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...Last Gasp Britain, home to three of the world's largest tobacco companies, ended all industry advertising last week, among a thick cloud of ads that grabbed some final publicity. The ban, which covers posters, billboards and print, will soon also end sponsorship of sporting events. U.K. tobacco firms spent only €32 million on ads last year, but 1.6 million people saw their billboards every day - which is why the government hopes the ban might finally help snuff out smoking among the young...
...found a job, as a gas-station attendant. And the TIME article about his return to society had inspired people to send letters of support and checks totaling close to $2,000. At 42, he was clean and free for the first time in 15 years. "I am on cloud nine. I am going places," he told TIME...
...article "How We Get Labeled [JAN. 20], John Cloud stated that the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) helps categorize "all the ways America is nuts." Since it is no longer politically correct to make racial slurs or joke about physical handicaps, it would appear that the last bastion of acceptable derision is mental illness. By poking fun at rare conditions such as fetishism, this article ends up stigmatizing the millions who suffer from the entire range of mental disorders defined in the DSM and trivializing the scientific advances for such disorders...
...Cloud did a much needed job of debunking the DSM. He objectively showed that the book and the process behind it are essentially political in nature and not medical or scientific. And none of us want our ailments to be diagnosed by a politician, do we? RIGGS ECKELBERRY Marina del Ray, Calif...
...Cloud State...