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.
Paul Armentano, AlterNet. September 23, 2009. Recent scientific reports suggest that pot doesn't destroy your brain, that it doesn't cause lung damage like tobacco -- but you won't hear it in the corporate media.
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.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet. July 24, 2009. Charging high taxes on smokes is the only way to push people to quit. And I don't want the individual freedom to be suicidally stupid.
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.
Marti1704, AlterNet: Video. October 23, 2007. Marti1704: We used to pick it, now they want us to smoke it. Slick, flashy advertising for menthol cigarettes is on the rise, particularly in low-income black neighborhoods.
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.
