So I’ve been thinking about putting together some sort of fun summer project focusing on blogger health. We’re always talking about the health of communities, so I figure I should see what I can do, as long as I consider myself part of the blogging community. The Great Blogger Smoke-Out, or the Blogger Pound Down, or the Week of Walking and Weblogging. I don’t know. Address smoking, or sedentary lifestyle, or nutrition. Or something. Anyway. Let me know if you’re interested in helping out, or what you think of the idea. I think if it gets going, it could really work–people could post on their blogs about their progress, others could comment and support each other, motivate each other. Photoblog the meals they’re eating, compete with each other. Just an idea. Whatcha think?

In related news, there’s a great piece in the NYT on New York’s 11% drop in cigarette smoking . Tax the hell out of it, and by golly, people will quit, or at least reduce their smoking. Not only will New York have fewer premature deaths attributable to smoking, it will have lower future costs to pay for the long-term health problems with smoking (cancer, heart disease, coronary artery disease, hypertension… the list goes on), and fewer people suffering from the painful consequences of smoking.

In other related news, Dan Benjamin announces The Cigar Project . Irony at its finest.

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