Word: rip
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...findings--which confirmed what many scientists have long suspected but that drug companies desperately tried to deny--make sense, given the way that the drugs work. COX-2 inhibitors were designed to bypass the side effects of aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents, which can rip through the stomach lining. In the 1990s, researchers discovered that COX appears in the body in two different forms. COX-2 inhibitors, as their name implies, were designed to block just the inflammatory functions of the COX-2 enzyme, leaving the stomach-protecting functions of the COX-1 form intact...
...company website said it supports “a uniform, national standard” for RIP cigarettes but opposes individual state laws because they could conflict...
...Even if Philip Morris opposes state legislation, they could still voluntarily put [national RIP cigarette sales] into practice tomorrow,” Connolly said, adding that the resources for making the extinguishing paper are not a limiting factor for manufacturers...
...said the only way to make cigarette manufacturers sell RIP cigarettes is a law mandated by Congress...
Howard K. Koh, Fineberg professor of the practice of public health and associate dean for public health practice, agreed that it is important to push for the adoption of RIP cigarettes in the face of opposition from cigarette manufacturers...