Danny Polishchuk joins Kerryn Feehan on the couch to the World Junior Hockey Championship, Danny’s first time smoking, and Jewish summer camp. The discussion turns to cults, Canada and college. Here’s more from Only Feehans.
Few now remember the days of old when even medical doctors extolled the virtues of smoking cigarettes, as in this 1949 ad for Camel.
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And even into the 1960s, cigarettes still appeared as sponsors for popular kids’ cartoon shows on TV.
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Our nation’s nannies, scolds and buttinskies started 2013 with a renewed hunger to mind other people’s business.
One Florida city has banned dog tethering (even on your own property!) and a Texas State Rep. Bill Zedler (R-Arlington) wants to license strippers to dissuade women from going into that line of work. But Reason awards 2013’s first Nanny of the Month booby prize to the northwest nag whose new bill, if passed, would expand the drug war by categorizing cigarettes as a Schedule III controlled substance (along with LSD). You’d need a doctor’s prescription to get your mitts on tobacco products (including cigars), and if you disobey, you could be looking at a fine of $6,250, up to a year in prison, or both.
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