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...market in East Timor. Out front, Timorese ponies are parked five to a row. In the back, roosters fight to the death, egged on by craggy mountain men dressed in woolen shawls and wide-brimmed hats. In the market, women sell everything from palm wine and shags of wild tobacco to the beautifully handwoven rugs and blankets known as tais. Don't expect to haggle over prices. The recent introduction of the U.S. dollar as the country's official currency has confused many, and the stall owners prefer for now to keep prices fixed until they can master the true...
Selling Up In Smoke The Italian government began its own round of privatizations as it invited bids for the state-owned tobacco monopoly Ente Tabacchi Italiani (ETI). It hopes to raise around €1.5 billion from the sale...
...says it had been suggested by the 1949 Italian neo-realist near-classic "Bitter Rice" - or, more precisely, by the sultry, skirt-hiking image of Silvana Mangano, who made the movie an international hit. "Lorna" had closer affinities to "Tobacco Road" and "God's Little Acre," Erskine Caldwell's novels of the dirt-poor, lubricious South, where the men are mean and the women are willin', where everyone quotes the Bible and nobody follows its Commandments. There isn't much skin in the movie, just a midnight bath in the old crick, but what's there is cherce; for Meyer...
Local prohibitions on smoking would also be more effective than a state-wide ban, because state action would be more open to legal challenges by tobacco companies that would lead to a “watered down” measure, said Howard K. Koh, commissioner of the Mass. Department of Public Health...
...Barber is, of course, using the same argument many individuals and numerous states have successfully employed in their suits against the tobacco companies: You sold us this product, and even though we probably realized it wasn't good for us, we kept using it anyway; now we're dying, arguably at the hand of your product, and you're going to have to pay. But even if that argument is valid (and I have my doubts), isn't it a bit of a stretch to leap from cigarettes to Big Macs...