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Second, a religious Jewish student who decides that dorm life is unacceptable is no more judgmental than a student who tells the housing office that he will not live with a smoker...
What has happened to personal responsibility in the U.S.? Must we as a society blame every mistake we make on someone else? As an ex-smoker, I realize the health risks involved in smoking and would never dream of asking for compensation for something that is a personal choice. I am a Generation Xer who tried smoking at 15. And even at that age I was intelligent enough to realize that it is not a safe habit. A Marlboro Man or a cartoon camel had little to do with my smoking. Young people will always experiment--it is the nature...
...marketing restrictions in the deal will amount to little if the product remains as deadly as ever. And since the entire scientific case against smoking is premised on dose-related data (e.g., the stronger the yields of the harmful ingredients in each cigarette and the greater the smoker's total intake of them, the higher the risk of dying prematurely), all medical logic suggests that forcing the manufacturers to reduce the toxic potency of their product could significantly reduce the horrific toll it now exacts. Under the proposed settlement, the FDA is reportedly to be granted the power to modify...
...have forgotten the smoker. His bad faith, if he has it, is nothing worse than self-deception. It is his alone. Pollsters will tell you that most smokers want to quit. Maybe so. But the fact remains that many of them continue to smoke, and for many reasons. Those of an earlier generation--those few (ahem) still alive--began because Bogart and Bacall did it, and Bette Davis too: because it was cool and widely accepted. But later generations, at least those come of age after the unavoidable 1964 Surgeon General's report, found a different reason: because...
...speak (to declare an interest) as a smoker--a sometime smoker, to be sure, an on-again, off-again smoker, but one who has forever pledged his heart to the weed against the seemingly indomitable forces arrayed against it. And from where I sit, I see a carnival of dissembling and bad faith...