Zophman: 480,000 Americans die each year due to diseases caused by smoking (cdc.gov) Why isn't smoking illegal?

Nagy: Please provide credible evidence for that level of mortality from second hand smoke. It seems like abject nonsense to me. Smoking in most public places is illegal, and very few people still smoke today. A very thin minority of people I know have contracted or died of lung cancer. I do not know a single non-smoker who has had lung cancer. I personally knew more than one who has been shot to death, even though the annual carnage by that route is downward from 40,000 a year (dramatically reduced during the Obama era.)

There is a difference between the proven mortality caused by smoking vis a vis firearms. The smokers k**l only themselves, while shooters k**l themselves, as well as others. Nevertheless, if you are implying that smoking should be illegal, I agree. It is a monstrous form of self abuse, and the industry should be destroyed.

It only makes sense to know the job from the ground up. Not necessarily starting at the bottom but get to know something about every department under you. Spend a few days around a production line or in the field with technicians. Get out of the office and see the conditions your people work under. I've had jobs where I sweated in 100+ degree temperatures in the summer and below freezing in the winter but the job had to be done. And a lot times a supervisor who could be in a comfortable office was out there in the field with us. Mostly getting in the way but it's the thought that counts.

Penny, you do become tiring because you don't know what you're talking about. Mr. Carson may have at one time been a good dr, I don't argue that. Some people are very intelligent in one portion of their lives and absolute dunces at others. Perhaps he has dementia, I don't know his physical condition but I do know he's made some statements that were completely off the wall. You can look them up, I'm not, I'm tired. If that's his "normal" personality, he's very strange. I know, finally the "right" dug up a black person who was for the GOP ... and he turned out to be a dud politically. I'm not making jokes about him because he probably can't help it but he's just not a smart man politically. I really don't care what you think of Obama or anyone else. Please try to get this thru your head...it does not matter to me, it makes no difference to me...and on and on and on...