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Smoking Near Apple Computers Creates Biohazard, Voids Warranty
Seeded on Fri Nov 20, 2009 9:40 PM EST (Consumerist)
Unless you've just arrived in 2009 on a time machine, you know that smoking isn't good for you. Did you know, that smoking isn't good for your computer, either? It's true, at least according to Apple.
First U.S. marijuana cafe opens in Portland
Seeded on Sat Nov 14, 2009 3:01 PM EST (Reuters)
PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - The United States' first marijuana cafe opened on Friday, posing an early test of the Obama administration's move to relax policing of medical use of the drug.
D.C. Weighs More Curbs on Smoking - Bills Target Sidewalk Space, Cheap Cigars
Seeded on Thu Oct 1, 2009 8:36 AM EDT (The Washington Post)
". . .Three years after the council approved a ban on smoking indoors at bars and restaurants, the council is now considering a proposal to give business owners the right to ban smoking within 25 feet of the front door of an establishment.
American Vice: Mapping the 7 Deadly Sins (Hint: Washington DC is the country's leader in vice)
Seeded on Fri Sep 4, 2009 4:17 PM EDT (Wired News)
We're gluttons for infographics, and a team at Kansas State just served up a feast: maps of sin created by plotting per-capita stats on things like theft (envy) and STDs (lust).
Is Obama Feting Anti-Semites?
Seeded on Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:02 AM EDT (The Washington Post)
"As an American Jew, I must raise my voice in protest against a recipient of this year's Presidential Medal of Freedom, Mary Robinson, who, after leaving the United Nations, worked as a professor at Columbia University, which, as we all know, has become a gathering place for Isra …
Should We Ban Tobacco? Cigarettes kill more people than cocaine, heroin, meth and all other illegal drugs combined. Imagine if they were illegal.
Seeded on Mon Aug 3, 2009 10:11 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)
Cigarettes kill; 400,000 people die prematurely every year from smoking. When we analyze the harm from drugs, there is no doubt that cigarettes are the worst. They kill more people than cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and all other illegal drugs combined.
What and when President Obama likes to drink
Seeded on Fri Jul 17, 2009 4:51 PM EDT (Politico)
At a Washington Wizards-Chicago Bulls basketball game in February, the president did what sports fans do: He drank a beer.
Calif tax officials: Legal pot would rake in $1.4B
Seeded on Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:19 PM EDT (breitbart.com)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - California tax officials say a state proposal to tax and regulate marijuana like alcohol would generate nearly $1.4 billion in revenue.
Ban on tobacco urged in military
Seeded on Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:38 PM EDT (USA Today)
"Pentagon health experts are urging Defense Secretary Robert Gates to ban the use of tobacco by troops and end its sale on military property, a change that could dramatically alter a culture intertwined with smoking.
Burning Question: Is Obama Still Smokin'?
Seeded on Tue Jun 23, 2009 12:23 PM EDT (The Washington Post)
"Super double special irony alert! President Obama signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act into law yesterday, hailing it in a Rose Garden ceremony as "an extraordinary accomplishment" that will "save American lives and make Americans healthier."
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