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Anti-prohibition news from over the world |
Collected live from our allies' blogs.
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Le Vatican démet de ses fonctions un prêtre franc-maçon
Published on 2013-05-24 08:14:50.
Website: Accueil
La Tribune de Genève: " Le prêtre de Megève, station de ski luxueuse très prisée des Alpes françaises, a été démis de ses fonctions par l'évêque d'Annecy, Mgr Yves Boivineau, en raison de son «appartenance active» à une loge maçonnique.
"Le père Pascal Vesin (Photo DR) curé de la paroisse Sainte-Anne d'Arly-Montjoie, à Megève, restera prêtre «mais sans droit d'exercer», selon un porte-parole. Il devrait continuer à être rémunéré pendant 6 à 12 mois, selon la même source.
"Selon le communiqué, la décision de le démettre de ses fonctions a été prise «sur demande de Rome». Le père Vesin «est adhérent d'une loge du Grand Orient de France depuis 2001», précise le texte. Si l'Eglise catholique compte probablement nombre de prêtres francs-maçons, il est plutôt rare que cette appartenance conduise à une sanction d'interdiction d'exercer.
«Informé en 2010 par courrier anonyme, l'évêque a interrogé l'intéressé qui a nié. Confondu en 2011, il lui a été demandé de quitter la franc-maçonnerie pour se consacrer à son ministère de prêtre. L'intéressé, optant pour la 'liberté absolue de conscience' selon la formule consacrée, a affirmé son intention de vivre la double appartenance», explique le communiqué du diocèse."
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| Non-story of the day
Published on 2013-05-24 07:24:00.
Website: Velvet Glove, Iron Fist
From the Guardian:
Alcohol advertising on television to be reviewed
Ofcom has ordered a review into whether to cut the amount of alcohol advertising on TV, after finding that large numbers of children are tuning into shows such as The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent, which are aimed at more adult audiences and could potentially carry alcohol ads under existing rules.
OMG! Children are seeing alcohol advertisements on The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent!
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Addiction au NATEL ou au TABAC: bientôt des traitements sous contrainte ?
Published on 2013-05-24 06:27:52.
Website: Accueil
RTS - La Première - On en parle : "Remboursement des traitements pour addictions
"Trois commissions fédérales planchent sur la question du remboursement des traitements liés au sevrage du tabac par l’assurance de base. La question est donc de savoir à partir de quand fumer devient une maladie. L’occasion pour nous de faire le point sur les addictions qui nécessitent un suivi médical et qui sont remboursées (ou non) par l'assurance maladie.
"On en parle avec le docteur Daniele Zullino, médecin chef du service d'addictologie aux Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève."
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| Science versus public health
Published on 2013-05-24 04:27:00.
Website: Velvet Glove, Iron Fist
Back in January, I wrote about the research that shows that being overweight does not increase mortality risk and may reduce it. This has been shown many times and a large meta-analysis of 97 studies, put together by Katherine Flegal et al. and published in JAMA, appeared to confirmed it.
Cue panic from the public health lobby who feared that the 'obesity epidemic' and all its limitless possibilities for social engineering were in jeoprady. In an astonishing outburst against a fellow academic, the longtime foe of 'Big Food', Dr Walter Willett, said:
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German Cancer Research Center Lies about Health Effects of Electronic Cigarettes to Scare Users and Unfairly Influence EU Directive
Published on 2013-05-24 03:44:00.
Website: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary
According to the German Cancer Research Center, the inhalation of glycerin can cause lipoid pneumonia. Lipoid pneumonia is a form of pneumonia - lung inflammation - in which lipids (oils) accumulate in the bronchial tree. It can be caused by exogenous factors, such as the inhalation of oils.
A report on electronic cigarettes from the German Cancer Research Center states: "Glycerine may cause lipoid pneumonia on inhalation."
This is a serious assertion because if true, then the use of electronic cigarettes would be quite unsafe. Glycerin is a common component of a huge majority of electronic cigarettes on the market and it is inhaled in significant quantities by electronic cigarette users. If this inhalation of glycerin could cause lipoid pneumonia, then electronic use would be unduly risky. In fact, if the German Cancer Research Center's assertion is true, I would have to reverse my recommendation that these products are a viable alternative for smoking cessation.
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| Hypochondria
Published on 2013-05-23 17:59:15.
Website: Frank Davis
I still have a high opinion of some doctors. Dr Ian Dunbar is one. He contributed to the CATCH debate a couple of years or so back. Here, writing about the exploitation of family doctors under the NHS, he returns … Continue reading →
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It's Silly, Costly, And Evidence Free - But Let's Make It Law Anyway
Published on 2013-05-23 14:58:00.
Website: Dick Puddlecote
I'm sure you will have heard about the EU ban on restaurants providing jugs of olive oil this past weekend. If not, have a butcher's at this.
The Treasury minister and senior Liberal Democrat condemned the new rules banning oil jugs and dipping bowls from restaurant tables.
However, he said British councils and Whitehall departments are also responsible for "silly rules".
The new EU ban has been described by Sam Clark, one of Britain's top cooks, as authoritarian and damaging to artisanal food makers.
Asked about the changes, Mr Alexander told the BBC's Sunday Politics show that ministers and elected MEPs had made the decision even though it is "pretty silly".
Firstly, I think he meant "fucking silly", but to each their vernacular.
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| Rauchverbotspolitiker aussperren!
Published on 2013-05-23 10:59:48.
Website: Netzwerk Rauchen e.V.
Rauchverbotspolitiker aussperren!
Netzwerk Rauchen unterstützt Hausverbot
Netzwerk Rauchen e.V. kritisiert das Vorgehen des Ordnungsamtes gegen einen Alsdorfer Gastwirt (Städteregion Aachen), der Landtagsabgeordneten von Grünen und SPD wegen des totalen Rauchverbots in Nordrhein-Westfalen ein Lokalverbot auferlegt hatte. Dem Wirt waren laut Medienbericht eine Anzeige wegen Verstoßes gegen das Antidiskriminierungsgesetz und sogar der Konzessionsentzug angedroht worden.
Ein solches Hausverbot ist nach Auffassung des Netzwerks rechtens. „Wenn die Buchung eines NPD-Politikers von einem Wellness-Hotel verweigert werden darf, dann muss eine solche Aktion erst recht erlaubt sein“, so Christoph Lövenich von „NRW genießt!“, „schließlich sind die Verbotspolitiker aus dem Landtag schuld daran, dass der Wirt seine Gaststätte nicht mehr nach eigenem Gusto führen kann und Einbußen hinnehmen muss.“ Es dürfe nicht mit zweierlei Maß gemessen werden, nur weil Grüne und Rote zu den etablierten Parteien zählen. Es sei vielmehr skandalös, so Lövenich, „dass Ordnungsmitarbeiter durch Drohungen und Einschüchterungen an die Adresse des Wirtes politischen Protest zum Schweigen bringen wollen.“
Netzwerk Rauchen fordert alle Gastwirte auf, Verbotspolitikern Lokalverbot zu erteilen - schon zu deren eigener Sicherheit - und vor allem ihre Räume nicht Parteien zur Verfügung zu stellen, die die Gastronomie gängeln.
Im Rahmen des Aktionsbündnisses "NRW-genießt" sind Wirte aufgefordert, sich auf der Website http://nrwgeniesst.de/gastronomie/ anzumelden, um Schäden und Nachteile zu berichten, die sie durch das absolute Rauchverbot erfahren haben.
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Sacrificing Children's Health for Politics: American Cancer Society Sinks to a New Low
Published on 2013-05-23 06:14:00.
Website: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary
Yesterday, I revealed that the American Cancer Society is actually opposed to legislation that would ban the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors, noting how odd this position is, as even the electronic cigarette industry supports such measures. In trying to explain the possible reason for the ACS opposition to such a simple, common sense public health policy, I shared Dr. Carl Phillips' hypothesis that the ACS actually wants kids to be unprotected from e-cigarette sales so that these products appear to be a greater problem, leading the FDA to ban or heavily restrict the products even for adults.
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| The curse of The Spirit Level strikes again
Published on 2013-05-23 04:55:00.
Website: Velvet Glove, Iron Fist
In August 2011, there were three nights of rioting in London with cars set alight, police officers attacked and shops looted. It was triggered when the police shot a man dead in Tottenham but rapidly became a riot for its own sake as it spread to other UK cities.
This orgy of disorder gave every chin-stroking intellectual an opportunity to speculate about its "root causes". Whatever they blamed—bad parenting, "austerity", poor education, unemployment, 13 years of Labour misrule, one year of Tory misrule or Mrs. Thatcher—the "root cause" was invariably the thing that the intellectual had been warning about for years.
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Yet Another Smoking Cessation Conference
Published on 2013-05-22 19:26:00.
Website: Frank Davis
An email I got today drew my attention to the upcoming UKNSCC – the UK National Smoking Cessation Conference -. The UK National Smoking Cessation Conference is the world’s largest event for the smoking cessation field, and this year will … Continue reading →
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| Eric Schmidt The Cross Border Shopper
Published on 2013-05-22 14:05:00.
Website: Dick Puddlecote
Kudos to Google's Eric Schmidt today for standing his ground so bluntly on tax avoidance (emphasis mine).
Schmidt: "Taxes are not a choice."
Q (from Krishnan Guru-Murthy): "The way you use transfer pricing, Ed Miliband says that's wrong. You've taken a decision to put a lot of money in Bermuda, and you take moral positions in lots of other areas."
Schmidt: "If the international tax regime changes we will too."
Q: "But is that moral?"
Schmidt:"Virtually all the American companies have tax structures like this, and UK companies operating in the US do too. But if we pay more taxes in one area then we pay less in another."
And that is the beginning, middle and end of it.
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"L’industrie pharmaceutique n’a pas intérêt à ce que les fumeurs cessent de fumer"
Published on 2013-05-22 06:53:54.
Website: Accueil
unairneuf.org: "La cigarette électronique menace les intérêts de l'industrie pharmaceutique
"Il y a un peu plus d’un an, UnAirNeuf.org publiait Qui de Pfizer ou GlaxoSmithKline sera le premier à annoncer une cigarette électronique pour l'arrêt du tabac ? :
"Nous avons l'intuition que le rachat de la licence se jouera entre ces deux géants de la pharmacie. GSK, leader sur l'offre de gommes de nicotine, hautement rentable et en croissance continue n'a pas intérêt à cannibaliser son marché. Nous penchons plutôt pour une acquisition des droits de commercialisation par Pfizer dont le Champix° a dégazé et qui n'a pas d'alternative à proposer aux fumeurs.
"Nous imaginions alors que l’industrie pharmaceutique allait s’employer à récupérer l’innovation et le dynamisme industriel chinois. Nous pensions que l’enjeu pour Big Pharma était de protéger ses juteux profits sur les prétendus “substituts” nicotiniques, qui ne sont que de la nicotine vendue en pharmacie plutôt qu’au bureau de tabac. Nous nous sommes trompé d'analyse. Aujoud'hui tout laisse à penser qu’elle ne va pas investir ce nouveau marché mais se contenter de tuer cette concurrence."
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| American Cancer Society Opposes Banning the Sale of Electronic Cigarettes to Minors
Published on 2013-05-22 03:05:00.
Website: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary
In 2013, everyone is sensible enough to believe that the sale of e-cigarettes to minors should be prohibited.
Most public health advocates agree.
The tobacco companies agree.
Even the electronic cigarette companies agree.
However, there is apparently one group that believes e-cigarettes should continue to be available to minors and which opposes the ban on the sale of e-cigarettes to youth:
The American Cancer Society.
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As reported by Dr. Carl Phillips over at his tobacco harm reduction blog, the American Cancer Society is leading the fight to prevent the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors. Dr. Phillips cites testimony given by the American Cancer Society in opposition to a provision in state legislation in Rhode Island that would have prevented the sale of electronic cigarettes to youth under 18 years of age.
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Boris Will Bounce Back
Published on 2013-05-21 17:21:49.
Website: Frank Davis
I dunno about anybody else, but the revelation that Boris Johnson has fathered a child (or is it two?) out of wedlock looks to me like a judicial political assassination attempt, at a moment in time when David Cameron’s leadership … Continue reading →
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| Vlan ! sur l'alcool, les obèses et les fermetures "Eclair" !
Published on 2013-05-21 17:15:29.
Website: Accueil
Le Matin: " L'alcool pire que l’héroïne ! "Une étude montre que la boisson génère plus de dégâts que les stupéfiants, alors que le Parlement coupe dans le budget de la prévention. Action de sensibilisation nationale cette semaine.
"Quelque 14,4% des Romands boivent chaque jour. Et 57,9% au moins une fois par semaine. Au niveau national, une personne sur cinq a une consommation à risque, c’est-à-dire qu’elle met en danger sa santé et celle des autres. C’est dans ce contexte alarmant que se tient jusqu’à dimanche la deuxième semaine nationale de l’alcool. Thème choisi par l’Office fédéral de la santé publique (OFSP): «Je parle d’alcool», dans le but de lancer la discussion au sein de la population.
"L’enjeu est de taille. Une étude menée en France et publiée en 2012 montre que l’alcool est le produit qui cause le plus de dommages, au niveau de l’individu mais aussi de la société. Devançant l’héroïne, la cocaïne et tabac, cannabis, amphétamines, ecstasy et jeu. "
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Anti-Smoking Advocate Uses Bogus Research to Deny Overwhelming Scientific Evidence on Electronic Cigarettes
Published on 2013-05-21 14:04:00.
Website: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary
On his tobacco blog, Stan Glantz is citing research published this month in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research to support his contention that electronic cigarettes are not useful in smoking cessation. Stan goes so far as to direct former Surgeon General Carmona to stop claiming that these products may help people to quit smoking.
Stan writes: "Katrina Vickerman and colleagues collected information on e-cigarette use from people who called state quitlines in Connecticut, Louisiana, Nebraska, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas. Nearly one third (30.9%) of respondents reported ever using or trying e-cigarettes; most used for a short period of time (61.7% for less than 1 month). Consistent with what other surveys have found, the most frequently reported reasons for use were to help quit other tobacco (51.3%) or to replace other tobacco products (15.2%). Most important, both e-cigarette user groups were significantly less likely to have quit smoking 7 months after first calling the quitline compared with participants who had never tried e-cigarettes: Only 21.7% of people who used e-cigarettes to help quit and 16.6% of those who used e-cigarettes to replace other tobacco products had quit compares to 31.3% of people who did not use e-cigarettes (p < .001)."
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| E-Cigs Becoming Cool? Trendy? ... Profitable?
Published on 2013-05-21 09:53:00.
Website: Dick Puddlecote
I don't know who Jodie Marsh is, but the video below says she is a model, so does that make her glamorous?
Whether the answer is yes or no, she certainly knows her stuff on e-cigs, by crikey!
The reason I ask is that e-cigs have attracted some stellar afficionados.
Hollywood stars like Stephen Dorff and Johnny Depp have embraced them, following on from Katherine Heigl on the Letterman show, no less (please feel free to add others I might have missed). And now, Jodie Marsh, the most informed and eloquent celebrity so far on the subject of vaping in my opinion.
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Les louanges troubles du directeur de la SSR à Cohn-Bendit
Published on 2013-05-21 08:54:18.
Website: Accueil
lesobservateurs.ch: " Roger de Weck dresse l’éloge de Cohn-Bendit
"Il est de ces jours où le soutien de ses amis est plus cruel que les accusations de ses ennemis, il est de ces matins où les voiles se déchirent sur les complicités entre politiques de gauche de pire facture et médias de nos Etats. Chronique d’une incarcération culturelle, la nôtre.
"De droite, il serait mort et enterré depuis longtemps, mais Daniel Cohn-Bendit est de gauche, ce qui explique et suffit largement à justifier les crimes les plus sombres de l’âme la plus ténébreuse. L’univers hurle son horreur, la tour du pouvoir n’entend pas. Bienvenus dans un monde où tout ce qui est vrai et peut porter à conséquence est décidé préalablement; voilà le vrai visage de ceux que nous avons laissés nous emporter."
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| Study Shows No Acute Respiratory Health Effects from Active or Passive Vaping
Published on 2013-05-21 04:37:00.
Website: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary
A study published earlier this year in the journal Inhalation Toxicology reports that neither active nor passive vaping has any acute adverse effects on lung function among adult subjects.
(See: Flouris AD, et al. Acute impact of active and passive electronic cigarette smoking on serum cotinine and lung function. Inhalation Toxicology 2013; 25(2): 91-101.)
In the study, a sample of 15 smokers had their lung function measured before and after smoking, and before and after using an electronic cigarette. A sample of 15 nonsmokers had their lung function measured before and after exposure to secondhand smoke, and before and after exposure to secondhand vapor from electronic cigarettes.
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Believers and Disbelievers
Published on 2013-05-20 18:51:47.
Website: Frank Davis
An old friend phoned up today. She was broke and wanted to borrow some money off me. I agreed to lend her some, and digitally transferred the desired amount to her account. She added she was thinking of coming to … Continue reading →
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| Alcohol Con bites the hands that feeds it
Published on 2013-05-20 14:04:00.
Website: Velvet Glove, Iron Fist
This is rather wonderful from Alcohol Concern. Less than two weeks after minimum pricing was dropped from the Queen's Speech, the fake temperance charity has decided to have a pop at the politicians.
MPs admit to unhealthy drinking culture in Parliament, new survey reveals
New data released today by Alcohol Concern reveals a quarter (26%) of MPs believe there is an unhealthy drinking culture in Parliament.
That's an interesting interpretation of the statistic. Another—more honest—interpretation would be that a large majority of MPs don't think there is an unhealthy drinking culture in Parliament, but that wouldn't really serve the cause, would it?
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Shhh, Don't Tell The Food Snobs
Published on 2013-05-20 11:38:00.
Website: Dick Puddlecote
In their down-time, the little Ps occasionally play a globally popular online game. On different computers, they can compete and 'see' each other within cyberspace as well as interact with each other or with players from all around the world.
It's a massive site with such a huge amount of tricky levels that it allows almost endless game-play. Being so very popular, it constantly requires more new difficult-to-negotiate areas so encourages users to design and submit their own environments.
Here are a couple the little Ps came across at the weekend (click to enlarge) I'm told it is one of dozens of similar 'obbys' (puzzles, to we crusties).
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| Lutte contre les téléchargements illégaux
Published on 2013-05-20 06:45:01.
Website: Accueil
20 Minutes: "La Confédération propose des mesures concrètes pour combattre le piratage informatique. Les consommateurs risqueraient d'être punis pénalement.
"Selon un rapport de la Confédération, un Suisse sur trois télécharge des films ou de la musique sans que les artistes ou les producteurs touchent le moindre sou. Même si cette pratique est légale en Suisse, les autorités souhaitent lutter contre le piratage informatique, écrit la «NZZ am Sonntag»."
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The Dangers of Funding Government Programs With Cigarette Tax Revenues: French Government Delays Tobacco Price Increase Because Too Many Smokers Have
Published on 2013-05-20 04:20:00.
Website: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary
According to an article in the New York Times, the French government, in an effort to prevent too many smokers from quitting and therefore seeing a decline in cigarette tax revenue, has reached an agreement with tobacco manufacturers to delay a price increase that had been scheduled to take effect in July.
According to the article: "Governments have an ambivalent attitude about tobacco, on the one hand lecturing smokers at every turn to abandon nicotine, while with the other hand raking in cigarette sales taxes to finance their treasuries. The anomaly was underlined on Friday with a reported agreement by the French government and tobacco manufacturers to delay a scheduled price increase for three months because too many smokers have quit. In the first quarter of 2013, for the first time in 10 years, the value of French tobacco sales fell. ... The next price and tax increases were due in July, but the makers have agreed to take a short-term hit by delaying an estimated 5 percent price increase until October, according Les Echos, the French business daily.
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| The Lethality of Loneliness
Published on 2013-05-19 17:54:35.
Website: Frank Davis
H/T Walt for this New Republic piece, The Lethality of Loneliness: Just as we once knew that infectious diseases killed, but didn’t know that germs spread them, we’ve known intuitively that loneliness hastens death, but haven’t been able to explain … Continue reading →
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Auckland: Des patients psychiatriques attaquent l'interdiction de fumer
Published on 2013-05-19 11:14:20.
Website: Accueil
New Zealand Herald: " L'interdiction de fumer imposée aux patients d'hôpitaux psychiatriques "est une torture" déclare un juriste.
"C'est demain (21.05.2013) que s'ouvrira en Nouvelle-Zélande un procès devant une Haute Cour. On n'y attaquera l'interdiction de fumer imposée aux malades mentaux résidant dans des hôpitaux. (Photo: "Abri pour fumeurs" à la Clinique psychiatrique de Belle Idée (Genève-Suisse) dépendant des Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève. De qui se moque-t-on ? Des fous ou des cerveaux qui ont inventé ledit "abri" ?)
"De nos jours, des interdictions de fumer sont mises en vigueur dans des hôpitaux, des bâtiments officiels, des écoles, des prisons, des établissements publics et dans de nombreux parcs.
"Demain, l'avocat François Richard qui plaidera pour trois patients psychiatriques devant la Haute cour à Auckland, a déclaré que les personnes enfermées dans des établissements psychiatriques y résident pour soigner leurs troubles mentaux et non pour renoncer à fumer."
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| Angelina Jolie and BBC spin
Published on 2013-05-19 06:38:00.
Website: Velvet Glove, Iron Fist
Michelle Roberts. Not a clue.
Michelle Roberts, the BBC's worst health journalist, has taken to the airwaves to talk about Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy. Jolie decided to undergo the operation because she has inherited genes that make her very prone to breast cancer. Her mother died of the disease at the age of 56 and doctors say her DNA means that she has an 87 per cent chance of developing the disease.
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Norman Lamb: Perfect Example Of The Genre
Published on 2013-05-19 03:09:00.
Website: Dick Puddlecote
I enjoyed a news-free day yesterday watching cricket with the boy all day and Eurovision in the evening with both little Ps and a deadly pizza.
Reading back this morning, though, I spluttered over my bacon and eggs reading Simon Clark's revelations about the flip-flopping of Lib Dem Health Minister Norman Lamb.
In camera with a potential voter, he was right on their side.
"I'm Norman Lamb, your MP. Have you voted yet today?" I shook his hand and told him that because of the smoking ban and plain packaging I wouldn't be voting for his party.
He made clear that he 'respects my opinion' (ie thinks I am wrong). But we chatted on about plain packs and he said, almost verbatim, "I can reassure you that it won't be coming in during this parliament". He made fairly clear that the preference is to wait to see the body of evidence coming from Australia/New Zealand, which he believes will come.
However, Clark then points to a Guardian article where Lamb shows that he was either attempting to strategically manipulate the voter or ... readers of the Guardian.
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| Rue89: " Contre le racisme, la France supprime le mot « race » de la loi
Published on 2013-05-18 17:22:36.
Website: Accueil
Rue89: "Faire disparaître le mot « race » de nos lois : c’est l’objectif du texte adopté jeudi soir par l’Assemblée nationale. Mais il reste encore à le faire disparaître de la Constitution... comme François Hollande s’était engagé à le faire dès le « lendemain de la présidentielle ».
"Il fallait « mettre un terme à [une] incohérence », selon les auteurs de la proposition de loi, le communiste André Chassaigne et Marc Dolez (ancien membre du Parti de gauche) :
« [...] La “race” constitue une catégorie juridique, alors que l’ensemble de notre législation vise à combattre le racisme [...].
"Il convient [...] de supprimer de nos textes le mot “race”, qui n’a pas de valeur scientifique et sur lequel les idéologies racistes fondent leur conviction [...]. »
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Rebecca Taylor MEP On E-Cigs
Published on 2013-05-18 11:12:00.
Website: Dick Puddlecote
I'm going to do something very dirty now, that is to praise a Liberal Democrat for being - surprise, surprise - fairly liberal.
MEP Rebecca Taylor agreed to be in this short three minute film about e-cigs after attending the shocking EU workshop on the 7th of May chaired by the most dangerous European alive today. I predicted on the morning of the shebang that it would be a farce and it didn't disappoint, as Rebecca found out a bit later on.
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| Link Tank 18/05
Published on 2013-05-18 03:00:00.
Website: Dick Puddlecote
Back whether you like it or not.
Where will the plain packaging slippery slope slide to next?
Wetherspoons boss says pubs are better focussing on food VAT cut than minimum alcohol pricing
More idiotic politicians move to tax e-cigs
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