"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Rebellion: New Yorkers are giving the Bronx cheer to the new anti-smoking laws:
Welcome to civil disobedience, circa 2003. On a beautiful Downtown day this week, Gotham Gandhis in Prada flicked their ash at the mayor from sidewalk cafes and Irish pubs. Everywhere you turned, smoke wisped out beneath spring caps, leaving clouds over the Vespas on West Broadway. Some restaurants have plans to ignore the ban altogether and pass the hat around for the fines. Already, those that do so are packed as if Puff Daddy has just showed up.
I don't condone smoking in any way, but medical advice never works well when it's given punitively. posted by Sydney on
4/17/2003 08:39:00 AM
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