New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer
DECLARES PROHIBITION !!
BANS SALE OF CIGARS
AND OTHER TOBACCO PRODUCTS

"In an effort to continue to make New York state the healthiest state in the nation, we have determined that the sale of tobacco products is not appropriate on the New York State Fairgrounds and we want to encourage people to participate in a healthy lifestyle," fair Executive Director Dan O'Hara said Wednesday.
Tobacco products will no longer be sold at any event at the fairgrounds, not just during the fair, he said. Gov. Eliot Spitzer is pushing to make New York the healthiest state, O'Hara said.
"The reason it's good is it's part of the broader process at work in society," said Russell Sciandra of the Albany-based Center for a Tobacco Free New York. "We are seeing the promotion and sale of tobacco sort of being denormalized.”

“No Tobacco Sales at Fair”
- The Post-Standard, April 5, 2007
Private Vendors
Told to Get Lost

Translation: IT’S IMMORAL TO SELL (never mind smoke) CIGARS
The issues
There is no law against the sale of tobacco.
This is not “Public Health,” it’s social engineering of your private life.
This is revocation of your free will and free choice.
Your mind and body belong to the state now.
This is a denial of free commerce.
This excludes one consumer group from being able to make a legal purchase of their choice.
This is censorship of “speech.” (If Spitzer says the ban promotes a "message" then it stands to be perfectly reasonable that our side is having its "message" censored.)
This is product discrimination and consumer persecution.
This is policy driven by one's definition of immoral behavior, not "public health."
This is arbitrary and capricious.
Beer, wine and junk food is “unhealthy” but are not banned for sale at the fair.
Gov. Spitzer has proclaimed that although cigars and other tobacco products are legal
he will not allow you to have them.
This is PROHIBITION. STOP IT NOW & BEFORE IT SPREADS
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Join NYC C.L.A.S.H. (Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment) in the fight.
Volunteer your voice, your body, a donation. One or all.
Contact Audrey Silk: (917) 888-9317 / nycclash@nycclash.com / www.nycclash.com
Start your protest by calling: Gov. Spitzer: (518) 474-8390; Health Commissioner Daines: (518) 474-7354; Agriculture Commissioner Hooker (oversees the fair): (800) 554-4501; NYS Fair
Executive Director O’Hara: (800) 475-FAIR