Nearly
all of the quarter-trillion dollars collected by states in tobacco
settlements have gone up in smoke without much to show in anti-smoking
efforts. A new report says only about 4% of the $244 billion was spent
on tobacco control programs. In states that spent more than that,
smoking rates went down. Nationally, the smoking rate has stayed steady.
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First
there were printed tomes, then e-books, and now you can read a story
published by tweets. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan is
premiering a short story on Twitter. Egan’s 8,500-word story titled
“Black Box” is rolling out in one tweet per minute for an hour each day
through June 2nd on the New Yorker Magazine Fiction Twitter feed.Source Link
Would
you eat less if your snack food had a built-in “stop sign” to limit
your portions? A study found that people ate fewer potato crisps when a
red one was placed in the can between every 14 others. Researcher say
some snack foods could have similar built-in portion controls to help
prevent mindless overeating. Source Link
