In the scale of things, smoking is a trivial ill. Greater sadnesses (without limitation)?


The rich stealing from the poor.
Continuing xenophobia and government policy based on it.
The undoing of the welfare state.
A "Green" councillor crossing the floor to the conservatives - the ungreenest government for generations.
Money from the Fukushima relief effort being used to subsidise the Japanese whaling fleet.
Attacks on the rule of law.
The sheer evil of current Republican politics.