people watch theask, why is theh smoking? it was like that in the 1980's and 1990's.it going to be one day you are not allowed to drink so that inside? i do not know how you enforce a ban like that, but i think eliminating tobacco from our collective lives would be bad. i am surprised at of the vigilance -- at the vigilance of it. tavis: every time we talk, i always learn something from you. i am stuck now on his vision of hitler doing everything he could to exterminate an entire group of people, and he was opposed to smoking. go figure. >> i had a thing in a show about it. he said, you smoke too much. and he tells the story which is true, hitler brought the munich pact were basically the british gave everything away. he took neville chamberlain into a palace where there was no smoking. he was a heavy smoker. they said that chamberlain caved on everything because he just wanted to go outside and have a cigarette. tavis: the stuff that you learned. only on pbs. his name is matthew weiner. "mad men"in its third season on amc. good luck with the emmys. nice to have you h

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we need to show we are taking over some of theasks that our military has been engaged in and that will mean strengthen civilian operation after which we look to see the civilian eckert began also to ramp down. mr. airman, iraq has indeed suffered a series of attacks over the last weeks including several on minorit communities, particularly horrifying were indeed the attacks on the finance ministry's on august 19th. but in fact the reality is iraqi people have stood firm and rejected with retribution and s far they have prevented the beginning of a new cycle of olence. it doesn't mean that these attacks don't need to be taken seriously. the need to be taken with great seriousness. but we have found that the iraqi people are reacting well to this and we found the iraqi security forces are reacting well ande believe this is quite a change fr in the past. there has also been some good news and iraq as well. they have staged two rounds of successful elections in january and electionand the kurdistan regi of government just a couple of months ago in july. both cases bolton was peaceful. toda