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Second Hand Smoke Billion Dollars
2,595 wordsKicking the Habit: The Economic Effect on the Nation For about 400 years tobacco companies have been at the top of the American enterprise. But lately in the last 50 years we have been learning about the health hazards linked to tobacco. In 1964, the Surgeon General announced that smoking can be a health hazard. After that discovery, nicotine (which is in tobacco) was found to be a very addictive drug. It was also found that currently there are about 9, 000 deaths annually due to second-hand smo...
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Women Of Color Attempted Suicide
3,632 wordsLEGALIZING PROSTITUTION WOULD PROVIDE ECONOMIC BENEFITS AND REDUCE CRIME Definition of prostitution. I think it important to define prostitution as the consensual granting of sexual gratification by one person in exchange for money or other valuable consideration. This definition implies a legal contract, and thus only individuals at or above the age of majority would legally be entitled to enter into these contracts, either as purchaser or provider. Prostitution as I discuss it here does not in...
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Cost Benefit Analysis Economic Impact
6,612 wordsThe Regional Economic Impacts of Idaho State University, 1996 Dr. Richard Bowen, President of Idaho State University, requested the Center for Business Research to conduct a study of the impact of the University on Idaho, with particular emphasis on its regional impacts upon the Pocatello area. This publication reports the findings and results of that effort, which was begun in the fall of 1997. This report is a follow-up to, and a complete revision of, a previous study conducted in 1988 (A Repo...
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