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We must smother the columns of fire and smoke.
Castro, and to a stronger degree, his comrade Che Guevara, were willing to let Cuba go up in smoke in order to make their country a martyr in the world revolutionary struggle!
Health problems may take you to a clinic, but many of them start with how you behave at home – what you eat and drink, whether you smoke or exercise or sleep enough, etc.
I hope it does not come to that, and that when the battle smoke clears, Cameron will be left – as he deserves to be – the only man standing.
We could keep vulnerable children away from the smoke.
Dependent marijuana users are more likely to experience road and workplace accidents (if they drive or work while intoxicated); increased respiratory disease (if they smoke marijuana); exacerbations of some serious mental disorders; and impaired school and work performance.
It is uncertain how far these adverse effects can be mitigated by preventive measures such as implementing roadside drug-testing programs, persuading users to use vaporizers rather than smoke joints, discouraging young people from using marijuana, and encouraging early treatment for problem users.
Initially smoke inhalation did decline.
It was a crime, she said, without trace (no written orders; no official directive, ever, anywhere); without graves (her father, brother, and mother became smoke and ash, with no marker but her own memory and, later, her autobiography); without ruins (Auschwitz, when she returns to it years later, is becalmed, neutralized, cleansed); without exit (Sarajevans, Rwandans, and Cambodians could, at least in theory, flee, whereas the hallmark of the Holocaust is that the world itself was a trap); and, finally, without reason (given the choice of expediting a troop train headed for the front or a train carrying Jews to the ovens, the Nazis always chose the latter).
Moreover, the explosions would propel millions of tons of sooty smoke into the upper atmosphere, causing skies to darken, temperatures around the world to fall by an average of 1.25 degrees centigrade, and rainfall to be disrupted.
Conventional wisdom holds that the NASDAQ crash exposed the "new economy" as a conjuring trick of smoke and mirrors.
Currently, the dispute revolves around how governments will deliver $100 billion annually by 2020 to help developing countries confront climate change, given that even the $10 billion Fast Track Fund cannot be cobbled together without using smoke and mirrors.
When the trees are cut and peatlands drained, the carbon accumulated over millennia is exposed and oxidized – often in the form of fires that envelope neighboring Singapore and Malaysia in smoke.
The smoke over Baghdad came mostly from oil deliberately burned in ditches and trenches to obscure potential targets from air attack.
It’s just like when you’re told ‘Don't smoke cigarettes,’ it actually makes you want to smoke.”
If Nakasone, who now urges Koizumi to stop the Yasukuni pilgrimage, were to respond to Aso, he might simply extend the analogy: it is not in Japan’s national interest to continue to inhale Koizumi’s second-hand smoke.
Last year, the truth came out: Theranos was all smoke and mirrors.
A strong whiff of burning wood caused me to look up to the sky, where a whitish-yellow sun beckoned, surrounded by the telltale eclipse-like daytime darkness that only thick, sky-high smoke can cause.
But 26 other people, who had come very close to the same coastline, succumbed to the smoke and flames before they could reach the water.
So, for each person who might die from global warming, about 210 people die from health problems that result from a lack of clean water and sanitation, from breathing smoke generated by burning dirty fuels (such as dried animal dung) indoors, and from breathing polluted air outdoors.
Earlier in the afternoon, 10 separate plumes of smoke rose from Southern Falluja, as it etched against the desert sky, and probably exclaimed catastrophe for the insurgents.”
So, when the smoke clears, London will remain an inviting location for banks, France will still be taxing bankers’ bonuses, and perhaps European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet’s recent tirade against a “bonus culture” will induce other European Union countries to follow.
But, as the smoke dissipates from that vote, it has become clear that the real victor is neither the leading opposition Democratic Party (DPJ) nor the electorate.
Likewise, the prospect of warmer ties with the US has gone up in smoke, owing to revelations of Russian meddling in the US 2016 election.
More than 100 metric tons of “white gold” – both illegally harvested (confiscated from poachers or traders) and naturally accruing (from natural mortality) – will go up in smoke this weekend.
For some observers across Europe, the economic performance of the Netherlands is so surprising that they believe it a product of smoke and mirrors, or of some statistical trick.
And yet when this much smoke surrounds an issue, it’s highly likely that something is burning.
Indeed, only about 15% of Australians and 20% of Americans smoke, but in 14 low and middle-income countries covered in a survey recently published in The Lancet, an average of 41% of men smoked, with an increasing number of young women taking up the habit.
Proctor calls on the FDA to use its new powers to regulate the contents of cigarette smoke to do two things.
The first smokers did not inhale tobacco smoke; that became possible only in the nineteenth century, when a new way of curing tobacco made the smoke less alkaline.
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