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...North America and Europe. Recent efforts to corral tobacco use by countries such as Scotland and Ireland, which banned smoking in bars, restaurants and public places, have led to significant drops in cigarette use and in hospitalizations for heart attacks. Any changes in the incidence of cancer, which takes longer to develop, may appear in coming years. A wide-ranging cancer prevention program adopted by the European Union in 1985 helped the continent avoid 98,000 cancer deaths...
...This sort of logic, that simplifies, reduces, and decontextualizes, is intellectually irresponsible and dangerous to boot. If “intellectual honesty” is to be given its due at Harvard, in the halls of Washington, and in the streets of Mumbai, the attack this week needs a longer look...
...this innocuous sloganeering quickly went awry. Take, for instance, one candidate’s poster, which read: “All men have it, some longer than others. The Pope never uses his. What am I? A last name. If you have a dirty mind, [this candidate] doesn’t mind.” While perhaps not every voter finds vulgarity in this appeal, surely all of us can agree that it tells us little about the candidate’s ability to lead...
...have plenty of time to talk face to face when the economy crumbles, obliging us to sell our cell phones, dress in drab burlap ensembles, and stand in long lines waiting for soup. There’s a reason we consider sincere intellectual engagement awkward. The longer we can postpone that, the more time we can spend making lists of verboten terms like “moist,“ “dank,” and “tender” and quietly hoping someone else will fix the economy...
...think it has to do with working really hard at something I really enjoy,” he said. “People here are passionate in general, which enables them to work longer hours and maybe work even better...