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...than are dying now. Past tax hikes have showed that smoking is price sensitive: Fewer kids start smoking and more smokers quit with each increase in the cost of a pack. Government "quit lines" got record numbers of calls on April 1, the day the current tax took effect. Restaurant smoking bans have also helped; so have ad campaigns about the dangers of smoking. Finding any and every way to deter and defeat the habit - including outlawing cigarettes and levying fines (no, not jail terms) for possession - would be a huge benefit to both our physical and fiscal health...
...Detroiters are optimistic that it's the beginning of a turnaround. "We think this will have a long-lasting effect for the city's economy," says Renee Monforton, communications director for the Detroit Metro Convention and Visitors Bureau. "The people who visit here will want to come back again, either as leisure tourists or for a meeting. And people watching on television will see Detroit as a viable place to live, work and visit...
...This is the kind of situation to which conservationists might have responded by cordoning off protected habitats and reserves - building a fence, in effect, between the wild animals and the people. But in the Pantanal, and in much of the rest of our once wild, once underpopulated world, total separation is simply not a sustainable option. That's especially true for jaguars and other big cats, which need a lot of room to roam, far more than could be fenced off. "The big cats' territory is crossing over to the human landscape," says Alan Rabinowitz, a renowned conservationist...
...Department says it was looking for a way to reach smoking parents - about 400,000 of New York City's 1 million smokers live with children - when it came across the Australian footage. The little-boy ad launched the same week a new federal cigarette-tax increase went into effect - a double whammy in the fight against smoking. The New York City Health Department has fielded five complaint calls since the ad launched on March 30, a figure Mandel-Ricci says is dwarfed by the number of calls to the city's quitting-smoking line in the same time period...
...effect of this, officials say, has been to discourage talented people from seeking government jobs. What rankles some in the Administration is the fact that even mistakes that are relatively small and by all appearances inadvertent - such as U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk's failure to count as income speaking fees that he subsequently donated to charity - are being made public. "This is a new procedure on [the Senate's] part," complains one official, "and it has created an incredible anxiety on tax issues." Adds a prominent tax attorney who has experience in the confirmation process: "In the past...