New Cigarette Labels: Will They Work?
Starting in 2011, half of the front of a pack of cigarettes will feature anti-smoking messages ranging from cartoons to...
Starting in 2011, half of the front of a pack of cigarettes will feature anti-smoking messages ranging from cartoons to...
Manatee County, Florida deputies have a story they won't soon forget. They stopped a man for speeding and smelled marijuana....
This morning on The Early Show, a sponsor billboard ran that got my attention.  It was for Nicorette, a popular...
In last week's edition of Monday's Morals, I asked a question based on a situation I noted had actually happened...
What's a beer among friends?  Enough to fuel a battle, even if the beer itself is meant to cool tempers....
It amazes me that any doctor would prescribe or supply the kind of hospital anesthesia reportedly found in Michael Jackson's...
I'm always amused by proponents of legalized marijuana who argue that their intoxicant of choice has side effects much less...
When the news first broke about a photo of Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps apparently using a bong at a...
The Amethyst Initiative is designed to bring the debate over lowering the legal drinking age from 21 to 18 to...
In light of recent headlines, I thought I'd take a look at how many celebrities we've lost to drugs. WCBS-TV...
Sometimes, as many of you know, it's what a political ad doesn't come right out and say that is worth...
For the past forty-five minutes or so, I've been watching a documentary on Elvis Presley on TV Land. The cable...
Over at By The Way..., John Scalzi mentioned a strange law in Tennessee that requires people who possess a certain...
The doctor at the "Doc-in-a-Box" I visited yesterday gave me a prescription for antibiotics to fight off this delightful bacterial...
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