Smoking Ban Crippling Local Casinos

Non-tribal casinos have already lost tens of millions of dollars because of Washington’s new indoor smoking ban. A new financial study, conducted by our own KIRO Team 7 Investigators, discovers taxpayers could loose millions as well. Card-rooms, charity bingo halls, and some bars and restaurants are required to report financial information to the state every year. The state hasn’t had a chance to look at the figures since the smoking ban took effect. I have. It looks like “no smoking” means economic devastation for the non-tribal gaming industry. If there was ever any doubt that gamblers are also…

Quit Smoking Is Portland protected by a mysterious league of superheroes?

Barely a month ago, Willamette Week devoted an entire issue to the odd new “fad” of real-life urban superheros. Typically, they’re well-meaning but slightly maladjusted. (The superheros, I mean. Not Willamette Week.) WW profiled one such superhero in Portland, calling himself “Zeta Man”: It”s a tough job being Portland?s only superhero. Once a week for the past 18 months, Zetaman has donned his costume and patrolled downtown Portland, seeking out the needy with gifts of food and clothing. He goes armed with an extendable steel baton, pepper spray, and a Taser that delivers 30,000 volts” enough to put a man on…

The anti-smoking lobby's hidden agenda

Poor Heather Crowe, the Ottawa waitress who recently died of lung cancer and had lent her persona to the anti-smoking lobby as the typical victim du jour. Crowe was said to be a “typical” restaurant worker who spent 40 years working in Ottawa restaurants, all the while breathing the second-hand smoke that’s said to have claimed her life.There are so many things wrong with Heather Crowe’s case that it begs for an official inquiry, but like all politically correct causes the anti-smoking lobby can do no wrong. Crowe, who really did die of lung cancer, was anything but a typical…

Better-Educated Smokers More Likely to Quit After Seeing Ads : Study finds 65% with college degree made attempt, but economic status also plays role

TV ads that promote quitting smoking are more likely to have an impact on better-educated smokers, while warnings about the dangers of secondhand smoke have a similar effect on people of all educational levels, says a University of Wisconsin study. In 2002 and 2003, researchers surveyed 452 adult smokers of different socioeconomic and educational levels about their recall of quitting smoking and secondhand smoke ad campaigns. A year later, the researchers checked on the respondents’ smoking status. Of those who recalled seeing the ads, about 65 percent of college-educated participants tried to quit in the following year, compared with 30 percent of those with a high school education or less, the study found.

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