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...Fake Watch Brand-name cigarettes are hazardous enough, but illicit counterfeits are even worse for your health. According to a University of St. Andrews' study in December, counterfeits contain up to five times more carcinogens such as cadmium and arsenic. One hundred million counterfeit cigarettes are made in China each year (about 85% of the world's total), according to the country's State Tobacco Monopoly Administration, which is now trying to snuff out the fakes. Last week, officials in Henan, China's second largest tobacco-growing province, torched $360,000 worth of contraband cigarettes...
...Artists, the movement begun by Geoffrey Bardon in 1971, which is today a multi-million-dollar industry and the community's main provider. Now a whiteboard in the Kintore shed lists their toil (Johnny - 4 by 2; Eileen - 107 by 28; Joseph - 4 by 3 ? ) and linen, gesso and cadmium yellow to be ordered in. But in short supply this morning are the artists: only Josephine Napurrula and Eileen Napaltjarri are at work, cross-legged on the floor, quietly dabbing at their canvases...
...naval graveyard, but many of the ships have specialized in carrying poisonous materials. According to the government, about 12,500 tons of toxic waste end up in the Arabian Sea each year. In the past few years, India has insourced the disposal of old computers, which contain lead, arsenic, cadmium and bromides. The country is also the biggest single importer of mercury-contaminated industrial waste...
Residents of the Tar Creek Superfund, a mining waste site, are exposed to mixtures of lead, manganese, cadmium and arsenic—the toxicities of which are known individually, but not as mixtures, Hu said...
Just how dangerous that dust might be is still a matter of dispute. Doctors at the Harvard School of Public Health have begun extensive studies in Tar Creek, not just of lead exposure but also of the cocktail mix of lead, manganese, cadmium and other metals that interact in unknown ways. "We're looking at four generations of poisoning," says Rebecca Jim of the L.E.A.D. agency, a local group. Meanwhile, parents like Evona Moss wonder what else the toxic brew might have done. Did it cause her obesity and bad teeth? Is it responsible for the malformation of her daughter...