Collecting My Thoughts

Demands for "health equity" for racial and ethnic groups is a push for more government control. The CDC reported in 2014 that the ...

Have you ever seen this statement--"Americans have a shorter life expectancy compared with residents of almost all other high-income co...

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...

Last year the government spent $54 million on Tips from Former Smokers. These are very moving stories. Sad, too. Lives ruined, or dead. The ...

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, ...

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...

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 ...

Sunday Search the Archives This one from Feb. 15, 2006 at Church of the Acronym is worth a repeat--we'll be heading to church in a few...

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...

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...

3823 We're fat, lazy and addicted, but we can control the climate This morning I was listening to a radio interview with Governor Stri...

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...

3717 Do smoking cessation pills and programs work? I know many former smokers; my son-in-law quit 9 years ago, his father knows the exact ...

3562 Smoking and movies No matter what you say about violence, sex and dirty language in movies, they aren't going to kill your childre...

3032 What it costs to smoke How do I count the ways? My heart and hopes are with my 38 year old son who has been smoking half his life. Wh...