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...With recent flicks rife with “cool” smokers, both good and bad, Murder by Numbers’ Richard is incomplete without the dirty butt hanging from his sinister mouth. Each time he appears, you want to slap him and make him realize that his smoking habit (not to mention his killing habit) is not as cool as he seems to think...
...slow start at the plate was largely due to a mechanical flaw in his swing that had him popping up a lot of pitches. He first picked up on the problem in the team’s opening series at Rice but took a while to shake the habit...
...some people may attempt to quit because of higher prices, the reality of their nicotine addiction means that most smokers will not even try to quit. Smokers pay the higher price for cigarettes and legislators know it. State and federal governments depend on this willingness to feed a destructive habit. Legislators need the tax revenue to fund government programs—programs that they would otherwise have to cut—or risk losing the support of their constituents. Politicians have become as dependent on cigarettes as the people who smoke them...
...from poor smokers to more affluent non-smokers. If prices rise by $2 per pack, a two-pack-a-day smoker will be hit with $1,460 in added expense each year. That’s a huge financial drain on a low-income consumer who cannot kick the habit...
...completion of the bureau's massively expensive Trilogy project, an information systems overhaul scheduled to go on line over the next several years. But Ken Senser, the assistant director for security, is moving faster: he has installed safeguards designed to pick up on activities as blatant as Hanssen's habit of running his name and spook slang through the computers to see if the FBI was onto him. A career CIA official who moved to the FBI in 1999, he admits to being surprised at the low priority accorded security prior to Hanssen's arrest in February...