Wisconsin City Smoking Bans

The Madison Smoking Bans

Anti-Smoker Billions Manufacture Phony "Reality"

The anti-smokers are pretending to refute claims that smoking bans are bad for business by trotting out counterclaims that the number of liquor licenses has increased. They think we're such stupid little children that we'll believe that pure market forces must be at work! As if! Smoking bans encourage a certain kind of business owner to enter the field - namely, ANTI-SMOKERS who know that their smokefree establishments couldn't survive without a ban to harm their competitors. And don't be surprised if they are getting a few thousand dollars of those countless anti-smoker billions to help. Anti-smoker subsidies would only have to last a few years, just long enough for the lying vermin to manufacture propaganda. And, when the moneybags eventually leave their friends to sink or swim, there won't be any anti-smoker propaganda-manufacturers around doing studies about it.

And another thing we can count on, is that the media will NEVER tell us the truth about anti-smoker payoffs and passthroughs, etc. Remember, the media are such lying scum of the earth that they have never told the public about the anti-smokers' corruption of the EPA or their systematic scientific fraud. ALWAYS REMEMBER, just like in George Orwell's 1984, 2 plus 2 equals four - and always did and always will. If this was really about free competition, the anti-smokers wouldn't have to ban smoking for their businesses to survive. And this endless succession of Orwellian lies and deceit is why anti-smoker amerika is the epitome of an evil totalitarian dictatorship that should be annihilated from the earth!

"Madison's indoor smoking ban hasn't scared off those looking to get into the bar and restaurant business, at least downtown. A total of 16 new Class B combination liquor licenses have been issued since the citywide indoor smoking ban took effect last July 1. That compares to 13 over the same six-month period in 2004. For all of 2005, 36 new liquor licenses were issued, up from 31 licenses issued in 2004. Supporters of the smoking ban say the number of new licenses issued proves that the hospitality industry in Madison has not been ruined by the ordinance. The city has 339 establishments with liquor licenses." "'We've said all along this is a public health issue,' said Gary Poulson, chair of the Tobacco Free Dane County Coalition. 'The fact that there are a number of new licensees confirms my belief that the hospitality sector in this city continues to be vibrant and that Madison is an outstanding place to do business.'" The vermin spout their lies about Appleton, too: "The city of Appleton, which also implemented an indoor smoking ban last July 1, has seen just one bar close. That is a five-year low in the number of bar closings, according to city officials there. 'I can't help but conclude Appleton's smoking ban hasn't had a negative effect on businesses,' health officer Kurt Eggebrecht told the Appleton Post-Crescent. He said there are also six applications on the waiting list." (Not Smoked Out. By Mike Ivey. The Capital Times, Feb. 17, 2006.) The rotten media whores have allowed that scumbag Poulson and and all of his ilk to spout their scientific fraud as fact, and have never allowed informed smokers' advocates a forum to refute them. This is how they have ALL deliberately used lies and deceit to lay the foundation for the smoking ban, which THEY want to ram down the worlds' throat!

Why a Referendum Is a Public Travesty

The anti-smokers want a referendum because, if they win, they can falsely pretend that "the people have spoken" and therefore, their opponents are supposed to shut up. On the other hand, if they lose, they'll simply refuse to repeal the ban, and their media propaganda machine will subject us to more anti-smoker lies and defamations to carpet-bomb us into submission. So the slimebags expect to have it both ways, as usual: Heads they win, tails we lose.

And, the truth we are not allowed to speak is that the public has been systematically subjected to only ONE SIDE of the issue: the anti-smokers' side. Their duplicitous media whores have made sure that public discussion is only permitted within the narrow, anti-smoker dictated frameworks of "freedom versus public health" or "It's bad for business."

The anti-smokers are given license spout health lies, over and over again, and no informed smoker is permitted to refute them. The anti-smokers are allowed to trumpet the EPA ETS report as "scientific proof" of the pretended "dangers" of secondhand smoke, while the public is not allowed to learn that this report was written via illegal pass-through contracts to a handpicked anti-smoking activist who was affiliated with the American Lung Association. The real EPA scientists who reviewed the report were opposed to labelling ETS a Group A carcinogen. Furthermore, on the board of directors of the pass-through company sat Fred Malek, a crony of President George W. Bush, about whom the media spouted geysers of indignation over his giving a seat on the board of directors of Caterair, while covering up the story EPA corruption. Malek was also a longtime director of anti-smoker Sen. Frank Lautenberg's company, ADP, and his wife was a member of the National Cancer Institute's National Cancer Advisory Board.

Furthermore, the anti-smokers are allowed to claim that smokers are killing babies from asthma, and the public is not allowed to know that the author of the EPA ETS report chapters on asthma no longer believes in the garbage that he wrote.

And on and on and on, with lie after lie after lie after lie. And then the media pretend that they have honestly represented smokers' point of view when they occasionally let anti-smoker-controlled Philip Morris lamely snivel that the evidence is "inconclusive," or give feeble-minded simpletons who swallow the anti-smokers' lies a forum upon which to gratifiy the anti-smokers with an abject, unconditional surrender by whimpering that they never smoke around children.

This is an absolute:

A REFERENDUM IS A SHAM AND A FRAUD WHEN THE PUBLIC HAS BEEN SYSTEMATICALLY LIED TO, DECEIVED, AND KEPT IGNORANT.

And anyone who calls for a referendum without demanding genuine FREE AND OPEN PUBLIC DISCUSSION first, is a an enemy of democracy.

Mayor Dave is in the Pocket of Health Charlatans

"Once it was the reason for an attempt to remove him from office, but Madison's smoking ban now appears to be rewarding Mayor Dave Cieslewicz's campaign for re-election. According to the latest filings, contributions from the medical community have amounted to about 13 percent of the money that Friends of Dave Cieslewicz has raised this year. In interviews this week, most of the donors downplayed the relevance of the smoking ban to their contributions. But two of three fundraising events that the Cieslewicz campaign hosted this year drew largely on health care providers, many of whom had not previously made contributions to the mayor's campaign. The first, hosted at the downtown restaurant Harvest, invited doctors and other medical professionals to a night of "Celebrating a Healthy Madison." The second, in June, was hosted at the home of Dr. Frank Byrne, president of St. Mary's Hospital. Of the donors who contributed above the level at which they are required to disclose their profession, at least 28 are connected to health care. Their donations - each $150 or more - totaled $9,662. And the list of Cieslewicz's donors includes the top tier of Madison's medical administrators, including University Hospital CEO Donna Sollenberger, UW Medical Foundation President and CEO Jeffrey Grossman, Group Health Cooperative CEO Carl Zanoni, UW Health CFO Gary Eiler and St. Mary's Hospital COO Jon Rozenfeld, among others. Sollenberger, Grossman, Zanoni and Rozenfeld all live outside Madison." Other anti-smoker doctors supporting Cieslewicz: Chris Hollenback, spokesman for the UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention and his boss, Michael Fiore, who declined to be interviewed; Dr. Allen Kemp, retired CEO of Dean Health System; Dr. Carl Getto of Fitchburg; Dr. Norman Fost of Madison; Dr. James Crow, retired dean of the UW Medical School; and John Sender, a public affairs official for the UW Medical Foundation. Mayoral spokesman George Twigg said that "In a seven-page review of the mayor's record prepared for editorial boards, for instance, there were three lines that mentioned the smoking ban in the context of economic development [emphasis added]. But Twigg said that Cieslewicz is 'certainly not going to shie away from his support of the smoking ban. The mayor has made public health a priority in his administration,' Twigg said, adding that 'the smoking ban was a policy that was put in place to protect public health.'" (Area medics give big to Cieslewicz. But they resist saying it's due to smoking ban. By Lee Sensenbrenner. The Capital Times, July 29, 2006.) Did the UW Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation use its biotech billions for economic blackmail and/or bribes?

Doctor, We Hate You!

Dr. Frank D. Byrne

"Byrne said that the event he and his family hosted for the mayor's campaign at his west side home was unrelated to his role as president of St. Mary's Hospital. "As a lung doctor, obviously having seen the harm that can occur from smoking and second-hand smoke, I'm in favor of the smoking ordinance," Byrne said Friday, "and I'm proud of Madison for having a smoking ordinance." (Area medics give big to Cieslewicz. But they resist saying it's due to smoking ban. By Lee Sensenbrenner. The Capital Times, July 29, 2006.) As a supposed lung doctor, Dr. Byrne is clearly a worthless, malice-ridden fraud. The death rates from asthma have more than doubled since the anti-smoking movement began - thanks to the eagerness of him and his ilk to ignore the role of infection - just as they ignore it in lung cancer! (SSM Health Care of Wisconsin Names Dr. Frank Byrne President of St. Marys Medical Center, Madison, WI. July 12, 2004.) SSM Health Care's motto is, "Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of God." What's wrong, Dr. Byrne, didn't God heal your patients? So, this is what we're getting instead of REAL health care - RELIGIOUS BS!

Shortly after Byrne became President of St. Mary's, they banned smoking everywhere. "It's lights out at St. Mary's Hospital, as the Madison medical center begins the process of implementing a campus wide tobacco free policy," gloated WMTV. "'We understand that implementing this smoke free campus may cause concern or inconvenience for some of those we serve or their family members,' says Dr. Frank Byrne, President of St. Mary's Hopital, 'and we are committed to working with them to assist them through this process.'" What the filthy bastard means is quitting smoking, of course. (WI: St. Mary's Medical Center to Ban Smoking Campus Wide. ASH.org. Excerpts from: No Butts at St. Mary's WMTV, 08/13/04.)

As President of St. Mary's, Dr. Frank Byrne was the apologist when a 16-year-old patient died in childbirth at his hospital, after an epidural anesthetic was mistakenly administered intravenously. "Federal officials confirmed Friday night that they have issued an "immediate jeopardy" warning, saying patient safety is at risk.... 'We have determined that the deficiencies are so serious they constitute an immediate threat to patient health and safety,' the letter stated, according to Bob Herskovitz, regional spokesman for the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services." (State Confirms Medical Error In Hospital Death Of Teen. Channel3000.com July 22, 2006; Hospital could lose Medicare contract following teen’s death. Associated Press, July 22, 2006.)

Byrne spoke in support of a bill that would cap medical malpractice awards for pain and suffering on Joy Cardin's program on Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR Audio Archives, Joy Cardin, March 6, 2006, 6am.)

In a guest column, Byrne shilled for the Lasker Lobby's agenda of universal health care (Extend Health Insurance to All. By Andy Heidt and Frank D. Byrne. Wisconsin State Journal, May 2, 2005. On: Covering Kids and Families Wisconsin.org)

Byrne got his Masters in Medical Management in 1999 at the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management of Carnegie Mellon University, for whom he serves as a poster boy. "The Heinz School has consistently pursued two ideals: to create knowledge capable of supporting intelligent action in the service of the public interest and to train men and women capable of using that knowledge to change the world." - Mark Wessel, Dean. It is named for the late US Sen. Heinz, the only son of Henry John Heinz II, Skull & Bones 1931, who is lauded as "an instrumental force in the economic revitalization of Pittsburgh through cultural development," i.e., smug little Cultural Districts serving the tastes of the elites, which are the hallmark of those who trash working peoples' culture by outsourcing jobs and putting neighborhood bars and restaurants out of business with smoking bans. (MMM Core Courses; and: Senator H. John Heinz III. Carnegie Mellon University.)

Byrne was a director of Amerinet Central, a healthcare provider group purchasing network, since at least 2000. (Amerinet Central Adds Three New Members to Board of Directors. Press Release, Oct. 9, 2003. Link died: amerinetcentral.org/press/acReleases_100903.aspx.)

Byrne is a director since 1999 of Lincare Holdings, Inc., a publicly traded medical equipment company. "Dr. Byrne serves as President of St. Marys Hospital Medical Center, a 440-bed community hospital in Madison, Wisconsin. From 1991 until 2004, he served Parkview Health, an integrated delivery network headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in a variety of executive, governance, and clinical leadership roles, including President of Parkview Hospital, from 1995 to 2002. Dr. Byrne practiced pulmonary and critical care medicine from 1982 to 1994. He is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and holds fellowships in the American College of Physicians, the American College of Chest Physicians, the American College of Healthcare Executives, and the American College of Physician Executives. Dr. Byrne has a B.S. from the University of Notre Dame, a Master of Medical Management from Carnegie Mellon University, and an M.D. from the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center. He has attended the Executive Program at the University of Michigan Business School and corporate governance education programs at Harvard Business School and the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Byrne also serves as a Director of Steel Dynamics, Inc." Lincare is controlled by FMR Corp. [which held controlling interest in Philip Morris throughout the 1990s tobacco lawsuits!] 9.8%; Barclays Global Investors, NA 6.3%; GE Asset Management Incorporated 6.3%; Capital Group International, Inc. 6.2%; Columbia Wanger Asset Management, L.P. 5.3%; Capital Research and Management Company 5.2%; and officers/directors John P. Byrnes 3.1%, Shawn S. Schabel 1.3%, and Paul G. Gabos 1.2%. (Lincare Holdings 2006 DEF-14A.)

His fellow Lincare director, Stuart Harold Altman, is one of the highest of High Pooh-Bahs of Health Policy. Altman was a member of the board of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, 1977-1983, and senior member of President Clinton's Health Policy Transition Team. He testified for Blue Cross & Blue Shield of New Jersey against Philip Morris, et al. (for which he was paid $625 per hour plus expenses for preparation, and $7500 per day for deposition and trial appearances). The gist of his testimony was that, during the 1970s, within the US Government, a scheme was hatched to incite private insurers to charge smokers higher rates (in which Mr. Altman, as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning/Health 1971-76, was presumably a principal). He accuses the tobacco industry of "engag[ing] in an operation aimed at hindering, delaying or preventing premium differentials or price discounts for non-smokers" - nothwithstanding that this scheme was aimed at minimizing costs to private insurers, at the expense of the public treasury, which would be forced to assume the old age costs not paid for by private insurers. "The documents produced by the tobacco industry also indicate that the defendants attempted to counter workplace smoking restrictions and the implementatlon of wellness programs by health insurers. It appears that these actions were part of an effort by the tobacco industry to hinder health insurers from taking steps that could have partially protected them from the financial consequences of smoking-related illnesses among their insureds and the increased expenditures for smoking.related illnesses that they incurred." Let's see the insurance companies take on the excess old-age costs of their non-smokers, who are in fact being subsidized by smokers! This is a perfect example of corrupt bloodsuckers, who use public office on behalf of private gain, self-righteously marketing themselves as defenders of the public interest and accusing their victims of wrongdoing. (Blue Cross & Blue Shield of New Jersey vs. Philip Morris, Inc., et al. 98 Civ. 3287 (JBW), Feb. 27, 2001.)

Past directors of Lincare include Frank T. Cary, CEO of IBM (a company which performed indispensable recordkeeping services for anti-smoker A. Hitler) from 1973 to 1981; and Thomas O. Pyle, CEO of Harvard Community Health Plan from 1978 to1991. (Lincare Holdings 1999 DEF-14A.) In 1993, after the release of the "EPA" Report on secondhand smoke, ABC News conspired to brainwash Americans with lies about secondhand smoke and the tobacco industry in such a crude and heavy-handed manner, reminiscent of a Nazi dictatorship, that no intelligent person should have failed to be outraged. Frank T. Cary had been a director of Capital Cities / ABC since 1986.

Byrne is also a director since 2005 of Steel Dynamics Inc., which owns and operates three steelmaking mini-mills, whose stock is owned by Barclays Global Investors, NA 20.1%, Lord Abbott & Co. LLC 8.6%, Putnam LLC d/b/a Putnam Investments 5.3%, and officers/directors John C. Bates 4.2%, Richard P. Teets, Jr 2.7%, Mark D. Millett 1.8%, and Keith E. Busse 1.3%. (Steel Dynamics Inc. 2005 & 2006 DEF-14A.)

Byrne was formerly the head of Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana. "Frank's no longer hospital president; a couple years ago he became vice-president of the hospital's foundation, giving money away to health-care charities and getting more into the public-policy end of administration." (The Park Bench. Nancynall.com, November 11, 2003)

"Please send me literature regarding efforts to prevent minors from smoking." Frank D. Byrne, M.D. 2414 E. State St. Ste. 304 Ft. Wayne IN 46805. Undated, however, adjacent documents with the same request were dated from April 16-22, 1991. And: "April 26, 1991 Steve, Please send one T:HYSN [Tobacco: Helping Youth Say No] to each of the following addresses," including Byrne's.

"Joining us live in our studio is Dr. Frank Byrne, a local pulmonologist who was one of the people who pushed for the total smoking ban at Parkview Hospital here in Fort Wayne. And via satellite from our Washington bureau [sic!], Thomas Lauria of the Tobacco Institute..." Byrne: I think one has to take issue with Mr. Lauria's comments. Well, indeed, he says many do not accept the statistical significance of these studies. The many who don't accept- don't accept them are probably all working for the Tobacco Institute." (Transcript, 21-Alive News, WPTA-TV, Channel 21, Fort Wayne, Indiana, July 17, 1990. Co-anchors Jane Hersha and Jeff Gilbert.)

The Madison Smoking Ordinance

On November 19, 2002, the Madison Common Council adopted several amendments to Section 23.05, Madison General Ordinances, effective January 2, 2003, banning smoking in all areas of restaurants, including dining rooms, kitchens, game rooms employee break rooms, storage rooms, rest rooms and office areas, and only allowing smoking in bar areas of full service restaurants and taverns ("any establishment whose sale of alcohol beverages accounts for more than 50% of its gross receipts for alcohol beverages and food"). After January 2, 2005, smoking was prohibited in restaurants whose sale of alcohol beverages accounted for less than 33% of the gross receipts for food and alcohol beverages; and after January 2, 2006, in restaurants' whose sale of alcohol beverages accounted for 33% to 50% of the gross receipts for food and alcohol beverages. Smoking was permitted in separately ventilated smoking rooms until January 2, 2006, providing that they were created before December 11, 2002.

Note that "Smoking" included any tobacco use at all, including chewing, which proves that its intent was to persecute tobacco use, and not just smoking. Furthermore, their goal was to prohibit voluntary exposure to tobacco smoke as well. The anti-smokers' health lies, which are based upon scientific fraud and corruption, were central to rationalization of the ban. Quote: "(2) Intent and Purpose (a) The Common Council of the City of Madison hereby finds that:1. It is recognized that smoking of cigarettes and tobacco products is hazardous to an individual’s health and may affect the health of nonsmokers when they are involuntarily in the presence of smoking. 2. Numerous scientific studies have found that tobacco smoke is a major contributor to indoor air pollution. 3. Reliable scientific studies, including studies conducted by the Surgeon General of the United States, have shown that breathing sidestream or secondhand smoke is a significant health hazard to nonsmokers; particularly to children, elderly people, individuals with cardiovascular disease, and individuals with impaired respiratory function, including asthmatics and those with obstructive airway disease. 4. Health hazards induced by breathing sidestream or secondhand smoke include lung cancer, respiratory infection, decreased respiratory function, decreased exercise tolerance, bronchoconstriction and bronchospasm."

The whole process was the most despicable travesty of democracy and rape of truth ever seen, as outrageous as any lynching, in which the mass media systematically represented anti-smoker lies as truth, concealed anti-smoker corruption of the EPA ETS report, and prevented informed smokers' advocates from being heard. They gave us a public sham, in which restaurant and tavern owners' whining about the effect on their business and nit-picking over exclusions were the phony opposition.

How the Madison Common Council Voted

Remember this at election time!

Voting FOR: Linda Bellman, Brian Benford, Zach Brandon, Kenneth Golden, Steve Holtzman, Austin King, Brenda Konkel, Jean MacCubbin, Gregory Markle, Judy Olson, Warren Onken, Santiago Rosas, Matt Sloan, Paul Van Rooy, and Robbie Webber.

Voting AGAINST: Tim Bruer, Judy Compton, Paul Skidmore, Cindy Thomas, and Mike Verveer.

And don't expect justice from the legal system, either. Not as long as a member of the Lasker family, who corrupted the health establishment and control politicians with covert strings to persecute and oppress smokers, is a powerful force in the Wisconsin Bar Association!

Only for the Privileged: Madison's Cigar Bar Exemption

Passed March 21, 2006, it permits chewing tobacco in all public places and to permit smoking of all tobacco products (other than cigarettes) at all tobacco bars. That means cigars and pipes, and only in places with at least 10% of sales are from tobacco products. It also demands that "Tobacco bars shall display signs, in accordance with the standards in Subsection (8), that state that cigars and pipes may be smoked in the tobacco bar, that cigarettes may not be smoked in the tobacco bar, and warning of the dangers of secondhand smoke, in language and form as approved by the Director of Public Health.”

Madison Alder Gets Reward for Anti-smoking

"Madison Ald. Matt Sloan, an outspoken liberal who sometimes breaks ideological lines, will resign from the City Council this fall to take a job in Washington, DC. Sloan, elected from the 13th District on the South Side in 1999 and council president for the 2002-03 term, will resign effective Sept. 8 to take a position with Mathematica Policy Research. He now is project director for the University of Wisconsin Survey Center... Sloan is most proud of his contributions to the South Side, including... the expansion of St. Mary's and Meriter Hospitals. But Sloan said he was drawn to the chance to the chance to do research that can affect national policy in health care, welfare, education and more." (Sloan to Quit Council for Washington Job. By Dean Mosiman. Wisconsin State Journal, July 3, 2004.)

Mathematica conducted research for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's survey on "Youth Access to Tobacco" (RWJF Press Release, Feb. 1, 1995.) Nancy J. Kaufman, Vice President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, was previously Deputy Director of Public Health in the State of Wisconsin, and is a despicable product of the University of Wisconsin Medical School.

Mathematica also did the 1995 Smokeless Tobacco Control Survey (Maryland) on restaurant smoking bans, in which they measure the effect of their systematic campaign of outright lies, deceit and scientific fraud in molding public opinion. Note that moron restaurant owners, as always, fixated on economic issues (which the anti-smokers "refuted" with their standard lie that that smoking bans are good for business), and left the health lies alone.

Mathematica was a client of The Onyx Group, a front group pretending to speak for African Americans that was funded by the Centers for Disease Control to protest against Marlboro Milds. (Advocacy Group Flash Reports 2000, Issues Watch.)

Note that Mathematica Policy Research of Princeton, New Jersey, has or had a branch at 905 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin, which is occupied by a variety of offices of the University of Wisconsin. The Grainger Foundation, which gave the UW $8 million in 1990 for the Grainger School of Business building, on March 26, 2004 gave another $20 million for an addition to be built on the 905 University site. Grainger is one of the Chicago Cabal with ties to the Skull & Bones-founded William Blair & Company. S&B 1907 William McCormick Blair Sr.'s daughter-in-law, Deeda, was Vice President of the Lasker Foundation. (Grainger gift catalyst for new School of Business Building. University of Wisconsin Foundation Press Release, March 26, 2004.)

Among the anti-smoker elite, persecuting smokers is a top priority. And this is how they reward the corrupt whores who play ball with them, and recruit true-believing lackeys for their machinery of social control and manipulation.

See how small they thought the problem was: Those losers imagined that all they had to do was install ventilation systems, and everybody would be happy. See what big stuff they thought they were as they made their pathetic deal for a delayed smoking ban. And then the anti-smokers stabbed them in the back, as anybody with an ounce of brains could have predicted. And a bunch of suckers who spent a pile of money on ventilation systems got plucked.

It's all part of the anti-smokers' racketeering scheme, where their corrupt demagogues spew health lies in the pretended name of science, while their buddies in the ventilation industry cash in. And the bar owners' "friends" in the media, who let them have air time to prattle cluelessly about ventilation (after spewing all those health lies in the first place and preventing informed smokers' advocates from refuting them) are laughing behind their backs. The filthy bloodsuckers have been committing the same scam, over and over again, all across the country, and the stupid sheep never learn.

Coalition to Save Madison Jobs is LED BY TRAITORS

Their smoking ban "resistance" is a SHAM and a FRAUD

FACT: The Madison smoking ban, like every other smoking ban in the state and across the country, was passed because the media deliberately concealed the anti-smokers' scientific fraud and corruption. The Associated Press purposely boycotted the 1993 Congressional hearing where Rep. Bliley revealed that the anti-smokers' vaunted EPA ETS report was written via illegal pass-through contracts to a hand-picked anti-smoker crony - and the pass-through author smugly admitted his role. All of the media have purposely suppressed the truth to keep the public ignorant, and aggressively helped the anti-smokers spread their Big Lie that passive smoking is harmful to non-smokers, to help perpetrate their criminal scheme to deprive others of their legitimate rights by means of deception!

FACT: Instead of raising the roof with indignation about the anti-smokers' crimes, as any genuine opponents of the anti-smokers would do, the leaders this phony organization, the so-called Coalition to Save Madison Jobs, have UNFAILINGLY ALLOWED THEIR SUPPOSED ENEMIES TO GET AWAY WITH THEIR LIES.

FURTHERMORE: The so-called Coalition to Save Madison Jobs follows exactly the same the script as all the other phony smoking ban opponents across the state and the country: Whine, whine, whine, about how it's bad for business: "[Joe] Klinzing says sales are off about $75,000 compared to a year ago. He's had to lay off four employees, one-quarter of his staff.'Basically, I'm back to where I was seven years ago when I bought the place,' he said." "When your checkbook hits a certain point, you have to lock it up," said Rick Anderson, co-owner of Ole 'N Rick's North Side Inn, 1026 N. Sherman Ave. "I'd be sorry to do that but I'm not going to run this place into the ground." "The guys in Westport are making money so fast they don't even have time to get it to the bank," said Al Tedeschi, owner of the Villa Tap." "Dave Wiganowsky, a County Board member and owner of Wiggie's, 1901 Aberg Ave., said he has tried everything to compensate for the lost business, including offering specials during Packer games. But he said sales are still off $71,000 from a year ago. 'We were giving away free drinks every time the Packers scored, then some guy in Monona offered a bottomless glass for $10 and you can smoke," he said. 'How are we supposed to compete with that?'"

All of this has happened because those traitors let the anti-smokers get away with their lies - and the followers of this phony Coalition are nothing but sheep following goats - JUDAS GOATS.

They are nothing but actors helping the media pretend that they allowed free and democratic discussion of the issue WHEN THEY HAVE NOT. And see how the only thing the lying maggot from the media cares about is, "Why doesn't the Tavern League push for a statewide ban now to prevent further damage to bar owners in Madison, Appleton and other Wisconsin cities that have enacted smoking ordinances?" in order to bring everyone else down with them! (Smoky question City bar owners ponder where to turn next. By Mike Ivey. The Capital Times, Jan. 20, 2006.)

City of Madison smoking ban, 1992

City ban on eatery smoking backed. By Gail Perry. The Capital Times, ca. Apr. 7, 1992.

No Smoking! By Marv Balousek. Wisconsin State Journal, Oct. 14, 1992. Voting in favor of the smoking ban were Alds. Swaja, Zipperer, J. Olson, Golden, L. Olson, Hamblin, Heidt, Kiesow, Larson, Stewart, Smith, Wallner, and Bauman. Voting against the ban were Alds. Shivers, Bigelow, Gonzalez, Bruer, Schneider, Lufler, Oaken, and McGuire. The media gloated in triumph over their successful buttrape of the people.

Fitchburg Council Rejects Workplace Smoking Ban 5-2

The proposed ban would have prohibited smoking in workplaces, public places, near entrances of city buildings, and in certain park areas. Its two sponsors, Alds. Steve Arnold and William Horns, were the only ones who voted for it. Of exemplary note, "Three members of the eight-person council said they will not support a local smoking ban under any conditions." That is the morally correct response to proposed ordinances which are based on wholesale lies, deceit, and fraud. The opponents were Alds. Jason Williams, Scott Norton, Roger Laurel Tesch and Thomas Darcy, as well as Mayor Tom Clauder. Barb Mercer of the Tavern League of Wisconsin, which should be protecting its members with a RICO lawsuit against the anti-smokers, recited the usual spiel that a ban would be bad for business. (Fitchburg snuffs out ban. By Emily Winter. The Capital Times, July 12, 2006; Fitchburg Votes Down Smoking Ban Proposal. By Gena Kittner. Wisconsin State Journal July 12, 2006.)

Who is this Fitchburg Alder Steve Arnold anyway? He met his wife, Nancy, at the Johns Hopkins University. He was involved in developing and distributing the Minitab statistical program, which is widely used throughout academia, at the State University of New York at Brockport and at Pennsylvania State University until 1983. He came to the Madison area and founded Arnold Consulting, Inc.in 1991, "an independent source of expertise on electronic mail servers."

Among his clients are various corporate, governmental and other entities, including: Abbott Laboratories (Big Pharma); AARP (whose CEO, Bill Novelli, was formerly President of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids); Cummins Engine Company (anti-smoking activists since the 1970s); and Fidelity Investments, Boston, Massachusetts (who held controlling interest in Philip Morris throughout the period of the Minnesota tobacco lawsuit).

From the Madison area, they include the City of Fitchburg, Wisconsin (isn't this called a "conflict of interest"?); Covenant Presbyterian Church, Madison, Wisconsin; Pearson Engineering, Madison, Wisconsin; Pleasant Company, Middleton, Wisconsin; Survey Research Associates LLC, Madison, Wisconsin; University of Wisconsin-Madison, Graduate School of Business, Madison, Wisconsin; and University of Wisconsin-Madison, Waisman Center, Madison, Wisconsin.

Also the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the U.S. Department of Defense, Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, Rhode Island; U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Central Command, Tampa, Florida; U.S. Department of Energy, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Rockville, Maryland; U.S. Executive Office of the President, Washington, D.C. (Golly, just think, even the Executive Office of the President doesn't have enough expertise for its mail servers without him!)

"The first-term alderman hopes to transform this city without a downtown into a model 21st century community of mass transit and bike trails, high-tech industries and local shops, all nestled between wedges of productive farmland. And an ordinance prohibiting smoking inside offices, bars, restaurants or other public buildings fits that vision to a T." He looks down his nose at the "old farm families" and "the original town residents who wanted to become a city but don't want to pay for city services," and he wants to see them trampled by his kind of smug and arrogant self-proclaimed "high-tech" people. In other words, Steve Arnold represents the Wall Street Nazis, the goons who've disenfranchised the ordinary people, and force their mentally retarded, health fascist beliefs on everyone courtesy of political connections, media ties, economic coercion, and their personalities of psychopathic-lying bullies. "'Almost all the research on this shows that economies of places that go smoke-free are either neutral or improved,' he said." Liar! Then why are anti-smokers so insecure that they can't even permit a single little hole-in-the-wall bar to allow smoking?! (A 'Well-studied' Approach. By Mike Ivey. The Capital Times, July 14, 2006, p. E1.)

The 1990 Fitchburg Smoking Ban

Smoking areas now mandated. By Tom Pfankuch. Fitchburg Star, Sep. 27, 1990.

The Libertarian Party of Dane County is a Friend of Tyranny

"The American Cancer Society is doing a great job informing the public about potential health problems linked to smoking." Rolf Lindgren also said that "The American Cancer Society should stick to the statistics of health, stay out of the statistics of political polling" (Rolf Lindgren and Bruce Rideout, Libertarian Party of Dane County, Aug. 25, 2005.) As if the American Cancer Society is not the controlling special interest group in both the Democratic and Republican Parties in Wisconsin, and a perpetual presence in the state legislature, who require that every Wisconsin governor be their puppet! The American Cancer Society is a corrupt, fascist POLITICAL organization which has systematically committed scientific fraud to falsely blame smoking and secondhand smoke for diseases that are actually caused by infection. Their accomplices in the media have systematically spread their lies as truth while suppressing informed criticism, so that the anti-smokers can brainwash the public with lies. And then these pretended "friends of liberty" praise the Cancer Society, and help them out by nitpicking that the methodology of their smoking ban survey is "flawed." (Libertarian Party of Dane County: Smoking Ban Poll Is Public Opinion Manipulation. Press Release, 8/25/2005.)

The 1991 Dane County smoking ban

County Limits Smoking. By Marv Balousek. Wisconsin State Journal, Feb. 22, 1991; and Feb. 5, 1991 Tobacco Institute tally of support/opposition. The Dane County Board included anti-smokers Tammy Baldwin and Dave Cieslewicz.

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The Appleton Smoking Ban

"Voters uphold Appleton smoking ban. The Post-Crescent. Appleton voters resoundingly rejected an attempt to overturn the city’s workplace smoking ban. With all 51 wards reporting results, the vote was 11,559 to 8,674, with 57 percent of voters favoring keeping the ban in place. That is virtually the same margin by which the ban was put into place after a referendum last April, when voters approved the ban 9,726 to 7,551. Some Appleton bar owners said the ban, which took effect July 1, has caused them financial difficulties because patrons were taking their business to bars in communities that border Appleton. They engineered Tuesday’s referendum, which would have allowed smoking in bars, bowling alleys and other businesses OKd by the Common Council, by securing enough signatures on petitions in the fall." Another triumph for media lies and coverup! What they've proven is not that the public supports the smoking ban, but that the public can be lied to, tricked and deceived into voting for the smoking ban by media conspiracy. It proves that the media are rotten-to-the-core SCUM, who have their jobs only because they're rotten-to-the-core scum, and that anybody who believes in those filthy people is a certifiable mental retardate. And the traitorous bar and restaurant people helped them get away with it, because they deliberately followed a losing strategy of letting the anti-smokers and their media accomplices get away with the health lies, while they merely whined that it's bad for business. They make me want to puke when they expect our sympathy - waah, boo hoo hoo, our profits are down - when those stupid pieces of crap did it to themselves. And the best thing we can do is stop them from getting away with their next scheme for deliberately losing, the statewide smoking ban. They made their beds, now let them sleep in it, and don't let them force everyone else sleep in it with them.

SEE HOW THE APPLETON POST-CRESCENT LIED!

(Appleton referendum: A secondhand smoking gun? By Wendy Harris, Post-Crescent staff writer. The Appleton Post-Crescent, March 27, 2006.) Here's how they mis-report the pro-smoking side: "Brian Striegel, owner of the Camelot bar in Appleton, isn't convinced. "I believe the harmful effects of secondhand smoke are greatly exaggerated," Striegel said. "I don't believe it's as dangerous as they lead you to believe." This is a mere assertion of opinion by a bartender, which carries no weight. And another dimwitted bartender: "Mitch Roepcke, owner of Shark's Club Billiards & Bar in Appleton, thinks the risks are overblown. 'There can be some danger to secondhand smoke, but the people pushing this are over-exaggerating the risk involved and are using scare tactics to push their agenda,' Roepcke said. 'They act like secondhand smoke and smoking are the only causes of lung cancer.' If secondhand smoke is so dangerous, Roepcke wonders, why the EPA or the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration haven't recommended or enacted a nationwide workplace smoking ban?" And now the anti-smoker side: "While some remain unconvinced about the health hazards of secondhand smoke, physicians, scientists and public health experts say the findings from 30-plus years of research and study are undeniable and indisputable." Followed by the corrupt, lying mouthpiece of the American Cancer Society, David Ahrens, whom those media crackpot-whores expect the public to worship unquestioningly as the Voice of Authority, and a recitation of corrupt, defective, and mis-attributed supposed scientific studies purporting to back him up - 2,000 deliberately defective ETS studies that ignore infection, scientifically worthless but funded to serve the anti-smokers' political agenda; a lying claim of heart disease deaths, concocted by anti-smoker Stanton Glantz, and falsely attributed to the National Cancer Institute, because they put his lies on their website in order to deceive people, especially those who are too stupid to wonder what scientific authority the NCI has concerning heart disease; a California ecological study which contradicts the studies in the EPA report; and claims about children's respiratory disease attributed to the EPA which have since been recanted by their own author. AND, WHAT ABOUT THE REAL EPA SCIENTISTS, WHO WERE AGAINST LABELING ETS A CLASS A CARCINOGEN? WHAT ABOUT THOSE ILLEGAL PASS-THROUGH CONTRACTS TO HANDPICKED ANTI-SMOKER STOOGES TO WRITE THE EPA REPORT - WITH A CRONY OF GEORGE W. BUSH ON THE BOARD OF THE PASS-THROUGH FIRM? AND WHAT ABOUT THE CANCER SOCIETY'S DECADES-LONG COVERUP OF THE ROLE OF INFECTION IN CANCER? NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING AND NOTHING - NOT SO MUCH AS A PEEP!

THIS IS THE SAME WAY THE LYING MEDIA EVERYWHERE PURPOSELY DECEIVE THE PUBLIC. THIS IS NOT REPORTING, BUT DELIBERATE COVERUP OF OFFICIAL WRONGDOING - AND BY DOING SO, THE MEDIA HAVE MADE THEMSELVES ACCOMPLICES TO THE VIOLATION OF CITIZENS' RIGHTS - SO THE MEDIA SHOULD SHOULD BE INDICTED UNDER RICO ALONG WITH THEIR ANTI-SMOKER PALS!

PHONY "SMOKING BAN OPPONENTS" ARE ACTUALLY WORKING FOR A STATEWIDE BAN!

The so-called Appleton Coalition for Business Owners Rights (ABCOR) is the sponsor of a resolution to repeal that city's smoking ban. But look at this organization's motto: The Smart Smoking Ban, "A good solution until a statewide ban puts EVERY business in EVERY municipality on a level playing field."

See those words, STATEWIDE BAN?! They want to do just like they did in California, which is to trick smokers into supporting a BOGUS anti-ban group, which will promote legislation for a STATEWIDE BAN in the name of smoking ban opponents. Those deceitful code words, the "level playing field," are just camoflage for their real intentions. And more:

Quote, "It still provides for well over 90% of Appleton workplaces to be smoke free. It sets the stage for leadership at the state level to make a fair and level playing field for all businesses." They claim that "The 'Smart Smoking Ban' is very similar to the original smoking ban now in effect, but has a few exemptions and changes." Only for bars, taverns, bowling alleys, bed and breakfasts, and tobacco bars. If they're so concerned about ALL BUSINESSES, then why don't they repeal it for the rest of them as well? Most of all, they should be filing a RICO lawsuit against the anti-smokers over their fraudulent so-called health concerns, which they used to dupe the public into accepting smoking bans in the first place. This is just another slimy and despicable anti-smoker scheme, to trick people into supporting a statewide smoking ban under the false pretext of fighting a smoking ban!

"Donna Bradley, co-owner with husband Mike, said Appleton’s smoking ban was Ravens’ downfall. 'It was the only factor as far as we can see. The effect was more than the club could handle,' she said. The Bradleys purchased Ravens two weeks before the smoking ban went into effect on July 1, 2005. Comparing figures before the ban and her latest stats, business was 'down 75 percent,' she said. 'We saw a pattern of decline that was obvious for the year and a half we were in business. We tried several different things to entice customers. We had free live music every single night we were open. Our prices were comparable to everyone else’s. We had drink specials and electronic music. But we weren’t able to bring enough business in.'" The building is owned by Milwaukee dentist Jeff Lang and his father, who wants to drag the whole state down as a solution. "Red Fox Supper Club at N4510 County A in Center, between Appleton and Black Creek, closed its doors Jan. 1. It had been for sale for 2 ½ years, but with no buyers coming forward, owner Dennis Volz decided to simply close." After it closed, buyers suddenly appeared. (The Buzz: Smoking ban killed business, Ravens owner says. By Maureen Wallenfang. Oshkosh Northwestern, Jan. 25, 2007.)

Appleton's first smoking ban was in city-owned buildings, and passed 11 to 9. Voting for the ban were Dennis Hendrickson, Rayburn Kaufman, Frank Mousley, Janet Nordell, Mark Reinholz, Anthony Rosecky, Stevie Schmidt, Paul Schreiter, William Siebers, James Smits, and Edward Spang [a smoker]. Against: Michael Collins, Richard Feaval, and Eldred Mullen. Hendrickson worked for AAL, the big local employer that banned smoking in 1985. (Council adopts smoking ban. By David Horst. Appleton Post-Crescent.)

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Eau Claire Smoking Ban

Dave Duax is a cosponsor (Speaking Out About Eau Claire's Proposed Smoking Ban. By Mary Rinzl. WEAU, Mar. 7, 2008.) Like every smoking ban, it's founded on a pile of lies and fraud. The ordinance lies that "Reliable scientific studies, including studies conducted by the Surgeon General of the United States, have shown that breathing sidestream of secondhand smoke isn a significant health hazard to non-smokers, particularly to children, elderly people," blah blah blah. In the first place, there have been no such studies "conducted" by the Surgeon General, who is nothing but an incompetent front man appointed for his political connections. All of the "Surgeon General" reports are merely compiled by a corrupt little clique of anti-smoking activists, who have infested our federal government for the last six decades, and ring-led by Jonathan M. Samet, who has also been the ringleader of nearly every other supposed "independent report" including the "EPA" report, the IARC report, and the ASHRAE report. And every one of them is flagrant scientific fraud, because they're ignoring more than 50 studies which demonstrate that human papillomavirus causes ten times more lung cancers than those frauds blame on secondhand smoke. They're all based on nothing but lifestyle questionnaires, so it's a lie that they're "scientific." They're also guilty of fraud for ignoring the fact that asthma death rates have more than doubled since the anti-smoking persecution began, and for ignoring the role of cytomegalovirus as a cause of heart disease. The ordinance is scheduled for introduction (pre-hearing) on March 11, 2008.)

Janesville Smoking Ban

"Jim Halbach opened Rev. Jim's Spuds and Suds a year ago as a non-smoking downtown bar. Halbach wanted to provide an option for people who complain about smoky bars. But it didn't work. Within three weeks, he put out the ashtrays. 'If there was such a need for non-smoking bars, we would have them,'' Halbach said." Other business owners snivel the usual cowardly capitulations to anti-smoker lies: Chris Brose, owner of El-Ra-Bowl, "said he understands the health issues related to smoking." [No, he doesn't. He's never heard anything but lies, and evidently lacks the initiative to undertake a simple internet search.] He whines that "It just seems like our freedoms are being taken away bit by bit.'' [This is what happens when you let the anti-smokers get away with their lies, stupid.] Kipp Hoskins, owner of East Point Sportz Pub, didn't criticize the lies, either. "Bruce Monson, owner of Wedges, 2006 N. County E, said the real issue is air quality." [Wrong, Bruce. The real issue is anti-smoker scientific fraud.] "Mark Otis, owner of the Milwaukee Grill, 2601 Morse St., went smoke-free when Janesville's no-smoking ordinance passed. His business changed. Otis can't remember the last time he was open until midnight. He used to regularly have customers until at least 1 a.m.... He said everyone will soon realize the health costs associated with smoking." [Stupid sucker! Smokers are saving the state money! The smoking cost claims are a deliberate fraud - and your media pals are lying to the people! And there's not so much as a peep of protest from any of the assorted other retardates the media chose to quote, either.] (Tavern owners say governor should stay out of their business. By Marcia Nelesen. Janesville Gazette, Jan. 25, 2007.)

Marshfield Smoking Ban

"Request to consider recommendation from the Judiciary, License and Cemetery Committee concerning wording for the smoking referendum. Presented by Harold Wolfgram, Assistant City Attorney. 'Should the Common Council of the City of Marshfield, Wisconsin, prohibit smoking in indoor places including any indoor place that is a place of employment or that is open to the public or to which members of the public may be invited or have lawful access, but does not apply to a private residence, a room used by a person in a retirement home as a private residence or a room in a lodging establishment that has been designated as a room where smoking is allowed?'" (City Council Agenda, Jan. 22, 2008.)

Marshfield is an anti-smoker dictatorship! Look at the city's tobacco use policy: "Effective as of March 1, 1999, Fire Fighter applicants will sign a "No Tobacco Use" condition of employment agreeing to the following condition of employment: From my date of hire, I will not smoke, chew or use any tobacco products(s) on or off duty during my duration of employment with the City; and further, if I do smoke, chew or use any tobacco product(s) at any time while employed with the City of Marshfield Fire and Rescue Department, I will be subject to dismissal for cause."

Here is mayoral candidate Chris Meyer's brainless and amoral take on the issue: "The culture in America is changing. Second-hand smoke has been linked to all sorts of diseases. We are learning more about the dangers everyday. I support the referendum and will vote Yes to prohibit smoking in the workplace. I do this because I believe it is the right thing to do and also because I grew up in a home with smoke. While I don't have any obvious side-effects from growing up in a home with smoke; my father died at age 51. He was a heavy smoker, smoking between 3 and 4 packs per day. He won't see his grandkids graduate or marry. He never even got to meet his grandson. Is this personal, yea, it is personal...but I think that is true regardless of what side of the issue you find yourself." This is a morally insensitive and crassly ignorant reaction to the anti-smokers' campaign of cultural genocide, waged by committing scientific fraud, spreading lies and censoring the media!

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Anti-Smokers Attack Milwaukee

"We have worked diligently over several years to educate the Milwaukee community about the harmful and deadly effects of second-hand smoke," says Dr. Patricia McManus, spokesperson for the Smoke Free Milwaukee Project (SFMP) and the executive director of the Black Health Coalition of Wisconsin. Lies, lies, lies, lies, lies! Their precious EPA report that they use to justify their health lies was written via illegal pass-through contracts to a hand-picked crony, while the real EPA scientists were against labeling ETS a human carcinogen - AND ALL OF THIS HAS BEEN COVERED UP BY THE LYING MEDIA! And all the usual scientifically corrupt, politically-connected, psychopathic-lying subhuman SCUM - the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association of Wisconsin, the American Heart Association and Smoke Free Wisconsin - are behind it as well. (Public hearing for citywide smoke-free policy set for March. By OnMilwaukee.Com Staff Writers, Jan.19, 2006.)

McManus got paid at least $165,000 by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to commit this crime against us.

And, instead of exposing the anti-smokers' lies and corruption, the worthless traitor from the Restaurant Association only whines that "The problem with the local smoking ban is that it creates an (uneven) playing field for businesses in the food and tavern industries from city to city," said Pete Hanson, director of government relations for the Wisconsin Restaurant Association, a nonprofit trade association. "It should be done statewide or it shouldn't be done at all." The Wisconsin Restaurant Association has done nothing but sell out to the anti-smokers, every step of the way! They are nothing but a front for the anti-smokers, not their opponents! They only represent anti-smoker restaurant owners, who want to prevent free competition because they'd lose. If they wanted to protect their members' rights, they would have filed a RICO lawsuit for conspiracy, fraud, and racketeering against the anti-smoking vermin LONG AGO. (Smoke signals. Ban would outlaw public smoking in Milwaukee. By Kellie Bramlet. The Marquette Tribune, February 7, 2006.)

Milwaukee County executive Scott Walker issued a temporary executive order banning smoking or even carrying a lighted cigarette within 30 feet of all county buildings, including Mitchell International Airport. However, there is no penalty for violations. He wants the Milwaukee County Board to make it permanent and to eliminate designated areas that now allow smoking, such as the courthouse cafeteria and some lounges at the airport. Violations would carry penalties of $25 to $500 if those changes are approved. (Milwaukee County smoking ban toughened. Associated Press - August 22, 2007.)

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"Nineteen people spoke in opposition to the ordinance and 10 people spoke in favor of the proposed law that would ban smoking in all public places, all workplaces and many outdoor locations.... Dr. Todd Mahr, an Onalaska resident and chairman of the Smokefree Air For Everyone Coalition, was the last community member to address the council’s Administrative and Judiciary Committee. The SAFE Coalition is leading an effort to ban smoking in all La Crosse County municipalities." Mahr claimed that it is an issue of "public health." (Onalaska smoke-free proposal draws a crowd. By Adam Bissen, Lee Newspapers. La Crosse Tribune, Feb. 20, 2007.) Wrong! It's an issue of systematic scientific fraud, and media conspiracy to cover up offiicial wrongdoing. And the reason they've gotten away with it is the pinheads in denial that this is a totally corrupt totalitarian dictatorship that ought to be overthrown by any means necessary. One of the commenters has it right: "Dear FBI, please closely monitor Gov Doyle and his huge campaign contributions in regard to his proposed anti-smoking law. I wonder where the money trail leads this time." Here's where: The American Cancer Society, Casinos and Corruption. And: "Dr. Marr you may be a respected Physician but when it comes tackfullness you are pathetic!!! The children you paraded into the common council quarters last night were not there to see government at work, they were there to be used by your group as a tasteless show of how low you will go! You have lost my respect!!!!"

Morons in Oshkosh

"No one is a fan of cancer. But some Oshkosh restaurant owners lately have less love for the American Cancer Society. As a form of protest, a few city restaurants fuming over Oshkosh's two-month-old smoking ban ordinance have refused to donate food or drinks to annual cancer-cure fund-raisers fueling the organization. 'If we could be 100 per cent sure the money we were donating was going to research and not to put us out of business, we'd do it,' said Phil Levine, owner of Jeff's on Rugby, 1005 Rugby St. During the referendum campaign Levine warned the ban would lead to lost business, something he and others say has already come to pass." (Eateries protest city smoking ban. By Alex Hummel of the Northwestern. June 11, 2004.)

How much of a stinking moron do you have to be, to fail to realize that the American Cancer Society has been persecuting smokers and pushing smoking bans for DECADES?! Furthermore, the "research" of this despicable group is geared toward expensive treatments, while deliberately using defective studies to falsely blame smoking and lifestyle for diseases that are really caused by INFECTION. And furthermore again, these dimwits raised thousands of dollars to help their worst enemies - while not doing a damn thing to raise money for smokers' rights. On top of it all, the restaurant are preparing to stumble cluelessly down the same old path that's been trod by scores of other moronic business owners, to tinkle away more of their hard-earned with a lawsuit over legal nitpicks, instead of challenging the anti-smokers' Big Lies.

Rhinelander voters defeated the proposed smoking ban by 987 to 789. (Smoking ban voted down. By Meredyth Albright - Editor. The Rhinelander Daily News, Apr. 5, 2006) - but don't breathe a sigh of relief, because the anti-smokers will be back. The only way to stop them is by spreading the truth about the anti-smoker corruption that the Associated Press and other news syndicates have deliberately concealed from the public. And, don't let the anti-smokers trick anyone into forking over their money for ventilation systems, in the vain hope that this will appease them. Sad experience has shown that it's just a dirty trick to shake down restaurant owners, because the anti-smokers turn around and tell city councils that the systems don't work to get them to pass the ban anyway! Business owners should save their money for a RICO lawsuit against the anti-smokers instead.

The Anti-smokers' Funding Sources

Wisconsin ASSIST: Our tax dollars used to persecute us! The law doesn't apply to the bloodsucking anti-smoker filth! They are a Cancer Society dictatorship that's above the law! There is NO PRECEDENT in all of the vermins' trumped-up whinings about the supposed privileges of "Big Tobacco" for the special privileges that these vermin have been given!

"Division of Health - In early October, the Division of Health was awarded a $6.5 million seven-year contract by the National Cancer Institute for the American Stop Smoking Intervention Study (ASSIST) for cancer prevention. Wisconsin is one of 17 states to receiving funding. ASSIST Wisconsin is a collaborative effort between the Division of Health, the National Cancer Institute and the Wisconsin Division of the American Cancer Society. WMC [Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce] joined a number of organizations in support of the grant." (WMC Health Care Committee Report. 1991 Oct 21;4(3)).

ASSIST (American Stop Smoking Intervention Study For Cancer Prevention) was a federally funded, collaborative effort between the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society, meaning that this private organization used the US government and the public's tax dollars as their own property, for their own purposes, in the manner of a fascist dictatorship. Patrick Remington M.D. was the Project Director. "WIS ASSIST acknowledged the prohibition on the use of federal funds for lobbying, but coached its members on how to lobby within the confines of the ASSIST program: There are no restrictions on ASSIST dollars with regards to lobbying local governments .... The lobbying prohibition (assuming that no state or federal funds are utilized) does not extend to activities conducted by volunteers or staff and resources funded through other sources .... A coalition as a whole and individual coalition members may lobby any level of government as they wish without restriction (except when ASSIST funds are involved or as they might be restricted by their employers if lobbying on work time). Id. at 6 (emphasis added). II. WlS ASSIST Lobbied Federal Officials On July 21, 1994, WIS ASSIST reported that it was: very active in generating support for an increase in the federal excise tax and for Cong. Waxman's clean indoor air bill. Many state and coalition members via meetings, calls and letters, encouraged Wisconsin's Congressional delegation to do the same. Attachment 7 at 12 (emphasis added). III. WIS ASSIST Lobbied The State Legislature: By late 1990, WIS ASSIST had convinced the Wisconsin Legislature to form a "Tobacco-Free Legislative Task Force." Attachment 3 at 70. This Task Force: will be in place throughout the duration of ASSIST Wisconsin and will be the access point to the Legislature for all tobacco prevention and control issues. ld. (emphasis added). WIS ASSIST also took steps in 1990 to "target key legislators in support of legislation to ban vending machines, outlawing tobacco possession, and increasing the tobacco excise tax." In August 1992, they lobbied to block the passage of the Smokers' Rights Act. The Tobacco-Free Coalition was formed to apply for ASSIST funds. WISH (Wisconsin Initiative on Smoking and Health) composed of former members of GASP, worked closely with them, and ASSIST often distributed their propaganda. In Fiscal Year 1996, they had $269,216. Lederle Pharmaceutical provided $3,500 to bring David Goerlitz, the "Winston Man," to speak in schools in Brown, Door, and Shawano Counties, which contributed $200 each for this. In FY 1995, they had $888,992. (Assorted pages from a Freedom of Information Act request. Wisconsin ASSIST Summary.)

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

"From April 1997 to March 2004, the Wisconsin SmokeLess States® project, with first the Tobacco-Free Wisconsin Coalition and then SmokeFree Wisconsin as the lead organization, conducted statewide activities to reduce tobacco use, particularly among children and youth. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) provided $2.3 million for this project under its national program SmokeLess States (ID#s 031383 and 041530). Wisconsin also received a grant from the program's Special Opportunities Grant Fund. Other sources — including the Wisconsin Health Department and the Wisconsin Hospital Association — contributed $1.3 million to support lobbying and other activities; no RWJF funds were used to support lobbying." Program Officers: Karen Gerlach and Michelle Larkin. (National RWJF SmokeLess States(R) Program Helps Wisconsin Decrease Smoking Rates Among Middle and High School Students and Implement Tobacco-Control Efforts. Grant Results, Last Updated: October 2005.)

In contradiction to their lie that "no RWJF funds were used to support lobbying," they boast among their iniquitous "accomplishments" that "Wisconsin increased its cigarette excise tax by 18 cents, from 59 to 77 cents per pack;" "Wisconsin put aside $23.5 million per year in funding for a statewide tobacco control program in 1999, despite a severe state fiscal situation (a $3.2 billion deficit); although these funds were later cut to $10 million per year, this was still the largest expenditure on public health in Wisconsin's history;" "Wisconsin increased the number of smoke-free communities: 19 cities and one county passed smoke-free restaurant ordinances and Madison passed a smoke-free workplace policy and a clean indoor air ordinance;" "Wisconsin passed Youth Access legislation, restricting cigarette vending machines and the 'give-away' of tobacco products to adult-only locations and allowing local communities to raise their tobacco license fees from $5 to $100;" "Wisconsin passed a SmokeFree Dorms bill, which bans smoking in all University of Wisconsin dormitories and residence halls;" and "SmokeFree Wisconsin successfully fended off repeated attempts by the tobacco and restaurant industries to pass preemption legislation."

RWJF says: "From the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s, Wisconsin enacted some of the most progressive tobacco control policies in the nation, including comprehensive clean indoor air laws, the nation's first ban on smoking in public schools and increases in the cigarette excise tax." [This is because the tobacco lobbyists were really covert anti-smokers, whose other activities included establishing the Wisconsin State Medical Society's lobbying division! And, whose relatives comprise the corrupt little cabal behind both Governors Thompson and Doyle!]

RWJF's grants: SmokeFree Wisconsin, American Cancer Society, Wisconsin Division, $900,000 for April 1997 to February 2001 (ID# 031383); SmokeFree Wisconsin, Maureen Busalacchi (Madison, WI), $1,500,000 for March 2001 to April 2004 (ID# 041530).

Other Cash and In-Kind Contributors to the Wisconsin SmokeLess States Project: Cash Contributions: American Cancer Society – $614,560; Research and Sponsored Programs, University of Wisconsin-Madison – $225,000; American Heart Association – $45,000; American Lung Association – $150,000; Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids – $80,000; Wisconsin Department of Public Health – $170,000; Wisconsin Hospital Association – $20,000; Wisconsin Public Health Association – $1,500; Wisconsin Medical Society – $1,500; Wisconsin Nurses Association – $1,500. In-Kind Contributions: American Cancer Society, Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, Wisconsin Hospital Association, Wisconsin Medical Society, Wisconsin Public Health Association.

Current (2007) Wisconsin anti-tobacco grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation include $99,988 to Amy Williamson, and $400,000 To Michael C. Fiore, both at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

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Carol AS Thompson, Madison, Wisconsin

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