Word: tobacco
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Americans are the most overweight population on the planet, and obesity is fast becoming a national health crisis. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that poor diet and lack of exercise, which killed 400,000 Americans in 2000, may soon overtake tobacco, which killed 435,000 people that year, as the leading preventable cause of death...
IDENTIFY LIKELY WINNERS Gold stocks (Barrick, Newmont) and oil services and drillers (Anadarko, Schlumberger) tend to rise amid global turmoil. They also benefit from the kind of global expansion we're now seeing (led by China). Traditional safe-haven stocks like drugs (Pfizer, Merck), tobacco (Altria) and beverages (Anheuser-Busch) would hold up relatively well, and may come into favor anyway because they pay decent dividends...
...against AIDS to the U.N., WHO is making a stronger commitment to ensuring that available drug treatments get to as many of the 40 million infected around the world as possible. Under his direction, the agency is pushing its first antitobacco treaty--urging nations to levy higher taxes on tobacco and widen smoke-free areas--and working to update the international rules for dealing with disease outbreaks. It's an ambitious agenda for WHO, and its success will ultimately rest on how well Lee can move beyond the talk and put it into action. --By Alice Park
...Butts E.U. farm ministers agreed to phase out production-linked subsidies for the region's tobacco growers - located largely in Greece and Italy - by 2010. The deal for so-called Mediterranean crops will also slash subsidies to cotton and olive producers...
...best way to stop this vicious circle is to quit smoking. "If people stop smoking early on," says Petty, "their lung function actually goes up and stays up for five years." That's a lot easier said than done, considering how addictive tobacco is--and it's not an option for the 15% of COPD victims who don't smoke. But even for nonsmokers, it's important to identify the disease as early as possible as that's when drugs are most effective. And because people with COPD are especially prone to lung infection, they need to be vigilant about...