Word: tobacco
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...cancer] epidemic in Africa is totally different from what we face in the developed world. In Africa, we have to deal with simpler solutions. You don't have the tobacco burden, but you have people obviously not getting any health care, not getting any diagnoses, not getting any medicine. That has to be addressed...
...unfamiliar one. In “Erin Brockovich,” Julia Roberts plays a single mom who takes a power company to task for contaminating water supplies. In “The Insider,” Russell Crowe resolves to use his inside knowledge to bring down Big Tobacco. But both these films deal with moral issues of a more urgent nature and have heroes who are more engaging and three-dimensional. Kearns’ defining trait is his doggish grip on one idea: that he deserves the credit and the profit for his invention. But while his earnest...
...welcome the elimination of clouds of smoke outside classrooms. At Clarion, for example, more than 500 students and faculty have signed petitions in support of the ban. That's great news for anti-smoking coalitions around the country who have been pressing colleges and universities to get stricter on tobacco. Although PASSHE is the first full school system to outlaw smoking, the American Lung Association estimates that about 130 schools now have campuswide bans, while several others have prohibited selling cigarettes on campus or have designated smoking areas away from school buildings...
...smoke Zhong Nan Hai / Life takes off with Zhong Nan Hai.”Though they never could admit it for fear of government persecution, their song has a veiled political message. They are—very delicately, of course—connecting one controlling, harmful and popular force (tobacco) to another (their government). Angst and rebellion may not be central to the culture, but after a summer living in the People’s Republic of China, I have decided that they are feelings that are naturally experienced by all people—Lily, Veona, Jin Mei, Chen...
Though McCain is quick to say he considers his opponent a "patriot," McCain and his aides now view Obama with the same level of contempt they once reserved for tobacco-company executives, corrupt lawmakers and George W. Bush. They have convinced themselves that Obama is not honorable, that he does not love his country as much as himself. That makes it easier to justify doing whatever is necessary to defeat him - especially if it's done in the pursuit of honor...