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Most of us now realize that smoking leads to lung cancer (and other diseases), but not everyone realizes that tobacco companies HID this data for years. A new analysis of tobacco industry documents shows that Philip Morris manipulated data on the effects of additives in cigarettes, including menthol, obscuring actual toxicity levels and increasing the risk of heart, cancer and other diseases for smokers. This data provides evidence that hundreds of additives, including menthol, should be eliminated from cigarettes on public health grounds.
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America’s classified X-37B satellite, which went into orbit in March, 2011, is probably spying on China’s space station (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show), Tiangong-1, which was launched in September, 2011, since its path is nearly identical to the Chinese craft–in other words, it’s following it around. China plans to send astronauts to the space station in 2012 (they will need bodies to scoop up that Helium III).
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This is a good compendium of the strange sounds that have been heard in many places worldwide in recent weeks. The origin of these sounds is an unknown at this time, but the movement of fault lines have been known to make groaning noises. If this is the origin, then the planet is experiencing deep movement of a type that is not being detected by seismographs, because there is no clear correlation between seismic activity and the sounds. At the same time, the sound is similar to sounds from recent science fiction films such as the roar of the Kraken from Clash of the Titans and the Tripod sound from War of the Worlds.read more