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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Multiple Deliberate Overdoses--I'm Smoking

Excuse me, Readers, but if you want a calm, reasoned post, skip this one; I gotta rant here--my first time.

Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health concluded in a study released Jan. 18 that in the last few years cigarette makers deliberately boosted nicotine levels in cigarettes to hook smokers.

Nicotine is a weapon of mass destruction. As our religiously minded readers can agree, this is evil. Big Tobacco executives are addicted to money, and our friends who smoke suffer for it.

Advice to non-smokers: Money talks to the cigarette makers. Make sure your savings don't finance Big Tobacco--look at your mutual funds, and if they invest in tobacco companies, move your money elsewhere.

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