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The Future Foundation report, for Nicorette, predicts that smoking will decline due to developments such as more effective stop smoking aids, increased legislation to reform smoking behaviour and lawsuits against tobacco companies forcing them out of business.
BBC: NEWS | Health | Thousands prepare to quit smoking
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Chantix, launched in May 2006, is the only drug designed specifically to combat nicotine addiction ever sold in the U.S. Previous stop-smoking aids either contain nicotine, like gums and patches, or are re-purposed antidepressants.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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He says, only one thing can stop the spread of AIDS in black America, an open mind.
NPR: Living with AIDS: A Personal Story
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These reservoirs have been the key stumbling block to a cure because even though AIDS drugs stop HIV from replicating, the virus lurks in the reservoirs, ready to come surging back when treatment is stopped.
WSJ: Baby Cured of HIV for the First Time, Researchers Say
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Distributing more condoms would not, on its own, stop the spread of AIDS. Lots of measures are needed: improving education, encouraging monogamy, delaying the age of first sexual encounter, helping young women to win a greater say over their sex lives and widening access to antiretroviral drugs that lessen sufferers' infectiousness.
ECONOMIST: The pope in Africa
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On July 5th, South Africa's highest court ordered the government to stop blocking the universal provision of an anti-AIDS drug at public hospitals to prevent the disease being transmitted from mothers to children.
ECONOMIST: The menace of AIDS | The