Word: secondhands
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...month on food, household and personal expenses, including clothes, so she can pay off the mortgage and have a nest egg saved up when she retires. She enjoys traveling and takes sculpture classes, but only once in her life has she bought something on credit - a secondhand car. "I'm my own Finance Minister," she jokes. "I don't run up debt." Still, if the state didn't take such a big chunk of her income every month, she says she would spend more rather than squirreling it away. Multiply Moser's lament across 42 million German workers...
...HEALTH: Secondhand smoke and heart attack; seasonal cholesterol...
...smoke cigarettes and have always been cautious about breathing secondhand smoke, but I never worried too much if I inhaled a little of the stuff in a bar, a restaurant or a building entranceway in cities like New York where indoor-smoking bans have driven smokers onto the sidewalks. So I was surprised when I heard that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had issued a warning advising anyone at risk of heart disease entirely to avoid indoor public spaces where smoking is allowed. According to the CDC, exposure to secondhand smoke for as little as 30 minutes...
...health risks posed by secondhand smoke are well documented, but what triggered the warning, which was published in the British Medical Journal and is sure to fire up the tobacco lobby, was a small study out of Helena, Mont. When the city passed an ordinance banning indoor smoking in 2002, Helena's only heart hospital recorded a 40% drop in the number of heart attacks (from an average of 40 per six months to just 24 in that city of 26,000). What's more, when a court order lifted the ban half a year later, the heart-attack rate...
Those findings could be significant. The CDC estimates that in the U.S., secondhand smoke causes 35,000 deaths a year from heart disease--a figure some experts believe will have to be revised upward, since 60% of Americans, smokers and nonsmokers, show biological effects of tobacco-smoke exposure. Shepard did offer some reassurance for city dwellers who have to pass through nicotine clouds every time they enter and leave an office building. Exposure for a few seconds probably doesn't do much harm, he says, because the toxins in cigarette smoke are quickly diluted in outside air. --With reporting...