The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has taken the much-needed step of banning the sale of flavored e-cigarettes in retail stores. The move could prevent a new generation of youths from getting hooked on nicotine. Why? Because the electronic-inhalation devices come in as many sweet combinations as Jelly Bellys and […]
Author: Hardee Bass
Last week, the oldest of the four major professional American sports leagues began its 147th season. Long before current day Major League Baseball (MLB) was founded in the late 1860’s, baseball was played. And virtually since the inception of “America’s Pastime”, for high school/recreational players through major leaguers, and every […]
Will California’s Move Cause Other States to Raise the Legal Smoking Age? The phrase “Go west, young man,” in American jargon can be traced back to the mid-1800s, when westward expansion began . And for raising the legal smoking age in the United States, like manifest destiny, the American West […]
Luckily, for addicted smokers, there are multiple stop smoking aids available in 2015. Whether it by prescription or over-the-counter, and whether nicotine replacement therapy or non-nicotine medications, there are a growing number of cessation aides available today. Some people even believe that e-cigarettes are a smoking cessation aid. Sadly though, […]
Florida lawyers are once again at the forefront of litigation against Big Tobacco, as last week a class action lawsuit against the maker of American Spirit cigarettes, and its parent company, was filed in Federal Court in Miami. American Spirit cigarettes are made by Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company (SFNTC), […]
The college football season kicked off this past weekend, beginning the daily sports-talk radio and water-cooler discussions about which teams should be ranked in the top 20 and where those teams should be ranked. College football is, happily, a part of American culture, both past and present. However, tragically, the […]
“Enough” said Eunice Kennedy Shriver, when, in 1960 two local Bethesda, MD women called Eunice and told her that they were having trouble finding summer camps for their children with intellectual disabilities, because the “mainstream,” “normal” camps would not accept their children. At the time, Eunice – one of nine […]
I have never been to Hawaii. But as I understand it, “aloha” is used to say hello and goodbye. And starting soon, aloha will mean goodbye to cigarettes if you are under the age of 21, as last week Hawaii became the first state in the nation to ban smoking […]
Should we be disturbed that the CEO of the second leading cigarette maker in America hopes for a return to Big Tobacco’s “old days?” Susan Cameron, CEO of Reynolds American – parent company of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company – is obviously in a celebratory mood given her stewardship over Reynolds’ […]
Do cigarette manufacturers know their customers, or do cigarette manufacturers know their customers? A recent article in the New York Times found that “low-income smokers in New York spend 25% of their income on cigarettes.” While statistics like this might come as a surprise to regular folks like you and […]
