While smoking has fallen by half among high income groups since 1970, there has been little change among the poor.
The acrid-tasting haze has kept old and young Texans indoors, and left others (such as your tennis-playing correspondent) feeling as though they were exercising while smoking.
While smoking will no longer be permitted inside offices, hospitals, train stations, airports, shops and schools, the country's bars, cafes, restaurants and licensed tobacco bars have been given another year to kick the habit.
And while smoking is hardly the only reason--low income nations have many variables affecting life expectancy--the habit has always been picked up most heavily by the less well-to-do, exacerbating the health and earning problems even more.
He has a healthy gut (no doubt from digesting Argentine steaks) and won the Masters in 2009 while seemingly smoking at least two cigarettes for every stroke on his scorecard.
While the smoking population is half what it was a generation ago in the U.S. and other industrialized nations, with only one in five using tobacco, it's different in Africa and East Asia, where time stands still when it comes to cigarettes.
Advisers to MOH argue that the most economical approach would be to raise cigarette taxes from 40% to 50% or more, which they say would boost revenue while reducing smoking. (For the record, a modest tax hike two years ago, in 2009, did bring increased revenues, but had no apparent impact on consumption).
However, while people quit smoking in the UK, in many developing countries the habit is catching on fast.
In the film, an eye-patched Hopper overacts his head off while chain-smoking, swigging Jack Daniels, and zooming around on a jet ski in some kind of filthy, post-apocalyptic pirate outfit.
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For example, the high cigarette taxes that New York has imposed to discourage smoking while filling government coffers have instead driven cigarette sales underground -- as entrepreneurs buy untaxed cartons from Native American shops and other outlets, then sell them cheaply on the street.
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The prime minister has said while he supports the smoking ban in pubs and clubs, he is "more nervous" about legislating what happens in cars.
While the ban on smoking in public places in Scotland has reduced the amount of second-hand smoke children are exposed to overall, it has not reduced the number of children being exposed to smoke in cars.
The government plan was welcomed by opposition parties, although Labour public health spokesman Dr Richard Simpson warned some anti-smoking budgets were "flat lining", while the Tories' Jackson Carlaw said action to deter youngsters from taking up smoking should start with parents.
Doctors in Scotland have also urged the government in Edinburgh to ban smoking in cars, while the Welsh government said last year it would consider legislation if attitudes did not change.
While well-intentioned attempts to curb smoking may appear bold and decisive, they are in the end timid.
The smoking habit he had acquired while on Guam stayed with him for years after he came home.
While he waits, a chain-smoking captain, Salih Yilmaz, busies himself with a plastic bottle and a piece of string, fishing for calamari to serve in his restaurant.
Geneva and seven other cantons have already imposed their own comprehensive bans on indoor smoking in places of employment while the remaining, smaller cantons have been less restrictive.
At Pfizer, sales of top seller Lipitor actually dipped slightly, while Chantix, a once-promising anti-smoking drug, saw sales plummet.
The employees claim they should be paid to work while the boot-ups and shut-downs are happening, since during that time they're doing tasks like paperwork or "arranging their calendar, " while the companies counters that they're probably smoking, getting coffee, or talking to people.
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While Bloomberg has led the way on many anti-smoking initiatives, this one arose from the City Council, Farley said.
The president also admitted Tuesday that while he is "95 percent cured" of his smoking habit, he does still smoke on occasion.
While members say they've lost weight, quit smoking and have more energy, Mahlum believes they're also learning important life skills such as discipline and goal-setting that can help them get on the road to self-sufficiency.
While a large majority of French people support the ban on smoking in public, two-thirds say cigarettes should be allowed in cafes and tobacco bars.
But noise pollution is only socially acceptable because society hasn't come to its senses, the way it has with smoking in restaurants and wearing seat belts and driving while drunk.
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Mr Weeks does his research and drily reports that, while there may not have been a bank employee on the train, the amorous smoking couple did exist.
But while most people know that mold thrives in poorly ventilated and moist environments and indoor smoking worsens the air quality, fewer consumers know that toxic chemicals also lurk in everyday products purchased at the grocery store.
The effect of the ban may not be all against smoking, says Gordon Tinline, business psychologist at Robertson Cooper, because while the majority will feel under pressure to quit, those that continue to smoke could harden their attitude.
They were left "scrabbling" around to try and find a "smoking gun" in a short period of time, he said, while the UK and US had never "recovered" from the fact that no WMD were found after the invasion.
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