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POPSNYC Smoking Rate Cut Go ahead, Mayor Mike! You deserved to be memorized for everything what you and your people already have done to our city. What a parking mess was in Manhattan before you! How you calmed down illegals! How many lives was saved with tobacco ban! You took care for everything, even for your own memorial.;) I will vote for you whenever and wherever you will decide to run. On any ticket. I hope you will agree to run next time.;) You are great man, real leader and big politician. Besides your business accomplishments.
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POPSDangers of Third Hand Smoke Smoking rooms in hotels are unbearable for nonsmokers, toxic and smelly airborne particles of tobacco tars staying in furniture, upholstery, walls and floor forever. The same odor hanging in apartments and houses of smokers. Children, growing in such environment, cannot be healthy and will pay a price for the habit of their parents for the rest of their life.
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POPSSmoking Marijuana? Better check your judgement...
...Waking up can appears not so pleasant and even catastrophic. Prosecutors say Brancato and accomplice Steven Armento broke into a basement apartment to steal prescription drugs after a night of drinking at a strip club. Brancato rose to fame in the 1993 movie "A Bronx Tale," playing a young kid from the neighborhood who is torn between two worlds and two men: a local mobster played by Chazz Palminteri and his straight-and-narrow bus-driver father, played by Robert De Niro. Other roles followed, most notably a stint on the second season of "The Sopranos," where he played a bumbling aspiring mobster. His character carried out a series of low-level crimes for the New Jersey mob before being gunned down by Tony Soprano and his sidekick as he tearfully begged for his life. The pills were part of a drug problem that he said began when he was "introduced to marijuana" on the set of "A Bronx Tale." He later became hooked on crack and heroin, he said. He told the jury that
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POPSWant to get stoned? Main consequence of drugs is their addiction, when people become a slave not only of the substance itself, but of that drug dealers. For the sake of the dope they are abandoning family and social ties and responsibilities. When it make no big significance for terminally ill, young and relatively healthy person gradually getting out of reality.
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POPSRussert's massive heart attack. People have to die from something. Sooner or later. Nobody can avoid the end. Tim Russert was exposed to the dangers of our modern life as nobody other. Journalism itself, politic, traveling, long work day, stress of high level of management, some routine health problems and lifestyle. May be some of these components were too excessive. A kind of dissonance from harmony.
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POPS Smoking hurts mind... Stalin, Chirchill led their nations through WW2 with puffing pipes, in WW1 American black soldiers have crawled to the night attacks on European battlefields with lighted handmade cigars, even beign good targets for enemy... Smoking hurting not only mind and body, but families and nations. Remember peace pipes of American Indians?