David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: Where there’s smoke, there’s fire: Danielle...
What is it with right-wing politicians and tobacco, anyway? Below: Don’t worry, she won’t have to pay higher taxes for that cigarette.The leaders of all Alberta parties but one seem committed to...
View ArticleSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Use the Porche.
This isn’t the hotel you’re looking for. Oda is ^NOT a good Canadian politician. She’s decidedly on the dark side of politics, accused for years of extravagant spending, and contempt for Canadians and...
View ArticleThings Are Good: Australia Gets World’s Toughest Law on Cigarette Branding
It is common knowledge that smoking kills people and, in democracies, providing health care for citizens is important and unquestioned. In Australia, they clearly care about each other as they now make...
View ArticleROAR!: On PEI Smoking may be helping gov’t!
Walking into the grocery store an hour or so ago, I had to stand and wait while husband went to buy a lotto ticket. Good thing because I picked up the paper, and what do I read … ‘Island government...
View ArticleChadwick's Blog & Commentary: How should a municipality deal with cigarette...
I was sitting on a decorative rock on the landscaping west of Loblaws, this weekend, waiting while Susan was inside and amusing myself at the bad driving habits of our city visitors in the parking lot....
View ArticleA Puff of Absurdity: On Smoking
I took the kids to the beach on Sunday, and there’s new signage everywhere about the problems with using the sand as an ashtray. In hopes for a “butt-free beach,” they included information on wildlife...
View ArticleA Puff of Absurdity: Just Legalize it Already
I spent a lovely extended weekend in Awenda and fell in love with Penetanguishene through a scenic bike ride. The sun filtered through the trees on either side of the road, with the blue, blue lake...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Paul Kershaw highlights what’s most needed to support Canada’s younger generations: Even with all this personal adaptation, most in Gen X and Y can’t work their...
View ArticleParliamANT Hill: JustAnt defends pot revelation as caucus meets in P.E.I.
Inspired by these headlines:...
View ArticleA Puff of Absurdity: On Regulating Smoking for Youth
Letter to the Editor in the Record today. It’s hard for me to stick to 200 words!Make it illegal for teenagers to smoke RE: Ontario bans youth from tanning beds — Oct. 10I was ecstatic to see that a...
View ArticleTrashy's World: Ten years and counting…
It’s an important anniversary for me today – on February 4, 2004, I smoked my last cigarette. And that was one of the best decisions of my life. It was very difficult. But I did it. And I haven’t...
View ArticleA Puff of Absurdity: Brief Hiatus
I’ve been busy gardening, and then I took a break to check out NYC. The entire album, Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, played in my head on a loop while I was there. It was a nice distraction from the...
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: The Business of Smoking
Another reason why we need more science and not less in the world. Where smoking has been accurately depicted as hazardous to your health and society the rate goes down. Other places, not so...
View ArticleBill Longstaff: Tobacco companies—the biggest, baddest drug dealers pursue...
If we conjure up an image of drug cartel bosses, we might imagine swarthy men with gold chains hanging around their necks and voluptuous babes hanging off each arm. This would be well off the mark for...
View ArticleScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Smoking = Stupidity
I don’t know how to sugar coat this in some politically-correct, sensitive, caring way that doesn’t overtly offend anyone, but if you haven’t already figured this out by now, here it is: smoking is...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Big Tobacco’s doubtful claim high taxes encourage cigarette...
PHOTOS: Young cigarette smokers in 1910. The tobacco industry and its friends on the Opposition benches think high tobacco taxes are a problem. Below: Wildrose Party Finance Critic Derek Fildebrandt,...
View Articlemark a rayner: Camusic of the Spheres
The dreams had returned, again, and no amount of coffee and cigarettes could keep their influence at bay. The ennui was crushing at times, and even talking with an outrageous French accent would not...
View ArticleThings Are Good: Uruguay Defeated Big Tobacco
Large tobacco companies that operation multinationally and earn billions of dollars a year off of an unhealthy addictive drug often fight poor nations. They fight poor nations in the courts and the...
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