Day: October 18, 2012

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Submission on tobacco regulations: LRP

PRELIMINARY

The Law Review Project is unambiguously for the effective protection of the rights of all people including anti-smokers, to which end it supports effective and jurisprudentially legitimate laws and policies. To the extent that the draft regulations are consistent with this principle and the Constitution, they are welcomed and supported.

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Press release: Effective ban on smoking

Press Release from the Free Market Foundation

28 June 2012

Free Market Foundation: The Department of Health’s proposal is an effective ban on smoking

Government’s interference a threat to rights of individuals, private property owners and bad for business

The Department of Health’s proposed new measures to tighten smoking regulations under the Tobacco Products

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Article: Smoking bans continue an assault on freedom

by Robert A. Levy

Added to cato.org on October 24, 2005

This article appeared in the Arizona Republic http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/ on October 24, 2005.

I don’t smoke. I don’t like smoke. I sit in the non-smoking section of restaurants. In fact, I favor a smoking ban on publicly owned property in closely

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Article: Holland gives smokers a break

Written by Chris Snowdon Friday 9 December 2011

The current issue of the British Medical Journal carries an angst-ridden letter titled ‘Can the Dutch Government really be abandoning smokers to their fate?’ http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(11)61855-2/fulltext?rss=yes Since June 2010, the largest party in the Dutch parliament has been the People’s Party for Freedom

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Comment on the Electricity Legislation Second Amendment Bill

Amendments to Electricity Regulation Act 4 of 2006

1. The Free Market Foundation

The Free Market Foundation (FMF) is an independent non-profit public benefit organisation founded in 1975 to promote and foster an open society, the rule of law, personal liberty, and economic and press freedom as fundamental components of its advocacy of

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The Massachusetts “model” moves to price controls

Natural experiments are rare in politics, but few are as instructive as the prototype for ObamaCare that Massachusetts set in motion in 2006. The bills for “universal coverage” are now coming due, and it appears the state political class is prepared to do lasting damage to one of America’s

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Population exlposion: fact or fiction

In his 2004 book, “The Empty Cradle,” Phillip Longman exploded one of the planet’s most enduring modern myths. He demonstrated that population growth is not the threat that it has been made out to be and that population decline is the real challenge ahead of us, says the Wall Street

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The Eurpeanisation of America

If Barack Obama wins the election, he will most likely be the most liberal public policy president since Franklin D. Roosevelt, says National Center for Policy Analysis chairman Pete DuPont.

Most people have declining confidence in America’s economic and financial system. Gallup reports that just 7 per cent of voters are

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