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NACRE AS HISTORICAL TEMPERATURE GUAGE. By analysis of the nacre on deep sea shells it is possible to reconstruct the historical temperatures of the oceans. Brilliant work. https://lnkd.in/d-BBVMX View in LinkedIn

UK SEEKS REVENUE NEUTRALITY. "The tax on cigarettes should be increased as the burden on the taxpayer is too high, even taking into account revenues from duty ... Policy Exchange called for a five per cent rise in next week's budget - a rise of 23p for a pack of 20 - and further rises over the next five years to ensure smoking became 'revenue neutral'." https://lnkd.in/d2B7dpT View in LinkedIn

TOBACCO TAX REMAINS A BIG CARROT. "What the CBO study shows is the litigation that showered such huge benefits on a few was based on the false premise that cigarettes cost taxpayers money. Unfortunately, tobacco is, and has always been, a very reliable moneymaker for the state." https://lnkd.in/dsKPmv3 View in LinkedIn

EU ANTI-SMOKING LEGISLATION "is to be introduced across the European Union in an attempt to cut the number of smokers by 2.4 million. The rules, voted in by the European Parliament, mean picture health warnings will have to dominate the front and back of all packaging." https://lnkd.in/d7pZpcp View in LinkedIn

"CIGARETTE SMOKING is responsible for about one in five deaths annually (i.e., more than 440,000 deaths per year, and an estimated 49,000 of these smoking-related deaths are the result of secondhand smoke exposure). On average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers." https://lnkd.in/dHzHrjf View in LinkedIn

SMOKING IS LEADING PREVENTABLE CAUSE OF DISEASE. "Worldwide, tobacco use causes more than 5 million deaths per year, and current trends show that tobacco use will cause more than 8 million deaths annually by 2030." https://lnkd.in/dHzHrjf View in LinkedIn

WOMEN WHO SMOKE DURING PREGNANCY are shown in many surveys to be unaware of the very serious consequences to the fetus. http://www.healthguidance.org/entry/4197/1/The-Dangers-of-Smoking-Cigarettes-While-Pregnant.html View in LinkedIn

"TOBACCO COMPANIES conducted a carefully crafted, decades-long campaign to manipulate throat doctors into helping to calm concerns among an increasingly worried public that smoking might be bad for their health, according to a new study ... Beginning in the 1920s, this campaign continued for over half of a century." https://lnkd.in/d3Vi8EW View in LinkedIn

PUBLIC UNAWARE. "Modern cigarettes have been extensively engineered and optimized as nicotine delivery devices developed through major national and international research and development programs. The average smoker has been unaware of these efforts by the tobacco industry and of the extensive manipulation of cigarette chemistry." https://lnkd.in/dazJ8n2 View in LinkedIn

MANY SMOKERS STILL IN THE DARK. "When researchers presented smokers with detailed and accurate facts about the dangers of smoking, tobacco smokers reported feelings of new motivations to quit … many smokers are still unaware of the dangers of smoking due to the successful deceitfulness of the tobacco industry." https://lnkd.in/dfqR3VW View in LinkedIn