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[Washingtonmonthly.com] Political Animal: Comment on Lollipops and Cigarettes: Here in California, we passed an initiative a few years ago that taxes cigarettes and devotes part of the proceeds to running ads that discourage smoking. Now, depending on your point of view, this is either poetic justice or nanny state outrage, but one thing I can tell you for sure is that the result has been some viciously funny commercials — usually aimed at the cigarette companies themselves rather than the dangers of smoking.

 [Rightangleblog.blogspot.com] Right Angle Blog: March 2005: Lack of leadership and power continues to dominate the Governor's office, according to a Columbus magazine. According to Smart Business magazine, a Columbus business magazine that ranks the ”˜most powerful people in Columbus’, Ohio Governor Bob Taft isn’t even in the top 25 most powerful people ”¦ that’s in Columbus, the state’s capital!

[Tobacco-on-trial.com] Tobacco On Trial » Blog Archive » DOJ Files Final Proposed ...: In 1986, the volume and strength of that scientific evidence prompted the Surgeon General, the National Research Council, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer to conclude that passive smoking causes lung cancer. In addition, passive exposure of infants and children adversely affects respiratory health, increasing the risk for severe lower respiratory infections, middle ear disease (otitis media), chronic respiratory symptoms, asthma, and sudden infant death syndrome, as well as reducing the rate of lung function growth during childhood.

[Calpatriot.org] california patriot blog » General: 3) No correlation has been drawn between smoking and actual lung cancer. The government has been trying for decades, but all they can come up is that heavy marijuana smokers develop similar pre cancerous masses in the lungs, but no study has actually shown that the smokers develop real lung cancer.

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