Subject: Smoking

• Passing a Buck to the Smokers

  January 5, 2007

• Into the Ashes: Cosmos Cafe, RIP

  November 30, 2007

• No Smoking Ban In West U Bar (Note Single, Not Plural)

  August 15, 2008

• Smoke Toys: BBQ Pits by Klose

  August 28, 2008

• How Could Anyone Criticize Texas' Anti-Smoking Campaign?

  Here’s yet another list that Texas finds itself at the bottom of: the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids’ report of how states have been spending (or not spending) the money they’ve been receiving from the landmark 1998 multi-billion dollar settlement with Big Tobacco. Texas comes in at 46, spending $12.6 million on tobacco prevention and cessation programs, compared to the estimated $2.06 billion collected each year from settlement payments and tobacco taxes. The Centers for Disease Cont

  November 19, 2008

• The Prison Experience Just Isn't The Same Without Cigarettes, Lawmaker Says

  After sticking another inmate with a shiv in the showers, there’s nothing better than a tepid cup of apple wine and a smoke. Unfortunately, TDCJ banned all tobacco products in 1994, making it that much more difficult for a prisoner to relax after a hard day of rec-yard baseball or gang rape. But all that’s done is create a black market, says State Rep. Terri Hodge (D-Dallas), when lifting the ban could actually benefit more than just the prisoners. With a shortage of correctional office

  November 20, 2008

• Press Picks

  November 17, 1994

• Hard Habit to Break

  December 1, 1994

• Letters

  December 29, 1994

• The Wet Look

  August 3, 1995

• Houston Lawsuit Calls Foul On Those "Low-Tar" Cigarettes

  Vincent Salazar, a Houston man, is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed against Philip Morris and its parent company, Altria Group, in Texas, making the state one of four where similar lawsuits were filed in the last two days. The suits are seeking damages allegedly caused by years of advertising with words like low-tar, light, mild and ultra-light, which, it's claimed in the suit, "create the false impression that such cigarettes are less harmful to smokers than full-flavored, conventional cig

  February 6, 2009

• R.I.P., Eleanor Tinsley

  Eleanor Tinsley, who served on the City Council for 16 years, has died.She was big on two things -- getting Houston's billboards taken down, and trying to stop cigarette smoking anywhere and everywhere, it seemed.The elegantly coiffed Tinsley -- she always looked like the Dallas-native Baylor alum she was -- is perhaps best known now as being the namesake of Eleanor Tinsley Park near downtown.We seem to recall drunk smokers coming up with obscene lyrics to "Eleanor Rigby" at bars around town whe

  February 10, 2009

• Press Picks

  November 6, 1997

• Statewide Smoking Ban For Bars: Coming Soon?

  Photo by Daniel KramerIt's been tried before, but this time there may be some possibility of a statewide smoking ban in Texas.Two bills address the subject, (one by Houston's Rodney Ellis) and the Texas Restaurant Association has announced it can support a ban.Although the TRA says it has "some concerns" with the bills, it is not fighting a ban: The Texas Restaurant Association Board of Directors voted to support the statewide smoking ban that would level the playing field and reduce the c

  February 25, 2009

• City Says Smoking Ban Has Had No Impact On Bars

  Photo by porcelaingirlTwo years ago, Houston City Council approved a smoking ban for local bars. This week, it was announced that the city had spent $12,000 to measure the impact of the ban.Their conclusion? It had no impact on bar sales whatsoever. "It's reassuring that we did the right thing. We protected workers who often don't have a say in where they can work," Mayor Bill White told KHOU.Carolyn Wenglar, owner of venerable downtown bars La Carafe and Warren's, begs to differ."It hasn'

  February 26, 2009

• Bar Patrons

  October 1, 1998

• Best Sports Bar

  September 21, 2000

• If You're Going to Smoke, Stay Away From Siamese Cats

  Photo courtesy of Joan ThewlisTexas A&M's College of Veterinary Medicine has tackled the question of whether second hand smoke can give heart disease or cancer to your pets - and comes up with a profound maybe. "Laboratory studies using dogs trained to smoke cigarettes have shown that they develop typical lung pathology similar to those in humans, specifically bronchopneumonia, emphysema, fibrosis of the lungs and tumors of the lungs and bronchi," says Dr. Heather Wilson, A&M oncology specialis

  April 9, 2009

• Smoking, Metal Detectors, Drug Sweeps and Houston Pavilions

  The Ban and Business

  March 12, 2009

• Fighting Cancer

  Who says Texas isn't battling cigs?

  November 27, 2008

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  May 15, 2003

• David Sedaris

  Humorist returns on the heels of his latest release, When You Are Engulfed in Flames

  October 16, 2008

• The Deal sisters bring back the Breeders

  Role Playing

  May 1, 2008

• Somerville, Smoking and Chicken Fried Porn

  December 13, 2007

• The Smoking Ban

  Has it been good for Houston? A dozen local music figures sound off

  November 29, 2007

• Up in Smoke

  The ban's arrival, from a Catbird's seat

  September 13, 2007

• Mail Call

  Lights Out

  September 13, 2007

• Smoked Out

  Will "self-enforcement" be enough for Houston's expanded smoking ban to work?

  August 30, 2007

• Jazz and Oysters

  The cocktail lounge at Tommy's is the perfect antidote for Norman Rockwell holidays

  December 7, 2006

• Dates and Camels

  A new Afghani restaurant on Bissonnet offers a novel way to break your Ramadan fast

  October 5, 2006

• Up in Smoke

  City Hall and the Greater Houston Restaurant Association once again threaten the right to light up in bars

  September 7, 2006

• Puff Piece

  Thank You for Smoking's satire falls short of incendiary

  March 30, 2006

• Letters

  July 14, 2005

• Letters

  June 16, 2005

• Letters

  June 9, 2005

• Letters

  June 2, 2005

• Letters

  May 26, 2005

• Got a Light?

  All kidding aside, why smoking may be good for Houston

  May 12, 2005

• Dance Fever

  HISD kills a reality show on high school dancers

  October 21, 2004

• Best Veggie Burger

  September 23, 2004

• Best Jerk Chicken

  Reggae Hut

  September 20, 2001

• Smokin'!

  The Fondue Monks may find their path to success paved with Lucky Strikes

  February 15, 2001

• Letters

  Behest of Houston?, Paranoia by the Pack, Transsexual Treat

  October 5, 2000

• Letters 09-14-2000

  Blowing Smoke, Pay to Play, Ill Will

  September 14, 2000

• Lucky Strikes Back

  A tobacco company takes to the streets to reassure marginalized smokers

  August 31, 2000

• Live Free and Die

  Smokers' rights activist Dave Pickrell thinks his freedom is being stubbed out cigarette by cigarette. He's fighting to stop that, coughing all the way.

  August 31, 2000

• Important "Toxic Town" Trial Starts Up Today

  Photo by Daniel KramerThe polluters who turned Somerville into the Toxic Town described in an award-winning Houston Press story may have had a good result in the first lawsuit they faced, but a second one -- beginning a week from today in the town of Caldwell in Burleson County -- may be different. Somerville residents have sued the BNSF Railway, which ran a tie-producing plant in town. Cancer rates were far higher there, and BNSF failed to install standard pollution controls.In January 2008, th

  April 20, 2009

• Houston Firm Can Stop Your Smoking Habit -- Online!!

  Teh Internets can solve almost any problem, it seems, from having to pay for music and news to bringing down Islamofascist dictatorships. Now smoking has apparently joined the list. A small Houston company that runs interactive pay-sites to help with compulsive hair-pulling and skin-picking disorders (called trichotillomania) recently made the jump to nicotine addiction. Think self-help book meets Choose Your Own Adventure meets Rosetta Stone -- at least from what we can tell from the tutorial

  June 26, 2009