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[District of Columbia] Marge Baker: Five Things Republicans Don't Want You to Know About the D.C. Circuit

The Associated Press is reporting that tomorrow President Obama will nominate three experienced and highly regarded people -Cornelia Pillard, Patricia Ann Millet and Robert Leon Wilkins-- to the influential Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Huffington Post (blog)
added Jun 3, 2013 19:20
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SIEGEL: Anti-Smoking Advocate Uses Bogus Research to Deny Overwhelming Scientific Evidence on Electronic Cigarettes

In other words, this study did not estimate quit rates among smokers trying to quit using e-cigarettes. Instead, it estimated quit rates among many smokers who were not using e-cigarettes in their quit attempt at all!
The Rest of the Story-Tobacco Analasys and Commentary (Michael Siegel blog)
added Jun 3, 2013 12:57
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[France, Saudi Arabia] KURDI: Smoking without smoking

If the choice is between not smoking at all and smoking e-cigarettes, clearly it is better not to smoke at all. But if it is a choice between smoking tobacco and puffing nicotine-free e-cigarettes, the equation is not nearly so straightforward.
Saudi Gazette Online (sa)
added Jun 2, 2013 11:18
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ARCHIVE: Blogger aims to have smoking banned outside of Starbucks stores

The guy who launched the Starsmokes blog shares my pet peeve -- people who smoke in outdoor-seating areas at Starbucks or any retail establishment. He claims Starbucks "allows smoking outside of their stores." That's funny, because a day before he sent m
Starbucks gossip (blog)
added Jun 2, 2013 11:11
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ARCHIVE: Blogger aims to have smoking banned outside of Starbucks stores

The guy who launched the Starsmokes blog shares my pet peeve -- people who smoke in outdoor-seating areas at Starbucks or any retail establishment. He claims Starbucks "allows smoking outside of their stores." That's funny, because a day before he sent m
Starbucks gossip (blog)
added Jun 2, 2013 11:11
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[California] MATHEWS: The Thank God We Didn’t Buy That Drug Cheat’s Ballot Box Budgeting Measure Tax

But the defeat of Prop 29 doesn’t change the fact that taxes on cigarettes and tobacco are good public policy, and not just because they raise funds. Taxing something gives you less of it, and fewer cigarettes and smokers would be good for public health
Fox&Hounds
added Jun 1, 2013 12:06
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[California] JENKINS: A LOOK FOR CAUSES OF WILDFIRES TURNS UP A SMOKING GUN

For whatever reason — reluctance to fire up gun advocates would be an educated guess — the menace of wildland shooting goes unhighlighted in the miscellaneous file. National statistics also fail to break out gun-caused fires.
U-T San Diego [San Diego Union Tribune]
added May 31, 2013 16:59
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Starbucks bans smoking within 25 feet of stores

"Personally, it makes no difference to me, other than I'd rather be next to someone with a cigarette than a gun. But the absolute hypocrisy is incredible.
Starbucks gossip (blog)
added May 31, 2013 13:13
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Starbucks bans smoking within 25 feet of stores

"Personally, it makes no difference to me, other than I'd rather be next to someone with a cigarette than a gun. But the absolute hypocrisy is incredible.
Starbucks gossip (blog)
added May 31, 2013 13:13
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[UK] GRAY: Laws to curb junk food sales and smoking are societal housekeeping

My parents had no idea that when they filled our Ford Anglia with the constant smoke ... had they known they probably wouldn't have done it. Even better, if the law had told them not to, they definitely wouldn't have.
Comment is Free (The Guardian, UK)
added May 31, 2013 10:31
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