Providing what blogger Wesley J. Smith describes as “your 24/7 seminar on bioethics and the importance of being human,” the Secondhand Smoke blog covers a wide range of life-and-death topics. Recently, he published two posts about proposals by people in the medical community that put young and old alike at risk. In a post published [...]
Proposals Place Lives of Young and Old at Risk
March 11th, 2009 · No Comments
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Solution Available to End ‘War Against Tobacco’
June 4th, 2008 · No Comments
Yesterday, the never-ending controversy I’ve dubbed the “War Against Tobacco” made headlines when the state of New York began charging smokers an additional $1.25 per pack of cigarettes, bringing the total tax to a whopping $2.50. While I don’t smoke and have never been a smoker, I find the arguments on both sides compelling and [...]
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