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...keeping with the themes of nature that are threaded all through the display areas, it's a building landscaped with 150 species of trees and shrubs in a design guided by Donna House, a Navajo ethnobotanist. There's also a lily pond, plantings of corn, beans, squash and tobacco, and massive Canadian boulders. This being Washington, the rocks double as security barriers...
...vacuuming with a high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter, can greatly reduce a child's asthma symptoms, according to a study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. Working in low-income, inner-city homes where children suffered from asthma triggered by indoor allergens--dust mites, cockroaches, pets, tobacco smoke or mold--researchers taught families how to reduce the level of those pollutants. A year later, children in those homes reported three fewer weeks of asthma symptoms than did kids in untreated homes...
...Iraq. So he sent Omar to a vocational school in the United Arab Emirates, where he studied automotive maintenance. But as the years went by, Shakr, 50, began to be worried about his son. Omar wrote letters to his father, a smoker, lecturing him about Islam's disdain for tobacco. He chided his mother for wearing Western-style clothes to work. Omar finally returned to Baghdad this spring, after the fall of Saddam's regime. When he showed up at the family home, his father's heart sank. Once clean shaven, Omar now wore a long beard, and his dishdasha...
...Philip Morris appears to have won a race with British American Tobacco, which in July announced "approval from the highest authorities" for a $1.5 billion China plant, only to be dressed down later by China's all-powerful State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (STMA). Apparently, the STMA was left out of the loop and the deal hit a wall. The Marlboro Man will need a surer grip to grab this bull by the horns...
...five times as likely to have a heart attack as their nonsmoking peers, according to an analysis of World Health Organization data from 21 countries. And about 80% of all people ages 35 to 39 who have had heart attacks were smokers, say the authors of a study in Tobacco Control. Smoking in this age group was judged to be the cause of 65% of the nonfatal heart attacks in men and 55% of those in women...