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Does big, bad Big Tobacco put a price on human life? It certainly looked that way last week, when a study sponsored by Philip Morris found that the Czech Republic actually saves money when one of its citizens smokes - $1,227 in reduced health care, pensions and housing costs, on average, every time a smoker dies...
Katharine Graham told the story of her life so well and with such raw candor in her 1997 autobiography, the Pulitzer-prizewinning "Personal History," that retelling it here seems redundant. It was the tale of a fretful rich girl who married the dazzlingly brilliant Philip Graham. It was her father who owned the Washington Post, but her husband was given majority control of the paper on the theory that no man should ever work for his wife. When she found the manic-depressive Graham dead of a gunshot wound in the bathroom of their country house in 1963, this "doormat...
...public Katharine Graham was born, at the age of 46, out of a catastrophe - the suicide in 1963 of her brilliant and unstable husband Philip, a manic depressive who was publisher of the Washington Post...
...study commissioned by Philip Morris in the Czech Republic found that a cigarette-smoking public, far from being a drag on public funds, was actually a boon to government coffers - to the tune of 5.815 billion Czech korunas, or about $147 million...
...some point during the negotiations, Philip Morris must have been tempted to commission a similar study in the U.S. - but of course this sort of calculation can be seen as a little on the callous side. Big Tobacco knows that while its image may never sparkle, it can always get worse. And while the government may talk about putting Big Tobacco out of business, it'll never happen...