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TENNESSEE - Editorial: E-cigarette 'safety' is just vapor and mirrors

The industry would have you believe e-cigarettes help smokers kick their habit; that people around the e-cigarette user are safe because there is no secondhand smoke; oh, and they would very much like for you to believe that e-cigarettes are just for adults. That includes the cherry, strawberry, vanilla and cookies-and-cream flavored e-cigarettes that can be found in convenience stores all over. If only cigarette companies were as good at science as they are at subterfuge. Electronic cigarettes may be the first gateway drug that was actually designed for that purpose. READ THE REST...

MICHIGAN - Brian Dickerson: Adoption bills put Catholic Church's interests ahead of kids'

IOWA - Editorial on Panera Bread CEO: People on food stamps don't eat like a king

DELAWARE - Harry F. Themal: Rich get much richer and poor barely hold their own