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How to Fix the Economic Meltdown and Stop Terrorism: Legalize Heroin and Whores

David Henry Sterry | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Master of Ceremonies, Law Enforcement, Serial Killer, Marijuana, Economy, Sex Trafficking, South America, Drugs, Asia, War on Drugs, Prohibition, Economic Recovery, Prostitution, Chicken, Ecstasy, Cigarettes, Alcohol, Sex Worker, Abraham Lincoln, Empowerment of Women, Willie Nelson, Sexual Predators, Al Capone, Drug Trafficking, Terrorism, Pimp My Ride, Bloomingdale's, Pimp My Crib, Victimization, Free Enterprise, Gangsters, Exploitation, Pimp, Economic Meltdown, Taliban, Afghanistan, Harry Potter, Afghan Taliban, Whores, Politics News
David Henry Sterry

The bottom line, economically, is that there is a big beautiful sexy cash cow to be milked here.

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Olives, Chocolate, and Sex

Darryle Pollack | Posted 09.01.2008 | Style

Read More: David Duchovny Sex Addiction, Cigarettes, David Duchovny, Chocolate, Tea Leoni, Style News
Darryle Pollack

It might be extra difficult to battle addictions not to things we consider bad -- like cigarettes and heroin. But when they're addicted to things we consider good -- like exercise and sex.

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NY Post Cover Story Unfairly Attacks Britney Over Smoking

Tony Newman | Posted 07.23.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Iraq War, Cigarettes, Smoking, Britney Spears, New York Post, Entertainment News
Tony Newman

The New York Post hit a new low on Tuesday when they deemed Britney Spears having a cigarette in the company of her son worthy of front page news.

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We Can't Afford to Wait to Regulate Tobacco

Dan Smith | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Big Tobacco, Cigarettes, Smoking, Fda, Cancer, Tobacco, Smoking Cancer, Tobacco Regulation, Politics News
Dan Smith

More than 40 years following the first surgeon general's report linked smoking to cancer, a simple list of ingredients is still not required for tobacco products.

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Jason Linkins

AP Gives McCain 'Cigarettes' Story A Ridiculous Headline

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Ap, John McCain, John McCain Cigarettes Iran, Cigarettes, Politics News

Yesterday, while enjoying a meal at a Pittsburgh sandwich shop, John McCain made a joke about how maybe he could kill Iranians with cigarettes, becaus...

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Life Cycle: Smoke 'Em If You've Got 'Em

Simran Sethi | Posted 07.02.2008 | Green

Read More: Pesticides, Smoking, Cigarettes, Filters, Environment, Green, Environmentalism, Tobacco Industry, Deforestation, Phillip Morris, Simran Sethi, Sarah Smarsh, Green News
Simran Sethi

Deforestation is the most direct environmental repercussion of the approximately ten gazillion cigarettes smoked in the world daily. Wood is used just about every step in production--to cure tobacco, to wrap the leaves with paper, to box them up with cardboard.

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Life Cycle: Java Break

Simran Sethi | Posted 06.30.2008 | Green

Read More: University of Kansas, Fair Trade, Shade Grown, Moolatte, Cigarettes, Slurpees, Green, Environment, Environmentalism, Newspaper, Eco, Coffee, Organic, Simran Sethi, Sarah Smarsh, Green News
Simran Sethi

Next to crude oil, coffee may be our strongest addiction. More than half of Americans fuel themselves with one to four cups of coffee, totaling upwards of 330 million cups daily.

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Matthew Broderick And Sarah Jessics Parker Still Smoke Cigarettes

NY Mag | Posted 06.19.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Cigarettes, James Wilkie Broderick, Matthew Broderick Smokes, Sarah Jessica Parker Smokes, Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica Parker, Entertainment News

Remember that "Intelligencer" item about Antonin Scalia bumming a cigarette from Sarah Jessica Parker? Most people read that and thought, "A conservat...

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Time to Die! (Oops, I Mean Time To Quit!)

Doug Bremner | Posted 06.13.2008 | Living

Read More: Psychiatry, Depression, Drugs, Cigarettes, Smoking, Medication, Health Care, Chantix, Living News
Doug Bremner

The clinical trials of anti-smoking drug Chantix excluded people with mental disorders, but smoking is increased in this population, and these people are obviously at increased risk of suicidality.

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Bootlegged Cigarettes On The Rise As Price With Taxes Approaches $10 A Pack

New York Magazine | Posted 06.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Cigarettes, Cigarette Tax, Matthew Anderson, Business News

When Matthew Anderson, a burly 35-year-old senior state tax investigator, walks into a cluttered grocery store in Kensington, Brooklyn, he knows to fo...

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Cigarette Scientists: "Cigarettes Cure Lung Cancer"

236.com | 23/6: News You Can Misuse | Posted 04.06.2008 | Home

Read More: 23/6: News You Can Misuse, Tobacco Companies, Tobacco Scientists, Cigarettes, Cigarette Scientists, 236.Com, Home News

An October 2006 lung cancer study published in the "New England Journal of Medicine" was discovered to have been funded by a cigarette company, the "N...

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California OKs First Step For Higher Cigarette Tax

Reuters | Posted 04.02.2008 | Business

Read More: Cigarettes, CA Cigarette Sales Tax, Cigarette Sales Tax, California Legislature, Business News

Supporters of a California measure that would impose an additional sales tax of 75 cents on a pack of cigarettes may begin collecting signatures to qu...

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Cigarette Company Funded Lung Cancer Study

New York Times | Gardiner Harris | Posted 03.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Liggett Group, Cancer, Lung Cancer, Cigarettes, Liggett Select, Vector Group, CT Scans, Lung Cancer Studies, Lung Cancer Deaths, Lung Cancer Foundations, Lung Cancer Cigarettes, Cigarette Brands, New England Journal of Medicine, Business News

In October 2006, Dr. Claudia Henschke of Weill Cornell Medical College jolted the cancer world with a study saying that 80 percent of lung cancer deat...

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The Amy Winehouse Visa Hypocrisy (updated version)

John Ridley | Posted 02.08.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Louis Camilleri, Big Tobacco, Smoking, Cigarettes, Philip Morris CEO, Amy Winehouse Grammys, Philip Morris, Cancer, Marlboro Cigarettes, Tobacco, Amy Winehouse Visa, Amy Winehouse, Altria Group, Entertainment News
John Ridley

If a guy who makes bank selling cancer is free to travel, comparatively the gov shouldn't be denying Winehouse entry 'cause she might guzzle a little Cristal and trash a hotel room.

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Philip Morris Plots Aggressive New Product Blitz

Wall Street Journal | VANESSA O'CONNELL | Posted 01.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Cigarettes, Altria, Nicotine, Smoking, Philip Morris, Marlboro Intense, Altria Group, Marlboros, Business News

Sitting in his office overlooking Lake Geneva, Philip Morris International Chief Executive André Calantzopoulos takes a long drag from an unusually s...

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An Inconvenient Question?

Jonathan Bines | Posted 12.20.2007 | Politics

Read More: Climate Change, Cigarettes, Smoking, Global Warming, Politics News
Jonathan Bines

You've been aware of the research for some time. However, until recently, it has been couched in the language of uncertainty. Now the results appear to be in, and the news is grim.

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College Women: Give Yourself the Gift of a Healthier Future

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 12.20.2007 | Living

Read More: University, Stds, Cigarettes, Smoking, Body Image, College, Women's Health, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Suicide, College Women Health, Sexual Assault, Health Care, Women and Body Image, Drinking, Living News
Susan Blumenthal, M.D.

The unique demands of college pose challenges to women trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle, strengthen self-esteem, and address personal safety issues.

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A Hundred Years Later

Ted Goeglein | Posted 11.20.2007 | Living

Read More: Baseball Loyalty, Jody Davis, Baseball, Smoking, Jim Hendry, Rick Sutcliffe, Yankees World Series Record, New York Yankees, Baseball Fans, Larry Bowa, Chicago Cubs, Jim Frey, Baseball Blog, The Lip, Baseball Metaphors, Baseball Memories, Wrigley Field, Red Sox World Series, Ryno and Harry, Cigarettes, Andy MacPhail, 1984 Cubs Team, World Series, Red Sox, Mister Cub, Ryne Sandberg, Living News
Ted Goeglein

The last time the Cubs won the World Series, penicillin, Mickey Mouse, nylon, movies with sound, and bubblegum had not yet been invented. Teddy Roosevelt had two years to go in his presidency. Teddy...freaking...Roosevelt.

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Congress Seeks Major Federal Tax Increase On Cigarettes

AP | Charles Babington | Posted 11.11.2007 | Business

Read More: Big Tobacco, Cigarettes, Cigarette Ban, Tobacco Lobbyists, Cigarette Tax, Business News

Congress is taking new whacks at the cigarette industry, banning tobacco sales in Senate buildings and -- more importantly -- seeking a significant fe...

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Cigarette Butts and Buttheads in a Time of Fire

Patt Morrison | Posted 10.25.2007 | Living

Read More: Cause of Fires, Cigarette Butts, Wildfires, Cigarettes, San Diego Wildfires, Living News
Patt Morrison

The radio was reporting more acreage, more homes chewed up by fire. The ash was blowing in wisps off my windshield wipers. And this man flicked a lighted cigarette out of his car.

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Is Something On Your Mind, Senator Obama?

Michael Roston | Posted 09.28.2007 | Politics

Read More: Senator Barack Obama, Freudian Slips, Cigarettes, Subliminal Messages, Fundraising, Subconscious Mind, Debate, Quitting, Politics News
Michael Roston

This may be the first time in the history of political communications that a candidate's subconscious jonesing for a smoke has worked its way into his campaign literature.

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Vanity Fair Is A Crack-Waxing Tease

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 09.06.2007 | Media

Read More: Graydon Carter, Crack Waxing, Christopher Hitchens, Four Seasons, Vanity Fair, Cigarettes, Scotch, Media News

When October's Nicole Kidman cover appeared online, the bottom headline was reason alone to run and buy the issue. "Christopher Hitchens Gets A Really Extreme Makeover" with pictures? Genius. And they italicized "really", so it must be extreme.

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