Mike Higgins brings the hose to his mouth and inhales one deep puff. He blows out, and a cloud of watermelon-flavored smoke floats, then dissipates above him. He leans back against the plush red couch, putting his feet on the edge of the coffee table where his hookah is gurgling. ...more

February 28, 2009

Joseph H. Brown's at it again. Nearly six years after an overwhelming majority of Floridians voted for Florida's workplace smoking amendment, he's still railing against it, as he did on May 18 in these very pages. He's still cherry-picking evidence to say we're all a bunch of idiots for voting for the amendment while ignoring thousands of reputable studies, easily available to anyone with access to Google, that say we're right. ...more

May 29, 2008

Turkey's culture has a unique blend of Eastern and Western tradition. The southeast is not mountainous, but rather an arid plateau bounded by those great historic rivers, the Tigris to the east and the Euphrates to the west. Many of the people there are Turkish citizens of Kurdish descent. ...more

May 27, 2008

Jill and Joanie Shockley just want to breathe clean air in their homes. Neighboring tenants want to smoke in theirs. ...more

December 7, 2007