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...many of us in medicine smoke cigarettes any more. Few who live in the fancy zipcodes do either. Cigarettes, to an extent, have become an indicator of lower socioeconomic status. This week public hospitals were handing out free nicotine patches as the federal cigarette tax more than doubled, to $1.01, which means that in places like New York City a pack costs more than $9, sometimes more than $10. Like the lottery, this is exactly what Democrats should hate - a tax on the poor. (Do Dems stay silent on cigarettes because the government needs the money?) Certainly, in this economic...
...aware that in a world of 6.7 billion people and counting, the only conservation efforts that have potential - and the only plans that will be truly sustainable - are those that benefit people as much as lions, tigers and bears. "Big cats won't survive unless people want to live with them," says Rabinowitz. "You have to show how they can benefit." In the 58,000-sq.-mi. (150,000-sq.-km) Brazilian Pantanal, there should be room enough for both...
...human beings, wild animals and domestic animals begin to live in closer and closer to one another, the chance of pathogens jumping - and amplifying - between species will only increase. Sinai's researchers will be able to monitor the population in the Pantanal for zoonotic diseases, providing a needed early warning system for new and emerging pathogens. It will also be a valuable learning experience for Mt. Sinai's students. "We see a really close interface between the health of human populations and conservation efforts," says Paul Klotman, chairman of the department of medicine at Mt. Sinai. "This will allow...
...Health 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...
...Ehmal Pasarly of the BBC Pashtu language radio service has been giving live commentary of several of the team's performances to date, including its historic win against Jersey last year in the ICC World Cricket League Division Five final - a feat that put Afghanistan 29th in the international rankings. "During Jersey we received more than two thousand emails and phone calls," he said. "The emails came from all over the world, but most were from Afghans delighted by their team's success." The broadcaster adds that by the time the team played its early World Cup qualifiers in Argentina...