As Blairite ministers acknowledge, raising the state-pension age had been taboo even though it was originally set at 65 in 1925, when pensioner life expectancy was much lower.

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As argued previously, Iran may not be affected by the prohibitory factors of deterrence and the nuclear taboo due to particular internal characteristics not present in any state previously possessing nuclear weapons.

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Washington Attorney General Robert McKenna, cochairman of NAAG's Tobacco Committee, told the audience how an army of lawyers at NAAG and state AG offices keeps tabs on the tobacco industry, from monitoring sales to stepping in to halt taboo marketing tactics such as running cartoon ads in Rolling Stone.

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