Columns, Opinion

Editor’s Column – A not-so-grand modern human experiment?

I just watched a TV series set in the 1960s. In every episode, the characters are smoking. At dinner, in bed, at restaurants, in the back of a taxi, etc. While I had to explain to my grandchildren what the ashtrays in the armrests on the airplane were last summer (their expressions of horror were priceless), I remember the Marlboro Man and Victoria Slims ads on TV and in magazines.

It’s only been recently that the…