Jump to full article: Worcester (MA) Telegram & Gazette, 2006-04-14
Author: WILLIAM A. BLOOM Jr., Shrewsbury
Intro: I am becoming more and more concerned about our loss of freedom and liberty in Massachusetts. The latest is the activist Supreme Judicial Court ruling that private clubs cannot decide to allow smoking in their own buildings (the key word here being private).
Why did the SJC think the Legislature included a provision for private clubs in its 2004 workplace smoking ban? . . .
The fact is, there has never been a scientific study that proved that secondhand smoke causes cancer. That’s right, not a one.
The EPA put out a flawed study in 1993 which was thrown out by a federal court in 1998 because it manipulated data and ignored scientific standards. The only other study was by the World Health Organization, also in 1998, which stated that there was no statistically significant association between secondhand smoke and cancer. . . .
I guess you don’t need factual evidence to win a case in Massachusetts. All you need to be is politically correct in these kangaroo courts.
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