Tony Newman, AlterNet. September 25, 2009. We should celebrate our success curbing cigarette smoking but let's not get carried away and think that criminalizing smoking is the answer.
Tony Newman, CNN. August 2, 2009. Cigarettes kill more people than cocaine, heroin, meth and all other illegal drugs combined. Imagine if they were illegal.
Anne Landman, PR Watch. January 15, 2009. Researchers are still uncovering the shocking lengths to which the industry has gone to protect itself from smoking bans.
Aaron Houston, AlterNet. December 18, 2008. A new survey reveals 13% of 10th-graders reported smoking marijuana in the past 30 days, while just 12.3% smoked cigarettes.
Tony Newman, AlterNet. December 11, 2008. It is no fun having to explain to people, in person or on national television, how you came to start cigarettes again once they "catch" you.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. August 18, 2008. Smoking is an addiction, not a choice. The public has long known this. Finally, Congress is catching on.
Scott Thill, AlterNet. April 26, 2008. Injecting nitric oxide into the penises of sedated cats is just one of the newly discovered bizarre studies conducted by the tobacco industry.
Lucinda Marshall, AlterNet: PEEK. October 15, 2007. Lucinda Marshall: R.J. Reynolds has introduced a new cigarette targeted specifically towards women called "Barbie Camels".
Allan M. Brandt, AlterNet. April 16, 2007. How the tobacco industry-hired Hill & Knowlton to develop many of the propaganda techniques against science used today to attack climate change and evolution.
Daniel B. Wood, Christian Science Monitor. February 9, 2007. Condos and apartments are the new no-smoking frontier. Seniors are leading the way in the new battle to ban smoking from communal environments.