User login

Browse archives

Celebrities Sex and Porn

Sex, Porn and Celebrities Websites

Celebrities, Porn and Sex Links

Porn Directory
Free Porn
Free Sex Dating
Love and Dating
Porn
Lesbian porn
Porn History
Free Porn Movies
Famous Porn Stars
Porn Comics
Porn stores

Text Links

warning: include() [function.include]: Couldn't resolve host name in /home/celebrit/public_html/includes/common.inc(1857) : eval()'d code on line 3.

warning: include(http://zenzarra.com/inclus4.php?individual=www.celebritiesscandals.com ) [function.include]: failed to open stream: operation failed in /home/celebrit/public_html/includes/common.inc(1857) : eval()'d code on line 3.

warning: include() [function.include]: Couldn't resolve host name in /home/celebrit/public_html/includes/common.inc(1857) : eval()'d code on line 3.

warning: include(http://zenzarra.com/inclus4.php?individual=www.celebritiesscandals.com ) [function.include]: failed to open stream: operation failed in /home/celebrit/public_html/includes/common.inc(1857) : eval()'d code on line 3.

warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'http://zenzarra.com/inclus4.php?individual=www.celebritiesscandals.com ' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/celebrit/public_html/includes/common.inc(1857) : eval()'d code on line 3.

Syndicate

Free Hit Counter

NOW that the New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act has managed to extinguish all but a few remaining embe... After the smoke clears, ta

by admin

NOW that the New Jersey Smoke-Free Air Act has managed to extinguish all but a few remaining embers of this state's smoke-filled-room era, I can't help but be reminded of a lyric from an old Joni Mitchell song: "So many things I would've done/ but clouds got in my way."

So I, for one, couldn't be more gratified to know that people who seem to feel that everyone in their vicinity ought to share in their compulsion to inhale toxic fumes will no longer be in a position to hinder my right to enjoy the pleasures of the great indoors (apart from still having to take my chances with bad air while indulging in casino gambling).

But this victory, significant as it is, doesn't mean that our struggle to keep various poisons from being introduced into our lungs is by any means over. That realization hit me when I stepped outside for a walk at the close of a crystal-clear spring day, only to have my nostrils assailed by a particularly pernicious chemical odor carried on the evening breeze � that of an herbicide with which the lawns of our condo complex had been permeated in an apparent attempt to eradicate all traces of the dreaded dandelion.

After uttering an expletive generally regarded as unfit to print in a family newspaper, I became convinced that we can't afford to simply content ourselves with the proclamation that "New Jersey is now smoke free." No, we won't really be able to breathe easy until we're able to declare our air officially spray-free as well.

By that, I don't mean to suggest that we seek to implement anything as impractical as banning the use of all toxic pesticides, any more than the current law totally prohibits smoking (although I do think that, unlike outlawing tobacco, such a goal is ultimately achievable). What I do believe is indicated, however, is something modeled on the Smoke-Free Air Act that would restrict the use of such chemicals to places where people will not be involuntarily exposed to them, such as the interior of a private home (with a proviso, perhaps, that no small children reside there) or perhaps an isolated property with no immediate neighbors.

But why, you might ask, do we need yet another constraint on our fundamental right to surround ourselves with poisonous vapors if we so desire? Because, to borrow a phrase from legal parlance, others of us have what might be characterized as a more compelling right to avoid them.

The latter right, I might add, is based on the conclusions of researchers showing chemical bug and weed killers to be right up there with tobacco as a cause of cancer (not to mention the damage they might do to our nervous systems). One result has been an explosion in the mainstream marketing of organic foods, thus proving that it is possible to grow things in this country without any help from chemical companies.

Unfortunately, however, the perils of pesticide use apparently haven't yet gotten through to a lot of folks who own homes or sit on condominium boards (or are even responsible for setting policy at public schools). Perhaps that's largely due to the influence of constant TV commercials that make the application of such products appear to be not only perfectly harmless, but indispensable to modern living -- a practice that was outlawed some years ago in the marketing of cigarettes.

It's to keep such unknowing or uncaring individuals from turning our suburban neighborhoods into places that smell more like Superfund sites during the spring and summer months that we especially need a "spray-free" law -- one that would not only serve to safeguard the health of children and pets, but protect asthma sufferers and people with severe sensitivities to chemicals from being adversely affected by lawn-chemical "drift."

No doubt, any such law would have more than its share of detractors at first. But many of those initial opponents would begin to feel a whole lot better about it once they began feeling a whole lot better as a result of it, relieved of allergies, blocked sinuses and irritated eyes without the help of prescription drugs.

In the meantime, its effect could be maximized through an accompanying campaign to reeducate the public, complete with commercials emphasizing the known risks of pesticide use, the promotion of safer methods of weed and pest control (applying corn gluten to your lawn, for example), and a reconsideration of the benefits and beauty of that most unjustly maligned of herbs, the dandelion (perhaps with the help of that most unjustly maligned of celebrities, Martha Stewart).

Then, too, the New Jersey Spray-Free Air Act would need a slogan of its own to rival its smoke-free counterpart's boast of having created "a breath of fresh air!"