Now it’s the global anti-smoking nuts who are rising up to take a bite out of the ol’ apple. The news from Kentucky’s burley tobacco growers is that new proposed regulations coming from the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) could lead to a worldwide ban on blended, American-style cigarettes...
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Well, now. While the nation has been quick to damn tobacco, the rule makers have not been watching the back door as some really evildoers got away. The Food and Drug Administration, the huge federal bureaucracy that sets and gauges standards for our foods and drugs, has been working overtime to destroy the tobacco...
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I luuuv theees Kountry! The United States is the only place on the globe which allows Big Oil British Petroleum to kill the Gulf of Mexico and threaten the life of the East Coast of the Atlantic Ocean. As for the U.S., it’s Drill Baby Drill, Kill Baby Kill! We act as though British...
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Well now, this should not come as too big of a surprise to anyone who smokes, but it is surprising nonetheless. Australia, the land of big country and bodacious animals, has decided that cigarettes are so bad for you that as of right now a pack of 30 will cost you more than $15...
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The Centers for Disease Control has a splashy new program for 2010. They list it under the overall heading of “Tobacco Control State Highlights 2010.” Get the nifty wording, i.e., Tobacco Control State. That has a nice Orwellian ring to it, doncha think? The entire package is something the CDC and DHS call MPOWER....
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Well, while cruising the Internet late one night recently, I ran across something called “Project Vote Smart.” It is one of those political tanks that gets its money from donations and private philanthropists. The group gathers voting records and the like on the nation’s politicians. Naturally, I looked up our boy, U.S. Rep. Steve...
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