Summary: Deuteronomy chapter 22, verses 28-29, in the <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+22%3A28-29&version=KJV" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">King James translation</a> and the <a href="http://www.usccb.org/bible/deuteronomy/22" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">Catholic versions</a> of the Bible. Depending on the translation you have, it is ambiguous whether the rule applies to consensual premarital sex, but it is clear that it demands an unmarried rape victim to marry her rapist.<br> <br> Contrary to <a href="http://www.gotquestions.org/Deuteronomy-22-28-29-marry-rapist.html" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">attempts to explain this away</a>, it is clear that this rule was enforced on rape victims. As late as 1611, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_Gentileschi" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">Artemisia Gentileschi</a>, a notable Italian painter was tortured during the trial of her rapist, to supposedly test the veracity of testimony. The rapist, Agostino Tassi, was not tried for rape, but for breaching his promise to her father to marry her. He was not tortured during the trial, (despite clear evidence of perjury) and, though convicted of failing to marry her as agreed, he was never punished.<br> This law, a part of all Abrahamic religions, is still in force in Jordan where <a href="http://www.news24.com/World/News/Fury-as-victim-14-forced-to-marry-rapist-20120628" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">girls as young as 14 years have been forced to marry their rapists</a> in recent years.<br> John Mallon spoke on behalf of <a href="http://www.foresteireann.org/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">Forest Eireann</a>.<br> <br> * An internal tobacco-industry document where they discuss <a href="http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/hwe36e00" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">the importance of packaging to attract children to smoking is here</a>.<br> * The 12.8 per cent reduction in cigarette consumption in Australia in the two years <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/12/plain-packaging-to-thank-for-australias-decline-in-smoking-says-labor" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">since the introduction of plain packaging is noted here</a>.<br> * The fact that the large majority of smokers <a href="http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/0127.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">start smoking while children is noted here</a>.<br> * The direct involvement of tobacco companies in tobacco smuggling is <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/reynolds-jti-settle-cigarette-smuggling-case/article574363/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">noted here</a> and <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/tobacco-firms-to-pay-550m-over-smuggling-1.902510" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">here</a>.<br> * The creation, funding, control and scripting of the message of ‘Smokers’ Rights Groups’, (including Forest) by tobacco companies <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2794244/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">is detailed here</a>.<br> <br> Eircode was <a title="Here’s How Podcast, Episode Two" href="http://blog.hereshow.ie/2015/03/heres-how-podcast-episode-two/" data-wpel-link="internal">discussed in the last episode of Here’s How</a>, but thanks to Joe Leogue for providing additional information.<br>
