Want to protect children from dangerous or potentially dangerous chemicals? For starters, keep them away from traffic emissions. That means no living in the city, especially in high-traffic areas. This is a self-evident point that the evangelists of the “de-normalization” brigade will never be tempted to consider, at least out Read more…
The white-collar criminals responsible for the fraud-based antismoking policy in Canada are now in a tizzy because of a rampant contraband problem – and, once again, smokers are blamed for what government and the anti-tobacco zealots have created. It’s not as if they hadn’t learned back in the ‘90s that Read more…
The thesis is that the addicted smoker has to be helped even against his will. The story of the dangers of passive smoking has the function to reduce the tolerance of smokers. From the same reason it is claimed that the smoker damages society financially. Again and again the message Read more…
<p>With England’s newly enacted ban on smoking nearly everywhere comes the predictable campaigns that accompany prohibition. A particularly nasty, yet laughably childish, secondhand smoke “public announcement” caught the eye of John Luik and provides fodder for a mature discussion of managing risk.</p>
<p>PubWatch is an organized scheme in the UK, undertaken as a volunteer effort among pub owners in a given area and with the cooperation of the police, to more effectively deal with troublemakers who frequent British pubs.</p>
This “health news” tidbit, in which we’re told that a new urine test proves that obese people are not actually reliable reporters about what they eat, deserves comment for a couple of reasons. For starters, it illustrates a major shortcoming of many studies about health and lifestyle (and other matters Read more…
“The word ‘accident’ is to be banned from the new edition of Britain’s Highway Code, which is published by the UK Department of Transport. Instead the words ‘collision’, ‘crash’ or ‘incident’ will be used to describe events that once were known as accidents. This adoption of new terms for everyday Read more…
There are those who want marijuana legalized and those who don’t – that’s an old story. As we are anti-prohibition, you can imagine our stand. Today, the war for or against marijuana is fought with trash science salvos – questionnaire-based epidemiological studies, where unverifiable and impossible-to-quantify responses are conjured into Read more…
“Swindon’s oldest resident has used her 107th year to improve her health. Purton great-grandmother Mabel Goodings turns 107 tomorrow but has become healthier since her last birthday by giving up smoking.” So, let’s read the base message here: by converting a smoker who has smoked for well over 85 years Read more…
<p>The United States obsesses over health to a degree never before seen in history. The citizens there “lead the world” in cutting smoking, curbing drinking and examining minutely every morsel of food allowed into their gullets.</p>