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American cigarette manufacturers have filed a lawsuit against the FDA.
The largest US tobacco companies filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against the Federal Office of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
read more ...05/04/15
Interesting facts about cigarettes, countries - tobacco leaders.
Every minute in the world are sold about 8-10 million cigarettes and daily 13-15 billion cigarettes.
read more ...04/01/15
Anti-smoking campaigns run to extremes.
It is strange to what can bring the foolishness of anti-smoking crusaders in their attempts to impose all the rules of a healthy lifestyle, even if they lead to a violation of all norms, artistic freedom and civil society.
read more ...03/03/15
Sante Fe (NM) Votes 7-0 to Go Smokefree

06/01/06

Law to take effect in 30 days

On Wednesday, the Santa Fe City Council voted 7-0 in favor of comprehensive smokefree workplace legislation. Sante Fe, the capital of New Mexico, will require most workplaces, including bars, restaurants, and the outdoor-dining areas of restaurants to be smokefree. "Yahoo," City Councilor Patti Bushee, the bill's primary sponsor, said following the vote. For years, the councilor said, she has received a steady stream of messages from entertainers and hospitality workers complaining about secondhand smoke in bars and restaurants. Working with a health group called the Santa Fe Tobacco Free Coalition, Bushee promoted the bill as a matter of worker's rights. The three-term councilor said she was amazed no one spoke in opposition of the bill Wednesday. "Let's all go out and dance in a smoke-free environment," she said. Santa Fe joins Edgewood, Roswell and Doña Ana County as municipalities in New Mexico that require clean indoor air at most workplaces, including bars and restaurants. Albuquerque has smokefree restaurants but makes an exception for stand-alone bars. Sante Fe's legislation also requires buildings be smokefree within 25 feet of their entrances. Prior to the vote, a stream of about two dozen teens, advocates and medical professionals voiced their support for the proposal. They set the room awash in statistics and studies. Some also gave heart-rending accounts of their own battles with tobacco smoking. Fifty-two-year-old Cindi Quirk told the council how smoking led to throat cancer that nearly killed her in 2002. She held the mask doctors would place over her face and bolt to a table while she received daily radiation treatments for two months. The mask is a reminder of the pain she endured. "I thought I lost my soul," she told a reporter. She said she is encouraged by the council's willingness to adopt the law. She said she is also encouraged that a greater awareness over the dangers of smoking has developed since her youth. To send a letter in support of smokefree air where you live, go to www.smokefree.net/alerts.php

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