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10:44 pm EST, Feb 18, 2005 |
What does a pack of cigarettes cost a smoker, the smoker's family, and society? This longitudinal study on the private and social costs of smoking calculates that the cost of smoking to a 24-year-old woman smoker is $86,000 over a lifetime; for a 24-year-old male smoker the cost is $183,000. The total social cost of smoking over a lifetime -- including both private costs to the smoker and costs imposed on others (including second-hand smoke and costs of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security) -- comes to $106,000 for a woman and $220,00 for a man. The cost per pack over a lifetime of smoking: almost $40.00. The Price of Smoking |
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7:29 pm EST, Jan 8, 2005 |
It began with a cough. Her brother had a cough. And, after all, what was a cough? They had all had them. In winter, they passed them around like sweets. An Enlarged Heart |
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7:26 pm EST, Jan 8, 2005 |
We were in Linc's car, an aging yellow Mercedes sedan, big and steady, with slippery blond seats and a deep, strumming idle. Lincoln called it Dr. Diesel. A deer. At first, he was only a suggestion of an animal, emerging from the darkness by degrees: a muzzle, a sharp left eye. Then the headlights grasped him. Have you seen the movie "Seabiscuit"? Did you read the book? This is the personal story of the author, Laura Hillenbrand. A Sudden Illness |
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Millions of lives in danger |
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10:33 pm EST, Dec 1, 2004 |
"It is important both nationally and internationally [to act] very soon. Quite literally millions of lives are at stake." If tobacco is so much more terrible than terrorism, why am I more frightened by memri.org than thetruth.com? Millions of lives in danger |
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Are You Going to Eat That? |
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9:15 am EDT, Jul 26, 2004 |
Lisa: Hey, Tubby! Want another Pop Tart, Tubby? Bart: I'm comfortable with the way I am. Are You Going to Eat That? |
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You Could Call Swimming a Cure-All |
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| Topic: Health and Wellness |
8:47 am EDT, Jul 26, 2004 |
43 percent of New York City elementary-school children are overweight. You Could Call Swimming a Cure-All |
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| Topic: Health and Wellness |
2:45 pm EDT, Jul 24, 2004 |
I strongly recommend the practice of getting lost in the wilderness. Lost in Space |
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| Topic: Health and Wellness |
9:40 am EDT, Jul 6, 2004 |
Children's menus in American restaurants seem to be made up of fried foods, hamburgers, chicken fingers and macaroni and cheese. Restaurants will say that it is because that's what youngsters like. The truth is that it is what parents are teaching their children to eat. Once at a Japanese restaurant a family sitting at the table next to ours looked in amazement as our 5-year-old daughter was thoroughly enjoying her eel sushi. You Are How You Eat |
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Tales From The Powder Room |
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| Topic: Health and Wellness |
11:44 pm EDT, Jun 21, 2004 |
Those in the industry of glam and fashion are rarely ever put to the test. In a special series, Sunday asks various models, actors and fashionistas to reveal their beauty secrets. Here, Ayesha Toor (model/actress) answers a few questions. What was your last beauty buy?
Bronzer What's your signature scent?
Gucci Rush What do you usually carry in your handbag?
A gun You know you're in Pakistan when ... Tales From The Powder Room |
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| Topic: Health and Wellness |
2:07 am EDT, Jun 15, 2004 |
Obesity and sedentary lifestyles accounted for approximately 400,000 deaths in 2000 compared to 435,000 from cigarette smoking, 100,000 from alcohol abuse, and 20,000 from illegal drug use. Soon enough, someone will invent an "exercise patch." Obesity and overweight rates remained steady from approximately 1960 until about 1980. Since then they have spiraled almost out of control. What caused this ...? The principal driver seems to have been the increases in rates of labor force participation by women. What would Freud say? It's not about sex, but it is about your mother, your sister, and your daughter. The Economics of Obesity |
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