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...cigarette sales through vending machine. The treaty also calls for a comprehensive ban on tobacco advertising and sponsorships and legislation requiring that prominent health warnings be displayed on packages, discourages deceptive labeling (such as describing cigarettes as "light") and encourages litigation as a tool to stamp out the habit. China joins more than 75 countries (although not the U.S.) in ratifying the treaty, which went into effect earlier this year...
...course. Laws in China have, in the past, been selectively enforced - copying and distributing CDs and DVDs may be technically illegal, but piracy is a thriving business. And the lucrative revenues offered by tobacco taxes - nearly 9 percent of the state's tax income in 2003 - are a tough habit for any government to kick. Public health experts, however, praised the ratification as an important step in lowering China's rising rates of lung cancer and tobacco-related disease. About 1.2 million Chinese die of smoking-related deaths annually and the World Health Organization has predicted that one third...
...Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating," says West. "Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans." Bougie is a common African-American term for middle class; it is not used kindly. West--who has a habit of beginning sentences with the preamble, "Rappers say this all the time," as if he were not one of the world's most popular rappers but a kid deconstructing one--is quite bougie...
...DIED. RICHARD DOLL, 92, one of the first scientists to link cigarette smoking to lung cancer; in Oxford, England. The epidemiologist's 1949 findings, based on patient surveys at 20 hospitals in London, showed smoking to be the one habit consistent among the disparate population, leading to more definitive studies. Last year he published the final report in a half-century-long study by a group of British doctors, finding that continual smoking reduced life expectancy by 10 years, but that stopping, even late in life, could significantly improve...
DIED. RICHARD DOLL, 92, one of the first scientists to link cigarette smoking to lung cancer; in Oxford, England. The epidemiologist's 1949 findings, based on patient surveys at 20 hospitals in London, showed smoking to be the one habit consistent among the disparate population, leading to more definitive studies. Last year he published the final report in a half-century-long study of a group of British doctors, finding that continual smoking reduced life expectancy by 10 years but that stopping, even late in life, could significantly improve...