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...When they have so many of their population of smokers dying off, they need to find a replacement population. So since most of the smoking population begins smoking in the 1214 age range, it would make sense for them to target younger people," said Pierce-Laven...
Camel dollars and Marlboro bucks--playmoney coupons found in packs of cigarettes which are redeemable for company merchandise, such as jackets and T-shirts--are examples of a more subtle advertising strategy which Grammarossa and Pierce-Laven say are a part of a multi-million dollar advertising strategy focused on enticing minors to smoke. Both women expressed concern that smoking companies could use their advertising to target new and vulnerable markets, such as Hispanic women...
...Sunday, Laven reviewed The Light Company's finances; Monday and Tuesday, performances were cancelled because of the snow; Wednesday, Leven met with his backers and The Light Company officially blacked...
Even if the less virile Okpo males later had a chance to mate with these females, Laven explains, the female would produce no offspring: although the female mosquito can lay three or four sets of eggs during her two-week lifetime, she draws only on the first sperm she receives to fertilize all her eggs. Thus, after only a few generations of vigorous activity by the males from Fresno, there were no female mosquitoes left in Okpo that could lay fertile eggs. By May, Okpo was mosquito free...
Cytoplasmic incompatibility can be widely used to control mosquitoes, Laven says, but he cautions that total eradication of mosquito populations might have unpredictable ecological effects. To fill the gap that his control technique may create, he is attempting to produce a mosquito strain that will not transmit filariasis-and hopes eventually to develop a breed that simply will not bite humans...