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EU: Getting people to quit smoking is a ‘no-brainer, ethically and economically’
The cost and health benefits of getting people not to smoke and better still, not to start, more than outweigh the taxes the tobacco industry pays to governments, the European Commission said Monday. Irish Health Minister James Reilly, presenting the EU’s new draft tobacco law in the European parliament, said…
Patrick Kennedy: Marijuana industry will be the next tobacco industry
Former Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) suggested Saturday that the growing marijuana industry would target children if the drug gained greater legal acceptance. “It’s already in eighteen states,” he warned on MSNBC. “It is going even further, and before we know it, we’re going to wake up one day and have…
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