Word: tobacco
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Since graduating from HMS in 1964, Schroeder, who works as a professor of Health and Health Care at the University of California, San Francisco, has dedicated most of his professional career to research on tobacco policy and teen smoking and drug...
...Schroeder has made many significant contributions to tobacco control over the past decade, and I’m honored to welcome him as our new chair,” foundation President and CEO Cheryl G. Heaton said in a press release. “We consider ourselves fortunate to be in his capable hands as we navigate the challenges that lie ahead for our foundation in the coming years...
Watson turned grudgingly to work on the structure of the tobacco mosaic virus, and Crick went back to hemoglobin. But no mere lab director could keep them from talking about dna between themselves. And while their blunder the first time around had been dispiriting, it didn't discourage them. After all, they had no reputations to be tarnished. And if they had come to the wrong conclusions based on incomplete information and a dumb mistake, that was just an incentive to get better information and be more careful next time...
...past year, Jampur has lost 20 cows, 10 horses and some goats and sheep. Yet he considers himself fortunate. "Some of my neighbors lost their whole herd and had to leave the steppe," he says, stuffing his water pipe with tobacco while his wife feeds dung into the stove with her bare hand. Jampur can't conceive of following them to the city. He knows there was a drought this summer and heavy snowfall early in the winter?the hallmarks of another dzud?and his animals, he admits, already look thin. "But we've made it this far," he says...
...from standard European mobiles may cause neuron damage in the brain. Since 1992, when David Reynard filed suit in Florida against the mobile-phone industry for causing the tumor that killed his wife, American trial lawyers have been dialing for dollars, convinced that mobile phones could be the next tobacco. But unlike tobacco lawsuits, which have cost the industry over $200 billion, Reynard's suit and the host of others that followed were thrown out due to a lack of scientific evidence that mobile phones cause cancer. Indeed, after a large study last year at Adelaide's Institute of Medical...