Year: 2013

Public Smoking AND Quitting Smoking Now Both to be Outlawed in the Big Apple?

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New York to Vote on Banning Public Use of Device that Helps Smokers Quit The Nanny State Marches On New York, NY - This week, the New York City Council is expected to vote on a bill that would ban ...

Politifact Admits The Obvious

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Many conservatives and libertarians are cheering Politifact’s decision to name President Obama’s claim, “If you like your health care plan you can keep it,” as lie of the year.  A bit less enthusiasm is in order. Sean Higgins of the ...

Is Food Political? Celebrity Chef Tom Colicchio and Left-Wing Interest Groups are Making It So with “Sham Consensus” Food Policy Scorecard

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Washington, D.C. - Jeff Stier, Senior Fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research and Director of its Risk Analysis Division, has issued a statement in response to the new "National Food Policy Scorecard" announced this week by the ...

Obamacare Exchanges Won’t Hit Enrollment Targets

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The Dept. of Health and Human Services released its latest enrollment report for the Obamacare exchanges.  According to the report, 364,682 selected a plan among all the exchanges.  137,204 selected plans in the federal exchanges and 227,478 selected plans on ...

Duped and Disenfranchised by ObamaCare

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It’s been another bad week for President Obama’s signature policy initiative and the payback is intense. Over the weekend, Ezekiel Emanuel — one of the key players in the creation of ObamaCare — candidly said that one of the real ...

Less is More for Both Smoking and Regulation

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As the EU considers a back-door ban on snus, the least harmful form of tobacco, a large study from Israel suggests that smokers who reduce their overall consumption of cigarettes do themselves some good. This is good news for those looking ...

When Somebody Says It’s Not About The Money…

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With apologies to H.L. Mencken, when Obamacare supporters say it ain’t about the cha-ching or ba-bling, it’s about the cha-ching and ba-bling. That is the the lens through which one should view the video “Forget About the Price Tag,” the winner ...

The Nanny State Can Get You Killed; New York, Los Angeles, Chicago Move to Restrict Devices that Help Smokers Quit

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Washington, D.C. - On the same day that the Los Angeles City Council moved to regulate e-cigarettes, the National Center for Public Policy Research's Jeff Stier testified at a New York City Council Health Committee hearing on a similar measure ...

“About Those Jobs Numbers” — November

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Like Wonderland, life in the Obama economic recovery is getting curiouser and curiouser. Today’s federal jobless numbers indicated a change for the better, with the unemployment rate dropping three-tenths of a percentage point to 7.0 percent in November.  Yet there ...

Health Care Odds & Ends

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MyCancellation Town Hall. The Independent Women’s Voice is kicking off a town-hall tour of its “My Cancellation” project this Saturday: My Cancellation town-hall tour will begin on Saturday, December 7th at 12:30pm at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois.  The panel ...

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