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...recent content analysis of tobacco-industry documents suggests that cigarette companies intentionally targeted female smokers through cigarette design—creating both aesthetic feminine appeal and illusions of reduced health risks...
...rush is on to copy California. A group called Cures for Florida hopes to get a $1 billion initiative, modeled on Proposition 71, on the statewide ballot next year. Washington Governor Christine Gregoire last week signed a bill allotting $350 million from the state's tobacco-suit settlement to life-science research, which could include stem-cell work. But lawmakers who defeated a bill to protect stem-cell research have promised a fight over how the money is spent when it starts to flow in 2008. New Jersey is mulling a plan to devote $380 million to a research facility...
...authors also hoped the study would raise awareness among women that past abuse might be a partial cause of excessive tobacco and alcohol...
...nearly 40 years. And if more people like Wolfgang make the switch, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's fragile spd?Green coalition could fall apart at next year's national vote. "People here are just frustrated and want to see new faces," says Wolfgang, sniffing a pinch of red tobacco. "My grandpa used to say that the spd gave us prosperity after the war. That may be true, but they can't do it anymore." In the past, North Rhine-Westphalia, in which Duisburg is located, has been an spd stronghold, where no-nonsense blue-collar workers like Teusch rebuilt...
...Indianapolis, "but you're not totally excluding yourself from the world." Says Tyler Irwin, 20, a sophomore from Polson, Mont.: "I don't want to put myself in a compromising position, with lots of alcohol and lots of girls and not a lot of clothes." House rules ban drinking, tobacco, illegal drugs and premarital sex. Room doors must be open when students of the opposite sex are together inside. Marks of holy living are everywhere. In the corridors, residents have posted snippets of Scripture, like FLEE THE EVIL DESIRES OF YOUTH. On a recent Friday night, as other Greek...