During the ceremony, offerings such as tobacco may be made to the spirits.
He said it was possible that people had modified their lifestyles to reduce exposure to risk factors such as tobacco smoke.
They can enhance a sense of community, and avoid the defiance that can sabotage well-meaning laws, such as tobacco taxes that spawn smuggling.
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Courts can punish and deter wrongdoing, but they are ill-equipped to weigh the complex trade-offs involved in regulating a widely used product such as tobacco.
If a product such as tobacco causes harm, the company that produced it can be held responsible, even if it wasn't aware of the potential danger.
The risk was further increased if the woman's baby had restricted growth or died in the womb, or if the woman had pre-existing risk factors for cardiovascular disease, such as tobacco smoking.
Evidence suggests that a modest reduction in the prevalence of certain chronic disease risk actors, such as tobacco and alcohol consumption, and healthier diets, could result in substantial health gains and cost savings.
Unlike other major causes of preventable death and disability, such as tobacco use, injuries, and infectious diseases, there are no exemplar populations in which the obesity epidemic has been reversed by public health measures.
Virtually everyone diagnosed with Buerger's disease smokes cigarettes or uses other forms of tobacco, such as chewing tobacco.
We have already learned a lot from regulating other substances, such as alcohol and tobacco.
Those that survived the journey would be sold to the plantation owners of the Caribbean and South and North America before the ships returned to the UK on the last leg of their journey carrying slave-produced goods such as coffee, tobacco, cotton and sugar cane.
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Alec Shelbrooke was labelled by some as the ultimate Scrooge just before Christmas when he asked MPs to back his idea of making benefits payments through an electronic cash card which would not be valid for buying luxuries such as alcohol, tobacco or satellite TV subscriptions.
While it's easy to understand how the Mafia can pique initial audience interest, industries such as media, finance, tobacco and aluminum siding are hardly as inherently fascinating to outsiders.
For all but a few agrarian countries heavily dependent on tobacco farming (such as Zimbabwe and Malawi), a drop in demand for tobacco would not lead to massive job losses, according to the bank.
Farmers are clubbing together to buy tractors and produce more cash crops, such as soft fruit and tobacco.
To achieve this the government is putting the squeeze on smokers through ever tougher regulation such as the ban on tobacco displays (which is being rolled out) and the introduction of plain packaging (which is being considered).
Elisabeth Gerber, of the University of California in San Diego, has found that opulent special-interest groups such as the oil and tobacco industries almost never succeed in pushing through self-serving initiatives, though they can sometimes block measures aimed against them.
Producers, suppliers and insurers of any potentially dangerous items destined for the European market such as drugs, automobiles, tobacco, even food.
The ban on manufacturing, importing, marketing and distributing flavored cigarettes didn't include menthol cigarettes or some flavored tobacco products such as cigars.
Components of tobacco smoke such as carbon monoxide, nicotine, benzene and small particles can easily be measured in the air of a smoker's home or workplace.
The new assertiveness comes as tobacco analysts have started to acknowledge that growing demand for "e-cigs" in the US is peeling away customers from tobacco giants such as Altria, Lorillard and RJ Reynolds.
Other U.S. government agencies such as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are dumping Blackberries for iPhones.
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Many of the area's 6, 000 residents - most with evocative names such as Laura Sitting Eagle or Robert Big Tobacco - frequently come here to watch and, donning feathered, multi-beaded regalia, to dance.
Armor Holdings, for example, subcontracts its business in Russia (protecting multinationals such as Philip Morris, a food and tobacco company) to a local security company formed by veterans of the Alpha commando force, one of the Kremlin's crack military units before its disbandment.
The role of bodies such as SCOTH is to provide scientific advice on tobacco and health issues.
They want money from the settlement to be restricted to tobacco-related issues, such as lowering the rate of teen smoking.
And the European Union agreed in December to ban tobacco sponsorship of sporting events such as Formula One motor racing from 2005.
Comprehensive bans on tobacco advertising and promotion, such as the one recently adopted by some countries in the European Union, have been effective in reducing consumption.
It would prohibit tobacco companies from using terms such as "low tar, " "light" or "mild, " require larger warning labels on packages, and restrict advertising of tobacco products.
But the Democrats said the legislation would be beneficial for big businesses while preventing citizens from suing corporate giants such as pharmaceutical companies, retailer chains or the tobacco industry.
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