman Bill Sova says it's inappropriate to blame the ban. He says it should be Calantino's responsibility to ensure his employees and patrons are safe. That could mean hiring more security and putting up more outdoor lighting. The two men have been butting heads over the smoking ban since it became an issue. |
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