The Next Step: Banning Smoking on Patios

Smoking on patios is restricted in Minnesota Cities

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, [...]

Time to Bail Out Our Charities

In Australia, small charities are suffering from the introduction of indoor smoking bans. From the Sydney Morning Herald:
THE introduction of the indoor smoking ban last year cost clubs and pubs almost $1.7 million a day in poker machine revenue, cutting thousands of jobs in the industry and putting at risk future donations to charities and [...]

Atlantic City: Smoking in Casinos Returns

ATLANTIC CITY – “Everybody lit up, everybody,” says Katie Spillane describing an area of Borgata slots at 12:01 this morning, the minute the smoking ban was lifted.“The hooray’s and ‘yeah it’s back’ and the people slinging ash trays for us, it was great,” she says.For more than a month Atlantic City’s casino gaming floors were [...]

More Quotes from House Candidates

I most certainly would vote in favor of repealing the ban. I am a stauch advocate of personal property rights and individual freedom.

-Judy Lindsay, District 37B (Map)
 
I believe the Smoking Ban crusade that has swept the country needs to be challenged.  
The bias in the media has made it all but impossible to explain the true [...]

Thoughts from an Anti-Smoker

We’ve recently been sending out surveys to all the Minnesota House incumbents, as well as their challengers for the Minnesota House Elections in November. Most of the authors of the smoking ban have refused to reply or complete the survey, but Daniel Severson of Sauk Rapids was kind enough to respond.
I do appreciate Mr. Severson [...]

The Master Settlement Agreement

In May of 1998, “Skip” Humphrey, then Attorney General of Minnesota, entered into Minnesota’s tobacco settlement agreement with “big tobacco” as a result of evidence of the tobacco companies withholding information about the potential harm of their products, and to protect themselves from future lawsuits and litigation.
As a result of this settlement, in November [...]

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 [...]