Word: tobacco
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...budget, Governor Ronnie Musgrove asked for $537 million for Medicaid, a small increase over the previous year. The legislature gave him half that. With some tobacco lawsuit settlement money and cost cutting, lawmakers narrowed the gap to $120 million. But that's as far as they would go. "Ladies and gentlemen, there ain't no more money down here," Public Health Committee Chairman Bobby Moody announced Monday on the floor of the state house. "We done turned every stone that had a few pennies on it, and we think we have put as much into Medicaid as we can possibly...
...economy dried up, Medicaid costs became impossible to pay - leading to dilemmas like Mississippi's. Neither the governor nor the legislature wants to be the villain who takes people's health coverage away, and so in many states, the government is performing incredible fiscal tricks, diverting money from tobacco settlements or reserve funds to cover costs for now. In other states, the governments are cutting back on Medicaid and hoping to survive voters' anger in November. Either way, it's painful...
...connection you’ve ever made?” I ask. Gould takes almost no time to reply. “Discovering that the chief guru of the construction of the modern synthesis of evolutionary theory, R.A. Fisher, late in his life, became a serious apologist for the tobacco industry when the links with cancer were first being established.” I’m impressed...
...launched a "Smoke-Free Movies" newspaper ad campaign. His study, funded by the National Cancer Institute, found that on average the 20 top-grossing films featured 50% more instances of smoking an hour in 2000 than in 1960. And an American Lung Association survey discovered that 61% of the tobacco use in films last year occurred in movies rated G, PG and PG-13. With teen smoking up dramatically in the past decade, a movement is building to hold Hollywood accountable. Says Glantz: "The entertainment industry is in denial...
...director of Harvard's Center for Health Communication, and Lindsay Doran, former head of United Artists, have been going door to door among the studios. They hit the honchos with hard facts: a million teens a year become daily smokers, and a third of those will eventually die from tobacco-related illness. When Doran and Moses met with executives from Imagine Pictures, says Doran, "they said, 'Smoking is not in any of our scripts.' But then they called the next day and said, 'We looked, and it's everywhere.'" Karen Kehela, co-chairman of Imagine, recalls trying to take smoking...