Ban the Ban Party!

Keep your calendars open to come join us for the first official Ban the Ban Minnesota Party! Here you’ll have an opportunity to meet with Ban the Ban Organizers, Members, supporters and other like-minded people who think the smoking ban is an unconstitutional government intrusion. We’ll have several speakers, promotional materials, but most of all, [...]

The Next Step: Banning Smoking on Patios

Smoking on patios is restricted in Minnesota Cities

Ron Paul on FDA Legislation

By now most of us are aware that our Federal Government is about to hand over regulation of tobacco products to the FDA. This “feel good” legislation is officially known as “The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act”. I could certainly think of many other more appropriate names for it.
My opinion of this “feel [...]

Another BS Clearway “Study”

It truly amazes me how the media will take anything that fits its agenda and run with it without actually verifying the legitimacy of the information it is propagating. Case in point is the recent study completed by Ohio State University, which was funded by Clearway Minnesota, that purports that “Smoking Bans Do Not Cause [...]

Smoking Ban Amendment Introduced

Today Minnesota Representatives Larry Howes, Tom Emmer, Tom Hackbarth, Loren Solberg, and Tom Rukavina introduced a bill, HF257 that would exempt certain bars from the smoking ban.
If this bill becomes law in in current form, all bars that make most of their sales in liquor would be permitted to allow smoking, provided that a modern [...]

Buy a Carton for the Kids

We all love tax hikes, and here comes another one that is directed exclusively at smokers and other users of tobacco products. Here are some details I received from Audrey Silk with NYC Clash:
State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is a program that already exists but which needs reauthorization upon a sunset date but also [...]

Fourth-Hand Smoke

Since the junk scientists have released a ridiculous study on third-hand smoke that some people actually believe, I’d like to sidestep the issue of third-hand smoke, and move right on to fourth-hand smoke, which John Boston of the Santa Clarita Valley Signal describes as “someone sitting next to someone who is thinking about someone else [...]

What’s New for 2009

Ban the Ban Minnesota has several projects planned for 2009. Please join us!

Merry Christmas from the Anti-Smoking League!!

Attack by "Shot in the Dark"

Sheila and I were featured in an article in Sunday’s Star Tribune titled, “Whose Life is it Anyway?…” The article lacks the normal bias of most Star Tribune articles; however, it doesn’t necessarily put us in good light.
Shot in the Dark, a website/blog devoted to current events unfairly attacked us reagrding the Star Tribune article. The author, [...]