Which resembles DU of late ....

Reading that feed, I get the impression that humanity is filed with a bunch of no good liars, prevaricators and confidence persons ....

Hardly any caring and considerate responses ...

Humanity sucks some times ...

The practice doesn't seem logical.

He's become a big anti-smoking activist in the last few months.

CBS at the time got loads of revenue from tobacco companies and they wanted the whole Enterprise crew smoking - somewhat like the Alien franchise. Roddenberry put his foot down on this, just like he did with having a multiracial crew.