Category Archives: Tobacco and kids

Deadly scourge will kill three-quarters of a million AA and NA members

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Jim Gogek

“…724,153 worldwide members of Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous – who are alive today — will die from tobacco, including 499,410 in the United States and Canada…” Continue reading →

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Big Tobacco: The biggest and most willing liar

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Jim Gogek

By Jim Gogek In the film noir The Naked City, Detective Muldoon tells the smarmy Frank Niles, “…you are probably the biggest and most willing liar I have ever met.” Muldoon never met the modern day tobacco industry. In its … Continue reading →

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Some bad news from California: We’re not a smoke-free state

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Jim Gogek

By Jim Gogek Not too long ago, I was bragging on California in this blog because we have one of the lowest smoking rates in the country, lower than some other states by half. I said that was because California … Continue reading →

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ATODblog:2010 in review

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Jim Gogek

Wish I had more time to devote to this blog… Anybody else who thinks the same way I do about alcohol, tobacco and other drugs want to submit a post? Anyway, here’s the figures on readership for last year, courtesy … Continue reading →

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Some good news from California: Smoking is waaaay down!

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Jim Gogek

By Jim Gogek These days, Californians don’t hear a lot of  good news about our state, not with budget cuts decimating our once vaunted education system, our parks and other public services. But one thing we’ve done right is quit … Continue reading →

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Local governments ignore laws against hookah lounges in California (not to mention their public health threat)

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Jim Gogek

Hookah bars are proliferating in California, and around the country. Though they claim to be about a multicultural experience, they are really about attracting young people to smoke tobacco. People believe that because you smoke fruit-flavored tobacco through a waterpipe, … Continue reading →

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Tony Gwynn’s cancer: Time for big leaguers to take responsibility for youngsters using smokeless tobacco

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Jim Gogek

Tony Gwynn is San Diego’s favorite son. He’s like Ernie Banks to Chicago or Derek Jeter to New York, only San Diego is a smaller, more familiar kind of place, so our local heroes are much more real life-like. When … Continue reading →

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How smokefree laws for adults protect children

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Jim Gogek

A funny thing happened with Scotlands’ smokefree law, which banned smoking in public places such as restaurants, bars, shops, cinemas, offices, hospitals, work vehicles and sports centers. Research published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that this law … Continue reading →

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The war Down Under: Big Tobacco’s assault on Australia

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Jim Gogek

    You’d think it would be tough marketing a product that kills half the people who use it as directed. The fact that it’s the most addictive substance on the planet helps. Still, you have to get new customers … Continue reading →

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Big Tobacco’s unrelenting campaign against our children

Posted on July 25, 2010 by Jim Gogek

    Yes, Big Tobacco is still trying to get your children to smoke cigarettes, even though laws enjoin them to stop. How can they help it? They’ve got to replace all those smokers who quit or die. When you … Continue reading →

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