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...society should take their choices seriously. Despite the availability of safer alternatives (patches and gum) smokers keep smoking—could it be that, gasp, they actually enjoy it? Perhaps smokers are capable of evaluating the costs of smoking—in fact, they tend to over-estimate the dangers??€”and simply find smoking worth the risk...

Author: By Piotr C. Brzezinski | Title: Full of Smoke and Fury | 5/19/2006 | See Source »

...doll is just one manifestation of our deluded expectations that Saddam will not actually use these weapons. Our optimism lets us treat these weapons as distant, hypothetical dangers??€”reasons to invade Iraq—without considering them real and immediate threats to American soldiers. If Americans think they can gloss over the threat from chemical and biological weapons, then it seems the war against Iraq will bring a very difficult surprise...

Author: By Jonathan P. Abel, | Title: Toying with Terrorists | 2/6/2003 | See Source »

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