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...devastating a health problem as it is, surprisingly little attention is paid to obesity. The only public discussion of health issues usually revolves around smoking. Turn on the television and you find news programs that talk about evil tobacco companies and how unhealthy it is to smoke. The media is ceaseless in its condemnation of smoking, and it’s become so politically incorrect that it is almost impossible to do—being banned in practically all public areas from office buildings to bars. Whatever smokers are left, they live in a world that looks down upon their...
...other hand, has been an issue largely ignored by pundits on television and politicians in office. It hasn’t been properly acknowledged because there are many who stand to gain from Americans’ overindulgence. The fact is that the expensive campaign against cigarettes and tobacco companies did not arise out of concern for the public good; rather, they surfaced because certain groups and individuals benefited from it. For the most part, the commercials you see on TV come from sources such as trial lawyer organizations that, in return, receive financial gain from a public that hates cigarettes...
...Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health was published. Today, 40 years later, fewer than 23% do. That's good news, but it could be better--a lot better. The drop-off in smoking stalled in 1990 and has hardly budged since then. Surveys show that 70% of tobacco users want to quit, but kicking the nicotine habit isn't easy...
...past year that have made the deadly habit 30-50% more expensive for France's 20 million smokers. The tax boost - elevating a pack of Marlboros to 35 - brings French cigarette prices to the third-highest in Europe (behind the U.K. and Norway ), and increases revenues to treat tobacco-related diseases that cause 66,000 deaths in France annually. Infuriated French tobacconists claim the move is pricing them out of business, and encouraging the import and sale of contraband cigarettes. But the price hikes are at last inspiring French smokers to kick butts. Last year, the number using nicotine patches...
...stare at a television hooked up to a portable DVD player that serves up a steady stream of war movies, sci fi, horror and porn. In front of the TV is a coffee table littered with picked-over ready-to-eat meals, Tootsie Rolls and water bottles filled with tobacco juice. Heat comes from three portable radiators. The platoon's house--the hooch, as the G.I.s call it--lies within the perimeter of the Azimiya palace compound, built by Saddam in the mid-1990s for his oldest son Uday. The portion of the palace not destroyed by U.S. missiles...