We feel so strongly about smoking, unemployment, your health and the national debt — smoking affects them all! — that this column turned out to be one of our most important in 2010. The issues are still red hot. It takes a lot to make us mad, but we’re furious: Here we are with a brand-spanking-new health care law, yet for the first time since 1960, smoking rates are increasing. Why?

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