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Safer tobacco product available, but feds slow to offer a light

What if a product could save lives and millions in health-care costs? Imagine that product had undergone extensive tests and trials providing undisputed data showing it was safe. But what if a government agency with an anti-tobacco agenda from a previous administration made that product unavailable? It’s happening now, as the Food and Drug Administration considers an application for a modified risk tobacco product submitted by...

Becki Gray

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Friday Interview: N.C. Government Overreaches With Smoking Ban

RALEIGH — The N.C. Court of Appeals has upheld the state’s ban on smoking in most bars and restaurants, rejecting a challenge from a Pitt County operator of for-profit clubs that sought to avoid the ban. Dr. Roy Cordato, John Locke Foundation vice president for research and resident scholar, says the smoking ban represents just one example of government overreach into our daily lives. Cordato discussed the issue with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio.

CJ Staff

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Hookah Bliss Owner Will Defy Smoking Ban

CHAPEL HILL — Adam Bliss, owner of Hookah Bliss, believes the ban is discriminatory. He will continue to sell hookahs and alcohol beginning Jan. 2, the day it becomes illegal to smoke in most North Carolina bars and restaurants.

Donna Martinez

Opinion

Smoking Out a Dog of a Policy Proposal

Banning dogs at restaurants is a logical extension of bans on smoking.

Jenna Ashley Robinson

Opinion

Smoking Out A Dog of a Policy Proposal

Once you’ve accepted government meddling with decisions that belong in private hands, you shouldn’t be surprised by the bad ideas that emerge.

Jenna Ashley Robinson

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Friday Interview: Smoking Ban Not Justified By Social Cost

RALEIGH — North Carolina will take new steps to restrict smoking in bars and restaurants, once Gov. Beverly Perdue signs House Bill 2. The House and Senate approved the bill this week. Supporters said the new restrictions would protect people’s health. John Staddon, James B. Duke professor of psychological and brain sciences and professor of biology and neurobiology emeritus at Duke University, doesn’t buy the argument. He recently discussed smoking restrictions with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.

CJ Staff

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Smoking Ban Proposals Threaten N.C. Property Rights

RALEIGH — A smoking ban proposal under consideration in the N.C. House and Senate would create a “major threat” to personal freedom and property rights. That’s the assessment a John Locke Foundation expert offers in a new Spotlight report.

CJ Staff

Opinion

Spirited Debate On Smoking

Our belief in freedom derives, in part, from our fundamental recognition that it is wrong to treat fellow human beings as means rather than as ends in themselves.

John Hood

Opinion