"He lit Daisy’s cigarette from a trembling match, and sat down with her on a couch far across the room..."

"... where there was no light save what the gleaming floor bounced in from the hall." Today's sentence, in the Gatsby project ...

"In a funny twist, Ed whispers how the man at the table next to ours is feverishly working his prayer beads with his hand."

"The man hears us and laughs. Not prayer beads -- he says in decent English -- this is what we do here when we try to quit smoking. Yo...

"I witnessed light sexual play among officers, a lot of e-cigarette vaping, and a whole lot of officers laughing and clowning in regard to some of your nude images, dear passengers."

What goes on in those sealed rooms where TSA agents look at X-ray images of passengers in screening machines? The agents are isolated where...

"Birds Appear to 'Self-Medicate' With Our Cigarette Butts."

Headline at The Atlantic. What birds are actually doing, apparently, is using the butts in nest-building, and nicotine works as an arthropo...

"We're all adults here, it's time we take our freedom back."

Fabulous slogan from ad — viewable at the link — for blu eCigs. Most living Americans had never before seen a cigarette advertised on telev...

At the Kong Kafé...

... what are you sucking at? (Need a Kong? Here ! Need anything else? Here's the outstanding and mild Althouse portal .)

"Smoking 'rots' brain, says King's College study."

Says the BBC , and maybe my brain is rotted, but I can't find the scientific concept of brain "rot" in the article or any just...

"Now that legal pot is here, will cigarette companies dust off their old plans for mass commercialization?"

NPR explores the coming of legal marijuana: In the '70s... "there were high-level conversations about adding marijuana to tobacco, ...

"Country superstar Randy Travis walked naked into a convenience store to buy cigarettes, touching off a bizarre series of events..."

"... that ended with him being charged with threatening to shoot a state trooper in North Texas, police and sources said."

"Smoking meant a lot to her sometimes."

"She worked very hard and it had some ability to rest and relax her psychologically. She was a widow and she had no close relatives to ...

Obama's cookie controversy.

Asked by a girl to name his favorite Girl Scout cookie, Obama says "“I’ve gotta say that I’m pretty partial to those mint..." and ...

"Do you think that the man in line behind you and the lady behind him want to buy you your cigarettes?"

The 65-year-old cashier who scolded the 20-year-old with the EBT card and refused to let him buy cigarettes. The next day, the 20-year-old’...

Twas the night before Scott Walker Recall Day, at the Capitol Square.

Not a protester was stirring, but the media were there. The microphones were set up next to the CNN tour bus... In the hope local politicos ...

Obama's "Choom Gang."

Everyone's reading this , so I thought you might like to talk about it. Excerpts from David Maraniss' Barack Obama: The Story deali...

"RJ Reynolds v. FDA and the Hidden Danger of Denying Free Speech Protection to Corporations."

Aaron Worthing has an excellent post about the litigation over the FDA rules requiring new warning labels on cigarettes. IN THE COMMENTS: ca...

"Cain aide wrongly insists they've 'confirmed' accuser's son works for Politico."

Writes Maggie Haberman in Politico: "Her son works at POLITICO," [Mark] Block said of Karen Kraushaar, whose name POLITICO printed...

"It’s time to be honest with the 50 million Americans, and hundreds of millions around the world, who use tobacco."

"The benefits they get from tobacco are very real, not imaginary or just the periodic elimination of withdrawal. It’s time to abandon t...

Free speech rights prevent government from expressing its anti-smoking message on cigarette packages.

NYT reports: In a preliminary injunction, Judge Richard J. Leon of United States District Court in Washington ruled that cigarette makers we...

Zuccotti Park "is now a sliver of madness, rife with sex attacks, robberies and vigilante justice."

Says NY Post reporter Candice M. Giove, who spent the night there: It’s a leaderless bazaar that’s been divided into state-like camps.... Th...

On "Face the Nation," Bob Schieffer chastised Herman Cain about the "smoking man" ad.

Bob Schieffer could not restrain himself within the role of journalist today. It was pretty ridiculous: BOB SCHIEFFER: Mister Cain, I-- I j...