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Eight years after a multi-billion-dollar master settlement between tobacco companies and 46 states on the health problems linked to smoking, cigarettes now have more nicotine—the substance that makes them addictive. Tobacco companies have raised nicotine levels in cigarettes by 11 percent—about 1.6 percent per year—between 1998 and 2005, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) confirmed on Thursday. The findings were first reported by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and later turned over to researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health for independent analysis...
...days of smoke-filled rooms in the United States Capitol are over...
...hard-boiled as they come, a barely subordinate loner with a disdain for the pins of the Leaders that every North Korean is expected to wear and a woodworking hobby that threatens to earn him an "antisocial" note in his file. ("Why the hell can't you just smoke, like everyone else?" the Chief Inspector complains.) But O gets results, and when the body of a Western diplomat is discovered in a room at Pyongyang's biggest hotel-the stiff in the book's title-he is quickly called back to the capital to investigate, only to find his life...
Blanchett: She couldn't stand too near a naked flame, otherwise her entire wardrobe would go up in smoke [all crack up]. Those pants were quite extraordinary...
...most philosophical entertainment--or most entertaining work of philosophy--piled on plot curlicues like the toppings on an oversize novelty sundae. Maddening as its mystery could be (O.K., so the smoke monster was set up by the Others who live by the four-toed statue and--hang on, let me grab a pencil ...), great writing, tantalizing details and ever richer characters made it a yarn worth getting more deeply entangled...