Word: toxicants
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Easy to make and hugely profitable (a "point," or 0.1 gram, sells for about $A50 in Australia but costs only about $A1 to make), ice is as toxic to societies as it is to users. Addicts are prone to reckless criminality and extreme violence as well as paranoia and convulsions. Countries like Australia and New Zealand (where high-purity crystal meth is fast displacing less potent forms of the drug) are robust enough to absorb some of the damage. Island societies are not. Ice abuse has caused social and economic mayhem in Guam, Palau and Hawaii, says Shaun Evans...
...junk food. Arkansas raises about $40 million a year from a soft-drink tax of about 2¢ a can. Nationally, he says, "we could raise $1.5 billion from a penny-a-can tax on soft drinks. With $1.5 billion, we could create a 'nutrition Superfund' to clean up the toxic environment. You could get Beyonce Knowles away from Pepsi and Shaquille O'Neal from Burger King and have them promote healthy eating instead...
...seized pills. They are certain about one thing: it isn't medicine. Although phony prescription and over-the-counter drugs often look like the real things, right down to the blister packs and corporate logos on the packaging, they may have few-if any-active ingredients and might contain toxic substances. These days, drug companies and international health organization officials are alarmed by the health threat posed by the increasing availability of fake drugs pouring out of illegal factories, mostly in China and India. According to Dr. Harvey Bale Jr., director general of the Geneva-based International Federation of Pharmaceutical...
...similar event in China last month, hundreds of parents unknowingly fed their infants bogus baby formula made of starch and sugar. At least 13 of the children died, according to press reports. And because counterfeits are made in clandestine and often unsanitary factories, they might be adulterated with toxic ingredients. According to Bale of the IFPMA, 30 Indians died in 1998 after they ingested cough syrup from China that was laden with antifreeze...
...Kumbaya wing of the Democratic Party for being weak-kneed on defense. From and DLC president Bruce Reed then attacked the candidacy of Howard Dean (who, ironically, was something of an Al From doppelganger--chesty, mouthy and combative). From, never very popular with mainstream Dems, gradually became toxic...