Obama toughens cigarette laws, but is he still puffin’?The president has signed an anti-smoking bill that gives the FDA more authority to regulate cigarette sales and advertising. But the press corps had one question: are you still smoking?
Tobacco
Tobacco candy: gross but green
Tobacco candy: it sounds disgusting (and probably is) but it’s a lot better for the environment than cigarettes.
China tells officials to smoke for the economy
China’s central province of Hubei is telling officials they must smoke nearly a quarter of a million packets of cigarettes — to boost the economy — or risk fines.
Is pornography the new tobacco?
Society’s acceptance of widespread pornography appears very nearly bulletproof — every bit as bulletproof, in fact, as the prevailing laissez-faire public view of smoking did in 1963.
Tobacco ad defense shouldn’t be allowed to protect junk food
The junk food industry is invoking the defense used by the tobacco industry in banning advertising to kids, and Simon Chapman argues they shouldn’t be allowed to.
Where inflation hurts
Since the election of 2004 the CPI has risen 8.3% but an actual decline in the cost of clothing and small rises in the cost of household goods and communications disguise the somewhat sharper rises in the price of food, alcohol and tobacco, rents, health and education, writes Richard Farmer.
