As the PBS Newshour recently reported, Westminster, Massachusetts could be the first town in the United States to ban the sale of tobacco. As I watched the debate unfold among neighbors, I was shocked at the level of intensity with which citizens stepped up to defend the sale of tobacco in their town. At one […]
The Power of Preparation and Organization in Ebola Control
Obviously Ebola has been in the new of late, and most of the news coming to of West Africa has not been very encouraging; however, I came across a very interesting news tidbit about the effective treatment and control of disease spread in the 80,000 person community of Harbel in Liberia, essentially a company town […]
Is Tobacco a Gateway Drug to Cocaine? What Molecular Biology Says and Doesn’t Say
In this week’s New England Journal, the Nobel-prize winner Eric Kandel and Denise Kandel publish a lecture in which they address the question of whether tobacco is a gateway drug for cocaine. They open the article by discussing the fact that, “…in 2012, among U.S. adults 18 to 34 years of age who had ever […]
