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(09/18/09 4:00am)
There's an expression: 'Right idea, wrong execution.' The New England Journal of Medicine illustrated this when it published an article written by a group of prominent doctors and policy makers stating that a tax on sugary drinks would not only raise revenue, but also have significant health benefits.
(09/18/09 4:00am)
There are few things more tragic than a school official breaking the trust bestowed upon her by the community. Former Kenmore East High School Principal LuAnn E. Ostanksi was finally sentenced on Wednesday after being caught stealing in March.
(09/16/09 4:00am)
Monday passed for most Americans like any other day. Unbeknownst to most, it marked the one-year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers – a collapse that proved to be the catalyst for a global financial crisis.
(09/16/09 4:00am)
Despite the fact that it was the top priority on his domestic agenda, it was a protracted and comatose summer for President Barack Obama as far as health care reform was concerned. Obama's administration was wounded by months filled with hearings called for by Republicans, who are determined to end his health care reform campaign.
(09/14/09 4:00am)
(09/14/09 4:00am)
In the September 11 issue of The Spectrum, the article 'Giving back after tragedy' incorrectly stated that the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks occurred nine years ago, rather then eight years ago. The Spectrum regrets the error.
(09/14/09 4:00am)
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(09/11/09 4:00am)
Dear Fellow Students,
(09/11/09 4:00am)
U.S. history is filled with defining moments. They range from joyous occasions, such as July 4, 1776, to painful moments, like the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
(09/11/09 4:00am)
Click here for SBI's official statement concerning Generation Magazine.
(09/09/09 4:00am)
We must face facts. After eight years and $226 billion, what has the United States accomplished in Afghanistan?
(09/09/09 4:00am)
Many scholars believe that U.S. law never seems to stop growing. Increasingly, the Internet appears to be the new frontier of the law.
(09/04/09 4:00am)
Given the current state of the country, there's probably no more daunting a task than to reform America's health care system. President Barack Obama must do exactly that.
(09/04/09 4:00am)
To the Editor,
(09/04/09 4:00am)
To the Editor:
(09/02/09 4:00am)
Parents have one more thing to worry about as they send their children back to school this year.
(09/02/09 4:00am)
Sadly, the University at Buffalo is not immune to a timeless lesson – most politicians cannot avoid scandals.
(07/01/09 4:00am)
(07/01/09 4:00am)
Dear Editor,
In your June 29th "Kicking the Habit" story, Editor Stephen Marth quotes the VP of health sciences as saying, "If you can smell smoke, you are breathing in cancer-causing chemicals."
That's perfectly true. It's also perfectly true that if you are within 500 feet or so of a running car that "you are breathing in cancer-causing chemicals." And according to the National College of DUI Defense at:
http://www.ncdd.com/dsp_articledetails.cfm?article=15
you will be breathing in carcinogenic benzene, as well as isoprene, acetone, toluene and a hundred or so other nasty chemicals if you happen to be sharing an enclosed area with another living, breathing human being: Human respiration is a mechanism for getting rid of many noxious metabolic byproducts and chemicals.
So will the University be banning indoor space sharing and outdoor automobiles within 500 feet of campus (or at least ON campus)? I doubt it. Secondhand smoke is just the sideshow "smoke and mirrors" excuse for the real reason for bans on campuses, in bars/restaurants, and elsewhere, as admitted by Dr. Cappuccino: "By de-normalizing smoking on campus, we will be able to take steps in helping students never start."
I spoke of "DeNormalization" and social engineering as motivations for smoking bans ten years ago and was usually met with the response that I was seeing "black helicopters" that didn't exist. Back then the motivation was rarely acknowledged publicly by those pushing for bans because it was felt it would inspire too much resistance: far better to simply trump up fears around scary sounding chemical names that people might be exposed to in almost imaginary quantities: picograms, femtograms, attograms, or even zeptograms.
Today antismoking activists are at least a bit more honest about why they're doing what they do, but they still play the "fear" card and the "save the children" card, and they still wildly distort scientific studies or even deliberately design research from scratch to misrepresent facts to the public. And when students fall from ledges or get mugged on dark streets where they sneak smokes, or when fires occur because of improperly and hastily disposed of butts... where will the University, those activists, and those researchers be then?
If the University actually believes in honest and open academic debate about its policies and any students would like more information about what lies at the root of smoking bans like this, they are more than welcome to email me at Cantiloper on the aol system.
Michael J. McFadden
Author of "Dissecting Antismokers' Brains"
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