Smoke Gets in Our Eyes

Rest
in Peace Peter Jennings

Jennings
smoked for about 30 years beginning in the 1950s at age 13. He quit for
20 years, then resumed smoking after the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

Jennings noted that he resumed smoking because ”I was
weak." He said he would try to resume his duties on ”good days." The
good days never came. He prematurely relinquished his anchor spot in
a nation where 5.5 million years of potential life and $92 billion of
productivity are lost every year to smoking and where smoking-related
health costs amount to $75.5 billion, according to the CDC.

Blame it on the terrorists….

from a Derrick Z. Jackson Op-Ed
piece in the Boston
Globe