Federal welfare freeze A freeze on federal welfare could hurt states with rapid population growth. Smokers' risks Giving up smoking substantially reduces the risk of lung cancer, but it may take many years to see the benefits. Even then, the quitter's risk is still substantially higher than that of people who never started smoking. About 2,000 pages of documents obtained by The New York Times show that the Philip Morris tobacco company's researchers found that nicotine affected the body, brain and behavior of smokers in 15 years of undisclosed research. The Food and Drug Administration is investigating whether nicotine should be regulated as a drug under the law.
Many bills fulfill promises made during the election campaigns, but many more died on the way.
So common, in fact, that one out of every nine women in the U.S. will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. An estimated 182,000 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed this year. That's a new diagnosis every 11 minutes. But it's not just the statistics about cancer that scare women. Every woman is at risk Because no one knows for certain what causes breast cancer, it is impossible to predict who will get breast cancer and who won't.