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True Scotch drinkers tend to relish Islay's often difficult flavors: seaweed, salt water, cigar smoke and that lovely aroma that comes from toasting the soon-to-be-fermented barley over a peat fire. In high season--spring and summer, when the weather is more agreeable--whisky pilgrims can be found hopping from one distillery to another, tasting and learning about their favorite spirit...
...almost hallucinatory sight: men and women in historical costume rolling drums of flaming tar down the cobbled streets of a southern English town, lighting up the night as drums beat and crowds roar. Others follow, bearing burning torches and letting off deafening fireworks. The air is dense with the smoke of vast bonfires, ablaze in surrounding fields and on hillsides. No, it's not a re-enactment of Dante's Inferno. It's Bonfire Night in the Sussex town of Lewes...
...Worst of all was the number of smokers with asthmatic children who didn't even try to quit or at least limit themselves to smoking outdoors rather than just moving to another room or the garage. Secondhand smoke has been proved, over and over again, to be a major trigger of asthma attacks. Many smoking parents purchased expensive air filters that have what Cabana called "questionable utility...
...vacuuming with a high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter, can greatly reduce a child's asthma symptoms, according to a study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. Working in low-income, inner-city homes where children suffered from asthma triggered by indoor allergens--dust mites, cockroaches, pets, tobacco smoke or mold--researchers taught families how to reduce the level of those pollutants. A year later, children in those homes reported three fewer weeks of asthma symptoms than did kids in untreated homes...
...million smokers consumed 1.75 trillion cigarettes last year, but foreign sales accounted for only about 5% of these because of government restrictions. The venture with Fujian province's Longyan Cigarette Factory will make Marlboros widely available in China. But Big Tobacco's China dreams have gone up in smoke before. In 1986 R.J. Reynolds formed a $31 million joint venture to make Camels; 13 years later, the American partner bailed out by selling to Japan Tobacco. JT itself gave up on the venture when its contract expired this month, selling its stake to Chinese partners for a measly $18 million...