The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror -- not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

The major way we've reduced the death rate from heart disease is through lifestyle changes: eating better, exercising more, smoking less. It would require a lot of people to change the way they live, but there's no reason to think we can't have the same impact on Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.

We need to find out more about the source of the disease before we can decide when to lift the ban,

very foolish to underestimate the potential for the disease to spread.

The sophistication of Californians on this issue is growing. We're getting closer to that point when the death penalty can no longer drive political decisions as it has in the past.