Irish Examiner view: Is it bullying or ethnic cleansing?
Protesters demonstrate against Project 2025, in Philadelphia. Picture: Matt Rourke
If you saw somebody who was strong, wealthy, and influential browbeat and threaten to take the meagre possessions of somebody weaker, downtrodden, and hurting, what would you call them?
There are a few words that can suck the wind right out of a person.Â
Dementia is one, cancer another.
The increasing levels of lung cancer among people who have never smoked, as reported in the , should be cause for alarm — given that it seems to be related to levels of air pollution that are only going to worsen as environmental controls are chipped away at or set on fire.
Add to that the warning from the HSE that vaping “will likely” cause the same cancer risks as cigarettes, and you wonder how a species capable of wonders can inflict such wanton damage on itself.
In , at least one alien species is shocked, disgusted, and think we must be easy marks upon learning that we light tobacco and ingest the smoke.Â
Let us hope that, in centuries to come, our descendants will think something similar — much as we look askance at how the Romans used lead in their makeup and water pipes.
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