Archive for the ‘health’ Category

The Banning Of Third Hand Cigarette Smoke

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Fat boy here is trying to lose weight. I'm doing the raw thing. Raw nuts, fruits and veggies, raw fish, etc. I'm sitting with a friend enjoying some nice sushi when I almost gag from a pugent aroma that found my nose. Cigarette smoke in a smoke free restaurant? How dare ...

SmokeFree NC: Legislating Common Sense

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

I attended Guilford County's celebration of the passage of HB2 which prohibits smoking in restaurants and bars today at Gate City Lanes on Hornaday Road along with Dr. Dick Rosen. Dr. Rosen and I have been working together on this issue now for 20 years as evidenced by the newspaper we're ...

Ironic: No Smoking At Local Tobacco Cartel?

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

I serve on the Board at Smoke Free Guilford. Today, a local official explained new HB2 that covers smoking in restaurants and bars that takes effect on Jan 2 will also include (by legal definition) the restaurant area at the local tobacco cartel. That's probably not going to go smoothly at ...

Paying Teens Not To Get Pregnant: Liberal Concocted?

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

In a story that's beyond belief, taxpayers are now sponsoring a program that pays teenagers not to get pregnant. 10 to 1 odds that a liberal is at the core of this program. Requirements of being in the liberal club are to agree not to accept personal responsibility and to milk ...

One man’s answer to health care reform.

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Is that who I think it is? It is. Careful with that island life CP. You'll end up like Howard Sprague. "ya wanna buy a ship in a bottle"? And I like prices on menus. How much do you charge for a prenuptial ginacology house call?

Lunch With The Governor: No Smoking

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

I was honored to get an invitation along with Dr. Richard Rosen to witness Governor Beverly Purdue sign into law House Bill 2 today in Raleigh. The bill bans smoking in bars and restaurants. I've got mixed emotions about the bill because it's so watered down from it's original intent but ...

1988: Two Inconsiderate Smokers Caused Local Revolution

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Around 1988 a pregnant Lori Faley, who had moved here from Indiana, asked two men smoking in a grocery store line to please refrain from smoking while in her area. They refused. I'd love to know who the two men were that actually started the local non smokers revolt. Faley gathered ...

Senate: Do Smoking Ban Foes Discriminate Against Women?

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

A great editorial in the N&R today. It's probably the first time since the invention of ink that I could have written a N&R editorial word for word. Don't get used to that AJ. They quickly let Bruce Caldwell parrot the tobacco cartel's brainwashing techniques that resemble a worn out ...

Cystoscope: Love Hurts

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

It wasn't planned. It just happened. Unintended passion has resulted in a once every three months affair with the utensil you see in the photograph called a cystoscope. Moans and screams caused calls to 911 operators in three counties. And that was while I was still in the waiting room. Foreplay ...

Republicans Sign On To Holliman’s HB2 Smoking Ban Bill

Friday, March 27th, 2009

At least four Republicans have signed on to the proposed Public and Workplace Smoking Ban as sponsors or co sponsors. Good. Lungs are non partisan. That should reduce the knots knocked on my head after attending GOP meetings. Scheduled vote is now April 1st. Ah oh. From Elon Poll: "Eighty-seven percent agreed that employees have ...