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...more animal fur. And, as Mom always warned, the more you walk around the house while eating, the more food debris you'll drop on the floor - which also attracts more insects that will die, decompose and add their own special zest to your dust. Cooking smoke and tobacco smoke, which are the most obvious contributors when they're being produced, actually make only a small contribution to what winds up on floors and surfaces. The tiny size of the particles makes them likelier to rise and adhere to other surfaces or simply remain in the air than to settle...
...hosted a closed-door reception in the hotel's Virginia room, the low roar of which could easily be heard from the corridor. There was a "Smoke Out the Terrorists" hookah party at Queen's Café in Adams Morgan, where 18-year-olds coughed their way through apple tobacco and lamented Washington's 5-cent tax on plastic bags. Down the street, things got rowdier at the District, where the D.C. chapter of the College Republicans hosted a welcome party. "Liberty is contagious," said an underage drinker - you could tell by the giant X's drawn on their hands...
...cutting operating expenses by 10% and freezing wages and new hiring. The plan also calls for an improved tax-collection system and the creation of an independent statistics service, which should make it harder for officials to manipulate data. Parliament has passed a 20% tax on alcohol and tobacco, and other tax hikes are rumored. This worries executives like Doros Constantinou, the CEO of Coca-Cola Hellenic, which sells soft drinks in 28 countries. "An increase in taxes will have an impact on disposable income," he says. "That's not a good thing...
President Obama continues running with the handoff of the silence “loyalty” ball from President George W. Bush by omitting tobacco in his past two State of the Union addresses. How many million Americans must die before this presidential silence is broken? How about some “tough love” balls...
...cognitive decline. In 2009, after a study sponsored by the league showed evidence that retired players had long-term mental trauma, and after more damaged players came forward, Congress stepped in. At one hearing, Representative Linda Sanchez, a Democrat from California, compared the NFL's stance on concussions to tobacco companies' denial that smoking causes lung cancer. Others have taken up the players' cause, like Gay Culverhouse, the terminally ill former president of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who has established an outreach program for those needing assistance. (See pictures from an X-ray studio...