Word: tobacco
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Tobacco reformers have promoted this war as a boon to asthmatics. In the last 25 years, 40 million Americans have quit the habit and it has been severely restricted. During this period, however, adult asthma rates have increased 75 percent and children’s 160 percent...
...party, an amalgam of 15 groups under the banner of the National Rainbow Coalition. It is stacked with former KANU members, many of them accused of the corruption Kibaki promises to fight. The new President was born in the shadow of Mount Kenya, the son of a tobacco and cattle farmer. After excelling at his high school, Kibaki studied at Uganda's Makerere University, one of Africa's best, and at the London School of Economics. He helped draw up the first Kenyan constitution and then served as Kenyatta's Finance Minister. A serious and clean technocrat, he can still...
Last week, the U.S. government added steroidal estrogen--like the kind used in hormone-replacement therapy and birth control pills--to its list of "known human carcinogens," a catalog that also includes asbestos, tobacco and mustard gas. The Report on Carcinogens, issued every two years by the National Toxicology Program, associates steroidal estrogen with increased risk of endometrial and breast cancer, based on data from studies of HRT and birth-control pills. Still, scientists debate whether such treatments--which combine estrogen with other hormones--pose the same threat as estrogen alone. "If this concerns you, talk to your physician about...
When their products are smuggled across international borders, most U.S. companies do one of two things: write off the loss as a cost of doing business or crack down and prosecute. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco--according to an unusual lawsuit filed against the company by the European Union and 10 member nations--had a different approach to smugglers of its cigarettes: it took them out to dinner, using expense accounts that, for some executives, totaled nearly $1 million a year...
...expects it to be dismissed. An earlier version of the lawsuit, which accused RJR of tax evasion, was dismissed in February. But experts say the money-laundering allegations are more likely to stick. "This is a new dimension, and a clearly criminal dimension," says Richard Daynard, 59, a tobacco-litigation expert and professor of law at Northeastern University in Boston...