Clearing The Air

Smoking bans increase unemployment rate, contribute to the mortgage foreclosure crisis, and destroy our economy

Smoking bans increase unemployment rate:

http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2007/05/minnesotas-unemployment-rate.html

http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2008/01/us-unemployment-rate-increase-to-2-year.html

http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2007/10/mn-smoking-bans-continue-closing-bars.html

http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2007/01/100-bars-and-restaurants-put-out-of.html

Contribute to the mortgage foreclosure crisis:

http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2006/09/true-confessions-of-my-reasons-for.html

http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2006/10/keep-movingnothing-new-to-see-here.html

Destroy our economy:

http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2008/01/economist-at-federal-reserve-declares.html

http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2009/03/worldwide-economic-meltdown-and.html

http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2008/02/another-state-smoking-ban-destroys.html

http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2007/12/smoking-bans-in-uk-wales-and-scotland.html

http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2008/01/global-unemployment-rate-expected-to.html

http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2008/07/what-happens-in-vegas-after-smoking.html

Lawmakers understood that smoking ban legislation would destroy jobs and the local economy, as evidenced by language inserted into the bill:

http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2008/08/review-of-minnesota-smoking-ban-law.html

(Yet politicians enacted this anti-business, anti-job legislation with reckless abandon)

The special (Nicoderm) interests who funded the movement are profiting from the rent seeking legislation beyond their wildest imagination:

http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2007/12/minnesota-smoking-ban-triples-demand-of.html

http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2008/04/j-posts-40-percent-jump-in-1q-profitwow.html

http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2008/01/pharmaceutical-interests-who-funded.html

http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2007/02/smoking-bans-good-public-policy-or.html

Meanwhile, the hope for change candidate Barack Hussein Obama claims he will help our economy, even though his PR campaign supporter, GMMB, pushes for more of the same with a nationwide smoking ban agenda:

http://cleanairquality.blogspot.com/2008/03/rwjf-ctfk-nicoderm-funded-pr-consultant.html

posted by marcus aurelius @ 8:49 PM