Michael Bloomberg, the Washington Post once claimed, "may be Big Tobacco's biggest enemy." By the time that claim was made, the former mayor was fighting smoking through his philanthropic ventures
Similarly, we observed some evidence among former cigarette smokers in both age groups of increased mortality from heart diseases, malignant neoplasms, chronic lower respiratory diseases, smoking-related diseases and other causes
Nationally, the rate was 15.5%.1 In 2019, 5.5% of high school students in Virginia smoked cigarettes on at least one day in the past 30 days
It strikes me that Burroughs survived as a heroin addict, when so many others did not, because shooting drugs (unlike shooting guns later in life) was not a manner of showing off, it was not posturing
While one country might allow you to carry a Zippo lighter in your hand luggage, another might not
Excerpt from The Ghost in the Machine Arthur Koestler reprinted by permission of Peters Fraser & Dunlop (www.petersfraserdunlop.com) on behalf of the Estate of Arthur Koestler
