Britain to put picture warnings on all tobacco products
Cigarettes constitute one of the greatest threats to human health and welfare of all time. On a global scale, consider the damage to lungs, families, businesses, and the next generation's prospects. Cigarette smokers destroy so much more than their lungs.
The resources devoted to combating diseased lungs created by mindless addiction in our globalized, market embedded societies is staggering. I'll post figures here when I pass them on the Internet.
My oldest sister smoked herself to death as she totally denied the health hazards of smoking. She could hardly complete a sentence before she died. Oddly, she had no measurable signs of cancer until the week before she died, the week before she lost her mind. The cancer destroyed her brain cells, apparently quite quickly at the end.
If our government, our culture, will allow giant corporations to lie to us and help kill us for their bottom-line, what else are they willing to lie about?
Have you heard the history of women and smoking in the USA? Drop by again and I'll have it posted`
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Jim Motyl, software engineer, WMS Gaming:
After years of lugging around a laptop on business trips, I decided to lighten my load by getting an ultramobile PC. But the miniature computer lacked a proper keyboard, a serious disadvantage when working on the road. Still, I didn't want a full-size portable keyboard -- that's just one more thing to carry. The solution was this Korean laser projector, a Bluetooth device that connects to my UMPC (as well as to PDAs, cell phones, and other mobile devices) and shines a bright red "qwerty" keyboard on flat surfaces. It weighs slightly more than 4 ounces and is just 3.5 inches wide, so it fits inside my UMPC's case. The keys can be clearly seen in well-lit offices, restaurants, and practically every other environment except direct sunlight. Sensors pick up my finger movements about a quarter-inch above the surface, typing elicits keyboardlike clicks to signal that the sensors are doing their job, and placing a finger at the bottom of the keyboard activates the mouse function. All told, this device provides another welcome layer of mobility to my mobile computing.