This is just a little article that compares breastfeeding to Rosa Parks taking her seat on the bus and Martin Luther King Jr. on civil rights. Women in Seattle are now able to breastfeed in public without having to cover up or leave a public place. It is a womens violation of rights to have to cease feeding her child in public even if it is from her breast.

A proposed new law in Arizona would give employers the power to request that women being prescribed birth control pills provide proof that they're using it for non-sexual reasons. And because Arizona's an at-will employment state, that means that bosses critical of their female employees' sex lives could fire them as a result. I like that this article gets down to the nit and grit of what an outlandish claim everyone is making against birth control. This article is explaining how invasive this policy is to allow employers to decide on whether to provide insurance for birth control.

Last week, if you squinted your eyes and tilted your head a little bit to the right, you might have thought America had magically traveled back in time to the 1950s (or 1850s). The recent shift in the political conversation to contraception has been not only surprising but, for many, downright disturbing (bone-chilling, WTF, "what kind of documentation do I need to move to Canada?" This article explores the hidden issue of birth control. What started out innocent enough allowing certain institutions to not participate in providing birth control for their employees has turned into a debate on whether women deserve it or not. Taking birth control does not promote promiscious activities and it is used for other means other than preventing pregnancy.

As smokers, we learn early on to put up a mental wall of denial between our smoking habit and the harsh reality of the damage we're inflicting on ourselves with every cigarette smoked. We tell ourselves lies that allow us smoke with some level of comfort. This is a list of reasons to quit smoking along with other reasons as to why we smoke. It offers outside links to related searches. It also includes facts on how much smoking can cost the average smoker and healthcare.

As bans on smoking sweep the USA, an increasing number of employers - primarily hospitals - are also imposing bans on smokers. They won't hire applicants whose urine tests positive for nicotine use, whether cigarettes, smokeless tobacco or even patches. Smokers are not only getting the cold shoulder from non-smokers it can now depend on whether they are able to get hired as well. Employers are now asking new hires if they are smokers or not, and if there is evidence in their urine of tobacco use it could damage their chances of getting hired.

Activists and meddling lawmakers have toyed with the idea of taxing certain foods and ingredients to curb obesity. Twinkie Tax inventor Kelly Brownell advocates "slapping high-fat, low-nutrition food with a substantial government 'sin' tax." According to him, certain foods are too "convenient, accessible, good-tasting ... and cheap." This article just gives insight into what lawmakers want to do to curb obesity within our society. It is no longer alcohol and cigarettes that are causing damage to our bodies, but the food we consume too.

It is an overview of the helment law, that we currently don't have unless the rider is under the age of eighteen. It gives all the information from when it used to be law to how it got revoked and opinons from medical personnel on the consequences of riding without a helmet.

It's already against the law for smokers to light up near businesses, parks and playgrounds in California, but one town is now considering a total outdoor smoking ban - even on private property - all at one family's request. City officials in Rocklin, Calif. are weighing the Baker family's complaint about smoke drifting into their [...] It is an upsetting article about a family that is trying to get smoking banned from private property. Their neighbors smoke and it is affecting the family of non-smokers. Not too much info but gives insight on what people are trying to do out there to limit our personal choice of smoking.

The following is a list of smoking bans in the United States. For smoking bans and restrictions outside the United States, see the worldwide list of smoking bans. The United States Congress has not attempted to enact any nationwide federal smoking ban. This is a list from Wikipedia that gives you every state that bans smoking and where each location is banned and when the state banned smoking. It also gives overview of smoking and why its banned. Also fun facts about smoking in other states.

We all know smoking is bad for your health - 37,000 Canadians die from smoking-related illness every year. Does any credible person out there actually doubt that smoking causes cancer? Article on smoking and the causes of cancer. Also talks about other resrictions the government is putting on smokers as far as where and when they can light up.