Friday 28 January 2011

Official: UK Smoking Bans Ruin Lives | Dick Puddlecote

Official: UK Smoking Bans Ruin Lives | Dick Puddlecote

Here's some research that you will never find anywhere on the BBC. Primarily because it goes against every piece of disinformation their chums in tobacco control have been flinging at them, but also because it hasn't been compiled by some loopy snake oil salesman from Yankland.

No, this emanates from British researchers (full pdf here), is bang up to date, and derives data from the British Household Panel Survey ... so will therefore be dutifully ignored by Nanny Beeb.

I hear cries of "we must do more..." - Big Brother Watch

I hear cries of "we must do more..." - Big Brother Watch

At the time of the introduction of the ban on smoking in public spaces, anti-tobacco zealots frequently championed the claim that the new law would lead to a dramatic reduction the amount of people smoking. Such claims were made with such evangelical zeal that one could have been forgiven for thinking they were backed up with a detailed scientific study - or at least some basis of fact. Not so. Indeed, now such research has been carried out it has proved their claims to be totally bogus.

The Splice | Climate Skeptic

The Splice | Climate Skeptic

To some extent, 1000-year temperature histories are moderately irrelevent to modern global warming discussions. In fact, it is fairly amazing that the evidence of tree rings and such over 1000 years is discussed more than the instrumental record of the last 100, which tends to undercut most catastrophic warming forecasts. However, catastrophists have attempted to use these past temperature reconstructions to make the argument that temperatures were incredibly stable and low right up to the point that man has made them higher and less stable in the last 100 years. For this reason it is worth discussing them, if only to refute this conclusion.

Wednesday 19 January 2011

Tobacco Harm Reduction: News & Opinions

Tobacco Harm Reduction: News & Opinions

The Elephant in the Living Room?


This blog is authored by researchers at TobaccoHarmReduction.org. The opinions expressed here do not represent that organization but are meant as more open discussion points and explorations into tobacco related news.

España: Fumadores convocan en Internet manifestación contra la ley antitabaco - FayerWayer

España: Fumadores convocan en Internet manifestación contra la ley antitabaco - FayerWayer

‘Defend your rights, defend your freedom, defend the tolerant democratic society, we have the right to choose, we are free to choose, the state has no right to take our freedom of choice away…’