By Curtis J. Torno, M.D. The recent release of the Surgeon General’s second report on smoking re-emphasized the health hazard of smoking. Those of us in the medical profession have recognized these hazards for a long time. Despite a few denials from those who desire to use tobacco and willfully refuse to face facts, the truth …
Author Archives: Mark Mayberry
Drug Abuse – Works Of The Flesh
By James R. McCain, M.D. Dolly and Harry give a schoolboy some white stuff that looked like stardust. He ran with great speed to the yard where he lay in the grass and looking up into the blue heavens dreamed of taking trips where he could have. juice, fags, and a businessman’s high. Doesn’t make much …
Is Gambling Right? Don’t Bet On It!
By Larry Ray Hafley Three years ago, the Institution for Social Research at the University of Michigan made an extensive study of gambling in the United States. The study revealed that in 1974, two out of every three Americans made a bet. Gambling is a mufti-billion dollar business of crime and sin. More than 30 billion …
Situation Ethics
By Weldon E. Warnock Ethics means “a series of rules and laws and principles by which we act and which tell us what to do.” But “situation ethics” is not geared to rules and regulations. This system of ethics refuses to be circumscribed by rules and laws. It says there is nothing right or wrong. Moral …