Awards presented to legislators
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
The American Cancer Society Cancer recently honored 14 Kansas Legislators with Statehouse Champion Awards, for their support of smoke-free initiatives in the Legislature in 2010. Rep. Don Hill of Emporia and former Sen. Jim Barnett were among those recognized.
“Passage of the Kansas Indoor Clean Air Act during the 2010 legislative session was a major public health victory that will benefit all Kansans for years to come,” explains Chris Masoner, American Cancer Society Government Relations Director in Kansas. “We thank all of our legislative supporters who listened to the overwhelming majority of Kansans that wanted this law passed.”
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generalsn (anonymous) says...
Johnson and Johnson, the makers of Chantix and Nicoderm, fund the bans through their Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-R...
Many tax exempt political action committees (charities?) received millions to lobby for smoking bans from the RWJ Foundation. These bans are nothing but clever marketing strategy, with lots of highly publicized "sky is falling" hype, similar to gun control tactics;
"Gun ownership disease"
http://www.nrapublications.org/SG/ind...
Tobacco control funding sources for "social change" to handle the "tobacco problem"
http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?ia...
And what the 99 million dollars was going to. Note on page seven the "inside -out", provision going for patios later, AFTER business owners spend thousands of dollars to build them to accommodate their smoking customers. Their many coalitions travel the country spreading bans, changing their names for each community.
http://www.no-smoke.org/pdf/CIA_Funda...
Since current bans didn't help businesses, now they are being given grants to enforce their bans, admitting that bans don't help business.
http://www.rwjf.org/applications/soli...
After closing many bars, temperance is their next goal.
http://alcoholfacts.org/RWJfoundation...
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