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In the end, we will join the ranks of civilised nations. What are we, the idiots of Europe? Health Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos, on Greece's smoking ban.
For the average smoker, those under-the-table, tax-free packs might seem like a bargain. But as the recent history of cigarette smuggling vividly illustrates, when you buy black-market smokes, you never know whose paycheck you're signing.Text from yet another trenchant, well-researched and well-written article on cigarette smuggling, this time from a small South Florida paper. The big mainstream media orgs are getting drubbed on this subject.
These troops are essentially putting their lives at risk twice: once in service to their country and once in service to tobacco. Tobacco is a long-term engagement — it kills slowly and insidiously.Stuart Bondurant, chair of the Committee on Smoking Cessation in Military and Veteran Populations, on the IOM report that found about half of smoking US troops returning from Iraq or Afghanistan will eventually die from a smoking-related illness.