Collecting My Thoughts

I love seeing the daddies and grandpas pushing the baby strollers in the dawn's early light at Lakeside. Someone drew the short straw wh...

The study of more than 200,000 people, published this week in BMC medicine , found about 67 percent of smokers perished from smoking-relat...

It’s nice when medical opinion catches up with mine.  For years I have questioned the use of public funding for smoking cessation—for Medi...

Everyone by 2015 will be paying more taxes under the President's plan--except of course, those who don't pay any taxes. Although eve...

I'm still waiting to meet a former smoker who quit permanently as the result of a government paid for program in their health plan, a wo...

This is the heading of a 2 page ad in a women's magazine--sponsored by Lorillard Tobacco Company! Hmmm. Not sure that's the best s...

Besides the obvious one, death. The list is in the November 14, 2008 US News and World Report. I came across it today looking for the succ...

While I was volunteering at the Midwest Birding Symposium and learning from Jim McCormac about how a drop of water in Lake Superior makes i...

My Dad was a smoker--from the archives Oh, I remember that cough. We children had never known anything else but Dad's coughing. And the ...

Heeding the warnings Driving to the bank this morning after my walk, I pushed the radio buttons and got that monotonous recorded weather ch...

4645 Cite your sources! There's a full page ad in the paper today from the State of New York Commissioner of Health addressed to Disne...

You know who you are Someone I love is trying to quit smoking. I suggested he take one day at a time, and he assured me an hour might be ...

4554 His father's heart The excerpt from Steve McKee's book, "My father's heart" in today's Wall St. Journal was ...

4043 Addiction in 6th graders My son began smoking in adolescence, so a recent article in Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 2...

3909 Beyond hot here in Columbus Yesterday it was 95 degrees in Columbus, OH. I was on duty for the mail run between our church's Lyt...

3876 Here's a pup you don't want A few weeks ago I showed a cute puppy that needed a good home. He'd been badly abused. Her...

Another reason to give up smoking This is a new one on me. Back pain. I've had back problems and pain off and one since my horse fel...

3757 Smoking bans Ireland was the first country to implement a true smoking ban. Not very many states have a ban, but Ohio is one of the...

Poetry Thursday #14 Today's challenge has two parts. I think I've met it. I'll keep this at the top of the page, but scroll d...

3490 Does this smoker bear responsibility for his lung cancer? Was it his pack a day habit that caused his disease, or was it his employe...