Antis play fair??

http://www.edmontonsun.com/Comment/Letters/2008/01/24/4790769.html



Smoking bans hurt business
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/5479007.html

Smoking bans advocates not backing off

http://www.wrn.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=A8391198-C751-E0B6-CC0CB85FD265A4E4

Tazwell revievs smoking bans

http://www.pjstar.com/stories/012308/TRI_BFIUUEBF.049.php

HRM looking at wider smoking bans

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/1033410.html

Smoking ban a good idea

http://www.chronicle-tribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?...1230301/1014/OPINION

Reportes Note

http://www.thenorthwestern.com/includes/newspaper/blogs...on-and-carol-on.html

Kane backs smoking ban

http://www.collegiatetimes.com/stories/2008/01/24/kaine_backs_smoking_ban

Smoking ban can hurt restaurant and bars

http://www.nbcactionnews.com/news/local/story.aspx?cont...5cf2068562c8&rss=764

Canadian Advocates follow

http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/01/canadian-an...oking-advocates.html

Smoking bans snuff out bar jobs

http://www.jacobgrier.com/blog/archives/898.html


Afflack opens up about quitting

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/entertainment/2008-01/24/content_6418394.htm

GOP favours smoking bans

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5480659.html

Taiwan may quadruple tax

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=aU0isFFVkANo&refer=asia

Kenneset rejects

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=120107077738...JPArticle%2FShowFull

Lung Association wants to ban smoking in cars

http://www.canada.com/globaltv/national/story.html?id=7...02-8e75-8eafa3632ab3

Cell phone and smoking

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080123/LOCAL1901/80123030

Update smoking bans

http://www.crawleyobserver.co.uk/news/UPDATEDSmoking-ba...s-it-been.3699154.jp

And they wonder why the economy is on the skids.

We have been told that personal consumption of goods and service is what drive the American economy. Smokers are also consumers.

We enjoy smoking, when it is banned, we loose all sense of pleasure with the activity. We find it harder and harder to enjoy our personal pleasure outside our homes, therefore we are no longer spending hours away from home.

If we are no longer spending time acquainting ourselves with vendor's products and services we are no longer longing to buy them. Over time we no longer strive to earn more to pay for the these products and services. We have become satisfied with what we have and are staying home where we can smoke.

What we are seeing is the effect of former group who stimulated the economy turning into a group who could care less and we are taking our families and friends with us.

Trickel up economics.

Wouldn't it be funny if we could prove that 20% of the population were 80% of economic growth?