Rabbit Hole

Very odd day. I noticed this fantastic post from Andrew Stuttaford at The Corner on Mayor Bloomberg's big brother campaigns:

When it comes to smoking, Nurse Bloomberg still has trouble with facts. Here he is in Athens (the Nurse is a major supporter of the insane effort to bring the Olympics to New York City) arguing that his smoking ban is a good reason to give the games to New York. Amongst his comments were these:

"Very few people smoke in New York City - the number of people that are smoking is declining precipitously and, for the first time since, I think, World War II, life expectancy in New York City is higher than it is on average in the United States."

The Nurse’s implication is clear. He has saved lives!

Keep reading, it just gets better.