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With Overwhelming Evidence and a Little Common Sense, You Don’t Need a Smoking Gun

According to one recent survey, 53 percent of Americans now believe that Biden family members were paid by foreign nationals to influence policy decisions. That’s called bribery. It’s an impeachable offense under the Constitution, and if those respondents are right, if Joe Biden has been selling out our country for personal gain, it’s the biggest … Read more

Smokers, Mass. lawmakers may have saved N.H. businesses from tax hike

by Op-Ed

Cigarette smokers and flavored tobacco scavengers from Massachusetts produced a surge of New Hampshire tobacco tax revenue that almost single-handedly prevented a business tax increase, preliminary, unaudited state figures suggest.

Paper that Started Vaping Panic Pulled For ‘Misleading Data’ and “Unreliable Conclusions”

by Steve MacDonald

A major study published last year before the nationwide vaping panic has been retracted. The research was pulled by the American Heart Association’s Scientific Journal over concerns that the data was misleading and the conclusions unreliable.

Kate Frey and Dr. Daniel Philbin: Making the Case For Raising the Voting Age to 26

by Skip

Well, not exactly. Kate Frey, vice president of advocacy at New Futures, and Dr. Daniel Philbin, Northern New England Chapter of American College of Cardiology, are members of the New Hampshire-Tobacco 21 Coalition and just wrote an Op-Ed about the dangers of smoking and vaping.

New Hampshire Used the State Budget to Raise the Smoking Age to 19

by Steve MacDonald

I’m not a fan of legislative leaders hiding unrelated legislation in a budget. It’s a trick. Budgets will get passed eventually. Stuffing changes that failed to pass in the House or Senate needs to stop. So, how about one that was never a bill at all?

DISQUS Doodlings – “Right wing populists want to kill us all”

by Skip

Yeah, Lloyd (once again) is rather unhappy that many people don’t agree They cry “freedom” for them to smoke, drink, drive really fast and fry the planet. Everyone else, get out of the way…Everywhere it seems that the definition of “freedom” is changing; it is now the freedom for white men to smoke and drink … Read more

NH Democrats Use State Budget to Raise Legal Age to Buy Tobacco in NH to 21

by Steve MacDonald

I can’t even recall how much garbage the Democrats in the legislature have crammed into the budget – that has nothing to do with a budget. But I guess it wasn’t enough.

Keene City Council Bans Sale of Nicotine Products

by Steve MacDonald

Last Thursday Keene City Councilors met and decided they know better. No one is surprised. Outraged, yes. But not surprised. Effective immediately it is illegal to sell any product with nicotine to anyone under the age of 21. That includes vaping products.

Dover NH Bans 18-20 Year Olds in Possession of Tobacco from their Plantation

by Steve MacDonald

Yesterday Dover, New Hampshire raised the age for buying tobacco products to 21. So, beware to anyone under 21 in possession of tobacco. If you wander onto the Dover plantation, you’ll be breaking the law.

The Garrison City will become the first municipality in the state to raise the age to legally possess, use and purchase tobacco products in Dover to 21 years old.

The City Council voted to approve the ordinance change on a 6-1-2 vote, with Ward 4 Councilor Marcia Gasses voting no, Mayor Karen Weston recusing, and Ward 6 Councilor Matthew Keane absent from the meeting.

Black Market Bloomberg

by Steve MacDonald

New York City Mayor Mike ‘Big Gulp’ Bloomberg has proposed raising the smoking age in New York City from 18 to 21 years of age. A companion proposal would hike the price of a pack of cigarettes to more than ten dollars per pack, presumably to a) convince more people to quit and b) recover revenue lost by prohibiting a big chunk of the tax base from paying taxes on cigarettes they are no longer permitted to smoke.

But how does New York’s evil super genius plan to recover the revenue lost to the expansion of the black market?

Gun Control is about Obama’s Political Agenda, not Saving Lives

by Don

President Obama says, “If it only saves one life….” Then he promotes gun restrictions that will kill more law abiding Americans than they save.

If it were really his goal, President Obama could do many things that actually save lives.

Closing the border and removing the incentives for people to come or stay here illegally would annually save hundreds of lives and thousands from becoming violent crime victims.

He could lead the charge against smoking which kills approximately 449,000 Americans annually, including approximately 44,000 who die from second hand smoke (source: Centers for Disease Control). Thus, about four times as many people are killed by America’s 43 million smokers as by America’s 80 million gun owners. Guns also often save innocent lives, smoking only harms people.

Consistency – not the hallmark of Liberals

by Skip

(H/T: Liberal Logic 101)