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...just getting leftovers," he complained. Not everyone was so insouciant. One man covered his mouth and dashed for the toilet when Von Hagens made his first cuts through the cadaver's yellow, distended paunch. (The show's leading man was a prodigious whisky drinker and two-pack-a-day smoker.) Others found urgent reading material as Von Hagens sawed through the skull. Michael Wilks, chairman of the British Medical Association's Medical Ethics Committee, said the event and exhibition were "degrading and sensational rather than educational." But can't education and sensationalism coexist? That's certainly the way it used...
...billion Record-setting amount in punitive damages awarded to a lung-cancer-ridden smoker who sued Philip Morris for using false advertising to entice her to become a lifelong smoker...
...California jury’s decision on Friday that Phillip Morris must pay $28 billion in punitive damages to a lifetime smoker may prove a blessing in disguise for the tobacco giant. Betty Bullock, a 64-year-old with lung cancer who has smoked since age 17, persuaded the jury to punish the company for malicious deception she claims lured her into addiction. They were so disgusted that they set the award a full $8 billion higher than Bullock’s attorney requested, and $25 billion higher than the largest settlement to date...
...could call him the unofficial mayor of Cambridge,” he says. “He was a pipe smoker, and he used to send the police into the store for his tobacco. He had that kind of a personality...
...boycott list, the Marlboros on sale in Egypt are actually produced here - but it does provide an emotional outlet for anger against America, whose unconditional support for Israel, people believe, enables what they see as the Jewish state's ongoing assault on Palestinian society. The guilty Marlboro-smoker must typically have prepared some defense, as my friend Amr did last week: "I just came back from Ramallah, and I'll have you know, it makes no difference on the ground what you smoke...