Looking out my Backdoor: No more monkeys jumping on the bed

I suppose you’ve all heard about the latest horror disease, monkey pox? Evidently, this near cousin to small pox is transmitted by bodily contact. I want you to know I’ve sworn off sex with monkeys.

Not that monkeys are an issue in my life. Nor is the other.

I’d no more than digested that bit of breaking news when my friend Kathy informed me Canada is proposing to print a health warning on every individual cigarette. Yep, my reaction too. My mind boggles. Beyond a healthy giggle at the first reading of the first printed cigarette, do you really think anybody will even “see” th...