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Largest-ever tobacco study finds 'urgent need' for policy change

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About half the men in numerous developing nations use tobacco, and women in those regions are taking up smoking at an earlier age than they used to, according to what is being called the largest-ever international study on tobacco use. The study, which covered enough representative samples to estimate tobacco use among 3 billion people, "demonstrates an urgent need for policy change in low- and middle-income countries," said lead researcher Gary Giovino, whose report was published in the British medical journal The Lancet. The figures bolster statements by the World Health Organization that while much of the industrialized world, including the United States, has seen a substantial reduction in smoking in recent years, the opposite trend is under way in parts of the developing world. Australian tobacco packaging laws misguided This week, Australia's high court upheld a rule that tobacco products must be in plain packaging without logos and bear graphic health warnin

The basics about the term life insurance

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Insurance is what lets people go on nowadays. So many types of insurance have come around in the market. There are short term insurance policies and then there are long term insurance policies. Life is so unpredictable that people now go for short term insurance policies. Out of the short term policies of insurance, the term life insurance policy is very common that people opt for. It is initially low cost and does not even affect the life style of eh insurance policy bearer, or his dependants. The term life insurance has low premium payment and has a short term, which is why it is called a term life insurance. Apart from all the people who go for short term life insurance, the people who have a short term need of the insurance also go for the term life insurance. This type of insurance covers a short term period of risk and the insurance payer provides insurance to the dependants. It is very much obligatory for the payer to savor the future of all the dependants that are on to him