A Year Later, and Everything’s Peachy

With Wednesday being the 1 year anniversary of the smoking ban, the anti-smoking non-profits are gearing up for massive press releases about how much everyone loves the smoking ban, how businesses are booming, and the same old rhetoric.
Their latest attempts to fool the masses is a “survey” that Clearway conducted and released to the [...]

American Lung Association Supports Discrimination

In Minnesota, people who choose to eat excessively, drink alcoholic beverages, and smoke on their own time (when they’re not on the clock) are protected from discrimination by state law. This law doesn’t protect people who come to work intoxicated, smoke, or eat on the job. But it essentially protects an individual’s lifestyle choices, provided [...]

Letter to the Attorney General

I received a copy of this letter from Sue Jeffers. She sent it to Lori Swanson, the Attorney General, last year, but has not received a response. Perhaps with additional signatories, we can get her attention:
To: Attorney General Lori Swanson,
 
In 1994 MN sued the tobacco companies in the legendary lawsuit netting a judgment of $6.1 [...]

The Enemy is Near

It’s been brought to my attention that Clearway Minnesota and its associates have been visiting Ban the Ban Minnesota. I’m not sure exactly why they are visiting our site, but one thing is certain: their visits are not benevolent.
Most people who have visited Ban the Ban Minnesota know how Clearway Minnesota passes off half-truths and [...]

Who Bought the Minnesota Smoking Ban, Part 2

With Attorney General Mike Hatch wrongfully labeled as a “big tobacco shill”, by 2005-2006 MPAAT had now discredited him to the point he had no choice but to no longer address the waste of $10,000,000 per year of tobacco settlement monies.
So, in 2006, presumably because of exposure of the MPAAT corruption, MPAAT changed its name to “Clearway [...]

Who Bought the Minnesota Smoking Ban? Part 1

When the 2007 legislature passed the Minnesota Smoking Ban, many of the legislators who voted in favor of the bill contended that regular Minnesota citizens were clamoring for an indoor smoking ban; that it was a grassroots movement. We, here at Ban the Ban Minnesota do not believe that was true, as many non-smokers do [...]