Pacing outside the office, feeding my pack a day habit, I decided I needed a place to talk about books and butts. Welcome to my sidewalk.

Thursday, March 08, 2007

Smokin' news

Two items of note in today's paper:

Smoking curb could "upset China stability

"Smoking harms people's health, but restraining smoking threatens social stability," said Zhang Baozhen, deputy chief of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration. "Smokers rioted when the former Soviet Union collapsed because they could not get any cigarettes... The principle applies in China as well," Zhang said, responding to proposals from some members of China's parliamentary advisory body to curtail the smoking industry.
Interesting factoid: The World Health Organization estimates that smoking kills 1.2 million people are year in China.

R-rated movies lure white teens into smoking?
Apparently, white kids kick back with a bucket of popcorn, a pack of smokes, and a risque movie. Interesting tidbit from the study, which was published in Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine: today's movies depict actors smoking as often as in the 1950s.

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