Chalk outlines of 88 bodies greeted students as they arrived this morning at Gaither High School, a homicide-style reminder of the number of Floridians estimated to die daily from tobacco use. The efforts are part of the 14th annual Kick Butts Day, sponsored nationally by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. Students from dozens of schools from Hillsborough and Pinellas were to rally this afternoon at Al Lopez Park. ...more

March 25, 2009

Fifty years ago, Gary Brya smoked at social occasions and for fun. That's what almost everyone he knew did. ...more

March 25, 2009

for the second time. And this time, they don't plan on falling off the nicotine wagon. ...more

March 8, 2009

"It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it a hundred times." ...more

January 11, 2009

I first started drinking coffee when I was in college, not because I needed the caffeine, but because I was the young tagalong in a group of rich, motorcycle-riding, super-cool, geeky Asians. Please. Disengage your visual cortex and do not try to picture that in your mind. Just take my word for it that they were all that AND got honors marks. ...more

July 8, 2008

Hospitals make the healer nervous, and before her lies a long institutional hallway. But she pushes forward, like she always does, because she has to. The man who needs her help is waiting. ...more

May 24, 2008

Diets weren't the only craze on the bestsellers list in 1978. ...more

December 28, 2007