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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...
...several other countries. But most democracies, from the Philippines to Colombia, have failed to quell domestic rebellions democratically. With much of Nepal now controlled or dominated by Maoist insurgents, strong and centralized leadership is a stark necessity, although Gyanendra will need to somehow forge a national consensus to contain and ultimately end the insurgency...
...level facility that, when complete, will contain 75,000 square feet of research space and 16,000 cages for laboratory mice. The facility was scheduled to open for genetic research in June. Harvard officials said that there was smoke damage to the construction site, and it was unknown what delays the fire might cause...
...state to classify such common cold remedies as Sudafed and Claritin-D as Schedule V narcotics, forbidding sales in stores other than pharmacies, ordering the pills placed behind counters, limiting the amount sold per customer and requiring purchasers to show a photo ID and sign a register. The medicines contain pseudoephedrine, a decongestant that works by shrinking blood vessels in the nose, lungs and other mucous membranes. Drug traffickers long ago discovered they could dissolve the pills in common chemicals and heat the mixture until the liquid evaporates and a powerful stimulant powder--known as meth, crank, crystal...
...Europe. But the company is also eager to point out ways in which the legislative backlash may be misguided: Pfizer spokesman Jay Kosminsky says that a problem with some current state laws, including Oklahoma's, is that they exempt liquid or gel-cap medications and multi-ingredient medications that contain pseudoephedrine, in the mistaken belief that those items cannot be cooked into meth...