PipesMagazine.com has provided a report about the anti-smoking establishment and its lack of proof to back up its claims about smoking bans. The report is long, but I recommend it highly. It is a pdf file. It is here Read it and be enlightened. I was! »

Well, well, well. An interesting set of circumstances has befallen the softdrink industry. (By the way, we say softdrink in the South instead of “soda”). That industry is beginning to holler about its ox, which is now being gored. Remember, we told you there would be other goring down the road. Funny thing isthe weeping and wailing... »

On a Feb. 9, 2009, newscast, NBC’s Brian Williams reported that a new study shows that “third hand smoke” can cause cancer. He did not cite the study, but merely quoted “a study.” I did a little rummaging around on the Internet, Googling this and that. I found a study by researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley... »

This past Sunday, The Charleston Post and Courier newspaper wrote an editorial saying that the state of South Carolina should increase its taxes on cigarette tobacco from 7 cents to more than  171 percent, or $1.27 per pack. The newspaper said the money generated from the increased tax on the people who can least afford to... »

The changing face of the Old Dominion can be seen in the stuff Jimmy Cirrito sweeps up off the floor of his bar every night. It used to be cigarette butts — now it’s gum. “I got Nicorette and Bubblicious and green and yellow and purple. It looks like a circus down there,” said Cirrito, owner... »