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Five months before the � deadliest mass shooting in Maine’s history, � the gunman’s family alerted the local sheriff that they were becoming concerned about his deteriorating mental health while ...
by Associated Press
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on Tue Oct 31, 2023 at 08:24 AM PDT
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I continue to be increasingly alarmed about the climate chaos that seems to be accelerating nearly unchecked. It reminds me of the movie “The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3” where in a New York subway train is hijacked for money and after the hijackers leave...
by fiatlux
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on Sat Oct 07, 2023 at 05:00 PM PDT
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The 2022 election cycle featured Republicans across the country furiously condemning Democrats as a ghoulish death cult that was deliberately seeking to harm Americans by affirmatively promoting violent crime, homicidal migrants, and the use and abuse...
by News Corpse
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on Sat Jan 21, 2023 at 12:54 PM PST
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The insanity of the Donald Trump Republican Party and its official Ministry of Disinformation (aka Fox News) has descended to a new and reprehensible low. The GOP's new majority in the House of Representatives, under House Squeaker Kevin McCarthy,...
by News Corpse
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on Sun Jan 15, 2023 at 10:34 AM PST
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NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD Sunday, September 4, 2022 380TH WEEKLY EDITION This is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. We hope this weekly platform gives readers interested in North Carolina politics a place to share their knowledge, insight and...
by randallt
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on Sun Sep 04, 2022 at 10:00 AM PDT
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Most recently, 100 mph winds swept grass-fires through Colorado, leaving thousands homeless. It was 116 degrees here in Portland last summer, as wildfires and drought ravage the West. The Gulf Coast, South and Eastern Seaboard are now annually torn...
by thomhartmann
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on Mon Jan 03, 2022 at 06:51 AM PST
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I used to smoke. I smoked for 25 years or so…. a pack or day. Started off with regular Winstons (Red pack) then went to regular Marlboros for maybe 5 years…�and I spent the last 10 years smoking ...
by CameronProf
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on Tue Oct 26, 2021 at 05:35 PM PDT
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In shocking (/s) September news, Facebook was revealed through internal documents to be less than forthright about known effects of its products by the Wall Street Journal in a series of reports dubbed The Facebook Files. Maybe it was an isolated...
by greenandblue
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on Sun Oct 03, 2021 at 03:02 PM PDT
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First Nation People have always honored tobacco with sacred regard. Indigenous Americans didn’t slink off into the alley to light up for a quick nic-fix, they sent their dreams and aspirations wafting to the Creator on tobacco smoke and passed the pipe...
by GimpyOlNorman
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on Fri Apr 03, 2020 at 12:40 PM PDT
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While the nation is consumed by the impeachment inquiry, the Trump administration quietly unveiled a plan to base all of its public health decision-making on the same anti-science policies that tobacco companies used for decades to hide the dangers...
by Dartagnan
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on Thu Nov 21, 2019 at 11:44 AM PST
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This morning, while helping my nephew strip tobacco, one of his neighbors stopped by to shoot the breeze. This neighbor is originally from Wisconsin, so I thought he might have a different point of view than most locals. Additionally, he never has any...
by dot farmer
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on Mon Sep 30, 2019 at 01:33 PM PDT
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According to the CDC, Cost of Smoking-Related Illness Smoking-related illness in the United States costs more than $300 billion each year, including:11,12 Nearly $170 billion for direct medical care for adults More than $156 billion in lost...
by Anne Elk
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on Sun Sep 15, 2019 at 10:34 AM PDT
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Among the tribes of the western portion of the Northeastern Woodlands, tobacco was an important ceremonial and trade plant. Tobacco smoking is a symbolic way of enhancing the communication between individuals, between groups, and between the people and...
by Ojibwa
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on Tue Jun 04, 2019 at 08:30 AM PDT
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A couple of weeks ago, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell spent redacted Mueller report reveal day by announcing his reelection campaign, and showcased what was going to be his new big push: raising the legal age for the purchase of cigarettes to...
by Joan McCarter
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on Tue Apr 30, 2019 at 12:19 PM PDT
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A New York man’s self-written tribute is making headlines not for its intrigue, its humor, or its vitriol, but for its commitment to helping others. Obituaries have been going viral for years, for various reasons, including plagiarism, which is...
by Jessica Sutherland
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on Sat Feb 23, 2019 at 04:03 PM PST
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That’s me in the above image spiking the first afternoon’s cutting of my 2016 dark air-cured tobacco crop. That was my last crop. I quit after 2016 because of the untenable labor situation. Tobacco is one of the most profitable commodities a small...
by dot farmer
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on Wed Oct 31, 2018 at 02:23 PM PDT
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A woman undergoes 35 rounds of radiationafter finding a growth inside her mouth, and loses all of her teeth. A father of four dies at 42 from heart disease. A young mother finds out her son contracted asthma from exposure to second-hand smoke – at just...
by StopCorporateAbuse
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on Mon Oct 01, 2018 at 01:55 PM PDT
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In episode 70 of America Adapts, Doug Parsons celebrates two years of America Adapts by talking with Dr. Natasha DeJarnett, a policy analyst in the American Public Health Association’s (APHA) Center for Public Health Policy. Natasha leads the Natural...
by AmericaAdapts
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on Mon Jul 30, 2018 at 10:16 AM PDT
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On Friday, E&E reported that EPA Admin Scott Pruitt is brewing more plans to further hobble how the EPA uses (or in this case, doesn’t use) science to protect the public. According to E&E, the effort will be similar to the Orwellian-esque...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Mon Mar 19, 2018 at 07:43 AM PDT
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I went to the Minnesota Public Television website this afternoon to watch the weekly public access series “Minnesota Almanac”. Much of the hour was dedicated to middle-aged public officials decreeing that young adults’ legal rights should be...
by Mark27
28 comments
on Sun Mar 11, 2018 at 01:26 PM PDT
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