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...Tobacco that's putting a price on human life. It's governments worldwide, including the U.S., and they collect on both ends: Through excise taxes that penalize smokers for the social costs they supposedly impose on society, and through those savings that come because smokers tend to die earlier (and thus cost governments less) than nonsmokers...
...bears this tax burden? Statistically, those least able to afford it. Unlike most, non-sinful commodities, lower-income families tend to consume a larger amount of tobacco than higher-income families. Individuals who earn less than $30,000 a year pay only one percent in the total amount of income taxes, but 47 percent of the total cigarette taxes. And smoking is least prevalent among those with 16 or more years of education, confirming what intuition suggests - that those most likely to indulge in quick-fix, deadly-in-the-long-term behavior are those whose long-term prospects are least...
Which is to say that JetBlue is flying into dangerous territory. Of the hundreds of start-ups since the industry was deregulated in 1978, only America West has grown into a major company--and it has flown in and out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. New carriers tend to fall victim to pernicious competition as well as their own incompetence. Last month, for example, the Justice Department decided to appeal a judge's dismissal of a predatory pricing case against American Airlines for running smaller carriers out of Dallas...
...budget posting a correspondent and camera crew outside the Miami relatives' house, waiting to catch little Elian on the jungle gym. Minimal expenses are an important point at a time when the business of journalism has pretty much been absorbed (by acquisitions and mergers) into vast corporate organisms that tend to see journalism in terms of entertainment product and bottom line...
...Chicago, this three-block array of ranch houses has been transformed into the home of a pioneering program that targets difficult-to-place foster children who are--or are likely to be--available for adoption. A quarter of the 568,000 children in state care in America, these kids tend to be older or in sibling groups; they are likely to have been severely abused or neglected, exposed to drugs and a slew of foster homes; they often have physical, emotional and behavioral problems. Sometimes they can't form attachments...