Things Are Good: Uruguay Defeated Big Tobacco

Large tobacco companies that operation multinationally and earn billions of dollars a year off of an unhealthy addictive drug often fight poor nations. They fight poor nations in the courts and the markets when those poor nations try to increase the well being of their citizens by managing tobacco sales. Recently Uruguay won a legal […]

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Dead Wild Roses: The Business of Smoking

  Another reason why we need more science and not less in the world.  Where smoking has been accurately depicted as hazardous to your health and society the rate goes down.  Other places, not so much. [Source:Al Jazeera] Filed under: Medicine, Science Tagged: Government Regulations, Medical Science, Public Health, Smoking

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A Puff of Absurdity: On Smoking

I took the kids to the beach on Sunday, and there’s new signage everywhere about the problems with using the sand as an ashtray.  In hopes for a “butt-free beach,” they included information on wildlife concerns, toxins, costs to taxpayers, and the level of pollution:  cigarette butts are the most

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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Use the Porche.

This isn’t the hotel you’re looking for. Oda is ^NOT a good Canadian politician. She’s decidedly on the dark side of politics, accused for years of extravagant spending, and contempt for Canadians and our institutions. I feel so badly for her constituents. She’s a royal pain in the you-know-what (pocketbook).

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