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Gadlinks for Tuesday, 6-23-09

by Aaron Hotfelder (RSS feed) on Jun 23rd 2009 at 6:00PM

Happy Tuesday, fans o' Gadling. Here's a quick look around the travel-related internets...

The curse of the World's Oldest Man strikes again. This time, it's Japan's Tomoji Tanabe, dead at 113. The cause? You guessed it. Motorcycle accident. (Kidding.)
Slate's business columnist Daniel Gross explains why the worst American restaurant chains are so popular in Japan.
Chris Elliott lists 3 reasons the travel industry should end its war on smokers. My take: Instead of wide-sweeping smoking bans, why not let every restaurant owner, airline CEO, cruise ship operator, and bar owner decide their own policies on smoking?
Brave New Traveler asks: "What's your guilty pleasure while on the road?" I've got two: Buying t-shirts from every two-bit town I visit, and getting on the internet much more than I should.
Over at Bootsnall, John Gamble takes a gamble on ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic tea from the Amazon jungle. My take here.

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