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...freakish singing voice: pure, light and agile, with a tremendous range and perfect pitch. By 9 she was out on tour with her mother and stepfather. It was the dying days of vaudeville, and she belted out her high Fs on sticky, splintered stages to halls full of cigarette smoke, but by 13 she'd been asked to perform for the Queen, and by 17 the family mortgage was in her name. By 19 she was on Broadway in The Boy Friend...
...journalists who have covered this country through its darkest months, the barrage of mortars and the smoke plumes rising out of the Green Zone brought to mind Baghdad of a year ago, when the Iraqi capital was wracked by sectarian violence and terrorist attacks. For many Baghdadis, the violence served as a unnerving reminder that the improvements that have come with the "surge" are fragile, easily shattered. Said Mithal Alusi, a Green Zone resident and member of Iraq's parliament: "In a minute, in a second, just like that... we can fall into hell again...
...smoke and bodies.' MOHAMMED KADHEM, witness to a woman's suicide-bomb attack that killed at least 52 people in the Shi'ite holy city of Karbala, Iraq...
While the days of cigarette ads featuring smiling physicians are long gone, even today there remains a hypocritical culture of poor health among doctors. While it would seem that the very people whose job is to maintain the health of their patients would make better health decisions than smoking, the high-stress life of medicine has been the most common reason for engaging in this addictive habit. To combat this, Harvard Medical School (HMS) recently announced a cigarette smoking ban on campus grounds—a move highly consistent with the mission of the school and a strong step forward...
...Dental School and the Medical School along with the Harvard School of Public Health—which instituted a campus-wide no-smoking policy in 2003—are all encouraging faculty and students who smoke to take advantage of Harvard’s free smoking-cessation programs...