Tripling cigarette taxes around the world -- an ambitious notion -- would prevent 200 million people from dying prematurely over a century and shrink the number of smokers worldwide by one-third, a new review estimates. Tripling the taxes ...
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The new year will look a lot like the old year for the mattress industry. That's the inference from the most recent bedding forecasts issued by the International Sleep Products Assn., whose statistics committee convenes as a forecast ...
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Tripling taxes on cigarettes around the world would reduce the number of smokers by one-third and prevent 200 million premature deaths from lung cancer and other diseases this century, according to a review published today in the New ...
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Gold is losing its glitter. Prices have headed south ever since the spectre of US Fed tapering appeared. The yellow metal's price is set to end the year with a loss of nearly 30%. That's the biggest yearly loss in three decades. A sharp ...
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Global 40W equiv. LED bulb ASP decreased 2.7 percent to US $15.4 (NT $462), with price decline most evident in the China region, according to market intelligence organization Trendforce’s LEDinside division’s latest LED bulb ...
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Tripling cigarette taxes worldwide would cut the number of smokers by one-third and prevent 200 million premature deaths this century, Canadian researchers say. Dr. Prabhat Jha, director of the Center for Global Health Research of St. ...
The United States no longer leads the world in biomedical research; it fell from 51 percent in 2007 to 45 percent in 2012, but Asia spent more, researchers say. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found U.S. ...
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New county-level federal data shows that, on average, Bay Area workers bring almost double the amount of money that their counterparts nationwide earn each week. Workers in Santa Clara County pulled in an average $1,810 per week during ...
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Gold for February delivery GCG4 +0.12% ?fell $1.50, or 0.1%, to settle at $1,202.30 an ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange. For the year, gold fell 28%, its worst year in about three decades. Gold futures have plummeted on ...
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Hankook Tire America Corp. has released its 2013 Winter Gauge Index that reveals 41% of all Americans polled and more than half of Northeasterners and Midwesterners expect more snow this winter, as compared to last year. However, while ...
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The U.S. Postal Service's regulator has approved price increases amounting to 6% on most mail, news service reported. A first-class stamp will cost 49 cents, up from 46 cents, starting Jan. 26. The increases of 4.3% approved Dec. 24 are ...
The mood among consumers in Germany is again remarkably good as 2013 draws to a close. Further increases were recorded in economic expectations and willingness to buy. Income expectations declined slightly from a high level. Following a ...
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ICE Cotton traded almost unchanged this week, a slow, low-volume follow-up to last week’s strong gains. Cert stocks have steadily fallen to around 40k bales, with no new crop bales yet to turn up. Export sales this week were better ...
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Japan's economy will grow 1.4 percent in fiscal 2014 on the back of healthy domestic demand, amid inflation of 1.2 percent — excluding the effects of the consumption tax hike in April, the government projected Saturday. The ...
General Mills reported results for the second quarter of fiscal 2014. The 13-week period ending Nov. 24, 2013 did not include Thanksgiving, while last year's second-quarter results included the holiday. Fiscal 2014 Second Quarter ...
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