Category Archives: Tobacco Policies & Legislation

Lies, More Lies & A Small Touch of Sanity

By C.R.S. Lyles Dear Readers, I write to you from the road as I flee the oppressive atmosphere of a campus run rampant with anti-smoking campaigns and rules targeted to […]

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Don’t Blame Tobacco – Blame Biology

By C. R. S. Lyles Just the other day, I turned on my television and ran across a commercial promoting an anti-acne product called Epiduo. Throughout the entire length of […]

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Schizophrenic Tobacco Tax Laws

By C.R.S. Lyles Allow me to pose a question: If you were able to sacrifice the few for the many, throw a couple of people under the bus so that […]

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Apple Pie & Hot Dogs Are Now Against The Law

By C. R. S. Lyles As the author Madeleine L’Engle once said, "We are strangers in a strange land." I would like to be the first to welcome you to […]

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How To Beat A Dead Dog: Anti-Smoking Activism in Modern America

by C. R. S. Lyles As the old adage goes, the only two sure things in life are death and taxes. As smokers know, these elements of life are even […]

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The Second Battle in Seattle

By C. R. S. Lyles In 1999, thousands swarmed the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle to protest the World Trade Organization and promote the anti-globalization movement in […]

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The Smug Alert: Part Two

By C. R. S. LylesThis is the place referenced in the countless examples of a dystopian future; these are the limits of human control. Since the 1600s, those in power […]

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The Smug Alert

By C. R. S. Lyles There’s a smug alert in your neck of the woods. It comes without mercy, and it comes without warrant. It can’t be reasoned with, negotiated, […]

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It’s OK to LIE, MISLEAD, MIS-EDUCATE, and cause HYSTERIA as long as it’s about TOBACCO

Did you know that if a smoker looks at you from across the street that you will get cancer and die within 5-minutes? You often hear that there are no […]

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Keep Your Laws Off My Pack

By C. R. S. Lyles All Ralphie Parker wanted for Christmas was "an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle with a compass in the stock, and this […]

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