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...shaping up to be a bad couple of weeks for the tobacco lobby. First, a Senate panel approved a 61-cent hike in federal taxes on all packs of smokes, and next week a second committee is expected take up legislation to have tobacco regulated by the Food and Drug Administration...
Purdue, which was represented earlier on in its negotiations with the government by Rudy Giuliani, did admit to mislabeling the drug from 1996-2001. But how much responsibility does a drug company bear for the bad decisions that individuals make, particularly after the criminal crackdown on OxyContin abuse began? In the end, questions like that may have kept the executives out of prison...
...monetary fine, $634.5 million is a record sum, but considering that OxyContin continues to be wildly profitable (though more carefully advertised and regulated), it won't be a crippling blow to Purdue. The company has, after all, earned over $2.8 billion from OxyContin since the drug was first introduced, including $595 million in OxyContin earnings in 2006 alone...
...reluctance of "Tamere" to identify himself as a hash smoker casts doubt on his claims about the purported immunity of tokers, there is statistical evidence to support his contentions about how commonplace the habit now is. According to a new study by the French Observatory of Drugs and Addiction, this nation of 60 million now includes 4 million cannabis smokers, 1.2 million of whom identify themselves as "regular" inhalers (10 times or more per month), while a further 550,000 are daily users. And a whopping 12.4 million are believed to have occasionally experimented with the drug. French cannabis consumption...
...does this mean such taboos as incest, drug abuse and premarital sex have become acceptable topics of cinematic exploration in the world's most populous Muslim nation? "The censors are so inconsistent in what they cut," says screenwriter Rayya Makarim. "Sometimes it's a scene, sometimes it's because of the subject matter or maybe it's because of the title that a film gets pulled...