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A recent report* from the Department of Health authored by Professor Hilary Graham has criticised "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1753652877342922356\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=1753652877342922356\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1753652877342922356"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1753652877342922356"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/much-ado-about-snipers-and-flappers.html","title":"Much Ado about “Snipers and Flappers!”"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-5945561685763359864"},"published":{"$t":"2012-03-11T17:16:00.002+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-11-14T23:11:45.250+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Freedom2Choose"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Hamish Champ and the demise of The Publican trade newspaper"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Myth-busting"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Pete Robinson"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The domino effect and the demise of The Publican trade newspaper."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\nI have\nbeen out of the loop recently as far as all things smoking bans are concerned\nand you all know why. Freedom2Choose and it's members have pulled me back to\nreality and out of my grief in such a short time, but they do not know it. I\nwill start anew with a tweet I received from that esteemed blogger Dick Puddlecote today. The tweet refers to one Pete Robinson who ran a blog on The Publican."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5945561685763359864\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=5945561685763359864\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/5945561685763359864"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/5945561685763359864"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/domino-effect-and-demise-of-publican.html","title":"The domino effect and the demise of The Publican trade newspaper."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-4926721197953715394"},"published":{"$t":"2012-03-02T15:01:00.001+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-11-14T23:11:45.220+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Myth-busting"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"It's over."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"It is now eight days since I said goodbye to my lovely wife, first at the church where we were married and then at the crematorium. I am adjusting, in just a short time, to being single again.\n\nBut first I must thank all the readers of this blog for the heartfelt sympathies I received from you all, both in the comments section of my last post and private emails.\n\nI must also thank all the members"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4926721197953715394\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=4926721197953715394\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/4926721197953715394"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/4926721197953715394"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/its-over.html","title":"It's over."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-8840697197320056243"},"published":{"$t":"2012-02-19T11:31:00.000+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-11-14T23:11:45.308+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Myth-busting"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I will always love you."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\n\nGoodnight sweetheart, goodnight.\n\nOn Thursday the 16th if February 2012 my beloved wife of over forty years passed away after a long fight with Alzheimer's. My lovely, beautiful wife, a light smoker, hated no one but had many dislikes, like most of us do,  but would never, ever condemn anyone who has walked down that long road of life because of their lifestyle choices.\n\nBeryl loved life and "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8840697197320056243\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=8840697197320056243\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8840697197320056243"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8840697197320056243"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/i-will-always-love-you.html","title":"I will always love you."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-jVDtBpNWcmc\/T0Dbk6haygI\/AAAAAAAABxU\/7eUoaLqyJnA\/s72-c\/John\u0026Beryl.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-5549778490802598399"},"published":{"$t":"2012-02-12T12:55:00.002+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-11-14T23:11:45.240+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Audrey Silk"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Fighter of freedom2Choose"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Heros"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Mayor Bloomberg"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Myth-busting"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"New York"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"NYCLASH"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Whitney Houston"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Loud voices in the anti-smoking wilderness. The Audrey Silk story"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Audrey Silk walks and talks like any other down to earth, working class woman. She looks as though she has seen the darker side of life and could recount many stories that would make me and you feel sick to our very stomachs, and she most probably can. You see Audrey used to be one of New York's finest, a policewoman in that world wide iconic city, supposedly so 'good' they named it twice.\n\nNow "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5549778490802598399\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=5549778490802598399\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/5549778490802598399"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/5549778490802598399"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/loud-voices-in-anti-smoking-wilderness.html","title":"Loud voices in the anti-smoking wilderness. 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Guest post by John Watson"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"I do not need to change your minds, nor \ndo I wish to. But anyone who believes in freedom believes in these words of \nVoltaire:\n\n‘I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the \ndeath your right to say it.’\nIt was Abraham Lincoln who in 1858 said: \n\n\n‘A house divided against itself cannot stand.’\nThese words have stood \nthe test of time: the anti smoking lobby seek to divide the"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8289705142936412961\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=8289705142936412961\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8289705142936412961"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8289705142936412961"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/to-anti-smoker-i-say-this-guest-post-by.html","title":"To the anti-smoker I say this! 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That's yet another massive chunk of the nations finance gone to waste.\n\n\nOne wonders (on many, many occasions actually) just how low "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/952462051956180208\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=952462051956180208\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/952462051956180208"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/952462051956180208"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/cost-is-now-immaterial.html","title":"The cost is now immaterial"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"handymanphil"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01366547228505237107"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_hO6E-C1VncI\/SkzfMnxTiMI\/AAAAAAAAAAM\/Z2EX7Eh9GZM\/S220\/horse1.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-qJ-cIJEdDUs\/TxwmkqNYo9I\/AAAAAAAABxA\/Xoqc8yRM_1o\/s72-c\/Cescillia+Farren.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-6230182719651555782"},"published":{"$t":"2012-01-16T10:56:00.000+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-11-14T23:11:45.261+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Myth-busting"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"'Be Jaysus, they've got it'!"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\n\n Another bar gone, it's enought to drive you to drink!\n\nA report has been published today, online. showing that Ireland is losing a substantial number of drinking venues; ten percent actually-since 2007. Now being Ireland there would have to be a good reason for all these closures and the 'Drink Driving Laws' have been cited as the main cause! Yep, you read that right my friends, it the "},"link":[{"rel":"related","href":"http:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/ireland\/figures-show-serious-decline-in-pubs-and-off-licences-180281.html","title":"'Be Jaysus, they've got it'!"},{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6230182719651555782\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=6230182719651555782\u0026isPopup=true","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6230182719651555782"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6230182719651555782"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/be-jaysus-theyve-got-it.html","title":"'Be Jaysus, they've got it'!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"handymanphil"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01366547228505237107"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_hO6E-C1VncI\/SkzfMnxTiMI\/AAAAAAAAAAM\/Z2EX7Eh9GZM\/S220\/horse1.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-5YuSg2S-1_M\/TxQAuRURrKI\/AAAAAAAABw0\/BgjNqrPtvvI\/s72-c\/Ireland-Old-Mill-Pub.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-8421120646906890931"},"published":{"$t":"2012-01-13T16:54:00.000+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-11-14T23:11:45.299+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ASH et al are fake charities that couldn't hack it in the real world without government support"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Dave Atherton"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Myth-busting"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Paul Hooper anti smoker scum"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Tobacco Display ban is completly wrong"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Humiliation of we happy breed."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"In my last blog post called We happy breed. We who enjoy smoking are on our own! I waxed not so lyrical about the tobacco companies running scared of the display ban and refusing to fight it last Saturday and one of my commentators, sillyusername, pointed out that Norway has had a display ban for the past two years and gave some observations:\n\nI don't know if this is relevant, but it is worth "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8421120646906890931\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=8421120646906890931\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8421120646906890931"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8421120646906890931"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/humiliation-of-we-happy-breed.html","title":"Humiliation of we happy breed."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-6874239944336630233"},"published":{"$t":"2012-01-07T17:31:00.000+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-11-14T23:11:45.271+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Bunch of lilly livered bastards"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Myth-busting"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"tobacco companies give up legal challenge"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Tobacco display ban"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"We happy breed. We who enjoy smoking are on our own!"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\n\nThere's nobody to defend smokers but themselves!\n\nWhat a bunch of lilly livered bastards the tobacco companies are!!!\n\nYou faithfully buy and enjoy their products year in, year out. But when it comes to you being treated as a second class citizen because you do enjoy their product or when it comes to you being treated as a pervert for wanting to see the legal pornography goods being sold on "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6874239944336630233\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=6874239944336630233\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6874239944336630233"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6874239944336630233"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/we-happy-breed-we-who-enjoy-smoking-are.html","title":"We happy breed. We who enjoy smoking are on our own!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-WAoN3yZ3J5w\/TwiMxU2ki1I\/AAAAAAAABwk\/7luOftAG0mk\/s72-c\/48898.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-1638354104977708351"},"published":{"$t":"2012-01-07T13:45:00.001+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-11-14T23:11:45.133+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Myth-busting"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Torch of Freedom march"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\n\nFreedom, Hard won, easily lost by stealth.\n\nTo quote Abraham Lincoln: \"A \nhouse divided against itself cannot stand” a fact that that some \ncharities, the medical establishment and the BBC are deliberately using \nto divide smokers, drinkers and the obese from the state sponsored ideal\n person, a master race if you accept that such a being exists.\n\n\nOn March 31st there is a march planned from "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1638354104977708351\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=1638354104977708351\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1638354104977708351"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1638354104977708351"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/torch-of-freedom-march.html","title":"The Torch of Freedom march"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-FYgwRMH19KE\/TwhLoGj3YmI\/AAAAAAAABwc\/M-vM6jiGHF8\/s72-c\/12443587.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-2879241541673357037"},"published":{"$t":"2012-01-03T14:41:00.001+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-11-14T23:11:45.176+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"liberty and your right to trade"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Loss of freedom"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"mirrors and lies"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Myth-busting"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Smoke"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"The Godber Blueprint"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Freedom come, freedom go."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"H\/T to C.A.G.E Canada on Facebook.\n\n\nEvery day, each of us makes choices that influence our own health: \nwhat we eat, how much we exercise, whether we take our medications. \nThese are by nature private choices and private responsibilities.\n\nSome\n health choices, however, are collective. Outdoor air quality \ncompromised by industrial pollution or mosquito control are good \nexamples of health "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2879241541673357037\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=2879241541673357037\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/2879241541673357037"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/2879241541673357037"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/freedom-come-freedom-go.html","title":"Freedom come, freedom go."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-4499177298168462519"},"published":{"$t":"2011-12-30T14:47:00.001+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-11-14T23:11:45.203+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Dave West"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Frank Davis"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Myth-busting"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Simon Cowell"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Simon Steven"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"The little man fights as the wealthy smoker cowers"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Steven Simon, a man of our [anti smoker] times."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\n\nSteven Simon, a fighter for smokers rights. \n\n\n\nSteven is a quiet, placid man who comes out of his shell whenever the smoking ban is mentioned. In fact he is passionate about it because he hates it with venom, as do most of us tolerant smokers.\n\nI first met Simon at the very first meeting of the North of England regional group around the end of 2007 or the beginning of 2008, my memory for "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4499177298168462519\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=4499177298168462519\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/4499177298168462519"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/4499177298168462519"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/steven-simon-man-of-our-anti-smoker.html","title":"Steven Simon, a man of our [anti smoker] times."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-wx5aVx8O_pA\/Tv24mP1AKSI\/AAAAAAAABv8\/rZUbzn-M6Vc\/s72-c\/smoks.jpg.display.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-3795340762295316681"},"published":{"$t":"2011-12-25T08:22:00.000+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-11-14T23:11:45.184+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Myth-busting"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Well I was bored. Merry Christmas"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\n\n\n"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3795340762295316681\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=3795340762295316681\u0026isPopup=true","title":"9 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/3795340762295316681"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/3795340762295316681"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/well-i-was-bored-merry-christmas.html","title":"Well I was bored. Merry Christmas"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-tzb8OVJWOvQ\/TvbcoSPO00I\/AAAAAAAABts\/UA6yV4JbIGQ\/s72-c\/Publication2.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"9"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-2021809066400774918"},"published":{"$t":"2011-12-16T14:54:00.001+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-11-14T23:11:45.152+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Asbestos V SHS"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Myth-busting"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Smoking in your home may become a reality if a stance is not made NOW"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Should I be worried?"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"If you are a reader of this blog then you must be interested in the smoking debate, you know, the one the anti’s say is over. Of particular interest to me is the SHS anti smoking mantra that has invaded the bodies of normally sensible people. It was the myth of SHS that drove me out of my apathy pre ban to look on the net for like minded people when I found Freedom2Choose, or The Big Debate as it"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2021809066400774918\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=2021809066400774918\u0026isPopup=true","title":"14 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/2021809066400774918"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/2021809066400774918"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/should-i-be-worried.html","title":"Should I be worried?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"14"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-1021762106131179991"},"published":{"$t":"2011-12-10T15:03:00.001+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-11-14T23:11:45.126+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Gravy trains"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"lifestyle choices"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Myth-busting"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Obesity"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Revold in the Uni"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Smoking"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"The puritans"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Tales from the anti smokers darkside"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Obesity “epidemic” blamed on smokers giving up their enjoyment of tobacco only to fuel obesity in the US. The stigmatisation of smokers works apparently and it’s use is advocated towards other ‘lifestyle choices’ that don’t fit in with political dogma:\n\nThe latest report card on Americans’ health says that for every person who quit smoking in 2011, another person became obese. The country showed "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1021762106131179991\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=1021762106131179991\u0026isPopup=true","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1021762106131179991"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1021762106131179991"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/tales-from-anti-smokers-darkside.html","title":"Tales from the anti smokers darkside"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-8971246710348644917"},"published":{"$t":"2011-12-09T15:56:00.001+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-11-14T23:11:45.317+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Myth-busting"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Under Pressure!"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"And the Dutch certainly are:\n\nLeading cancer, \nasthma and heart health experts accused the Dutch government on Friday \nof \"all but closing down\" its tobacco controls and said such lax \npolicies could lead to 145,000 preventable deaths by 2040.\nNow with my calculations on the back of a beer bottle label, that means in the intervening 29 years 5 people will die from smoking each year (that's if "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8971246710348644917\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=8971246710348644917\u0026isPopup=true","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8971246710348644917"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8971246710348644917"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/under-pressure.html","title":"Under Pressure!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-8392770811083783595"},"published":{"$t":"2011-12-06T17:11:00.001+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-11-14T23:11:45.289+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Myth-busting"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Tongue in Cheek: Smoking may make your nipples fall off!"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Found this funny but please don't let the MSM know, you know how they are suckers for an anti smoking story.\n\n\nAccording to plastic surgeon Anthony Youn, \"smokers who undergo breast \nlifts are at great risk of losing their nipples.\" This is not just a \ntheory. Their nipples may \"turn black and fall off.\" I can't imagine a \nmore horrifying scene.\nRead the rest here."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8392770811083783595\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=8392770811083783595\u0026isPopup=true","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8392770811083783595"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8392770811083783595"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/tongue-in-cheek-smoking-may-make.html","title":"Tongue in Cheek: Smoking may make your nipples fall off!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-9125167023000533869"},"published":{"$t":"2011-12-03T19:53:00.001+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2012-11-14T23:11:45.334+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Ann Hegerty"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jull Pell"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Myth-busting"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"The Chase"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"doppelgänger"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\n\n\nA lady with a difference, Anne Hegerty (extreme left). \n\nSpot the difference between the two women in the photos. One is an intelligent frump looking woman who knows what she is talking about and willing to go head to head with Joe Public who think they are hard enough to take her on and challenge the answers she gives to any given question. The other woman is Jill Pell. Guess which lady is "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/9125167023000533869\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=9125167023000533869\u0026isPopup=true","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/9125167023000533869"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/9125167023000533869"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/doppelganger.html","title":"doppelgänger"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Qsscfjnqq8U\/Ttp-SNHCfGI\/AAAAAAAABsU\/j40tdP27sOE\/s72-c\/TheChase_publicityphoto.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-7497822300133168033"},"published":{"$t":"2011-11-26T01:54:00.002+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-11-26T10:01:50.714+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"heart Attack lies"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jill Pell"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Smoking ban lies"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"smoking increases"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Pells Hell"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\n\n\nMiss bossy knickers herself, Jill Pell\n\n Well, well, well, the truth is slowly coming out about what smoking bans do to countries-they cost them lots of money! We have a warrior who, being no one's fool, has assessed the costs of the smoking ban to be somewhere within £100K of £19bn - yeah, thats a hell of a lot of noughts folks.\n\nIt's also a hell of a lot of winter fuel bill allowances gone "},"link":[{"rel":"related","href":"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info:doi\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0026188","title":"Pells Hell"},{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7497822300133168033\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=7497822300133168033\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/7497822300133168033"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/7497822300133168033"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/pells-hell.html","title":"Pells Hell"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"handymanphil"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01366547228505237107"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_hO6E-C1VncI\/SkzfMnxTiMI\/AAAAAAAAAAM\/Z2EX7Eh9GZM\/S220\/horse1.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-oyH5B1AJ7Fo\/TtC3FNhA0zI\/AAAAAAAABsI\/OgTriZfqJ0g\/s72-c\/media_121436_en.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-5880445948759142152"},"published":{"$t":"2011-11-24T18:26:00.001+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-11-24T20:03:44.420+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Cut off the snakes head"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"deprive the government of it's most lucrative back hander"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"go on a baccy cruise"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Mistletoe and Wine...and plenty of fags and beer I suspect!"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\n\n It's that time again folks, it's time to stuff the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the government and legally deprive them of their ill gotten gains, they that despise smoker's money?\n\nIf they despise smokers then it stands to reason that they despise smoker's money, true? Well f*** them, take their comfort blanket away from them and bring them into the real world:\n\n\nWell, it's fast "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5880445948759142152\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=5880445948759142152\u0026isPopup=true","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/5880445948759142152"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/5880445948759142152"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/mistletoe-and-wine-plenty-of-fags-and.html","title":"Mistletoe and Wine...and plenty of fags and beer I suspect!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-LomoX7ISLug\/Ts6dhB8pJ-I\/AAAAAAAABsA\/ECjAycMojxM\/s72-c\/New--50-note-celebrating--2.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-1165613186066565915"},"published":{"$t":"2011-11-20T18:47:00.001+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-11-20T21:51:51.523+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Anti smoking hysteria"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Anti smoking hysteria, from here to eternity."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\n\nGetting the snip...ouch.\nThey want a level playing field and are willing to get into bed with the devil when it comes to smoking and smoking bans:\n\nA group called Save Indianapolis Bars plans to lobby council members to minimize exemptions so private clubs and other competitors don't gain a leg up. It counts about 1,300 bar owners, employees and patrons as members. Two years ago, the group "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1165613186066565915\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=1165613186066565915\u0026isPopup=true","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1165613186066565915"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1165613186066565915"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/anti-smoking-hysteria-from-here-to.html","title":"Anti smoking hysteria, from here to eternity."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-raFphJn8jeU\/TslWbHI0aLI\/AAAAAAAABr4\/N4P3_3bgj3E\/s72-c\/nosmoking-512_244x183.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-7433004123097109873"},"published":{"$t":"2011-11-16T19:37:00.001+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-11-20T10:34:55.112+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"BMA says ban smoking in cars for everybody"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Dave Atherton"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Freedom2Choose"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Invasion of personal rights"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"The Nanny State"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"When will it all stop."}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"That was the week that was..."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"...and I'm still reeling from it.\n\nI don't own a car, never have done for many, many years now and, to be honest, I just couldn't afford to run one. What with the ever increasing hike in petrol and road tax with maintenance charges on top then it is a no go area for a lot of people. Apart from those that have a very well paying job most people that drive these days do so out of necessity, they "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7433004123097109873\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=7433004123097109873\u0026isPopup=true","title":"8 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/7433004123097109873"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/7433004123097109873"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/that-was-week-that-was.html","title":"That was the week that was..."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"8"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-7820388626360198441"},"published":{"$t":"2011-11-13T21:28:00.001+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-11-13T22:00:49.850+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Fighting the liberal lefties"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"justice for smokers"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"we will fight the good fight"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"She speaks for us, who else will?"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"I steal this from Pat Nurse's blog, and I feel no shame for doing it and posting Pat's link in it's entirety.\n\nThem. By Peggy Noonan.\n\n\n\nThere's a lot to think about this week--the rise of Nancy Pelosi, the\n meaning of the Republican triumph--but my thoughts keep tugging toward a\n group of people who are abused, ostracized and facing a cold winter. \nIt's not right what we do to them, and we "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7820388626360198441\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=7820388626360198441\u0026isPopup=true","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/7820388626360198441"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/7820388626360198441"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/she-speaks-for-us-who-else-will.html","title":"She speaks for us, who else will?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-663213056659122632"},"published":{"$t":"2011-11-11T15:26:00.001+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-11-11T19:33:41.993+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Follow the money where more tobacco control bans are concerned"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"gangsters will fill the void left by tobacco control freaks"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Tobacco free futures is a fake charity"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Hoisted by their own petard! They reap what they sow."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Big Yin's kitchen\n\nIt has been shown time and time again all over the world that if you restrict a legal product the 'wide boys' and gangsters will step in to fill the void in a supposedly free market economy. They (Tobacco Control) can use price, denormalisation and smoking bans to push their hatred of tobacco but the end result is always the same, smoking prevalence and "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/663213056659122632\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=663213056659122632\u0026isPopup=true","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/663213056659122632"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/663213056659122632"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/hoisted-by-their-own-petard-reap-what.html","title":"Hoisted by their own petard! They reap what they sow."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-wi39IZ0HYP8\/Tr1OZKEhWvI\/AAAAAAAABrE\/MdKhN3e0dRY\/s72-c\/_36048867_crouchedbody300.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-6367073834945578059"},"published":{"$t":"2011-11-10T10:21:00.001+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-11-10T10:23:29.473+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"F2C forum back up and running."}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Back up and running."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"To all forum members:\n\n\nHi folks,\n\n\n We are back online \nafter a most difficult time where we  found out that our original hosts \nhad been incorporated into another  company, which in turn became part \nof another.....too much to go into. Very complicated!\n\n\n  Safe to say that \nafter a lot of extremely hard work by our technical  team, and friends \nof, we are back, large as life and continuing to"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6367073834945578059\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=6367073834945578059\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6367073834945578059"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6367073834945578059"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/back-up-and-running.html","title":"Back up and running."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-4249070429094328495"},"published":{"$t":"2011-11-05T20:28:00.000+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-11-05T20:28:07.260+00:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"There's something in the air tonight!"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Yes, it's Guy Fawkes night and as I write the noise is deafening from the fireworks that seem to get louder and louder with each passing year. It is unsettling the wife, who has Alzheimer's so a long night lies ahead. I, late evening, took a four minute walk to the local shop to get my rolling tobacco and as I walked their the air was thick with cordite and smoke, not tobacco smoke, you "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4249070429094328495\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=4249070429094328495\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/4249070429094328495"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/4249070429094328495"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/theres-something-in-air-tonight.html","title":"There's something in the air tonight!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-6606592664309037113"},"published":{"$t":"2011-11-05T17:32:00.000+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-11-05T17:32:51.937+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"You could be banned from smoking in your own home"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Only in America? The SHS nuisance $$$"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"When I first heard that the UK was proposing a smoking ban based on the absurdity that SHS (Second Hand Smoke) was detrimental to a non smoker's health I was appalled. Oh I knew it could be an irritation to some but in no way was it lethal nor was is it detrimental to their health and wellbeing. But those that loath smoking and tobacco convinced politicians that it was thus, using spurious at "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6606592664309037113\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=6606592664309037113\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6606592664309037113"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6606592664309037113"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/only-in-america-shs-nuisance.html","title":"Only in America? 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As I sit here drinking beer and smoking copious rollups I can see many people pass by my window on their weekly ritualistic pilgrimage to the big 'tute' aka the North Ormesby Instute. The majority of which are smoking cigarettes. 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Show your support for a referendum on our membership of the EU.\n\n"},"link":[{"rel":"related","href":"http:\/\/markwadsworth.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/be-there-or-be-square.html","title":"Mark Wadsworth: Be there or be square."},{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7335776860348003429\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=7335776860348003429\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/7335776860348003429"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/7335776860348003429"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/mark-wadsworth-be-there-or-be-square.html","title":"Mark Wadsworth: Be there or be square."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-EguFmgzAf1k\/TqUwVfHBlQI\/AAAAAAAABqU\/iWTsjE6X85o\/s72-c\/4160778022_9003e3eb08.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-2424778858757161622"},"published":{"$t":"2011-10-23T16:10:00.001+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-10-23T16:10:45.885+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Hitlerite followers in the EU"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Nazism"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"The EU"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"The UK parliament is a den of treacherous vipers"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"tora"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Traitors"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Tora, tora, tora"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\nThe headline relates to a 1970 film about the attack on Pearl Harbour during the second world war where the Japanese, when getting close to their goal, their commander uttered those fateful words attack, attack, attack, and I make no excuses for using them because, as an unrepentant smoker, I feel under attack. In 1941 that brazen assault on the Americans brought them into the war, a war they "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2424778858757161622\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=2424778858757161622\u0026isPopup=true","title":"10 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/2424778858757161622"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/2424778858757161622"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/tora-tora-tora.html","title":"Tora, tora, tora"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"10"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-8266502668142682545"},"published":{"$t":"2011-10-22T13:57:00.001+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-10-22T13:57:11.085+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Chime.in"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"New social networking site"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Fed up with Facebook?"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Freedom2Choose has joined a new Social Networking site called Chime.in. You can find F2C here.\n\nIt's much more user friendly than some 'other' SN's.\n\nH\/T to Subrosa."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8266502668142682545\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=8266502668142682545\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8266502668142682545"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8266502668142682545"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/fed-up-with-facebook.html","title":"Fed up with Facebook?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-2858668494295050570"},"published":{"$t":"2011-10-21T15:17:00.001+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-10-21T15:17:11.093+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"in or out is the only option for freedom of choice"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"nothing else will do"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"The EU vote"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"The peoplese pledge"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Freedom of Choice–In or Out. 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The "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2858668494295050570\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=2858668494295050570\u0026isPopup=true","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/2858668494295050570"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/2858668494295050570"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/freedom-of-choicein-or-out-nothing-else.html","title":"Freedom of Choice–In or Out. 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Stopping smoking is the answer..."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"...yeah, right!\n\nThe “science” on smoking isn’t about finding the truth. It’s about \ngetting people to quit, no matter what. The latest research proves again\n that you can make any wild claim you want as long as it pushes that \nanti-tobacco agenda.\nSo there's been another \"research\" report aimed at the smoker, not any old smoker but us men...well I suppose it's our time as women smokers have been"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2854171527825764405\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=2854171527825764405\u0026isPopup=true","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/2854171527825764405"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/2854171527825764405"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/cant-get-it-up-stopping-smoking-is.html","title":"Can't get it up? 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And through marital commitments to my ailing wife I cannot be there but I do hope they have a good one, which I know they will.\n\nFreedom2Choose was borne out of a forum, pre smoking ban, in 2004\/5 and went on to become the F2C forum we know today, in 2007. In March 2007 I joined the now defunct The Big Debate after a 7 day stay at our wonderful NHS local "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6134853030242535837\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=6134853030242535837\u0026isPopup=true","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6134853030242535837"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6134853030242535837"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/today-is-day.html","title":"Today is the day..."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-8953599975903454193"},"published":{"$t":"2011-10-14T09:22:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-10-14T09:22:18.971+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Bastards"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Every anti smoking prohibitionist are utter bastards"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Smoking bans kill people"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"The elderly suffer because of smoking bans"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Inhumanity of the anti smoking kind."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"I am moved to tears by this letter published by Cage Canada. How have we let things get to this:\n\n\nMy\n mother, a recent but hopefully  temporary resident of a Stratford \nOntario Nursing facility is 82 years old. She has smoked for 62 years! \nSome idiots in the health ministry\/ Stratford Ontario bylaws have \ndecided to ban smoking within 9 meters of this facility. Also, staff are\n not allowed to "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8953599975903454193\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=8953599975903454193\u0026isPopup=true","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8953599975903454193"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8953599975903454193"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/inhumanity-of-anti-smoking-kind.html","title":"Inhumanity of the anti smoking kind."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-2483046213433330991"},"published":{"$t":"2011-10-09T13:44:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-10-09T13:44:45.753+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Agendas to kill the legit tobacco trade"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Ethics"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"John Banshaf the turd"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Pensions and investing in tobacco companies"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Ethics"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"ASH UK have teamed up with an organisation called FairPensions to lambaste councils that invested in 'un-ethical' companies, and, surprise, surprise, they have tobacco companies firmly in their sights. 'Doctors' are right behind ASH and their affiliates and they are \"shocked\" by the revelation that some councils invest in companies that are yielding high dividends for their pension fund:\n\n\n\"I am "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2483046213433330991\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=2483046213433330991\u0026isPopup=true","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/2483046213433330991"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/2483046213433330991"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/ethics.html","title":"Ethics"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-1597842396170718389"},"published":{"$t":"2011-10-06T11:44:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-10-07T11:52:02.370+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Lets all drink to the death of the pub"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Pubcos cut their own throats"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Smoking ban kills pubs at an alarming rate"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"suicidal tendencies of the slow witted"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Things ain’t what they used to be"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nGuest Post by John Watson\n\n\n\n\n\nCondemned to death on the 7th of July 2007\n\n\n\nThose who follow\nshare prices on the BBC will know that the Pubco’s were a regular feature on the\nshares scene. They were up there with utilities as a ‘reasonably safe bet’\nprofit maker for those who speculate on the stock market. Today the BBC are no\nlonger showing the plummeting share prices of two of the big Pubco’s"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1597842396170718389\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=1597842396170718389\u0026isPopup=true","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1597842396170718389"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1597842396170718389"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/things-aint-what-they-used-to-be.html","title":"Things ain’t what they used to be"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-N8G_IH6F8UQ\/To2FgZ1bRyI\/AAAAAAAABqE\/TrBZX-3Bv3E\/s72-c\/486864.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-7827130399490563777"},"published":{"$t":"2011-10-04T14:06:00.002+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-10-04T17:06:55.599+01:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":""},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Councillor Bartlett has landed a no confidence vote in himself by 8 votes to 1 (his own probably!)"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7827130399490563777\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=7827130399490563777\u0026isPopup=true","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/7827130399490563777"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/7827130399490563777"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/basher-bartlett-is-floored.html","title":""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"handymanphil"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01366547228505237107"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_hO6E-C1VncI\/SkzfMnxTiMI\/AAAAAAAAAAM\/Z2EX7Eh9GZM\/S220\/horse1.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-631462149773400"},"published":{"$t":"2011-09-30T13:09:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-09-30T13:09:28.692+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Antony Worrall Thompson"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Enough is enough"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"join the fight club"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Save Our Pubs And Clubs"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Taking Liberties"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"time to fight back"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Fight club is fighting the good fight but there's not enough of us yet!"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"What does it take for the humble smoker and his\/her non smoking friends to wake up and smell the smoke encased in mirrors that is the UK smoking ban? The ban that has brought the humble pub, club and bingo hall to it's knees.\n\nWe apathetic smokers and non smokers alike need a hero to defend our freedoms, and indeed our freedom2choose, like never before as the anti smoking template encroaches into"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/631462149773400\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=631462149773400\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/631462149773400"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/631462149773400"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/fight-club-is-fighting-good-fight-but.html","title":"Fight club is fighting the good fight but there's not enough of us yet!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/Bn6zye0nh8w\/default.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-2410510824247299712"},"published":{"$t":"2011-09-29T22:52:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-09-29T22:52:11.791+01:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"How do you kill a mocking bird that refuses to stop smoking?"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\nWell poison us off of course! And oh boy, are the anti smoking and the 'never smoked in my life but I hate those that do' brigade pulling out all the stops to do just that, poison off what they see as an offense to their snooty noses!\n\nYou see, these anti smoking prohibition days they have all the power and influence to rule your enjoyment of a smoke of tabacco addiction and put you down, down "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2410510824247299712\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=2410510824247299712\u0026isPopup=true","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/2410510824247299712"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/2410510824247299712"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/how-do-you-kill-mocking-bird-that.html","title":"How do you kill a mocking bird that refuses to stop smoking?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-4AtagFFv9C0\/ToTfEbZlttI\/AAAAAAAABp0\/MAo0gVA08-Y\/s72-c\/article-page-main-ehow-images-a04-ib-qg-poison-rats-800x800.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-1460257197248314017"},"published":{"$t":"2011-09-26T17:10:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-09-26T17:10:33.447+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Anti smokers win the day again"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Enough is enough"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"fire safe cigarettes"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"FUCK THEM ALL"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"It's a con"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"RIP"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"time to fight back"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Are RIP (Reduced Ignition Propensity) cigarettes necessary?"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\n\n Picture thief taken from Pat Nurse MA\n\nApart from the fact that these bastardised cigarettes make people ill, as I pointed out on Saturday, will these chemically treated cigs actually save lives? We have had regulations here in the UK regarding fire retardant soft furnishings since 1988 and many amendments since, some amendments as recent as 2005\/6, which has caused much controversy "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1460257197248314017\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=1460257197248314017\u0026isPopup=true","title":"7 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1460257197248314017"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1460257197248314017"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/are-rip-reduced-ignition-propensity.html","title":"Are RIP (Reduced Ignition Propensity) cigarettes necessary?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-uRZJgS5lQ_c\/ToCeWeYWPaI\/AAAAAAAABn8\/PmUI6WG5TSI\/s72-c\/LIP+3.JPG","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"7"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-3998180110417971308"},"published":{"$t":"2011-09-25T17:53:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-09-25T19:51:03.425+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"FOI requests"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Hatred"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"learning"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"what to do?"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Dunce?"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"I must admit that I was not all that bright at school. Although rebellious and frequently 'absent' from lessons I still managed to come out of my formative years  being able to read, write and do the basics of adding up numbers, any more complicated number crunching left me cold and to this day I still shy away from anything that involves complicated subtraction, devision or fractions.\n\nI have "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3998180110417971308\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=3998180110417971308\u0026isPopup=true","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/3998180110417971308"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/3998180110417971308"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/dunce.html","title":"Dunce?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-7305305866427137854"},"published":{"$t":"2011-09-24T12:26:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-09-24T14:19:05.294+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"EU forces fire safe cigarettes on the UK"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Fire safe cigarettes are on their way to the UK"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Fire safe cigarettes make smokers ill"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The 'fire safe' cigarette is forced upon the hapless smoker!"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"I chanced upon the tail end of a BBC piece this morning about fire safe cigarettes. I had read about so called fire safe cigarettes before and new that some states in the USA had made them mandatory, like, where else, New York and a few other countries outside Europe. I knew back in '07' that there were bansterbatory groups out there urging our government to implement such a law forcing fire safe"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7305305866427137854\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=7305305866427137854\u0026isPopup=true","title":"18 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/7305305866427137854"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/7305305866427137854"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/fire-safe-cigarette-is-forced-upon.html","title":"The 'fire safe' cigarette is forced upon the hapless smoker!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/_mTXZVCOM0Y\/default.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"18"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-1548932484212672674"},"published":{"$t":"2011-09-21T11:38:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-09-21T11:38:14.115+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Outdoor smoking bans"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Smoking bans do not cut heart attack rates."}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Outdoor smoking bans? Relax, don't do it!"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nI believe this has been written about before by some anti ban bloggers but it's worth looking at again.\n\n\n\nIn the video below New Yorkers are having a hard time having the outdoor ban in parks and beaches policed. Another anti smoking ban that is unrealistic and unworkable. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1548932484212672674\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=1548932484212672674\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1548932484212672674"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1548932484212672674"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/outdoor-smoking-bans-relax-dont-do-it.html","title":"Outdoor smoking bans? 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And they definitely don't want smokers in Muncie, Indiana. Or at least Donald Dunnuck, attorney for the local board of health does not.\n\nDunnuck is trying to block a lawsuit by lawyers representing affected parties like tavern owners and 'others who oppose the ban'.\n\n\nThe judge in the smoking ban lawsuit has set a Friday hearing, and \nattorneys for the county and the"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2354745037772417494\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=2354745037772417494\u0026isPopup=true","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/2354745037772417494"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/2354745037772417494"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/indiana-wants-me.html","title":"Indiana wants me..."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-3191549388250923836"},"published":{"$t":"2011-09-07T16:25:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-09-07T16:25:26.132+01:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"There's a moose loose about this freehoose"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\nPUBS have taken a real hammering in the past decade.\n\nSays the first sentence. But the cure to the \"smoking ban problem\" is out of this world:\n \n\nErica Dobie and Adam Whittaker might have the answer to this dilemma. \nThey are running a project called Stars and Stuff which has just been \nawarded a £24,000 grant by the Adult and Community\n  Practical Learning Fund to deliver practical astronomy "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3191549388250923836\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=3191549388250923836\u0026isPopup=true","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/3191549388250923836"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/3191549388250923836"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/theres-moose-loose-about-this-freehoose.html","title":"There's a moose loose about this freehoose"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-6777131269128961222"},"published":{"$t":"2011-09-05T10:52:00.001+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-09-05T10:52:40.319+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"bansterbators go mad"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"child abuse"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Drinking and over eating"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Dundee council"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Smoking"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"social services"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Think of the chiiildren...take them off of fat parents?"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Over at Puddlecote Towers DP was extolling the virtues of Sir Terry Wogan who said to his listeners:\n\n\n\"[...] what is certain is that nobody, however qualified, has the right \nto tell anybody else what they should be eating. Or drinking. President \nSarkozy of France, a great man for jumping on a bandwagon, is proposing a\n tax on fizzy drinks. What about human rights? The idea that tax should \nbe "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6777131269128961222\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=6777131269128961222\u0026isPopup=true","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6777131269128961222"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6777131269128961222"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/think-of-chiiildrentake-them-off-of-fat.html","title":"Think of the chiiildren...take them off of fat parents?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-ARZIT-xqaUk\/TmSSb1O-O8I\/AAAAAAAABnI\/amsCLNsjtVY\/s72-c\/127261-fat-family-parents-deny-abusing-their-children-200.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-8680286131132443970"},"published":{"$t":"2011-08-29T14:16:00.004+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-08-29T16:55:47.521+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ASH wasting money"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Beach smoking bans."},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Labat"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"quit smoking costs"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Scottish smoking rates"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Detest the man-Love the cause!"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Today's news that  an incarcerated paedophile is lining up the Scottish legal system for a battering is most exciting for this case  (long time coming) will have the legal system in knots. In fact, I can envisage clumps of horse hair syrups flying all over the place as the defence tries to prove that passive smoking is NOT dangerous at all and therefore no harm can have been occasioned.\n\nThis "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8680286131132443970\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=8680286131132443970\u0026isPopup=true","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8680286131132443970"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8680286131132443970"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/detest-man-love-cause.html","title":"Detest the man-Love the cause!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"handymanphil"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01366547228505237107"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_hO6E-C1VncI\/SkzfMnxTiMI\/AAAAAAAAAAM\/Z2EX7Eh9GZM\/S220\/horse1.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-4084861398076980163"},"published":{"$t":"2011-08-28T14:47:00.002+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-08-28T14:49:22.566+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Stop Smoking help kit"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Addicted to 'stop smoking' cessation products are we?"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Well there's a new non adidictive product for you to try. Hat tip to the Pro-Choice Smoking Doctor.\n\nIf you are terminally offended at scenes of a sexual nature then don't watch the video.\n\n"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4084861398076980163\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=4084861398076980163\u0026isPopup=true","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/4084861398076980163"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/4084861398076980163"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/addicted-to-stop-smoking-cessation.html","title":"Addicted to 'stop smoking' cessation products are we?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/1aFji7aJP7o\/default.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-8310388915486126130"},"published":{"$t":"2011-08-23T14:57:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-08-23T17:30:29.334+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Antony Worrall Thompson"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"E-petitions"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Smoking bans"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"We need YOU to help YOURSELVES"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nI don't know exactly how he has done it but he has! Simon Clark (FOREST) was adamant that the petition we needed to promote was his friend and fellow campaigner Anthony Worrall Thompson's petition. Not that it is worded any more or less brilliantly that the original petition by Daniel Connolly, it's not, but the point is that 'AWT' is a \"NAME\", a celebrity, a household name AND a well known "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8310388915486126130\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=8310388915486126130\u0026isPopup=true","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8310388915486126130"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8310388915486126130"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/we-need-you-to-help-yourselves.html","title":"We need YOU to help YOURSELVES"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"handymanphil"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01366547228505237107"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_hO6E-C1VncI\/SkzfMnxTiMI\/AAAAAAAAAAM\/Z2EX7Eh9GZM\/S220\/horse1.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-XCoBmUk-Wic\/TlN9ZmEIFUI\/AAAAAAAABm8\/rSfyiGs0mig\/s72-c\/e-pet_butt-125sq.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-7203368680977435859"},"published":{"$t":"2011-08-20T21:54:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-08-20T21:54:17.533+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Smoking lies and deceits in Scotland"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Croutching tiger, cowering sheeples"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"It is often said by those anti smoking charlatans charities such as ASH (sick*) that the smoking ban\/debate is over because in their self deluded tiny world it is. But here in the real world it is definitely not! Nor will it be as long as a large swath of the UK population are treated as less than the amoeba that frequent our shores. \nWell I am a little cut above the amoeba and will not be a "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7203368680977435859\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=7203368680977435859\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/7203368680977435859"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/7203368680977435859"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/croutching-tiger-cowering-sheeples.html","title":"Croutching tiger, cowering sheeples"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-494423410625902193"},"published":{"$t":"2011-08-20T09:32:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-08-20T09:32:54.178+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"F2C August Newsletter"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"F2C August Newsletter - August 2011"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\nChairman's Message\n\nFreedom2Choose member Dick Puddlecote led the charge against dictatorship in Stony Stratford\nDick Puddlecote, f2c members, blogosphere anti bansters and local business people all met at the Vaults Bar (Bull Hotel) Stony Stratford to voice their utter contempt for Councillor Bartlett's proposal that the town create a by-law to be smoke free.Press\n reports say as many as 200 "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/494423410625902193\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=494423410625902193\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/494423410625902193"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/494423410625902193"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/f2c-august-newsletter-august-2011.html","title":"F2C August Newsletter - August 2011"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-jkjKoQF7Xyk\/Tk9v2w6YuGI\/AAAAAAAABmw\/M5yrkF2t-yw\/s72-c\/Stony+Stratford.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-4449767527584794811"},"published":{"$t":"2011-08-13T10:31:00.007+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-08-14T17:24:31.355+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ASH"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"CRUK"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"E-petitions"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"licensees choice"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Passiverauchen"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Prohibition"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"\"trackend\"-just pondlife really!"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Something to chew over as the weekend looms large-the mentality of the screwball anti smoker. Now many will think \"ffs! here we go again, Phil's 'avin another rant at the anti brigade\", but Phil is not. Phil is isolating a very small portion\/section of the anti smoking brigade.\n\nI can understand that non smokers want a pub to themselves that involves only clean air but what I can't understand is "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4449767527584794811\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=4449767527584794811\u0026isPopup=true","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/4449767527584794811"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/4449767527584794811"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/trackend-just-pondlife-really.html","title":"\"trackend\"-just pondlife really!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"handymanphil"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01366547228505237107"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_hO6E-C1VncI\/SkzfMnxTiMI\/AAAAAAAAAAM\/Z2EX7Eh9GZM\/S220\/horse1.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-1255863055831644300"},"published":{"$t":"2011-08-12T13:38:00.002+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-08-12T13:47:22.153+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"E-petitions"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Sign now"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"smoking ban"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The ambivalence of smokers"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Why are between 12 and 14 million smokers in this country so ambivalent about their treatment for enjoying that legal product tobacco?\n\nHow come a new e-petition, in a matter of days, can accumulate 100,000 signatures without really trying?\n\n\n\nAn e-petition calling for\n rioters to lose their benefits has hit 100,000 signatures and become \nthe first to be considered for a Commons debate.\nIt has "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1255863055831644300\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=1255863055831644300\u0026isPopup=true","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1255863055831644300"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1255863055831644300"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/ambivalence-of-smokers.html","title":"The ambivalence of smokers"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-5355382256756405539"},"published":{"$t":"2011-08-09T17:46:00.001+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-08-09T17:55:13.105+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Riots"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"smoking and me"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"I predict a riot!"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"There is no excuse for unfettered violence\nthat I can defend when people have had enough of state interference in their lives. Many people in the blogosphere have commented that the recent riots was down to yob culture and 'leaches of the state' to sate their inbuilt disgust at the UK's welfare state. But I disagree. Yes there is some element of this but when governments heap one statist law upon"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5355382256756405539\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=5355382256756405539\u0026isPopup=true","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/5355382256756405539"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/5355382256756405539"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/i-predict-riot.html","title":"I predict a riot!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/hamKl-su8PE\/default.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-6602586433639415266"},"published":{"$t":"2011-08-09T12:36:00.002+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-08-09T12:37:53.306+01:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The farce that is government E-petitions."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Well I sorta knew it would happen, my E-petition on the government website was rejected because...there is another petition about amending the smoking ban there. I did a search before submitting my petition but that only threw up two anti smoking petitioners. Here's the email from the site:\n\n\nDear John H Baker,\nYour e-petition \"Amend the smoking ban on pubs, clubs and bingo halls.\" hasn't been "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6602586433639415266\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=6602586433639415266\u0026isPopup=true","title":"13 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6602586433639415266"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6602586433639415266"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/farce-that-is-government-e-petitions.html","title":"The farce that is government E-petitions."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"13"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-6377605850413861260"},"published":{"$t":"2011-08-08T09:36:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-08-08T09:36:24.343+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"First they came for smokers now they come for milk drinkers and honey eaters"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"only in America"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"USA the land of milk and honey"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Be carefull what you put in your mouth! Don't milk it."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"A lofty hat tip goes to one of our forum members stateside, jredheadgirl.\n\nWe here in the UK are familiar with the phrase \"only in America\" but we also know that what starts in the states does not stay there, smoking bans a case in point.\n\nSuspend your disbelief as you watch the video below. It couldn't happen here, could it?\n\n\n\n"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6377605850413861260\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=6377605850413861260\u0026isPopup=true","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6377605850413861260"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6377605850413861260"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/be-carefull-what-you-put-in-your-mouth.html","title":"Be carefull what you put in your mouth! Don't milk it."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/ioN0ehlyyXI\/default.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-8142931867214087483"},"published":{"$t":"2011-08-07T18:27:00.003+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-08-07T18:42:46.146+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"E-petitions"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"pot luck"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"the smoking ban"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Whoops, they're at it again!"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"I'm talking E-petitions here. Yes, I know people's resolve has been sorely tested by this coagulation governments last petition site debacle, especially the smoking debate petitions, after the boy David told some mumsy types that they need not worry, we won't be bringing back hanging or repealing the smoking ban.\nWith this in mind I hesitantly started an E-petition, not for a repeal of the ban "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8142931867214087483\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=8142931867214087483\u0026isPopup=true","title":"8 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8142931867214087483"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8142931867214087483"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/whoops-theyre-at-it-again.html","title":"Whoops, they're at it again!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-V7w1oOgEpy4\/TjvEe41sRfI\/AAAAAAAABmg\/MrhvUDDACB0\/s72-c\/ScanImage001.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"8"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-8709144397213647467"},"published":{"$t":"2011-08-03T20:33:00.005+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-08-03T21:28:07.642+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Its in the Genes dontcha know"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Gene genie VS lifestyle choices."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Well, well, well. At long last we have a scientist prepared to stand her ground.  Dr Jill P Crandall, a professor of clinical medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (no less) has concluded that we are part of a lifetime lottery when we are created. Yes folks it all emanates from our genes. How very inconvenient for those who languish lavishly in Shoreditch, admirably propped up by "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8709144397213647467\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=8709144397213647467\u0026isPopup=true","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8709144397213647467"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8709144397213647467"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/gene-genie-vs-lifestyle-choices.html","title":"The Gene genie VS lifestyle choices."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"handymanphil"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01366547228505237107"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_hO6E-C1VncI\/SkzfMnxTiMI\/AAAAAAAAAAM\/Z2EX7Eh9GZM\/S220\/horse1.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-WTpI1Z-gkpU\/TjmeuZMzN9I\/AAAAAAAABmQ\/r9bhRqVKfGM\/s72-c\/0255-0208-2of2.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-700571125772835192"},"published":{"$t":"2011-08-01T16:59:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-08-01T16:59:46.613+01:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Freedom-2-Choose (Scotland): Air quality standard eliminates need for smoking ban"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"This is worth a read if you missed it the first time:Freedom-2-Choose (Scotland): Air quality standard eliminates need for smoking ban"},"link":[{"rel":"related","href":"http:\/\/f2cscotland.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/air-quality-standard-eliminates-need.html","title":"Freedom-2-Choose (Scotland): Air quality standard eliminates need for smoking ban"},{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/700571125772835192\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=700571125772835192\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/700571125772835192"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/700571125772835192"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/freedom-2-choose-scotland-air-quality.html","title":"Freedom-2-Choose (Scotland): Air quality standard eliminates need for smoking ban"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-2068673335402495889"},"published":{"$t":"2011-07-30T21:18:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-07-30T21:18:37.021+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"amend the smoking ban"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"betting"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"casino"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"gambling"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Pubs"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"freedom 2 choose-what an idea!"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Something very strange has happened in Lyon County, Iowa  US of A! Although Iowa has had a statewide ban for the past 3 years, smoking is permitted in casino's like the newly built Grand Falls. Iowa is now finding itself host to gamblers from South Dakota \u0026 Minnesota-smoking gamblers!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeave me alone I'm having a ball!\n\nNot unsurprisingly, smoking \u0026 gambling go hand in hand so Grand Falls "},"link":[{"rel":"related","href":"http:\/\/www.smokersclubinc.com\/modules.php?name=News\u0026file=article\u0026sid=3964","title":"freedom 2 choose-what an idea!"},{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2068673335402495889\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=2068673335402495889\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/2068673335402495889"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/2068673335402495889"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/freedom-2-choose-what-idea.html","title":"freedom 2 choose-what an idea!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"handymanphil"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01366547228505237107"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_hO6E-C1VncI\/SkzfMnxTiMI\/AAAAAAAAAAM\/Z2EX7Eh9GZM\/S220\/horse1.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-dKGbZ5AFTzw\/TjRRXLWqBdI\/AAAAAAAABmA\/8O-YT7iWNGo\/s72-c\/casino-picture-4.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-24141241069282116"},"published":{"$t":"2011-07-24T20:39:00.001+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-07-24T20:39:53.871+01:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Snipering Reversed"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Well folks haven't we had enough unwarranted horror with the diabolical events in Norway over the weekend, with 93 (so far) reported dead and countless injuries form gunshot wounds plus enough trauma to last anyone a lifetime. 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It is incredible what lengths they will go to to put the fear of God into people-as we shall see.\nSmokeFree North West, one of the participants of the great fraud known as the \"Public Consultation 2005\/2006\" (yet amazingly never prosecuted for fraud!) have developed an online"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6483647266729839263\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=6483647266729839263\u0026isPopup=true","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6483647266729839263"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6483647266729839263"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/7th-heaven-not-in-north-west-its-not.html","title":"7th Heaven?-not in the North West it's not!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"handymanphil"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01366547228505237107"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_hO6E-C1VncI\/SkzfMnxTiMI\/AAAAAAAAAAM\/Z2EX7Eh9GZM\/S220\/horse1.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-F9LjojzF9kg\/TimCVqrsuiI\/AAAAAAAABkw\/ysbd__lNyn8\/s72-c\/f2corguk-2linked02.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-1645139148002533187"},"published":{"$t":"2011-07-20T12:33:00.001+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-07-20T12:33:50.077+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Barry Bartlett's outside smoking ban is defeated in Stony Stratford."}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Freedom Utd 148 v 2 BarmyArmy 2nds"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\n\n\nJustice prevails at Stony Stratford\nLast night's eagerly awaited debate in Stony Stratford was attended by 150 people. Yes it was the Town Council's hearing of Councillor Bartlett's proposals to rid the world (well, his tiny world) of plague \u0026 pestilence, disease, famine, drought, floods \u0026 err.....smokers! The meeting was moved to the local church such was the audience to be-and it was, as "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1645139148002533187\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=1645139148002533187\u0026isPopup=true","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1645139148002533187"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1645139148002533187"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/freedom-utd-148-v-2-barmyarmy-2nds.html","title":"Freedom Utd 148 v 2 BarmyArmy 2nds"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"handymanphil"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01366547228505237107"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_hO6E-C1VncI\/SkzfMnxTiMI\/AAAAAAAAAAM\/Z2EX7Eh9GZM\/S220\/horse1.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-jsJneqVF3Lg\/Tia8BJENDJI\/AAAAAAAABkk\/eXos6IKWEsM\/s72-c\/keepupthefight.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-6322267812567581713"},"published":{"$t":"2011-07-19T16:25:00.002+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-07-19T19:09:38.476+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Barmy Bartlett"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Stony Stratford-Balmy v Barmy"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\n\nThis morning, on BBC Three Counties Radio, an interview took place between David Odell, Stony Straford's Business Association Chairman who spoke passionately about Herr Bartletts ludicrous proposal at the mass protest on Saturday and, yes it's that man again, Paul Bartlett.\n\nDavid Odell could be described as a 'balmy' kind of person for his speaks in a quiet, authoritative but soothing manner."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6322267812567581713\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=6322267812567581713\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6322267812567581713"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6322267812567581713"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/stony-stratford-balmy-v-barmy.html","title":"Stony Stratford-Balmy v Barmy"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"handymanphil"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01366547228505237107"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_hO6E-C1VncI\/SkzfMnxTiMI\/AAAAAAAAAAM\/Z2EX7Eh9GZM\/S220\/horse1.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-gfxlMxIBhEA\/TiWc_vyEW_I\/AAAAAAAABkY\/t0YJg7Bi8jg\/s72-c\/5943923596_bb8650886e_s.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-7733382407794408671"},"published":{"$t":"2011-07-17T22:15:00.004+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-07-18T10:28:16.849+01:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Freedom shone through the rain at Stony Stratford"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\n\n\n\nBy Phil Johnson, chairman of Freedom2Choose.\nDriving conditions on the M1 were atrocious, it was almost as if the Good Lord himself had sent a sign that Stony Stratford, on this rain sodden day, was the start of the revolution! They say that it only rains on the righteous-well saturday morning proved that as well over 70 vehicles navigated their way to the sleepy market town of Stony "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7733382407794408671\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=7733382407794408671\u0026isPopup=true","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/7733382407794408671"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/7733382407794408671"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/freedom-shone-through-rain-at-stony.html","title":"Freedom shone through the rain at Stony Stratford"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"handymanphil"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01366547228505237107"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_hO6E-C1VncI\/SkzfMnxTiMI\/AAAAAAAAAAM\/Z2EX7Eh9GZM\/S220\/horse1.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ixVAsLYkn8c\/TiNx4_FmmOI\/AAAAAAAABkM\/Dts8kdbqLk4\/s72-c\/Puddlecote.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-7938564346619216802"},"published":{"$t":"2011-07-17T09:52:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-07-17T09:52:04.388+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Dick Puddlecote"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Stony Stratford smoking ban proposal"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"the video"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Video footage from Stony Stratford"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"  "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7938564346619216802\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=7938564346619216802\u0026isPopup=true","title":"12 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/7938564346619216802"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/7938564346619216802"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/video-footage-from-stony-stratford.html","title":"Video footage from Stony Stratford"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/dNsai-JjUb4\/default.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"12"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-2460692898420749817"},"published":{"$t":"2011-07-16T21:35:00.001+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-07-16T21:35:42.597+01:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"On Stony ground"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"By all accounts the protest orchestrated by blogger Dick Puddlecote at Stony Stratford was a resounding success, despite the inclement weather.\nEven the MEP Nigel Farage took time out to visit Stony Stratford and join in protest.\n\n\nAnd Westcoat2 kindly posted some photos of the event today on Flickr:\n\nMore news is coming in about the event rapidly this evening so will update whenever possible. 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But that won't dampen their enthusiasm.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWatch this space."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7117820642957767094\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=7117820642957767094\u0026isPopup=true","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/7117820642957767094"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/7117820642957767094"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/pissing-on-their-parade-at-stony.html","title":"Pissing on their parade at Stony Stratford."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-YWehmf1HxqU\/TiGVFDQq-HI\/AAAAAAAABic\/HcCUGyOkkK4\/s72-c\/347770768.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-5339906269667587424"},"published":{"$t":"2011-07-15T15:27:00.002+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-07-15T15:44:34.624+01:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest in Stony Stratford!"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"We all know by now, surely, that a certain councillor from Stony Stratford is proposing an outright smoking ban in the town streets.\nHe proposes that traffic wardens, CPO’s, (plastic plod) and any other official that now patrol our streets on a daily basis should be able to police the ban by giving out spot fines of around £70 to errant smokers. Not unsurprisingly there is opposition to his loony"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5339906269667587424\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=5339906269667587424\u0026isPopup=true","title":"7 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/5339906269667587424"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/5339906269667587424"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/one-flew-over-cuckoos-nest-in-stony.html","title":"One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest in Stony Stratford!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/-0EsAV_8HCBQ\/TiBMYzQFX0I\/AAAAAAAABiY\/CVqWxO5TCCw\/s72-c\/Paul%252520Bartlett-anti%252520smoker_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"7"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-6018586382771843966"},"published":{"$t":"2011-07-14T12:04:00.003+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-07-14T12:14:13.907+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Dick Puddlecote"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Justice and the right to Freedom2Choose"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Stony Stratford"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Stony Stratford, need I say more?"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Thanks to the Angry Exile for the artwork below.\n\n\n\nYou bet your sweet life I can say more, much more but am unable to get there to say so, can you? Your Freedom2Choose depends on it!\n\nVisit Dick Puddlecote's blog for the latest details and updates."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6018586382771843966\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=6018586382771843966\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6018586382771843966"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6018586382771843966"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/stony-stratford-need-i-say-more.html","title":"Stony Stratford, need I say more?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-u-0D_tlhQ0I\/Th7JZQipSZI\/AAAAAAAABiQ\/kV-fNPadDgU\/s72-c\/visitSS.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-4516436549761644114"},"published":{"$t":"2011-07-13T22:25:00.003+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-07-13T23:43:20.742+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"damned lies and stastics."},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Hyprocy"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Lies"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Save Our Pubs And Clubs"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"self interest"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"C’mon C’mon, lets stick together!"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Yeah, lets stick together, as the old Roxy Music song goes. But as often as not we don’t stick together, do we?\nAnd why don’t we stick together as fellow humans who like to partake of that legal product called tobacco? Now there’s a question that I think you know the answer to but feel guilty for answering.\nI mean, long before smoking bans and the smoke hating puritans came along [not for the "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4516436549761644114\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=4516436549761644114\u0026isPopup=true","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/4516436549761644114"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/4516436549761644114"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/cmon-cmon-lets-stick-together.html","title":"C’mon C’mon, lets stick together!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/O2MdvD4f5cg\/default.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-1037363628206331156"},"published":{"$t":"2011-07-12T20:23:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-07-12T20:23:05.596+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"No smoking in the streets bylaw suggested"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Paul Bartlett"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Stony Stratford"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"All aboard-last call for Stony Stratford"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\nStony Stratford update\nJust a quick update from ‘moi’, concerning the Stony Stratford protest this coming Saturday, the 16th. Due to TV involvement and other schedules it is necessary to meet in “SS” country at approximately 11:00.am please. \nUpdate from Puddlecote Towers states: Most importantly, please note that the start time has been moved forward by an hour to 11am. This has been necessary "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1037363628206331156\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=1037363628206331156\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1037363628206331156"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1037363628206331156"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/all-aboard-last-call-for-stony.html","title":"All aboard-last call for Stony Stratford"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/-vgdfBAuh82k\/ThyeRTq2AMI\/AAAAAAAABh8\/8qTiL1uWUlo\/s72-c\/clip_image002_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-2645110426387557057"},"published":{"$t":"2011-07-12T11:08:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-07-12T11:08:40.686+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Freedom2Choose monthly newsletter for July 2011"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Freedom2Choose Newsletter–July 2011"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\nSome titbits from this month’s F2C Newsletter which can be viewed in it’s entirety here, but first… \n\nChairman's Message\nA damned fine day was had by all f2c members who travelled to London to the Save our Pubs and Clubs reception hosted by Greg Knight (C), Roger Godsiff (Lab) \u0026 John Hemming (LibDem). In all, sixteen MPs were invited by f2c members with apologies being received from Edward "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2645110426387557057\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=2645110426387557057\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/2645110426387557057"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/2645110426387557057"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/freedom2choose-newsletterjuly-2011.html","title":"Freedom2Choose Newsletter–July 2011"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/-06n2kb4HPNM\/ThwXT-QCxBI\/AAAAAAAABh0\/9iI823OahJg\/s72-c\/asking%252520how%252520my%252520cig%252520can%252520be%252520worse%252520than%252520the%252520fumes%252520pumping%252520out%252520of%252520the%252520buses_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-3725421139787005156"},"published":{"$t":"2011-07-08T18:28:00.006+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-07-08T19:33:34.773+01:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"An Olympic poser"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"It would seem that despite spending £millions on preparing this country for the 2012 Olympics certain people do not see 25%-27% of the population as welcome-unless they ditch their fags\/pipes\/roll-ups, whatever! Diane Abbott MP (Hackney \u0026 Stoke Newington) is definitely not of the smoking persuasion, and I don't think she thinks anyone else has a right to be!\nSo, for a bit of fun we have responded"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3725421139787005156\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=3725421139787005156\u0026isPopup=true","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/3725421139787005156"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/3725421139787005156"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/olympic-poser.html","title":"An Olympic poser"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"handymanphil"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01366547228505237107"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_hO6E-C1VncI\/SkzfMnxTiMI\/AAAAAAAAAAM\/Z2EX7Eh9GZM\/S220\/horse1.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-bQdCQDLph1c\/ThcgCv4f8rI\/AAAAAAAABhk\/02Mwi92Ll-M\/s72-c\/2Q%253D%253D.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-9089457837445669361"},"published":{"$t":"2011-07-06T20:27:00.002+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-07-06T20:55:48.211+01:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"It was a ‘done deal’. Then came the smoking ban!"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"There are some of us that have ideas over a pint or three that we think will make our fame and fortune then promptly forget it after the fourth but then there are others who have the nouse [knowledge and balls] to see their fledgling idea through to the end. Stand up to the plate Graham Bolderson and Duncan Wood, the former a software designer and the latter a electronics engineer.\nTheir idea was"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/9089457837445669361\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=9089457837445669361\u0026isPopup=true","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/9089457837445669361"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/9089457837445669361"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/it-was-done-deal-then-came-smoking-ban.html","title":"It was a ‘done deal’. Then came the smoking ban!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-3714092998366962438"},"published":{"$t":"2011-07-05T20:41:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-07-05T20:41:09.931+01:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Belgique police use sledgehammer to smash a small, small smoking nut."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"In 2009 Belgium brought in a stringent smoking ban in workplaces and restaurants, with exemptions made for Cafes and bars. It would appear that there was no united opposition to this at the time as, and I suppose that Belgians fell to the fanatical lies rise of fascist anti smoking rhetoric and thought they, Tobacco Control (yes, they have them in every country), would go no further! But they "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3714092998366962438\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=3714092998366962438\u0026isPopup=true","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/3714092998366962438"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/3714092998366962438"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/belgique-police-use-sledgehammer-to.html","title":"Belgique police use sledgehammer to smash a small, small smoking nut."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/-PxVKNJmw4M\/default.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-5212440178583660100"},"published":{"$t":"2011-07-02T19:18:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-07-02T19:18:40.520+01:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"In pursuit of the deranged Councillor Bartlett"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\n\n \n\n\nRemember Councillor Bartlett whom I mentioned in an earlier post? Well it seems that when I wrote the word ‘deranged’ I was nearer the truth than I’d imagined.\nOne of my commentators from that post gave me a link to an ethics committee hearing into the good Councillors behaviour.\nIn the link it appears that Bartlett has a deluded sense of his own self worth and station in life and he seems"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5212440178583660100\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=5212440178583660100\u0026isPopup=true","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/5212440178583660100"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/5212440178583660100"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/in-pursuit-of-deranged-councillor.html","title":"In pursuit of the deranged Councillor Bartlett"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-1738303858574816673"},"published":{"$t":"2011-07-01T13:32:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-07-01T13:32:14.710+01:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The sad truth behind the Lies-4 years on."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\nWritten by the chairman of Freedom2Choose, Phil Johnson to mark the 4th anniversary of the UK smoking ban.\n\n\nEffects on the Hospitality Sector \nAs we prepare to commiserate with the 4th anniversary of this despicably implemented smoking ban we have the distinct displeasure of having to read through what is generally termed as an “Academic Review” of the ban-though I am certainly unsure as to the"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1738303858574816673\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=1738303858574816673\u0026isPopup=true","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1738303858574816673"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1738303858574816673"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/sad-truth-behind-lies-4-years-on.html","title":"The sad truth behind the Lies-4 years on."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/-klNl1yAh3co\/Tg2Dsb2SIsI\/AAAAAAAABgc\/_uZC3q9rJPo\/s72-c\/clip_image002_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-4603456914451166423"},"published":{"$t":"2011-06-29T15:31:00.001+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-06-29T15:31:09.309+01:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Turn of the screw from the deranged"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"“There was a man, a lonely man” or so the song goes but in this case you can add sad and pathetic in the same sentence.\n\nThe sad and pathetic person I'm talking about is Alderman Paul Bartlett who’s on Stony Stratford Town Council (no, I’ve never heard of it either).\n\n\n\n\nHe wants to ban smoking in the streets.\n\n\nMKWEB proudly gives us the headline:\n\n\n\nNo ifs, no butts – town asked to outlaw "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4603456914451166423\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=4603456914451166423\u0026isPopup=true","title":"11 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/4603456914451166423"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/4603456914451166423"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/turn-of-screw-from-deranged.html","title":"Turn of the screw from the deranged"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/-vH5Klaq9vJI\/Tgsuso23eJI\/AAAAAAAABgU\/bcZH3KeCyMQ\/s72-c\/Paul%252520Bartlett-anti%252520smoker_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"11"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-8880626918000551354"},"published":{"$t":"2011-06-28T12:48:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-06-28T12:48:28.603+01:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Let’s beat up smokers and feel good!"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"From  an obscure (to us in the UK) local rag called the Charleston Daily Fail Mail in the USA comes this piece from their columnist and blogger Don Surber. A piece which I cant fathom whether it is tongue in cheek, ironic (yeah, I know, the Americans can’t do irony) or just downright incitement to hatred and violence toward the much maligned and humble smoker. I cannot take the piece to seriously"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8880626918000551354\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=8880626918000551354\u0026isPopup=true","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8880626918000551354"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8880626918000551354"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/lets-beat-up-smokers-and-feel-good.html","title":"Let’s beat up smokers and feel good!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/P44nhNXllVM\/default.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-1979152307504819846"},"published":{"$t":"2011-06-23T11:39:00.001+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-06-23T11:39:33.315+01:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"FAKE!"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Yup, the one thing us unintelligent smokers didn’t have a clue about was that the graphic pictures on tobacco products were fake, pictures that tobacco companies are forced to print or face punitive fines if they refuse.\n\nOf course we have had these pictures here in the UK for some time now but the US of A will be ‘nudged’ into quitting when faced with similar pics from next year. But the "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1979152307504819846\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=1979152307504819846\u0026isPopup=true","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1979152307504819846"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1979152307504819846"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/fake.html","title":"FAKE!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/-wJujlWTUd6c\/TgMRuFoAd0I\/AAAAAAAABfY\/Z0kds81mGmo\/s72-c\/data_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-3357032515372103936"},"published":{"$t":"2011-06-21T16:53:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-06-21T16:54:02.082+01:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The smoking ban review that never was - The Bauld Report"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nAn F2c Triblogology-part 1\n\n\nThe objective of this tri part series of blogs is to take a critical look at the recent ‘evidence review’ on the impact of smokefree legislation in England authored by Professor Linda Bauld for Her Majesty's Government.\n\n\n\n\nLinda Bauld, The UK Government's scientific adviser on tobacco control and Vice-chair of Cancer Research UK's Tobacco Advisory Group who wrote "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3357032515372103936\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=3357032515372103936\u0026isPopup=true","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/3357032515372103936"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/3357032515372103936"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/smoking-ban-review-that-never-was-bauld.html","title":"The smoking ban review that never was - The Bauld Report"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/-UDlSKMTPmME\/TfzGGjy1GFI\/AAAAAAAABfQ\/zYMaERmuDGM\/s72-c\/Web-copy-of-Prof-Lisa-Bauld_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-6615103174323279693"},"published":{"$t":"2011-06-14T17:04:00.002+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-06-15T00:04:38.868+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ASH and Tobacco Control 0 Dutch Government 1"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Meet and greet your MP about the smoking ban"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"the clock is ticking"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The clock is ticking."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nThere has been a massive response to F2C’s Call to Arms where Phil Johnson, chairman of Freedom2Choose, and a delegation of F2C’ers will put their case about the dire consequences of the ill thought out smoking ban here in the UK. Below you will see a list* of Working Men's Clubs and Shisha Bar owners who have returned the forms requesting Freedom2Choose represent their interests at the HoC "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6615103174323279693\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=6615103174323279693\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6615103174323279693"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6615103174323279693"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/clock-is-ticking.html","title":"The clock is ticking."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/-w4l5AzqKW0g\/TfeBLQC-zeI\/AAAAAAAABe0\/hVjWlPNWftI\/s72-c\/Interlocked_rings_%252528JPEG%252529_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-8941727896267887887"},"published":{"$t":"2011-06-10T16:30:00.014+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-06-10T18:06:44.788+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"F2C Monthly Newsletter 2011"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"smoking debate is never over"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Newsletter–June 2011"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"With past newsletters sent to me from F2C I felt compelled to post them as seen, formatting and all. This became a bind as Blogger had other ideas about formatting. So this month I’ve just added some of the juicy bits but you can find the full newsletter here.\n\nWith this months newsletter, and every subsequent newsletter, I will start with the chairman’s message, as no matter how many supinely "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8941727896267887887\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=8941727896267887887\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8941727896267887887"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8941727896267887887"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/newsletterjune-2010.html","title":"Newsletter–June 2011"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/-l3cpCc_POf8\/TfI24djWpbI\/AAAAAAAABds\/vdR0U8FXiVU\/s72-c\/image_thumb%25255B3%25255D.png?imgmax=800","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-8462829575410990876"},"published":{"$t":"2011-06-08T20:53:00.001+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-06-08T21:42:28.902+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Imperial Tobacco"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Welsh Tobacco Control freaks get a hiding"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Welsh Rarebit"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Pre the 1st of July 2007 I’d never heard of Tobacco Control! I know now that in every major western country, and more than a few eastern ones, Tobacco Control has spread like the imaginary cancer that they say comes from SHS (Second Hand Smoke) and invades the bodies of non smokers. Tobacco Control sucks at the teat of taxpayers money until the host becomes weak and defenceless…just ripe for the "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8462829575410990876\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=8462829575410990876\u0026isPopup=true","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8462829575410990876"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8462829575410990876"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/welsh-rarebit.html","title":"Welsh Rarebit"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-8580423606081519135"},"published":{"$t":"2011-06-07T15:34:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-06-07T15:34:54.725+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Patsy Nurse"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Pregnant smokers should be harangued in the street"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"WOW!"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Pat Nurse, campaigner for smokers rights.\nPat Nurse, politician, writer and smokers rights campaigner gave up her Tea and Cigarettes blog at the weekend. It has now been revived by her friend and mine Dick Puddlecote for it's archive potential as Pat wrote masses of posts over the years and they should not be lost to the ether.\nIt's not in 'our Pat's' nature to go out with a wimper, oh no, she "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8580423606081519135\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=8580423606081519135\u0026isPopup=true","title":"8 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8580423606081519135"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8580423606081519135"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/wow.html","title":"WOW!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-xuIxqF4_Y2s\/Te4wFTxzW7I\/AAAAAAAABdk\/wNqL_8yNQYA\/s72-c\/Pat+Nurse.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"8"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-2837492120657810960"},"published":{"$t":"2011-05-29T09:54:00.001+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-05-29T15:36:25.561+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Boarded up pubs and clubs"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Smoking ban is a blot on the landscape"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"We will have our say"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Whitby"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Blots on the landscape"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\nThe hotel above is in the heart of the ancient seaside town of Whitby (made famous by Bram Stoker and his book, Dracula)  which is teaming with tourists and visitors 24\/7. It [The New Angel Hotel] should have survived anything barring a Tsunami. Like any seaside town that faces the North Sea, when that cold icy wind blows towards it then you have to wrap up well. Tourists are hardy beasts and "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2837492120657810960\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=2837492120657810960\u0026isPopup=true","title":"9 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/2837492120657810960"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/2837492120657810960"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/blots-on-landscape.html","title":"Blots on the landscape"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John 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says bars will adapt to the smoking ban...where have I heard that before?\n\n\nHat tip to both Smoking out the Truth and Pro-Choice smoking doctor."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8118757169062086589\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=8118757169062086589\u0026isPopup=true","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8118757169062086589"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8118757169062086589"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/truth-and-consequence.html","title":"Truth and consequence"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John 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sneaky they can get never fails to surprise me:\n\nAUSTIN -- A proposal to ban smoking in most Texas bars and restaurants was snuffed out Thursday by state lawmakers.House lawmakers had tucked the ban into a spending and school finance bill, but Senate negotiators wanted it out and it was declared a "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6205934186320733949\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=6205934186320733949\u0026isPopup=true","title":"2 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You were [then] able to make your own decisions as long as your decisions didn't impinge on others. You were respectful, you probably asked if you could smoke on their premises and you probably took their polite answer of no as a given and stood outside the back door for a puff, their house,"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5188940790747114399\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=5188940790747114399\u0026isPopup=true","title":"9 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/5188940790747114399"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/5188940790747114399"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/when.html","title":"When..."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/KVlxEeO8BHw\/default.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"9"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-5804498383573167345"},"published":{"$t":"2011-05-11T16:29:00.001+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-05-11T17:29:41.995+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Humiliation"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Nick Hogan"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Spite"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"vindictiveness"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Nick Hogan hounded at election count"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\nHero HoganThe man is recovering from a stroke and yet they still hound him for daring to flout the smoking ban:\nA FORMER Bolton pub landlord was handed a court warrant by police as he waited to hear if he had been elected.  Officers entered the election count at Chorley Town Hall last Friday afternoon as Nick Hogan observed counting for Parish Council elections in which he was standing. So what "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5804498383573167345\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=5804498383573167345\u0026isPopup=true","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/5804498383573167345"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/5804498383573167345"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/nick-hogan-hounded-at-election-count.html","title":"Nick Hogan hounded at election count"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_Hm4_-Fo8Oz4\/Tcqqte5SUmI\/AAAAAAAABcs\/508nHTxcmmM\/s72-c\/article-1254126-087C060F000005DC-742_468x441_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-974810387714890283"},"published":{"$t":"2011-05-11T11:22:00.002+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-05-11T16:34:45.874+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"F2C Newsletter for May 2011"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Freedom2Choose Newsletter-May 2011"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n       \n                                     \n             \n                                      \n             \n                                        \nCHAIRMAN'S MESSAGE                           \n\n                  \nAs most of you know, the smoking ban was to have been reviewed in June 2010.                    \n\n\nIt was hoped that a proper Parliamentary review would confirm what is obvious "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/974810387714890283\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=974810387714890283\u0026isPopup=true","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/974810387714890283"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/974810387714890283"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/freedom2choose-newsletter-may-2011.html","title":"Freedom2Choose Newsletter-May 2011"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-3339719319895612203"},"published":{"$t":"2011-05-10T10:48:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-05-10T10:48:39.398+01:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"One for your diaries - The Free Society"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"  PETER HITCHENS, TOBY YOUNG, DAVID DAVIS AND SIR RONALD HARWOOD AMONG VOICES OF FREEDOM 2011\nPeter Hitchens, Toby Young, Oscar-winning screenwriter Sir Ronald Harwood and David Davis MP are just four of the speakers taking part in The Free Society’s Voices of Freedom series of debates in London in June.\n\nHitchens, the Mail on Sunday's famously acerbic columnist, has been  invited to discuss "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3339719319895612203\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=3339719319895612203\u0026isPopup=true","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/3339719319895612203"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/3339719319895612203"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/one-for-your-diaries-free-society.html","title":"One for your diaries - 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Having said that...There are many ways of rolling a cigarette, but one rule of thumb is that the less paper involved in the construction, the better "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1273224113162870647\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=1273224113162870647\u0026isPopup=true","title":"7 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1273224113162870647"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1273224113162870647"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/guide-on-how-to-roll-perfect-cigarette.html","title":"Guide on how to roll the perfect cigarette by…"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_Hm4_-Fo8Oz4\/TcevozGvtqI\/AAAAAAAABcQ\/XEeazcvJlSE\/s72-c\/header_blocks_thumb_thumb.gif?imgmax=800","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"7"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-7973437426208407105"},"published":{"$t":"2011-05-06T15:35:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-05-06T15:35:14.027+01:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Down Down, Cleggeron Down....!"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Not being a majorly political person you may be surprised at this blog from yours truly but what the hell, today is a great day for trumpeting-at last! The reason for this political blast, simple, the schoolboy has been soundly thrashed for his arrogance \u0026 impudence. I talk of Nick Clegg, the probable soon to be ex-leader of the condemned LibDems!\n\"Liberals have taken BIG knocks\" he says. I say \""},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7973437426208407105\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=7973437426208407105\u0026isPopup=true","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/7973437426208407105"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/7973437426208407105"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/down-down-cleggeron-down.html","title":"Down Down, Cleggeron Down....!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"handymanphil"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01366547228505237107"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_hO6E-C1VncI\/SkzfMnxTiMI\/AAAAAAAAAAM\/Z2EX7Eh9GZM\/S220\/horse1.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/mS5Fd2Jd6SA\/default.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-6637786252683539375"},"published":{"$t":"2011-05-04T14:09:00.006+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-05-04T16:28:48.437+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"The WHO armchair warriors"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"The World Health Organisation and smoking"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Wake up and smell the coffee"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Who \u0026 the WHO"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"When I think back, I can almost pinpoint where it all went wrong for this country.\n\nThe war was over, people were happy and willing to work, industry aplenty, education standards rising and there was a general air of expectancy within the people. I was a mere whippersnapper in the 50's but I distinctly remember my dad declaring Jerry Lee Lewis to be a 'bloody idiot' as he bounced his way through "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6637786252683539375\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=6637786252683539375\u0026isPopup=true","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6637786252683539375"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6637786252683539375"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/who-who.html","title":"The Who \u0026 the WHO"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"handymanphil"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01366547228505237107"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_hO6E-C1VncI\/SkzfMnxTiMI\/AAAAAAAAAAM\/Z2EX7Eh9GZM\/S220\/horse1.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/gSHyDt9UcA8\/default.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-8746178534519375964"},"published":{"$t":"2011-05-03T10:29:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-05-03T10:29:21.227+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Smokers forced to pay at airport"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Un-bloody-believable!"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Last cigarette... airport charges smokers for that last minute drag   A final cigarette before that flight? It comes with a price tag at Belfast International Airport.   Smoking is a real drag at the airport where smokers must pay  £1 to smoke a cigarette in a designated area. It is thought to be the  first airport in the UK to introduce such a charge.\n   Smokers are asked to put a coin into a "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8746178534519375964\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=8746178534519375964\u0026isPopup=true","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8746178534519375964"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8746178534519375964"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/un-bloody-believable.html","title":"Un-bloody-believable!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-O5wMAMkhY0s\/Tb_JYcBTdPI\/AAAAAAAABcE\/9pPfelONcdE\/s72-c\/_52450594_smoke2.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-6692907473101402252"},"published":{"$t":"2011-04-18T21:22:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-04-18T21:22:17.420+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Cure the closed pubs epidemic"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"give them a prize."}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Pubs in decline..."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"...and the Yorkshire Post knows how to halt their demise?\n\n\nIT is a sad reality of 21st century life that the Great British Pub is becoming something of a threatened species.Watering holes are closing at the  rate of 25 per week, as high alcohol taxes, cheap supermarket drink and  the smoking ban continue to hit the takings of struggling landlords the  length and breadth of the country.Notice "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6692907473101402252\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=6692907473101402252\u0026isPopup=true","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6692907473101402252"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6692907473101402252"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/pubs-in-decline.html","title":"Pubs in decline..."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-ktZ4XzbkXOE\/TayZYROvxfI\/AAAAAAAABcA\/5P5Fdme6Y5g\/s72-c\/streatham-photos-10.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-8370716087729501768"},"published":{"$t":"2011-04-18T12:33:00.001+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-04-18T19:48:23.207+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Big pharma"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Is our health ruled by Big Pharma."},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Who calls the shots"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Pharma, Pharma, Pharma chameleon"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Money, money, money. \nFor some time now I’ve had my suspicions about the Pharmaceutical industry, even though I am a beneficiary of their products, and they are products, products to sell on the ‘open’ market.\n\nI am an ardent smoker who likes a beer or two and have enjoyed rude health most of my life until I fell foul of a skin complaint called Psoriasis. I was first diagnosed as having Eczema "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8370716087729501768\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=8370716087729501768\u0026isPopup=true","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8370716087729501768"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8370716087729501768"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/pharma-pharma-pharma-chameleon.html","title":"Pharma, Pharma, Pharma chameleon"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-APH4PtRRpdA\/TawePX0UOhI\/AAAAAAAABb8\/E9JyR1-gyP8\/s72-c\/viagra.jpeg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-6407350291580694776"},"published":{"$t":"2011-04-16T14:14:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-04-16T14:14:43.613+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"laughter is the best tonic"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Letter to David Cameron"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Putting the country to rights."}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"You’ve gotta be joking?"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"The UK's esteemed half leader and a man of the people?\nTo:\nThe Prime Minister\n10 Downing Street\n10, Downing Street\nLondon\nSW1A 2AA\n\nDear Mr. Cameron, \n\nPlease find below our suggestion for fixing Britain's economy. \n\nInstead of giving billions of pounds to banks that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan.     You can call it the Patriotic "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6407350291580694776\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=6407350291580694776\u0026isPopup=true","title":"8 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6407350291580694776"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6407350291580694776"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/youve-gotta-be-joking.html","title":"You’ve gotta be joking?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-JbrMEPm63Wk\/TamUk9mzHRI\/AAAAAAAABb4\/V2KiwrUDhxg\/s72-c\/David-Cameron-in-the-Gree-002.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"8"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-9039864098896956389"},"published":{"$t":"2011-04-14T11:18:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-04-14T11:18:13.953+01:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Health scare stories can give you cancer"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"From the Indie’s commentators section:\nIf you ask me, the news that alcohol is linked to cancer could not be more timely, as it coincides with the opening of my National Institute of Health Scares, which is situated just off the Holloway Road, opposite the National Institute of Listen, Love, You Have To Die of Something. This is unfortunate, we know, and it isn't easy, particularly as they can "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/9039864098896956389\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=9039864098896956389\u0026isPopup=true","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/9039864098896956389"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/9039864098896956389"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/health-scare-stories-can-give-you.html","title":"Health scare stories can give you cancer"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-6005644753157654311"},"published":{"$t":"2011-04-11T09:57:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-04-11T09:57:18.826+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Freedom2Choose Newsletter April 2011"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Freedom2Choose Newsletter April 2011"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\n\nChairman’s Announcement\nFreedom2Choose will be undergoing a 'Strategic Review' over the next few months.\n\nWe need to re-assess our strengths and weaknesses, our opportunities and threats.\n\nThis will, I assure you, lead to a much more successful working practice.  All paid up members’ views will be sought - independently and anonymously, so it is much in your interest to partake.\n\nI have asked "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6005644753157654311\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=6005644753157654311\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6005644753157654311"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6005644753157654311"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/freedom2choose-newsletter-april-2011.html","title":"Freedom2Choose Newsletter April 2011"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-xHEMPJK4hY0\/TaIL_k79qbI\/AAAAAAAABbY\/lCP-achrrtM\/s72-c\/F2C+logo.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-6481690410278718918"},"published":{"$t":"2011-04-08T11:50:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-04-08T11:50:45.108+01:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The time has come, the walrus said, to speak of many things…except the smoking ban!"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\nMr Osborne said he had put business - \"the job creators of Britain\" - centre stage of his policies as he launched the \"Red Tape Challenge\", the Government's latest initiative to encourage more private sector activity.The coagulation government have opened another website (yawn) for the great unwashed, and business, to vent their spleen on the masses of red tape the Labour lot hammered everyone "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6481690410278718918\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=6481690410278718918\u0026isPopup=true","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6481690410278718918"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6481690410278718918"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/time-has-come-walrus-said-to-speak-of.html","title":"The time has come, the walrus said, to speak of many things…except the smoking ban!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_Hm4_-Fo8Oz4\/TZ7nGKjxBAI\/AAAAAAAABbE\/O-_sHW8Gj38\/s72-c\/red-tape_1867283c_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-2951503360758300336"},"published":{"$t":"2011-04-04T15:03:00.005+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-04-05T10:39:51.913+01:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"FROM ASH TO TRASH"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Give me your feckin' money, now!\n\n An F2C Triblogology (Part3) \nIn parts 1 and 2  of this Triblogology we looked at how ASH was created and how it   changed from what was originally intended in 1971 to being a propaganda   lobbying group, and we analysed its sources of income over the past  five  years. \n\nToday we will look at what ASH’s methods and  money (over  86% of its income was grants last"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2951503360758300336\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=2951503360758300336\u0026isPopup=true","title":"8 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/2951503360758300336"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/2951503360758300336"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/from-ash-to-trash.html","title":"FROM ASH TO TRASH"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-REwM3N0mxUU\/TZlv8igzqZI\/AAAAAAAABa0\/egvsc5ekG2I\/s72-c\/1-1241448545hHYC.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"8"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-7658495081450551786"},"published":{"$t":"2011-04-02T10:25:00.001+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-04-02T10:42:51.174+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Astralia in plain packaging pissing contest with the UK"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Health lobby encourages violence against smokers"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Philip Morris fights back"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Philip Morris grows a pair…"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"…and the anti smoking fraternity in Australia don’t like it, not one little bit.\nBIG Tobacco is trying to turn smokers into a political force with an under-the-radar campaign encouraging protests against high taxes and bans on smoking in public. How are they gonna do that then?\nThe I Deserve to Be Heard campaign involves slipping small cards into cigarette packets directing smokers to a website "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/7658495081450551786\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=7658495081450551786\u0026isPopup=true","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/7658495081450551786"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/7658495081450551786"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/philip-morris-grows-pair.html","title":"Philip Morris grows a pair…"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-8921517941996770508"},"published":{"$t":"2011-04-01T08:14:00.005+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-04-01T11:33:38.538+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Fightback"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Revolt now against the UK smoking ban"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Smokers and the Jarrow Marchers"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Backfiring Discrimination!"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"F2C Scotland (H\/T Belinda) have beaten me to it but I give you another slant on the smoker discrimination going on over the other side of the water.\"This policy is expected to spread, we are told by 'experts' (John Banzaf leading the field: this is the organisation of which he is chief executive, you can see him give his tuppence worth about a council's anti-smoking policy in Scotland here). We "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8921517941996770508\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=8921517941996770508\u0026isPopup=true","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8921517941996770508"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8921517941996770508"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/backfiring-discrimination.html","title":"Backfiring Discrimination!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"handymanphil"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01366547228505237107"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_hO6E-C1VncI\/SkzfMnxTiMI\/AAAAAAAAAAM\/Z2EX7Eh9GZM\/S220\/horse1.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-ec_wztDPFP8\/TZWfPoTuohI\/AAAAAAAABas\/XMLsJdI7rqE\/s72-c\/SSPL_10309880_preview.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-8402476373538077774"},"published":{"$t":"2011-03-30T14:21:00.004+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-03-30T16:44:46.475+01:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"A Blank Response!"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":" Houses of Parliament (Dumb)Holyrood parliament in Scotland (and Dumber)\nSome weeks ago I wrote to the Ministry of Health with some rather pertinent questions. My letter, strangely, was forwarded to the Scottish Parliament where one Lee-Anne Raeburn undertook to respond. Her response, as you can imagine, was concocted of all the old stand by's-public consultations, peoples wishes, evidence based,"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8402476373538077774\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=8402476373538077774\u0026isPopup=true","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8402476373538077774"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8402476373538077774"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/blank-response.html","title":"A Blank Response!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"handymanphil"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01366547228505237107"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_hO6E-C1VncI\/SkzfMnxTiMI\/AAAAAAAAAAM\/Z2EX7Eh9GZM\/S220\/horse1.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-yRP99G0gDQs\/TZNO5YmtPwI\/AAAAAAAABak\/Jf3xhV5_ICQ\/s72-c\/Untitled.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-6808450101086636686"},"published":{"$t":"2011-03-29T23:02:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-03-29T23:02:38.229+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Denormalisation of smokers"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Inverclyde"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"smoking ban in parks"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Outdoor smoking ban mooted in Inverclyde Parks"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Does anyone remember the April Fool's Day following the introduction of the smoking ban back in 2006? Headline was that Inverclyde had unilaterally overturned the smoking ban. It hit the internet with a thump and some of my sleepy English friends demanded to know where I was and had I got in touch with the Mayor of Inverclyde (largely imagined to be an island off the West Coast rather than a "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6808450101086636686\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=6808450101086636686\u0026isPopup=true","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6808450101086636686"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6808450101086636686"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/outdoor-smoking-ban-mooted-in.html","title":"Outdoor smoking ban mooted in Inverclyde Parks"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Belinda"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/16284836559314332001"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"16","height":"16","src":"https:\/\/img1.blogblog.com\/img\/b16-rounded.gif"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-1117714812853063382"},"published":{"$t":"2011-03-29T10:36:00.000+01:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-03-29T10:36:29.593+01:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"E-Cigarette blamed for man's death"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"what now for the e-cig?"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"E-Cigarette blamed for man's death"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\nWhat is the future now for the E-Cigarette?\nA doctor from Tyneside has called for more research into \"electronic\" cigarettes following the death of one of his patients.It comes after an inquest recorded an open verdict into the death of Terence Miller from Gateshead.\n Mr Miller, who used large quantities of the substitutes, had suffered from a lung disease - severe lipoid pneumonia.It looks like"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1117714812853063382\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=1117714812853063382\u0026isPopup=true","title":"8 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1117714812853063382"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1117714812853063382"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/e-cigarette-blamed-for-mans-death.html","title":"E-Cigarette blamed for man's death"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-i_I3GOGMRMA\/TZGnvvbuVaI\/AAAAAAAABaM\/y2ZIfK-UbB0\/s72-c\/header.gif","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"8"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-1236575026904931407"},"published":{"$t":"2011-03-21T07:25:00.001+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-03-21T08:40:01.651+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Follow the money"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Turning CASH into ASH"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"TURNING CASH INTO ASH"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":" An F2C Triblogology (Part2)\nThis is the second of a three-part blog looking at ASH (UK).\nHere  we take a look at its finances. All information has been taken from its published accounts on the Charity Commission Website.\n\nFirst,  let us look at all ASH sources of income over the past five  years:  (for the technically-minded, we have consolidated its  “voluntary  income” and “income arising from"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1236575026904931407\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=1236575026904931407\u0026isPopup=true","title":"9 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1236575026904931407"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1236575026904931407"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/f2c-triblogology-part2.html","title":"TURNING CASH INTO ASH"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-ElU7Y-agt1A\/TYZNkyHTRKI\/AAAAAAAABZ0\/qjdH7C4kcyc\/s72-c\/ASH1+newnewnew.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"9"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-5429580685978118294"},"published":{"$t":"2011-03-17T16:05:00.001+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-03-18T16:52:08.848+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"They fought for our liberty"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"War on smokers"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"War on smoking"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Belgium adopts full smoking ban"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"A guest post by Brenda Orsler\nThere is no Government in Belgium and yet The Flemish Anti-Cancer League has forced the Belgian court to overturn the exemptions that allowed smoking there in bars that serve no food. From July 1st 2011 there will be a total blanket ban in all bars and cafes.\n\n\n\nWhen German forces invaded Belgium in 1914 Britain ordered Germany to withdraw immediately, Germany "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5429580685978118294\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=5429580685978118294\u0026isPopup=true","title":"8 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/5429580685978118294"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/5429580685978118294"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/belgium-adopts-full-smoking-ban.html","title":"Belgium adopts full smoking ban"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-j0f0fuIQM6M\/TYONgliXUSI\/AAAAAAAABZw\/93dfzsoDero\/s72-c\/747px-No_smoking_symbol.svg.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"8"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-301897052899608106"},"published":{"$t":"2011-03-13T08:04:00.018+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-03-15T13:46:58.617+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ASH to ASHES"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"hatemongers"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"social control"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"The truth of the matter"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"An F2C Triblogology"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"(Part 1)\nFrom Philanthropy to Propaganda\n\n \nASH (UK) has radically shifted since 1971 from being “a campaigning public health charity that works to eliminate the harm caused by tobacco (and that does) not attack smokers or condemn smoking”, to one that ditched its slogan \"ASH - Action on Smoking and Health\" and replaced it with \"The Campaign for Freedom from Tobacco\", issuing a press statement "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/301897052899608106\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=301897052899608106\u0026isPopup=true","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/301897052899608106"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/301897052899608106"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/from-philanthropy-to-propaganda.html","title":"An F2C Triblogology"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/-ai1D8zXu5XY\/TXx6ye6j6OI\/AAAAAAAABZY\/yEofdTXEoKg\/s72-c\/logo.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-3848035125505149941"},"published":{"$t":"2011-03-09T16:18:00.010+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-03-09T21:31:37.775+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Insult to a non smoker"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Ash Wednesday=Cash Wednesday"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"This is a blog courtesy of an angry citizen of this country. A retired citizen of this country. A citizen that saw the horrors of war with this country. A non smoking citizen of this country. So the scene be set folks.\n\nWe shall call this gentleman Fred, for want of a name that will stick in the mind, and we shall show you, the good people of this country just how low the anti smoking brigade are"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3848035125505149941\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=3848035125505149941\u0026isPopup=true","title":"11 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/3848035125505149941"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/3848035125505149941"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/ash-wednesdaycash-wednesday.html","title":"Ash Wednesday=Cash Wednesday"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"handymanphil"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01366547228505237107"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_hO6E-C1VncI\/SkzfMnxTiMI\/AAAAAAAAAAM\/Z2EX7Eh9GZM\/S220\/horse1.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-Yw9GLyxOtk8\/TXetNPcq9cI\/AAAAAAAAAC0\/cDhdc2fQx7A\/s72-c\/Brenda-QUIT","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"11"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-8842373606826128254"},"published":{"$t":"2011-03-09T09:41:00.000+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-03-09T09:41:14.158+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Ash Wednesday 2011"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Now Smoking Day"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Seize the day"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Carpe diem"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Take this day back from our enemies, and they are our, the smokers, enemies. Not only are they the enemies of smokers but of drinkers and lovers of food too. The enemies of smokers have set the blueprint for the righteous to follow. And follow they are.\n\nSo seize the day today. Because today is…\n\n\n\nI’m off to the seaside today and I expect to be assaulted by the anti smoking lunatics but I will "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8842373606826128254\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=8842373606826128254\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8842373606826128254"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8842373606826128254"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/carpe-diem.html","title":"Carpe diem"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_Hm4_-Fo8Oz4\/TXdKVTlY7lI\/AAAAAAAABZM\/BITO1SMtcPM\/s72-c\/Now%20smoking%20day%20cartoon_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-3682048113773257348"},"published":{"$t":"2011-03-07T19:09:00.000+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-03-07T19:09:25.122+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Freedom2Choose Newsletter for March 2011"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Loneliness and the UK smoking ban"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"F2C March Newsletter redone"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\n\nA WORD FROM THE CHAIRMAN\n\nSome time ago I joined my local NHS public sector  group.  Nothing exciting, but you get to fill in surveys and questionnaires for them periodically. It also transpires that they hold regular meetings to discuss present and future policies.  I attended one of these  meetings entitled \"Priority Spending\".  What an eye opener! Briefly, smoking cessation was way down the"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3682048113773257348\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=3682048113773257348\u0026isPopup=true","title":"1 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/3682048113773257348"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/3682048113773257348"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/f2c-march-newsletter-redone.html","title":"F2C March Newsletter redone"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-nqMK6pl7fFs\/TXUmLH4ectI\/AAAAAAAABYw\/DIljzDVrfRk\/s72-c\/F2C+Logo+3.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"1"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-3797918272465803274"},"published":{"$t":"2011-03-04T11:14:00.000+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-03-04T11:14:18.207+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"ASH"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Chantix"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Killing people who wish to give up smoking"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Pfizer"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"ASH and Chantix"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\nBy John Watson\n\nASH claim that Chantix is safe. If Chantix is so safe then why are over 1000 people suing Pfizer?\n\nIf Chantix is so safe, why has the Federal Drugs Administration insisted on warnings that it alters the mind, causes depression, violent episodes and suicide?\n\nIf Chantix is so safe why have the Teamsters union, the Airline Pilots Association and the Department of Defence Naval "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3797918272465803274\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=3797918272465803274\u0026isPopup=true","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/3797918272465803274"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/3797918272465803274"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/ash-and-chantix.html","title":"ASH and Chantix"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_Hm4_-Fo8Oz4\/TXDGox46fUI\/AAAAAAAABYg\/wWOmRtM9ESo\/s72-c\/logo_thumb%5B4%5D.png?imgmax=800","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-4780066783174108007"},"published":{"$t":"2011-02-25T16:45:00.003+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-03-04T14:21:29.873+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"amend the smoking ban"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"elderly smokers"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Loneliness kills"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Quality of life impeded by smoking ban UK"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Loneliness KILLS"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Elderly smokers refused shelter from the elements in their flats community room and faced prosecution for smoking there.\n\nI've always liked my own company.\n\nDon't get me wrong, I do like socialising too, but on my own terms. 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Click on the bottom right of this vidIn the Thirteenth Century, the German king, Frederick II, was curious to learn what language babies would speak if no one spoke to them.\n\nThe king wondered whether they would come to speak Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, or perhaps the dialect of their biological parents if the infants "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8072613233899386416\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=8072613233899386416\u0026isPopup=true","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8072613233899386416"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8072613233899386416"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/loneliness-triblogology-part-2.html","title":"The Loneliness Triblogology - Part 2"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-XzBpciX-Wns\/TVWt8IsqDNI\/AAAAAAAABYM\/tTd89BG2420\/s72-c\/scream_3.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-6305834420877892966"},"published":{"$t":"2011-02-11T13:28:00.005+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-02-11T15:07:21.172+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"The great Freedom Bill swindle"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The great Freedom Bill swindle"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"So it has finally arrived, the much vaunted Freedom Bill that is. It is supposed to come on the back of the much vaunted, and humiliated, website that asked you, Joe public, which intrusion into your everyday lives that the last Labour government brought to the statute books since 1997, all six thousand of them, you would like to see on the bonfire of nannyism.\n\nNeedless to say the smoking ban "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/6305834420877892966\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=6305834420877892966\u0026isPopup=true","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6305834420877892966"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/6305834420877892966"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/great-freedom-bill-swindle.html","title":"The great Freedom Bill swindle"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/mS5Fd2Jd6SA\/default.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-4383578904034727095"},"published":{"$t":"2011-02-08T19:22:00.037+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-02-09T21:47:01.435+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Freedom2Choose Newsletter for February 2011"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Newsletter-February 2011"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nCHAIRMAN'S MESSAGE\nASH is furious. The longed-for Scottish display ban, scheduled for October 1st this year, has been postponed because Imperial Tobacco is taking legal action - not for the first time! Typically, ASH has thrown the proverbial dummy out of the pram, with not a care for the loss of businesses, jobs and homes such a ban would inevitably cause.\n\nRubbing salt into the wound, JTI, "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4383578904034727095\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=4383578904034727095\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/4383578904034727095"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/4383578904034727095"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/newsletter-february-2011.html","title":"Newsletter-February 2011"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Hm4_-Fo8Oz4\/TVMH5xAIe4I\/AAAAAAAABXc\/eAJ3rt5ZHoA\/s72-c\/f2c+newsletter+logo.JPG","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-5027743501089915508"},"published":{"$t":"2011-02-04T17:33:00.017+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-02-04T18:49:25.026+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"amend the smoking ban"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Depression"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Loneliness"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"suicide."}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"A World 1st-The Loneliness Triblogology"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Nobody hears us as we scream against the wind of oppression.\nFreedom2choose are proud to present a three part series depicting exactly what we knew over three years ago, that the smoking ban would lead to the further isolation of the elderly smoker...but it does not stop at the elderly, younger people are just as prone to that killer, depression.\n\nIn this three part series I will endevour to show"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5027743501089915508\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=5027743501089915508\u0026isPopup=true","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/5027743501089915508"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/5027743501089915508"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/world-1st-loneliness-triblogology.html","title":"A World 1st-The Loneliness Triblogology"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"handymanphil"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01366547228505237107"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_hO6E-C1VncI\/SkzfMnxTiMI\/AAAAAAAAAAM\/Z2EX7Eh9GZM\/S220\/horse1.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Hm4_-Fo8Oz4\/TUww8AsW3KI\/AAAAAAAABXI\/0xTvkMxfX-U\/s72-c\/scream_3.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-8274544170862933373"},"published":{"$t":"2011-02-02T11:03:00.028+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-02-03T07:54:52.956+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"chair of Freedom2Choose"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Dr Roelf Dijkhuizen"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Freedom2Choose Scotland"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"NHS Grampian see sense with hospital smoking bans"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Freedom of choice maybe?"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Today in a newspaper report Grampian NHS showed some remarkable common sense for once and it produced this headline:-\n\n\nSmoking ban 'could cause huge problems'\nNHS Grampian, like all other NHS Trusts are duty bound, now the age of austerity is upon us, to save money wherever possible. Of course none of us want to see front line services go for we cannot do with a shortage of nurses \u0026 doctors.\n\nWe"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8274544170862933373\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=8274544170862933373\u0026isPopup=true","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8274544170862933373"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/8274544170862933373"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/freem-of-choice-maybe.html","title":"Freedom of choice maybe?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"handymanphil"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01366547228505237107"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_hO6E-C1VncI\/SkzfMnxTiMI\/AAAAAAAAAAM\/Z2EX7Eh9GZM\/S220\/horse1.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Hm4_-Fo8Oz4\/TUpfCjWds-I\/AAAAAAAABXE\/AiqlLUHhmJc\/s72-c\/gram_bg_top.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-410084675349038784"},"published":{"$t":"2011-02-01T09:55:00.003+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-02-01T10:28:23.837+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Greek smoking ban to be brutally enforced"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Witnessing a Greek [smoking ban] tragedy"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":" Have the Greeks lost their marbles?\nBy Carol Cattell.\n\nCarol is an Englishwoman abroad, she lives in Greece. Here she reflects on the Greeks and their smoking ban. She is also a paid up member of Freedom2Choose.\n\nSOME REFLECTIONS ON GREECE'S 18 JANUARY BAN NEWS    \n\nWell, I was as surprised and depressed as anyone else at the rapid reversal from Monday 17th January’s announcement that the ban "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/410084675349038784\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=410084675349038784\u0026isPopup=true","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/410084675349038784"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/410084675349038784"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/witnessing-greek-smoking-ban-tragedy.html","title":"Witnessing a Greek [smoking ban] tragedy"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Hm4_-Fo8Oz4\/TUfXynnGUpI\/AAAAAAAABW8\/YYhNqiW3uxo\/s72-c\/p%2526hs.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-2674671413564973937"},"published":{"$t":"2011-01-25T16:53:00.004+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-25T17:58:44.550+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"French amend smoking ban law"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Houses of cards"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"The houses of Tobacco Control are collapsing.It’s time to amend the UK smoking ban.France amends anti-smoking law to save its \"heritage\"Citing \"cultural heritage\" concerns, French lawmakers have approved new exceptions to a Draconian anti-smoking law.\n\nFear of breaking the so-called Evin law, which bans the \"direct or indirect\" promotion of tobacco products, had in recent years led authorities to"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2674671413564973937\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=2674671413564973937\u0026isPopup=true","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/2674671413564973937"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/2674671413564973937"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/houses-of-cards.html","title":"Houses of cards"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John 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you in the EU and the hard work plucking laws on your lifestyle from thin air is telling on their faces.\n\nI’ll leave it up to the readers to put a fitting caption to each picture.\n\n\nNice work when you can get it eh."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/997787310311630204\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=997787310311630204\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 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It appears that where there is no clear cause to a "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4248487034859350380\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=4248487034859350380\u0026isPopup=true","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/4248487034859350380"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/4248487034859350380"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/fire.html","title":"Fire!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Hm4_-Fo8Oz4\/TS3PjOH0B6I\/AAAAAAAABVg\/bTwAY6eIr0s\/s72-c\/_50714000_cigarette.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-1545025935152899985"},"published":{"$t":"2011-01-08T09:41:00.015+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-08T11:19:06.610+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Anti smoker extraordinaire"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Arsehole of the century"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Duncan Bannatyne"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"The Dragons Den"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Dragon breathes fire"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"\n\nJust how stupid are some people prepared to look? I mean to say \"how f*****g pathetic\" really but it came out wrong-however, it serves the purpose.\n\nLast year Duncan Bannatyne announced to the world that if any of his kids even touched a cigarette he (Daddy Duncan) would cut them out of the will in a trice! They would be left penniless upon his demise and have to make their own way in this ever"},"link":[{"rel":"related","href":"http:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/scotsol\/homepage\/news\/3335146\/Dragon-Duncan-Bannatyne-is-fired-up-by-cigs.html#ixzz1ALjfoT00","title":"The Dragon breathes fire"},{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/1545025935152899985\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=1545025935152899985\u0026isPopup=true","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1545025935152899985"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/1545025935152899985"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/dragon-breathes-fire.html","title":"The Dragon breathes fire"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"handymanphil"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/01366547228505237107"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_hO6E-C1VncI\/SkzfMnxTiMI\/AAAAAAAAAAM\/Z2EX7Eh9GZM\/S220\/horse1.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Hm4_-Fo8Oz4\/TShGsBtduLI\/AAAAAAAABVc\/nZU6YnfJ32c\/s72-c\/biog1.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-346856625531278778"},"published":{"$t":"2011-01-07T18:22:00.000+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-07T18:22:38.735+00:00"},"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Surgeon Generals Report 2010"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"The Surgeon General in the USA has caused quite a stir as she tells the world how a puff of SHS can kill a non smoking passerby. Not everyone is waxing lyrical about her pronunciations though. Read Michael J. McFadden’s take on it in the second story below.\n\nAlso read how her “weird science” is being challenged in the first story.\nBoth stories have been pinched from The Smokers Club, Inc.\n\n\n"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/346856625531278778\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=346856625531278778\u0026isPopup=true","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/346856625531278778"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/346856625531278778"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/surgeon-generals-report-2010.html","title":"The Surgeon Generals Report 2010"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-6260292123346089739"},"published":{"$t":"2011-01-03T22:54:00.003+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-03T22:58:11.315+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Spain and anti smoking laws"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Dirty rotten, lying basterds!"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Yesterday Spain enacted it's most draconian smoking ban aping the British model of the anti smoking cartel that has the unprecedented ear of politicians. Listen to the Restauranteurs and bar owners as they explain how this swinging ban will impact on their businesses. 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He started us bloggers looking at our own inner sanctums that we like to call an office and thinking that we were the only ones with such a clutter and a very untidy workstation.\n\nOne by one we hit the keyboards to give the lowdown on our messy and unruly workplaces as we wonder how, magically, the detritus got there in the first place.\n\nSo here then is my offering, which, I must "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3738507814420058232\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=3738507814420058232\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/3738507814420058232"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/3738507814420058232"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/that-man-puddlecote.html","title":"That man Puddlecote..."}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Hm4_-Fo8Oz4\/TSG9AlPsLkI\/AAAAAAAABVY\/0HRaR8Tp96I\/s72-c\/Pete+Postlethwaite.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-4591498091400079797"},"published":{"$t":"2010-12-31T16:47:00.010+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2010-12-31T16:56:34.422+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Alzheimer's"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"amend the smoking ban"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Doctors"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Harassment, pure and simple?"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"Is this how it has become? You are harassed into being an hypochondriac???\n\n\nI’m a Doctor, trust me?This is not the first phone call I have received this dying year from my local doctors surgery asking me about my smoking habits where I have refused to reveal it, one way or the other, but I guess they know by my intransigence that I am a proud smoker.  Today they surpassed themselves.\n\nThe first "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/4591498091400079797\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=4591498091400079797\u0026isPopup=true","title":"9 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/4591498091400079797"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/4591498091400079797"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/harassment-pure-and-simple.html","title":"Harassment, pure and simple?"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_Hm4_-Fo8Oz4\/TR4JJD6-_YI\/AAAAAAAABVU\/rtKpi2cM97U\/s72-c\/289_thumb%5B2%5D.gif?imgmax=800","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"9"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-3173550717897606680"},"published":{"$t":"2010-12-25T09:21:00.000+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2010-12-25T09:21:21.125+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from TheBigYin"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Thought for today... And maybe tomorrow. Merry Christmas everyone..."},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":"...even to those who hate me for my lifestyle choices... now there's a buzz word or two if ever I heard them!\n\nI'll let my doppelgänger explain:\n\nStress \nA lecturer when explaining stress management to an audience,\nRaised a glass of water and asked,\n\"How heavy is this glass of water?\"\n\nAnswers called out ranged from 20g to 500g.\n\nThe lecturer replied, \"The absolute weight doesn't matter.\nIt "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3173550717897606680\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=3173550717897606680\u0026isPopup=true","title":"7 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/3173550717897606680"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/3173550717897606680"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/thought-for-today-and-maybe-tomorrow.html","title":"Thought for today... And maybe tomorrow. 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The problem was that nobody thought to publicise the fact that in the first year alone 1,000 businesses closed throughout the country. 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I was deemed  a non person, someone that has a lifestyle (smoking a fag is a lifestyle?) that someone else does not agree with, which I have heard most of my life but it never came to a head until recent years when it was declared open season on smokers..then all hell "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/5339966024812600442\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=5339966024812600442\u0026isPopup=true","title":"3 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/5339966024812600442"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/5339966024812600442"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/i-didnnt-realise-what-was-happening.html","title":"I didnn't realise what was happening!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"John Baker"},"uri":{"$t":"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115664068077409457231"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"32","height":"32","src":"\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-pKLqDTvmFyI\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAACNE\/CsPik91TQTE\/s512-c\/photo.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"3"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2206739907723081582.post-627484482504076191"},"published":{"$t":"2010-12-09T14:45:00.000+00:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2010-12-09T14:45:53.014+00:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"EU Regulations stifle competition"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Plain packaging of cigarettes"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Save Our Pubs And Clubs"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Petition from Save Our Pubs \u0026 Clubs"},"summary":{"type":"text","$t":" \nSign the petition against more EC regulations!\nThe smokers’ lobby group Forest, a leading member of the Save Our Pubs \u0026 Clubs coalition, has launched an online petition against new proposals to regulate tobacco throughout the European Union.    \n\nThe Morning Advertiser reports that proposed changes to the European Commission’s Tobacco Products Directive include a ban on the display of tobacco "},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/feeds\/627484482504076191\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=2206739907723081582\u0026postID=627484482504076191\u0026isPopup=true","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/627484482504076191"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2206739907723081582\/posts\/default\/627484482504076191"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/freedom-2-choose.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/petition-from-save-our-pubs-clubs.html","title":"Petition from Save Our Pubs \u0026amp; 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