In a closer vote than expected, the Los Angeles City Council today voted not to carve-out an exception for bars in that city’s new ban on public vaping (the use of e-cigarettes, which emit smokeless vapor).
Subway’s move came as a result from pressure from Vani Hari, a blogger who calls herself “The Food Babe.”
One of Sunday’s most controversial Super Bowl ads came with the message “Friends don’t let friends smoke.” Bizarrely, it’s organized anti-smokers in the public-health establishment who want the commercial banned.
He saved his worst ban for last. Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s nanny-state policies have left a trail of damage. His defeated soda ban, the ban on food donations to homeless shelters and other antics have cost New Yorkers money, jobs, food choices, and even their freedom to give charity.
Mayor Bloomberg’s going out with one last ban. The City Council, with the administration’s strong backing, is rushing through a law to treat the vapor from e-cigarettes like tobacco smoke under the city’s “Smoke-Free Air Act.” The use of e-cigs, a k a “vaping,” would be forbidden in indoor and outdoor locations wherever smoking is banned.
Featured · Government · Liberty · Regulation
New York, Los Angeles, Chicago Move to Restrict Devices that Help Smokers Quit
Economics · Featured · Government · Liberty · Regulation
As we approach a busy holiday travel season, as cold weather grips much of the nation and as flu season gets into high gear, HHS is failing to make clear their intentions about when they’ll green-light the manufacture of a vaccine for the particularly deadly H7N9 strain of avian flu from China.
Featured · Regulation · Taxes
[Mayor] Bloomberg stands accused of not letting the public see how his team made various nanny-state laws and regulations from his (failed) soda ban to his rules against donating food to city-run homeless shelters.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Liberty · Regulation · Taxes
By the middle of October, if everything stays on schedule, Mexico’s legislators may well prove that they haven’t learned a thing from policies that have been tried and failed, from Denmark to New York City.
Featured · Liberty · Regulation
When it comes to food safety, the European Union and the United States have some of the most effective scientific and regulatory programs in the world. So it came as[...]
The Health Ministry should be applauded for enlisting the advice of a technical committee to study the scientific evidence relating to the regulation of e-cigarettes.
The argument that paper is always better for the environment just doesn’t hold water.
Education · Featured · Health Care · Regulation
Nanny-state activism will not be as effective as market-based reforms.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics
“If the mayor applied his risk-averse trans-fat banning, soda-size limiting science to the risks of composting in NYC he wouldn’t be making it mandatory, he’d be banning it.”
Lost in the uproar is the most important fact: This wheat, like all genetically modified crops, is absolutely harmless.
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