The Friday Podcast: Death Saves You Money

The Friday Podcast: Death Saves You Money : Planet Money : NPR

Activists used the study's findings against the industry — and, paradoxically, sought to undermine the study's conclusions.

On today's Planet Money, we tell the story of the study. And we look more broadly at the economics of this stuff.

Linked because even when you consider it's a year old it's still relevant. 

Proposed Smoking Ban Includes Restrictions On Sitting, Standing While Smoking Outdoors

Proposed Smoking Ban Includes Restrictions On Sitting, Standing While Smoking Outdoors | WSPA

Under the town's proposed ordinance, if you're within ten feet of a restaurant or ten feet of a public event at a stadium, ampitheater or ball park, you have to keep walking and smoking, and you cannot not stop, stand, sit or linger.

Shock and awe again.
I keep finding this shit for lack of a better term that makes the Libertarian in me want to scream.
When is enough enough?
Too upset to write anything you'll comprehend if you're unlucky enough to read this.

Lighting up outdoors

Lighting up outdoors


But Canadians should be wary of new anti-smoking regulations nonetheless. It's dangerous to let governments pass laws that are far more restrictive than is justified by their stated purpose. If Ottawa's council extends its smoking ban outdoors on the premise that it's protecting people from secondhand smoke, it had better be sure of its science and be careful not to go too far.

Not completely thrilled with this op but it is fair.
A rarity in all honesty.

Nicotine gum ‘puts unborn babies at risk’

Nicotine gum ‘puts unborn babies at risk’ - IOL Lifestyle | IOL.co.za

Professor Jeremy Pearson, of the British Heart Foundation, said: “There is lots of help out there for smokers wanting to quit that doesn’t involve nicotine, so there really is no excuse for expectant moms not to kick the habit.”

Just stop,for God's sake.
It isn't enough that smokers were ostracized,lost jobs,custody of their children,the right to smoke indoors,the right to smoke outdoors,lost jobs and on and on.
You've been successful enough at moving them onto NRT that now it seems NRT's are also a problem.
When does this ever end?