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Last Friday, Hawaii’s state legislature passed a bill to prohibit the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products to individuals under the age of 21.  Should Governor Ige sign the measure, it would become law on January 1, 2016, making Hawaii the strictest state concerning such sales.  New Jersey, Alabama, […]

Nissans Made Between 2004 and 2006 Added to List Nissan upped the ante in the Takata airbag investigation by adding another 45,000 vehicles to a recall list that now exceeds 17 million U.S. cars and trucks. The reason: An injury to a female driver in a 2006 Sentra, whose airbag […]

Ice-Cream Recall Has (Not Fudge) Ripple Effect Two days after Blue Bell Creameries issued a nationwide recall of its ice cream, prompting the company’s CEO to deliver a public apology for the product’s link to listeria, health officials reported the outbreak has been an ongoing problem since 2010. The century-old […]

Last year, as my son approached his 16th birthday, I wondered whether my wife and I had done everything possible to prepare him to be a good driver.  My wife, a very safe driver, did an excellent job teaching our son about the rules of the road, to be patient […]

Agency Moves to Preserve Automobile Recalled Inflators The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is taking Takata to task for reportedly failing to provide agency-requested information related to an airbag default in vehicles that has been linked to possibly six deaths and hundreds of injuries. Takata is facing a daily fine […]

Combustible tobacco kills, as evidenced by the close to half a million people each year in this country who die from tobacco smoking related diseases.   In response to dwindling interest from the public to their combustible products, and to increase the market share of nicotine addiction, the tobacco industry and […]