Cigarettes keep getting more and more expensive.
Cigarettes keep getting more and more expensive. While they are still fairly reasonable in places like Virginia and Texas, New York City smokers are shelling out $10 a pack and are reluctant to give away cigarettes to folks trying to bum a smoke. In Australia, that price is about to go up to $20 a pack. Granted the pack is 10 more than the NYC pack but that’s still a lot of money to fork over for the habit.
A government report called the Preventative Health Taskforce report urging the government to cut the number of people who smoke aged 14 and over from 3 million to 2 million. Packs of smokes will also be required to be generic looking with 90 percent of the front having a graphic health warning and 100 percent of the same on the back of the pack.
Seamen Discharged
Whenever a story like this breaks out, the combination of puns goes off the charts. Discharge, seamen, top gun, man your position, poopdeck, full thrust, and so on. Well, maybe there aren’t that many but there is enough for ten minutes for morning radio hosts.
The Austrailian Defense Department is investigating claims that some sailors from HMAS Success were involved in a contest to see who could sleep with the most female crew members. The bets included locations, like a pool table, and the stakes went higher if the officer was a lesbian. The contest was discovered while the ship was in Singapore and those sailors involved were ordered to return home immediately.
My Body Wasn’t Made By Budweiser
A new study shows that beer bellies are not necessarily beer bellies. It sounds like good news but it’s not really. German and Swedish researchers published a study in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition saying that although beer drinking and waist circumference were definitely associated, the specific placement of that fat was due to genetics and not the beer itself.
First of all, beer does not contain fat and is also about half the calories of wine. That sounds good. Second, this study showed that how people put on weight is more due to genetics than drinking beer. That sounds good, too. However, before you celebrate science by pounding more beers read on: the scientists found that drinking beer definitely aided in the addition of weight. If you stop drinking beer, you will lose weight. All this study did was show that your genes decide if you’re going to show it with your belly or your hips. It’s a win win for obesity.
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