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Monthly Archives: December 2010
More Montana teens smoking dope than cigarettes
All right!!!! Well, truth be told, I have mixed feelings about this survey. I’m not wild about teens smoking dope (I know, I’m an old fogey, but it is an intoxicant and causes car wrecks and fucks kids up at … Continue reading
Smoking and Christmas
I just love vintage cigarette ads. They’re just so DECADENT! Especially cringe-worthy are Christmas cigarette ads. I guess holiday packaging used to be a pretty big deal back in the day for cigarette cartons. I vaguely remember cartons becoming Christmasy … Continue reading
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The smoke in Spain falls mainly outside the bars
Ay Carumba! Spain has gone completely smokefree. Spain was one of those European countries that supposedly banned smoking (way back in 2006), but really didn’t. The rules were very lax and even those lax laws were essentially ignored. This has … Continue reading
Ohio can grab tobacco funds
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled this week that the State Legislature does have the power to raid $250 million of the state’s tobacco funds. This is money from the 1998 $280 billion Tobacco Settlement Agreement between the states and Big … Continue reading
Children and cigarettes
Two articles today about smoking and cigarettes. One comes from a jury award in Boston. I’ve read about this case before. In the 1950s, Lollilard employees used to hang out at playgrounds handing out cigarettes to kids to get them … Continue reading
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Tagged jury award, Lollilard, Smoking, tobacco
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Former Premier of Alberta: “If you’re stupid, start smoking.”
Ralph Klein, who was the premier of Alberta from 1992-2006 (wow, that’s a long time), and was mayor of Calgary from 1980 to 1989, is ill from emphysema (also called COPD, though COPD can be more than just emphysema). Klein … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberta, COPD, emphysema, Ralph Klein, Smoking
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Did you know smoking has been tied to rheumatoid arthritis
It has. Several studies have confirmed this … that at the very least, there is a causal relationship between smoking and rheumatoid arthritis. In addition to COPD, my mom suffers from really severe rheumatoid arthritis, in her back, neck and … Continue reading
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More maps … and smoking rates
Here are some maps I forgot. The top map is smoking bans. The second map is cigarette taxes. The bottom map is smoking rates. See a correlation? Why, where there are smoking bans, smoking rates go down. What an amazing … Continue reading
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