Marijuana: Still a "Threat to Our People"?
Yes, "drugs" are a threat, as Reagan said, but classifying "marijuana" into the category of drugs that our "a threat to our people" doesn't feel right.
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Newsom Targets Innocent Smokers
Jeff Norman | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics
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I have a better idea tan making smokers pay an extra .33 cents a pack: raise the fine for befouling the community and start enforcing the law.
Tea And Sympathy
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics
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If the modern-day Tea Parties are smart, they would try to educate the public and hang their whole protest on the "anti-bailout" hook.
Reporters, Cigarettes and a U.S. Senator
Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.11.2009 | Media
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What the NY Times discovered was that Ms. Gillibrand represented, zealously, a tobacco company. Their case is overwhelming. The Senator is not qualified to hold public office.
FDA Regulation Provides Another Smokescreen for Marlboro Man
Howard Wolinsky and Alan Blum | Posted 05.03.2009 | Politics
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The new FDA legislation would serve as a Marlboro Preservation Act. The tobacco industry will be footing the bill for the alleged regulation of its own products. The foxes will be guarding the henhouse.
States Look To Tobacco Tax To Balance The Budget
New York Times | SHAILA DEWAN | Posted 04.21.2009 | Business
Mississippi's tax on cigarettes, at 18 cents a pack the nation's third-lowest, has not been raised since 1985. Gov. Haley Barbour, a former tobacco l...
The Ultimate 9-Step Guide to Looking Good
Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 04.17.2009 | Living
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Vegetables give you gas and require vitamin supplementation. Cannibalism is illegal. And I'm too self-conscious to take my jiggling torso to a public gym.
ATF Agents Closing In On Nation's Most Notorious Cigarette Bummer
The Onion | Posted 03.30.2009 | Comedy
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WASHINGTON--A spokesperson for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives announced Tuesday that the agency has intensified its manhunt ...
"There Is No Proof that Cigarettes Cause Cancer"
Jay Gordon, MD | Posted 03.18.2009 | Living
It took fifty years before the courts finally acknowledged that cigarette smoking causes cancer. Let's hope it doesn't take another fifty years to convince the government and the public that vaccines can cause autism.
Gwyneth Paltrow Defends Marriage, Pines For Cigarettes
People | Posted 03.06.2009 | Entertainment
"It doesn't behoove us to be a public couple," adds Paltrow, who'll be a Grammy presenter this weekend. "He certainly doesn't want to be that. We've...
What Is Addiction?
Stanton Peele | Posted 03.02.2009 | Living
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Addiction is a nasty business which enslaves people. But if you're going to target that practice, then you'd better come and take all the coffee and Diet Coke the office.
Big Tobacco Companies Accused Of Illicit Tactics To Expand Asia Sales
AP | MICHAEL CASEY | Posted 01.23.2009 | World
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BANGKOK, Thailand — Two of the world's largest tobacco companies, seeking to expand sales into Asia, worked to undermine anti-smoking policies i...
Reading The Pictures: Obama Inhaled, Still Does Sometimes
Michael Shaw | Posted 01.21.2009 | Media
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If this picture had been released during the campaign, it would certainly have been appropriated for "gotcha" purposes.
Supreme Court Opens Floodgates For New Cigarette Lawsuits
New York Times | DAVID STOUT | Posted 01.15.2009 | Business
Tobacco companies suffered a defeat in the Supreme Court on Monday when the justices ruled that the companies can be sued by smokers who contend they ...
Adding Up Tobacco's Toll On America
divinecaroline.com | Posted 01.11.2009 | Living
November is a good month to reconsider the cigarette. Not only is it National Lung Cancer and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Awareness month, b...
Obama's Smoking Drama
Tony Newman | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics
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Thankfully, we don't arrest cigarette smokers who relapse.
New Tobacco Product Alarms Health Officials
AP | VICKI SMITH | Posted 12.25.2008 | Living
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — They're discreet, flavorful and come in cute tin boxes with names like "frost" and "spice." And the folks who created Joe Ca...
How to Fix the Economic Meltdown and Stop Terrorism: Legalize Heroin and Whores
David Henry Sterry | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics
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The bottom line, economically, is that there is a big beautiful sexy cash cow to be milked here.
Olives, Chocolate, and Sex
Darryle Pollack | Posted 10.02.2008 | Style
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It might be extra difficult to battle addictions not to things we consider bad -- like cigarettes and heroin. But when they're addicted to things we consider good -- like exercise and sex.
NY Post Cover Story Unfairly Attacks Britney Over Smoking
Tony Newman | Posted 07.31.2008 | Entertainment
The New York Post hit a new low on Tuesday when they deemed Britney Spears having a cigarette in the company of her son worthy of front page news.
We Can't Afford to Wait to Regulate Tobacco
Dan Smith | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics
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More than 40 years following the first surgeon general's report linked smoking to cancer, a simple list of ingredients is still not required for tobacco products.
AP Gives McCain 'Cigarettes' Story A Ridiculous Headline
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics
Yesterday, while enjoying a meal at a Pittsburgh sandwich shop, John McCain made a joke about how maybe he could kill Iranians with cigarettes, becaus...
Life Cycle: Smoke 'Em If You've Got 'Em
Simran Sethi | Posted 07.18.2008 | Green
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Deforestation is the most direct environmental repercussion of the approximately ten gazillion cigarettes smoked in the world daily. Wood is used just about every step in production--to cure tobacco, to wrap the leaves with paper, to box them up with cardboard.
Life Cycle: Java Break
Simran Sethi | Posted 07.18.2008 | Green
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Next to crude oil, coffee may be our strongest addiction. More than half of Americans fuel themselves with one to four cups of coffee, totaling upwards of 330 million cups daily.
Matthew Broderick And Sarah Jessics Parker Still Smoke Cigarettes
NY Mag | Posted 06.27.2008 | Entertainment
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Remember that "Intelligencer" item about Antonin Scalia bumming a cigarette from Sarah Jessica Parker? Most people read that and thought, "A conservat...
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