With one part of the tax bill passed by the special session of the legislature Wednesday (10/2/2013), Oregon continues its two-faced approach to cigarette smokers. On the one hand the state has worked hard to discourage smoking. On the other, it relies on smokers to pay for essential services. On the one hand it treats […]
The litter smokers leave behind
While the country is still reverberating with blather about the president’s State of the Union speech, let us turn to a much more mundane yet real phenomenon: the environmental pollution that was made worse when building owners everywhere decided to ban smoking indoors.
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