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...million people a year will be dying of smoking-related illnesses in China 20 years from now. Based on projections developed from illness patterns in the West, the study's authors predict that 50 million of China's 320 million smokers will die prematurely as a result of their habit. Equally disturbing, the surveys found that most Chinese smokers were woefully uneducated about the health risks posed by smoking, with only a third aware of its links to cancer and less than 5 percent realizing that tobacco use can cause heart disease...
...continued a habit he had taken up in college, asking strangers about their life: Excuse me, are you happy? Tell me your story. It was a way to learn about the world, a way to come out of his shell, a way to build his network of elite supporters. "One of the first things he did was ask me about my life," says John Roos, a Bradley fund raiser and partner at a powerful Silicon Valley law firm. "Who I was, what I thought was important. I was extremely surprised...
...Cambridge St.; 731-7311; $75 for members, $85 for nonmembers). The program includes seven 90-minute group sessions where about 14 people explore their reasons for quitting together. Each addict develops a personal plan, which usually involves heavy patch usage. Try the cold turkey group to break the habit together on the third session. Everything is more fun when you have company...
...next killer will have to storm a hospital nursery to get his own theme music on the cable news nets. Sorry, Rod Dreher ?- no matter how the "media elite" may wrinkle its nose at the evangelicals, at the Disney-boycotting gays-are-sinners Baptists, we?re not in the habit of ignoring them. Cassie Bernall, shot in the head in the Columbine library because she copped to God, got a truckload of ink. No, this being the entertainment business, it?s more likely a matter of timing. And the emotional difference between two tragedies ?- another teen massacre, which sickens...
...could be a boon to the Vatican. "If the curiosity surrounding this new proclamation calls attention to the processes of confession and receiving indulgences, the church will have been successful," he says. Still unanswered: Does this mean that Catholic smokers who live longer because of giving up their "mortifying" habit get to heaven later or earlier than their equally worthy but cancer-ridden friends who couldn't kick the habit...