Word: smokerings
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...thing straight. Just as a person's right to swing his fist ends when it hits another's nose, the right to smoke also ends where the non-smoker's nose begins. If you want to pollute your own lungs in the privacy of your own room, that's fine. But the smoker's right to spew carcinogens into the air disappears the moment someone else can breathe them...
...rest of the meeting was no more productive, though the atmosphere was calm and professional. There was no shouting, no pounding on the table. Aziz politely asked if he could light a cigar, and Baker, a former smoker, just as politely said he would relish the aroma. But neither side had anything new to say. Neither of the men budged a jot from their mutually exclusive positions. Baker said Iraq must quit Kuwait without conditions or face war. Aziz insisted the gulf conflict must be solved in conjunction with all Middle East problems...
Most Inflammatory Target Marketing The R.J. Reynolds tobacco company developed a menthol-flavored cigarette and distinctive black-and-gold packaging specifically tailored to attract the inner-city black smoker. Civil rights groups and health advocates huffed, but did not puff, and the controversial cigarette was hastily withdrawn...
...small. Brain cancer is a rare disease. Only 3.1 cases per 100,000 people were reported in 1986. In the most worrisome studies, the risk of developing such a cancer appears to double or triple because of ELF fields. By contrast, the risk of lung cancer for a chain smoker is 20 times as great as it is for the public at large...
...there is a difference between a smoker who ignores the Surgeon General's warning and someone who develops cancer passively just by being born into the electronic age. People live near power lines and work with their noses in computer display screens because those things are part and parcel of the ( times. Everyone deserves at the very least a rough sense of what danger such exposure brings...