The 500R is a brand-new release from Mercury Racing and they showcased it on a variety of different models at the docks in Charleston, SC
2002 Delaware becomes the first state to pass a law requiring all workplaces, restaurants, bars and public places to be smoke-free
And people are wringing their hands over it across the internet: Why? the adults are asking, why has time turned round, why are our children sucking once again on the demons teat, and the answer, unfortunately, is: Why not? This is a generation that was exposed to a rushing stream of increasingly alarming news about ecological destruction and the failures or disinterest of the adults in charge, the generation at the forefront of some of the worlds most traumatic events, appropriately anxious, overburdened with fears of the future, and perfectly within their rights to pick up a fag and say, Fuck it. We, the elders, have handed doom down to our children like a bad watch and, after a brief foray into extreme health (which, lets face it, was deeply unserious, proudly situating such things as green juice at its centre), these kids have succumbed to vice

The two, Valerie Yerger, then an assistant professor of health policy at UC-San Francisco, and Carol McGruder, co-chair of the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council, tried to introduce a resolution that called on NAACP leadership to make tobacco control a national priority and push for a menthol ban