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...would be like. Producer Lindsay Doran, who once helped persuade director John Hughes to keep Ferris Bueller smoke-free in the 1980s hit, wanted to do the same for the leads of her 2006 movie Stranger Than Fiction. When a writer convinced her that the character played by Emma Thompson had to smoke, Doran relented, but from the way Thompson hacks her way through the film and snuffs out her cigarettes in a palmful of spit, it's clear the glamour's gone. And remember all the smoking in The Devil Wears Prada? No? That's because the producers...
...long as it is technically achievable, eradication offers both lower cumulative costs and cases than control in the long term, even with the costs of achieving eradication exceeding several billion dollars more,” Associate Professor of Risk Analysis and Decision Science Kimberly Thompson, one of the study’s authors, said a statement...
...implications of low control are lots of paralyzed children, which is something that people have to think about,” Thompson said in a joint interview with her co-author, Radboud Duintjer Tebbens. “Even though they won’t be in the U.S., we are talking about paralyzed children in the low income countries...
...similar study, published in December, Thompson and Tebbens, a research associate in the School of Public Health’s Department of Health Policy and Management, reported that the United States spent nearly $35 billion on polio vaccinations between 1955 and 2005. The researchers found that if vaccinations stopped, 1.1 million cases of the disease could erupt in the United States alone, ultimately costing the country $180 billion more than if the original policy were maintained. [SEE CORRECTIONS BELOW...
...study is go back and review the economic literature about eradication...and people have shown that it’s never optimal to do high control, you should either eradicate it or basically what you’re going to be doing is accepting low control,” Thompson said...