Posted on September 15, 2008 02:07 PM
I went to Catholic school for the fourth grade and it was then that I made my Communion (yes I am an Atheist Jew who made Communion). I tried to get out of it by reminding my teacher, Sister Melody, that I was Jewish; I still had to go, according to her, "Don't worry - it's good for you." Earlier in the year I tried the same tactic to get out of Catechism classes and attending mass.
Posted on April 24, 2008 01:15 PM
My company will not hire smokers and I mean not just smoking on the job, I mean even if they smoke while on vacation in DisneyWorld (although smoking there is getting harder to do) or at home. I believe the government has no right to interfere in your private life, except... if you abuse your wife, children, or even your own body or property if it harms others.
Posted on February 12, 2007 04:01 PM
Since the poor and less educated have the highest prevalence of smokers and obese among them, the very people who were supposed to be most in need of health services will end up not getting them.
Posted on February 1, 2007 06:43 PM
in the complex of La Defense" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /> Employees smoke outside the entrance of an office building in the complex of La Defense, a congregation of office towers where many of France's major corporations are based in the west of Paris, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2007. France's health minister expressed optimism that the public will respect a new ban on smoking in offices and other public areas set to begin Thursday, but acknowledged there could be violators....
Posted on March 24, 2006 07:43 PM
We should ban smoking on Cruises. A fire broke out aboard the cruise ship Star Princess Thursday as it sailed through the Caribbean sea, leaving one passenger dead and 11 others injured.
Posted on February 14, 2006 02:43 PM
It certainly is easy to predict that in another few years parents with young children at home will not be permitted to smoke. Hopefully this will happen soon.
Posted on January 26, 2006 11:25 PM
A study (in December 2005) has shown that in New Jersey (which has yet to start the ban), bars and restaurants had more than nine times the levels of indoor air pollution compared with those in neighboring New York City, which had banned smoking in those establishments.
Posted on January 25, 2006 11:31 PM
I don't care if you live in Mongolia and smoke, as long as you don't drive and smoke on the same highway as I am on, or smoke in the same restaurant as I eat in, or smoke in the same building I am in. Notwithstanding what I just said, I not only believe you have a right to smoke wherever you want, I also believe you have a right to piss wherever you like, as long as it is not anywhere near me.
Posted on January 20, 2006 08:03 PM
What can I say? She's French and they are so obnoxious about smoking. The Germans certainly aren't much better.
Posted on January 17, 2006 04:19 PM
I do not drink. But I do have visitors from Europe and Asia coming to visit me every few weeks. I schedule those meetings in New York City where I can have a glass of wine or even a beer without choking.
