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Entries by Miranda Frum from 01/2012

May We Offer You a Crack Pipe Instead?

| Posted 01.04.2012 | Canada

While Health Canada refuses to authorize the selling of healthy e-cigarettes, Vancouver's Coastal Health Authority has begun to give out free crack pipes. No longer will crackheads have to stand outside and brave the elements!

The Other Culprits in the Shafia Deaths

| Posted 01.11.2012 | Canada

Another group should stand accused alongside the Shafia family, during the ongoing trial of their daughter's murders: the social service and youth protection professionals who catastrophically let the Shafia girls down.

Up in Smoke! Saying Adios to Cigarettes

| Posted 01.17.2012 | Canada
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In recognition of National Quitting Smoking week, two of Huffpost's young contributors, Miranda Frum and Daniel Alexandre Portoraro, have volunteered to quit smoking and keep a daily journal about it. Readers: Support them! And please share your own struggles about trying to kick an addiction, whether it was cigarettes or anything else.

Up in Smoke: GUUUUUUUUH!

| Posted 01.18.2012 | Canada

Day One: I need a cigarette. But I won't do it. If Odysseus can ignore the tempting screams of the Sirens, then I can ignore the pulsating migraine thumping against my skull.

Up in Smoke Day 3: Craptastic!

| Posted 01.20.2012 | Canada
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An e-cigarette has arrived for me in the mail. My younger brother bought it for me after researching every possible type of e-cigarette available on the market (that's what boys do). It's a stainless steel cylinder with a button and a filter attached. It resembles something that a terrorist would pull out of his carry-on on a plane.

Up in Smoke! Week 2: Cold Turkey

| Posted 01.24.2012 | Canada
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I have done something I would never have thought possible -- I've gone cold turkey. I feel as if I have seven years of poison seeping out through my skin. Despite the physical agony, one thing is making me feel good: the realization that I haven't had any nicotine in 24 hours.