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When France's stiff antismoking laws took effect in late 1992, people girded for some of the nastiest civil unrest since the storming of the Bastille. Smokers, who represent more than one-third of all Frenchmen over age 12, cried "Egalite! Liberte!" and vowed to puff on. They should have saved their breath for the next cigarette. Despite laws that severely restrict the number of public places where French smokers are allowed to puff their Gauloises, they continue to light up with impunity virtually everywhere. Designated nonsmoking areas in offices and restaurants are routinely ignored, as are curbs in public...
...devastating wit. An estimated 40 million Americans have tried it at some point, from Ivy League law professors to country-and-western singers. Yet in some states, possession of a few grams can get you put away for years. What does it do to one's immortal soul to puff and wink and look away while about 100,000 other Americans remain locked up for doing the exact same thing? Marijuana prohibition establishes a minimum baseline level of cultural dishonesty that we can never rise above: the President "didn't inhale," heh heh. It's O.K. to drink till...
...importance both of appearances and of self- promotion. Along the way he won some unlikely backers, among the most useful William Randolph Hearst. The old reprobate publisher was so taken with the evangelist's patriotism and call for spiritual renewal that he telegraphed his editors around the country: "Puff Graham." TIME for its part declared in 1949 that no one since Billy Sunday had wielded "the revival sickle" as successfully as this "blond, trumpet-lunged North Carolinian...
Saturday: As soon as the young Exonians are off the bus, they charge into a convenience store for a pack of cigarettes. As they puff on that first Marlboro, they feel the tobacco rush through their clean systems, leaving them light-headed and sweaty...
Yarrow sang some of his popular tunes from the 60s, including "Blowing in the Wind", "Puff the Magic Dragon" and "Day is Done...