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MOSSIE: Blowing smoke in all directions  

Making smoking not only socially unacceptable, but downright inconvenient and uncomfortable had accomplished what years of relentless health campaigns on the effects of smoking had not: I quit cold turkey the next week. I got to thinking about the social stigma attached to smoking in the wake of a seemingly unrelated incident.

Last week, Philadelphia police arrested 44-year-old security guard Andre Moore for making a video of himself encouraging, among other obscenities, that the public should “continue killing cops in the 18th District.” . . .

Things have come to a sorry pass when it is far more socially acceptable to kill a cop than it is to smoke a cigarette.

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