Cowell, vice president and actuary for State Mutual Life Assurance Company of America, to accompany his article, An insurance company perspective on smoking, in the New York State Journal of Medicine s second theme issue on the world cigarette pandemic in July, 1985
When you choose to smoke, you not only put in dangerous chemicals in your body and put your overall health at risk
As consumption of sugar in Northern Europe rose from the 17th century onward, demand for sugar and the planting of it in the New World eventually developed into quite a profitable business
Meanwhile, the International Energy Agency estimates the world will face lithium shortages by 2025
In 1619, John Rolfe reported to Sir Edwin Sandys that a Dutch ship had arrived at Point Comfort, bringing 20 and odd Negroes, which the Governor and Cape Merchant bought for victual at the best and easiest rate they could. Although European indentured servants augmented the workforce, by 1700, the institution of slavery was firmly established in Virginia
A report of the US Surgeon General, Atlanta, Georgia: US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2010
