Is your city strapped for cash? Have you seen your school funding cut by x-amount of dollars? Is the mayor looking for a way to fund a new economic development project? Here’s an idea that... Read more >>

This Saturday marks two months of smoke-free living for me. Yep, I was a pretty hard core smoker that went through two packs per day for the last fifteen years. To put that into perspective, I smoked... Read more >>

  Australia is still amazingly UK focused in many ways. When I wake up in the mornings I listen to ABC radio, the vaguely equivalent to BBC Radio 4, and besides getting Australian and global... Read more >>

My boyfriend just came back from a semester abroad in Paris—and he came back a smoker. I am not a smoker. Never have been, never will be. I couldn’t smoke during high school as I was... Read more >>

I don’t normally smoke very often, but in the week leading up to my last birthday, I was in crisis mode and needed some smokes. Well, a week passed after the dreaded day, and with the crisis... Read more >>

November is a good month to reconsider the cigarette. Not only is it National Lung Cancer and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Awareness month, but November 20th is the American Cancer... Read more >>

Cigarette addiction is one of the hardest habits to beat. A lot of smokers want to quit smoking. Most don’t succeed.  Non-smokers and smokers alike underestimate the addictive nature of... Read more >>

It’s February of 2009 and I am staring at a cigarette neatly arranged on the table in front of me, next to my coffee cup, an ashtray and a lighter. I have been smoking since I was seventeen when... Read more >>

Mad Men, AMC’s Emmy award–winning drama concerning the lives of ad men (and women) in the 1960s, has drawn heavy fire and heavy praise for its depiction of heavy smoking. Almost every... Read more >>

Habits feed off our need and want of them, but don’t we want to rid ourselves of our indulgent self-inflicted plagues? Smoking, diets, our lust for the edgy. We try to refrain from the... Read more >>