"The good news is that people who stay up late in front of the television and computer may be able to undo some of the harmful effects just by going back to a regular light-dark cycle and minimizing their exposure to artificial light at night, " Bedrosian says.
This non-bank sector has been the source of some of the most harmful, deceptive, unfair and predatory lending practices.
While there may be medical value in some of the individual components of the cannabis plant, the fact remains that smoking marijuana is an inefficient and harmful method for delivering the constituent elements that have or may have medicinal value.
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There is plenty of evidence that "second-hand" smoke - breathed when you are in the same room as someone smoking - can be harmful, particularly to children, and some parents adopt a strategy of never smoking in their child's presence.
Some 60% of Chinese smokers don't know that cigarettes are harmful, according to a WHO study last year.
Dodd-Frank was passed, and it includes within it a number of provisions that I think has some unintended consequences that are harmful to the economy.
And independent economists are out there making clear what the impact on the economy would be on the uncertainty it would create for businesses, and that would obviously be harmful at a time when we are beginning to see some real progress in terms of economic growth, sustained growth, and sustained job creation.
For example, a re-engineering of the Internet to make it easier to trace the location of cyberattackers, as some have called for, would surely be expensive, impractical and extremely harmful to privacy.
Not all bankers are against it: in Las Vegas, Bianca Russo of JPMorgan Chase argued that some form of it was needed to counter the perception, if not the reality, that securitisation was harmful.
But some of the best-known celebrities use their soap boxes to spread scientifically dubious--and potentially harmful--messages.
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