Good job on the new mandatory cigarette warning labels, FDA. The more graphic while maintaining truth, the better. Like with any advertising, imagery sticks, and especially for younger smokers, it’s more powerful than just words. Plus, they provide a number to help a smoker quit so nobody’s left staring at an image asking ‘what now?’

How wearing a helmet saved me, twice.

SCENARIO 1 Setting: A lovely spring day in 2007 in Somerville, MA Where I was going: To volunteer, and I had traveled the bike route many times. What else you need to know: Cambridge/Somerville/Boston all have narrow roads that narrow even more more and are quite dangerous with any construction at all. On Somerville Avenue,… Continue reading How wearing a helmet saved me, twice.