Posted by anthonyarrigo, at 07:42PM 11/20/09 : The Shocking Ingredients in Cigarettes | Healthy and Green Living
Note: If you think cigarettes are simply dried tobacco leaves rolled in paper, you’re about 597 ingredients off. The tobacco industry has become master mixologists with the additives. Some ingredients are added for flavor, but research has shown that the key purpose of using additives is to improve tobacco’s potency resulting in increased addictiveness–and the additives they choose to use are dreadful. tags: cancer
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Posted by anthonyarrigo, at 06:19PM 11/10/09 : How the Government Is Swallowing the Economy - Yahoo! Finance
Note: By one measure, the government already plays an outsize role in our so-called free-market economy--and it has little to do with the recession. Economist Gary Shilling has calculated that 58 percent of the population is dependent on the government for "major parts of their income," including teachers, soldiers, bureaucrats, and other government employees; welfare and Social Security recipients; government pensioners; public housing beneficiaries; and people who work for government contractors. By tags: government
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