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...cents each - an especially good price point for kids. And while Yakubu says he doesn't sell to children, other shopkeepers do. About 25% of teens - some as young as 13 - use tobacco in some parts of Nigeria, double the smoking rate of Nigerian men, and many pick up the habit by age 11. That's a demographic powder keg, one that means big trouble if you're a health expert and big promise if you're a tobacco executive. Both sides agree on one thing, though: across all of Africa, cigarettes are set for boom times. (See pictures...
...It’s not easy to pick up Cantonese. Unless you really want to say “Please hold the handrail...
...prevent hospital overcrowding, the NHS is planning to allow people who think they might have swine flu to call a telephone line and answer a few questions; those whose answers indicate they might have it will be allowed to receive the antiviral Tamiflu or have a "flu friend" pick it up for them. (The system is available only in England for now - sorry, Scotland.) (See the top five swine...
...Medicaid coverage. Under the health-reform bill now being considered by the House, all non-elderly people earning at or below 133% of poverty - about $14,400 for an individual and $29,300 for a family of four - would be eligible. The House bill would have the Federal Government pick up the entire cost for those newly covered under Medicaid - $438 billion over 10 years. But a draft proposal by the Senate Finance Committee would have the feds paying the additional cost for only five years, after which the states would have to pick up their typical share of existing...
...governors' differences, says Rendell, "we would all like to see some federal policy where everyone in the country has access to health care." It's a noble goal. The real question, however, is who should have to pick...