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...rest of the meeting proceeded with more smoking??take note compers, Mores seem to the Lampoon's cigarette of choice—and a litany of hyperbole about the checkered history of the magazine, its pranks, and comper contributions of their own pranks...
...street. Perhaps the worst aspect of this invasion of personal liberty and responsibility is the Commission’s reasoning behind it. Dr. Barbara Ferrer, the director of the Boston Public Health Commission, told the Boston Globe that her goal is to “de-normalize” smoking??a creepy and Orwellian notion. The idea of using a ban to manipulate culture and social norms, even for what the city considers the public good, is dangerously close to social engineering, and should concern any civil libertarian. All cost-benefit justifications and philosophical objections aside, this measure...
...despite our social consciences, smokers are constantly villainized. Miramax and Touchstone, both subsidiaries of Disney, are now discouraged to include “depictions of cigarette smoking?? in their movies. (This is the same Miramax that distributed Pulp Fiction.) A depiction of smoking can now bump up a movie from...
...It’s unlikely that smoking??s popularity, especially among Chinese males (nearly three-fourths of whom smoke), will wane anytime in the near future. A more realistic, yet equally urgent goal would be to safeguard the health of non-smokers by restricting smoking in public places...
...Even the group’s name has a message for Africa. The “X” in X Plastaz stands for all the social problems in Tanzania and, more broadly, the African continent.“They use an X for the ‘No Smoking?? sign, an X for the ‘No Trespassing’ sign, an X for all the problems that we have in Africa,” Gsann says.“Plastaz” is Swahili for “bandage...