Collecting My Thoughts

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...

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...

Didn't Sesame Street have a song like that? One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn't belong, ...

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...

Each week in the Lakesider (our weekly newspaper) there's a notice about smoking in "public areas." By next summer you won...

Thursday Thirteen--13 reminders In the previous entry I reported on supplements C & E not helping much. What to do? Here's my thirte...

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 ...

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