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...apparent when it comes to lung cancer. The report showed that lung-cancer incidence and death rates across the country varied widely, depending on the existence of smoking bans and the amount of state taxes on cigarettes. Data show, for example, that California, which was the first state to adopt a public-smoking ban, had the greatest decline in lung-cancer death rates in the U.S. - 2.8% per year from 1996 through 2005, which was twice the decline of many Midwestern and Southern U.S. states. Kentucky, which has low excise taxes on cigarettes and only partial smoking bans...
...recommendations were put together in collaboration with researchers from 28 teams worldwide working in conjunction with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. The policy group declined to endorse one of the four proposals, however, writing that “the decision to adopt a particular [policy] architecture is ultimately a political one that must be reached by the nations of the world...
...order to ensure a climate agreeable to civilization. That calls for a sizable reduction from the current level, which is 385 parts ppm.Titled simply “350,” the project aims to influence policy-makers at an international climate conference in Copenhagen next December to adopt that standard as the global benchmark.“Our plan for this year is to communicate this number everywhere around the world,” McKibben said Wednesday. “We picked a number because it is simple...It travels easily across linguistic boundaries and holds politicians...
...really view this issue as something that is key to the integrity of medical education at Harvard,” said David C. Tian, a first-year student who recently pushed the administration to adopt a policy addition mandating that faculty and students disclose financial ties to pharmaceutical companies when discussing drugs developed by those companies in the classroom...
...students pushing the Medical School to adopt a policy that applies to clinical education at the affiliated hospitals have run into a barrier in the relationship that the Medical School has with its teaching facilities...