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Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, Koh was the Massachusetts public health commissioner from 1997-2003, where he was an unusually effective communicator, championing issues of tobacco cessation, health care disparities, and community involvement, Ware said...
Ware said that Koh spearheaded a tobacco prevention program that led to a dramatic decline in smoking rates in the state, particularly among young people...
Border sheriffs like Wiles (who says it's no coincidence the plan was crafted in part by Napolitano, a former border governor) are particularly gratified to see Washington sending 100 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents to help intercept the deluge of assault rifles, automatic pistols and grenades moving south. Until now, the El Paso sector had only seven ATF agents. The Obama plan will also place more federal antidrug and immigration and customs agents along the 2,000-mile-long frontier. Those cops, moreover, will be equipped with new X-ray technologies to detect contraband cash...
...When growing tobacco started to become less profitable for farmers, they rotated some portion of their land to growing corn. Between feed and the ethanol industry they did well. As a matter of fact, the ethanol industry had a supplier and that allowed the alternative energy movement to grow into an industry. Alternative use of assets is central to a number of industries that need to be revitalized. The car business has a chance to use its strengths to gain back some of its vitality permanently if it can make this transition...
...concentrate and react, and it certainly has impacts on third parties," says Hay, who has written on the societal costs of drug abuse. "It's one more drug that will add to the toll on society. All we have to do is look at the two legalized drugs, tobacco and alcohol, and look at the carnage that they've caused. [Marijuana] is a dangerous drug, and it causes bad outcomes for both the people who use it and for the people who are in their way at work or other activities." He adds, "There are probably some responsible people...