Forum (Forum & Focus)
Dec. 30, 2008
Light on Logic
Common sense dictates that the Labeling Act was not meant to give cigarette manufacturers immunity from any lawsuit that is even remotely linked to health, writes Matt Valenti.
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By Matt Valenti President-elect Barack Obama will have more than just a tanking economy in common with Franklin Roosevelt when he's sworn in next month. Obama will also be the first president since Roosevelt to smoke cigarettes while in office - although he won't be seen sporting a cigarette dangling from an elegant holder, as Roosevelt so famously did. Obama claims that he has been trying to quit, and will respect the White House "no...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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