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The Ultimate 9-Step Guide to Looking Good

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 04.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Smoking, Marijuana, Drugs, Makeup, Drinking, Supermodels, Breakfast, Cigarettes, Calories, Anorexia, Health, Sex, Exercise, Alcohol, Food, Skinny Models, Weight Loss, Ritalin, Bulimia, Living News
Ali A. Rizvi

Vegetables give you gas and require vitamin supplementation. Cannibalism is illegal. And I'm too self-conscious to take my jiggling torso to a public gym.

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States Selling Addiction: "Why Not? We Need the Money!"

Stanton Peele | Posted 04.07.2009 | Home

Read More: New York Lottery, Tobacco Companies, Kathleen Sebelius, Smoking, Addiction, Mega Millions, Gambling, Kansas Legislature, New Jersey Legislature, State Lotteries, Pick 3, Pick 4, Tobacco Settlement, Gambling Casinos, Horse Racing, Sports Betting, Legalizing Marijuana, Tom Ammiano, Lotteries, Home News
Stanton Peele

Our financial and emotional needs now dictate that state governments sedate their citizens, while picking their pockets, from California to Kansas to the Mid-Atlantic.

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Prisoner of Cubs

Ted Goeglein | Posted 03.28.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Cubs, Smoking, Chicago Police, Cubs Fans, Cubs, Sports, Chicago News
Ted Goeglein

Like smoking, being a Cubs fan means committing oneself to something that starts out hot, burns out at the midpoint, and turns to ashes at the end.

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Nakagawa's Career Karoshi

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 03.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Disney Quality College, Nasa, Smoking, Shoichi Nakagawa, Wretched Excess, Meeting Narcolepsy, Boring Financial Presentations, Youtube, Karoshi, G7, Drinking, Suntory, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

Mr. Nakagawa may be Japan's worst Finance Minister ever, but that doesn't stop me from taking a moment as he leaves the world stage to bow my head in empathy.

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Break Bad Habits: 5 Strategies To Help You Make Changes

oprah.com | Tim Jarvis | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Healthy Living, Smoking, Healthy Lifestyle, Health, Weight Gain, Green Living, Weight, Bad Habits, Living News

And now for something completely different: five out-of-the-box approaches to help you change a habit, a mind-set or the way you think about change....

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What Is Addiction?

Stanton Peele | Posted 03.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Senate Bill 1011, Smoking, Nida, Drugs, Joe Biden, Heroin, Coffee, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Prescription Painkillers, Nora Volkow, Coca-Cola, Slate.com, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Cigarettes, Crack Cocaine, Oxycontin, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Prescription Drugs, Cocaine, Niaaa, Addiction, Living News
Stanton Peele

Addiction is a nasty business which enslaves people. But if you're going to target that practice, then you'd better come and take all the coffee and Diet Coke the office.

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Illinois Plans Cigarette Tax Increase

Chicago Public Radio | Posted 02.13.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Smoking, Illinois Cigarette Tax Increase, Illinois Cigarette Tax, Cigarette Tax Increases, Chicago News

At a time when the state is struggling with a major budget crisis, state lawmakers may turn to smokers to raise money. The plan calls for a one dolla...

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Smoking Ban Leads To Major Drop In Heart Attacks

AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 02.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Smoking Ban and Heart Attacks, Smoking, Personal Health, Effects of Smoking Ban, Smoking Ban, Living News

ATLANTA — A smoking ban in one Colorado city led to a dramatic drop in heart attack hospitalizations within three years, a sign of just how seri...

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The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008

Robert Weissman | Posted 01.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Roche, Smoking, Economy, Food Crisis, Cargill, Aig, Corporate Power, Tax Evasion, Philippines, Osha, Imperial Sugar, HIV/AIDS, Corporate Crime, Darfur, Philip Morris, Dole, Cnpc, Corporate Greed, Constellation, Financial Crisis, Chevron, Nuclear Power, Ge, Business News
Robert Weissman

In keeping with our tradition of highlighting diverse forms of corporate wrongdoing, we included only one financial company on the 10 Worst list.

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Busted! Salma Hayek Joins List Of Hollywood's Secret Smokers

NYDN | Posted 01.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Salma Hayek, Smoking, Whitney Port, Katherine Heigl, Eva Longoria, Entertainment News

Whatcha got there, Salma Hayek? The "Ugly Betty" star is the latest closet celebrity smoker to be exposed after she was spotted puffing away on Ameri...

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Adding Up Tobacco's Toll On America

divinecaroline.com | Posted 01.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Smoking, Cigarettes, Tobacco, Personal Health, Health, Cigarette Industry, Living News

November is a good month to reconsider the cigarette. Not only is it National Lung Cancer and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Awareness month, b...

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Obama's Smoking Drama

Tony Newman | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Drug Policy Alliance, Meet the Press, Cigarettes, Smoking, Relapse, Addiction, Obama, Drugs, Drug War, Barack Obama, Obama Smoking, Politics News
Tony Newman

Thankfully, we don't arrest cigarette smokers who relapse.

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New Tobacco Product Alarms Health Officials

AP | VICKI SMITH | Posted 12.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Health, Cigarettes, Smoking, Personal Health, Snus, Living News

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — They're discreet, flavorful and come in cute tin boxes with names like "frost" and "spice." And the folks who created Joe Ca...

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Smoking By State: Who's Still Doing It?

Good Magazine | Posted 12.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Smoking Statistics, Smoking by State, Smoking, Living News

Cigarettes, as most everyone knows, give you cancer. And yet, we are still smoking, even in states where laws prevent smoking at work, in restaurants,...

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The Eco-Sins (and Virtues) of Barack Obama

Jeanie Pyun | Posted 11.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Green Collar Jobs, Michelle Obama, Renewable Energy Sources, Carbon Emissions, Smoking, Hybrid Cars, Nuclear Power, Sarah Palin, Environment, Green Living, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Green News
Jeanie Pyun

Senator Barack Obama's environmental platform is pretty clear. He supports clean coal, would create five million green-collar jobs if elected President, and would put a million plug-in hybrids on the road by 2015.

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Oh, yeah? Shove a Beer Can Up Your Butt.

Sophie Brickman | Posted 11.06.2008 | Style

Read More: Chicken, Culinary School, Barbecue, Smoking, Cooking, Beer, Bbq, Food, Grilling, Austin, Texas, Austin City Limits, Slow Cooked Chicken, Texas Cooking, Texan Dan, Style News
Sophie Brickman

Now almost done with the first level of culinary school, I found myself on the plane to Austin equally excited about the music festival I was going to as about the food.

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How To Trick People Into Doing The Right Thing

GOOD Magazine | Posted 10.18.2008 | Living

Read More: The Right Thing, Subliminal Messaging, Smoking, Living News

Anyone who has studied psychology knows just how puzzling human behavior can be. Busy people are trying to cope in a complex world, and this means the...

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NY Post Cover Story Unfairly Attacks Britney Over Smoking

Tony Newman | Posted 07.31.2008 | 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 07.30.2008 | 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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Life Cycle: Smoke 'Em If You've Got 'Em

Simran Sethi | Posted 07.18.2008 | 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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Time to Die! (Oops, I Mean Time To Quit!)

Doug Bremner | Posted 06.21.2008 | 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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FDA One Step Closer To Increased Tobacco Regulation

AP | KEVIN FREKING | Posted 04.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Tobacco, Smoking, FDA Smoking, Congress Tobacco, Tobacco Regulation, Smoking Regulation, Business News

WASHINGTON — Congress on Wednesday moved a step closer to handing the Food and Drug Administration broad new authority to regulate tobacco produ...

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Philip Morris Plots Aggressive New Product Blitz

Wall Street Journal | VANESSA O'CONNELL | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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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The Boss Who Fired Workers For Not Smoking

ABC News | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: German Offices, Office Smoking, Germany, Smokers, Smoking, Non-Smoking, Business News

The owner of a small German computer company has fired three non-smoking workers because they were threatening to disturb the peace after they request...

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