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Elizabeth Clear, a 64-year-old housewife, had long been a 30-a-day smoker. But it still came as a shock when doctors running tests for a hiatus hernia at London's Whittington Hospital found something much more serious - lung cancer. And when consultant Siow Ming Lee proposed enrolling her in a trial using thalidomide to treat the disease, she got an even bigger shock. "That was the drug that damaged the children, wasn't it?" she asked. Despite her initial misgivings, she's now pleased she was given thalidomide - her cancer has been in remission for nearly...
Next time you come home after a night of boozing and bar hopping, you won’t have to smell like a chain smoker. The Boston Health Commissioners voted last week to ban smoking in all restaurants, bars and nightclubs. This change is an important step in helping curb an awful habit; tobacco-related illnesses are the leading cause of death in the United States. In addition, this new rule will ensure that all Bostonians, not just those in downtown office buildings, will have the right to work in a smoke-free environment...
...reasonable argument made to justify high cigarette taxes is that the negative health repercussions of smoking, even if they were suffered entirely by the smoker, such as increased rates of lung cancer, emphysema, and heart disease, are often borne by society as publicly funded medical costs. This is an example of what economists call a negative consumption externality; the smoker doesn’t pay the entire cost of his habit because he might not cover his increased medical expenses through higher private insurance premiums. The classic solution to this negative externality is to impose a tax that erases...
Truth is, not much of anyone. Though Hiller has acquired a considerable reputation for shaming smokers (both students and fellow colleagues) into submission, he insists that punishing smokers has never been the goal at U.N.H. "Our policy was not drafted to create tobacco police," he says. "We just want to promote a culture where a student who's a nonsmoker won't think twice about walking up to a smoker and asking them to put it out." But, he says after a pause, "if this works out, I'd like to push [the perimeters] back...
...native of Lanciano, east of Rome, De Luca bursts with an Italian passion for style, which insinuates itself into Logitech's curvaceous product designs. When executives bring him a prototype, "his face glows," says David Henry, a senior vice president. A smoker since he was 15, De Luca likes sneaking outside to light up with employees. "It creates a kind of complicity that allows me to find out what people really think," he says...