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There has been an overall decrease of about 35 to 40 percent in cardiovascular fatalities in Massachusetts since 1999. Taking into account factors such as flu outbreaks, air pollution, and seasonal differentiation in health, scientists found that a reduction in secondhand smoke was the single greatest factor in the drop in deaths from heart disease...
...Massachusetts Smoke-free Workplace Law, which went into effect in July 2004, made smoking illegal in most indoor public places, including offices, bars, and restaurants...
Striped Pajamas, written and directed by Mark Herman, requires everyone in it to remain unconscious to every clue - and there are many - about what is happening in the family's backyard. Even when the gas chambers are fired up, smoke blackening the sky and stench filling their nostrils, they insist the camp is just burning some old clothes. The largest silence is Shmuel's, who never forthrightly explains his desperate circumstances to Bruno. Maybe he doesn't want to shock his new friend. More likely his true imprisonment is in the desperate manipulations of this movie, its need to keep...
...people. A bleak end—regardless of the Christian connotations—that expresses Gibran’s own misgivings about his ability to reconcile two cultures. Although the time for reading snippets of “The Prophet” aloud amid clouds of marijuana smoke may be over, and though much literature from the overzealous 60s is best left forgotten, Gibran’s work remains relevant. Not only do his images retain poetic power at face value, but they also reveal a man striving to find a balance between two very different worlds. This...
...Stage a Surprise?7:00 a.m. E.T. How close is Missouri? One last-minute GOP poll of 800 likely voters found a 400 to 400 split. Political veterans in this perennial swing state are predicting a long night and potential chaos at the polls. "We could all be blowing smoke rings and wake up to a blowout, but my sense is it's going down to the wire," says Republican consultant Paul Zemitzsch of St. Louis...