Eye On Obesity Reduces Anti-Smoking Efforts

In a classic trade-off, America's health policy priorities are shifting pulling money away from anti-tobacco programs and directing it toward the obesity issue. The consequences may be a compromise that slows the momentum of declining loyalists to nicotine. Should the federal government be involved in these personal choice matters to begin with? Or, is this the front line of defense against runaway healthcare costs?

There's No Such Thing As Free

You can save money by cancelling your cable and DVR subscriptions because you've heard that many of your favorite programs are "free" on hulu.com or clicker.com. But are they truly "free" when you consider the time spent searching for those episodes? An economist would say you always pay one way or another.