November 3, 2013
Check it out at http://billmoyers.com/segment/yves-smith-and-dean-baker-on-secrets-in-trade/. The discussion is an excellent introduction to all the arcane issues around the Trans Pacific Partnership.
The last sentence in the discussion says it all: "There would be no reason to keep it so secret if it was in the interest of the public.”
October 21, 2013
October 19, 2013
No spooky chemicals or other foreign ingredients in e-cigs.
Just pure nicotine.
For beginners, it's the perfect starter kit in candy counter flavors.
No burning, choking hard-to-get-used-to smoke.
For longtime cigarette smokers guaranteed nicotine dependency.
e-cigs. Pure Addiction.
(Paul Keye developed the original California anti-tobacco ad campaign.)
Of course, ecigs are not just pure nicotine. But a little artistic license is ok (since Paul is not selling them).
October 16, 2013
October 15, 2013
Kai-Wen Cheng, Cassandra Okechuskwu, Robert McMillen, and I just published "Association between clean indoor air laws and voluntary smokefree rules in homes and cars" in Tobacco Control.
Here is the abstract (with a couple technical terms replaced with plain English):
Objectives This study examines the influence that smokefree workplaces, restaurants and bars have on the adoption of smokefree rules in homes and cars, and whether there is an association with adopting smokefree rules in homes and cars.
Methods [Statistical analysis was] used to jointly estimate the likelihood of living in a smokefree home and having a smokefree car as a function of law coverage and other variables. Household data were obtained from the nationally representative Social Climate Survey of Tobacco Control 2001, 2002 and 2004–2009; clean indoor air law data were from the American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation Tobacco Control Laws Database.