Word: clove
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...attempt at regulating tobacco products - he has tried and failed to pass similar bills four years running. This year's measure - which actually enjoys the support of Phillip Morris, the producer of Marlboro and the largest U.S. cigarette manufacturer - adds a controversial clause that would permit the use of cloves as a cigarette additive. Phillip Morris, a division of Altria, spent $5 billion in 2005 to buy a controlling stake in Sampoerna of Indonesia, a large maker of clove cigarettes...
...While the clove provision didn't please the American Lung Association and other groups, it hasn't cost their support - the measure to give the FDA oversight has been endorsed by every major U.S. health group. The FDA would almost certainly force cigarette manufacturers to list their ingredients, remove some harmful chemicals, further tighten advertising restrictions and prevent cigarette companies from making their product more addictive...
...novel, narrated by a much solder Kate, unfolds through impressionistic episodes marked by wonder at exotic sights and sounds, from the "laundry strung on bamboo poles" and "rattan birdcages" to the smells of "dried oysters, clove hair oil, joss, [and] tiger balm" in the streets of Hong Kong. But politics are inescapable and an expatriate's distance increasingly difficult to retain. Their father, a photographer at TIME magazine assigned to cover the Vietnam War, has moved to Hong Kong from New York with the idea that, "Hong Kong would be safer than Saigon; an old-fashioned British enclave...
...Annie, put out that clove. Now,” said Fee. He slipped a compact disc from his warm-up suit pocket, inserting it into the nearest computer console...
...that makes grape juice into Pinot Noir. We need art to tell us, as religion once did, Memento mori: remember that you will die, that everything ends, and that happiness comes not in denying this but in living with it. It's a message even more bitter than a clove cigarette, yet, somehow, a breath of fresh...