The spectacular lie...

...that millions of Americans die every year from second-hand smoke.

Wouldn't it be nice if Americans had a high-pressure anti- campaign like the one against smoking! Think how many people we could pressure out of smoking marijuana, or snorting coke, or whatever the current pop fad drug is. Or alcohol; why is there no high-pressure campaign against boozing? or drunk driving?

What if we had a high-pressure campaign FOR good behaviors? Like, getting married before the baby is born. Keeping your promises. Dealing honestly with others.

What if every kid in every elementary school had been programmed to turn on bullies and pressure them against their bullying? What if every child pressured every other child to behave in class, instead of how they treat them now, which is to support them and applaud them for disrupting the lesson?

What if we could high-pressure teachers into learning how to teach? Into dumping the garbage they had learnt in Teacher's College and using their good sense to see teaching not through Piaget and Dewey's eyes but through Marva Collins's eyes?