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...idea of quitting collectively came 12 years after the landmark U.S. Surgeon General's report connecting tobacco use to lung cancer, low birth weight and coronary disease. Lynn Smith, a newspaper editor in Monticello, Minn., and a former smoker, wrote editorials in the 1970s urging others to quit. Smith, who once told the New York Times he started smoking "as a teenager by picking up butts from the street during the Depression," organized a local event called "D-Day," or "Don't Smoke Day," in 1976. The next year, the California chapter of the American Cancer Society sponsored a similar...
...small country. In one sense, there's a limited sphere of influence. You could see it with the G20 in Washington: Australia was involved, New Zealand wasn't. That said, the view of New Zealand as a small but honest player gives it the ability to punch above its weight from time to time, and I'd continue to want to do that...
...original version of the story had General Odierno?s weight at 285 lb. (130 kg). The general weighs...
...study initially designed to assess misdiagnosis rates of asthma among obese people - a population that prior studies suggest suffers more often and more severely from the disease - researchers at the University of Ottawa discovered that doctors may be overdiagnosing asthma in all patients, regardless of weight, by some 30%. "We were bowled over by these results," says Dr. Shawn Aaron, the study's lead author and head of respiratory medicine at the University of Ottawa. (See TIME's A-Z Health Guide...
...Obama has said lifting up Detroit is one of his top priorities, but even he might have mixed feelings about throwing his weight around before he takes office. In that respect, the stalemate is a bit reminiscent of the economic crisis Franklin D. Roosevelt faced in 1932 as President-elect, says Brookings Institution historian Stephen Hess. While Roosevelt could have done more to step in, he chose to wait to take office and exercise his full power - making a clean break and effectively laying all the blame on the previous Administration of Herbert Hoover. As Jonathan Alter writes...