norma, from new hampshire, reports that her youngest child is 19 and is addicted to smoking. he buys the mint and fruit-flavored products and by now is smoking up to two packs a day. already, at age 19, he's developed a smokers cough. keith, from concord, an adult, but he is also a victim of childhood addiction. he smoked his first cigarette after a basketball game when he was only 17. recently he was diagn

i think we need to start looking at the norma's economic forces bankrolling this insurgency that is now spreading rapidly across pakistan, not just afghanistan. just to move through it quickly, the taliban have for a long time earned money off of the opium trade in afghanistan. and when i found is that since 2001 they have actually increased their activities, vis-À-vis the drugs trade. they collect tax and the southern areas off of the farm output, almost usually about 10% of the drugs trade. it's different from district to district, so it's a confusing situation. similar to your local mafia that operates, this is the tony soprano model comes back in. they forced farmers, local residents, local shopkeepers to contribute to the insurgency. they call this protection money or gifts. in many cases as opposed to receiving actual cash, because in rural areas there's not a lot of money floating around. they actually receive physical items. they will get motorcycles, vehicles, mobile phones. because the insurgents and change votes all the time to try to avoid detection like the type that killed

legislation to help people in new hampshire and across the country, people like keith, people like norma's son. tobacco tobacco products and marketing geared to kids need to end. we can't afford to let another generation of young people put themselves at risk by becoming addicted to tobacco products and suffering the lifelong consequences of their addiction, or even worse: dying. for decades tobacco companies have targeted women and girls. but in the last two years the industry has significantly stepped up their marketing efforts aimed at our daughters and granddaughters. we have a picture of one of the ads that r.j. reynolds uses. it's their new version of camel cigarettes targeted to girls and women. it's camel no. 9. sort of a takeoff on some descriptions we've heard. this has she can, shiny black packaging and flowery ads and the advertising light and luscious. this advertisement has appeared in "kos mow poll tan," "in style," "lucky" and marie clair magazines. women are now at increased risk for lung cancer, heart attacks, strokes, emphysema and other deadly diseases. these statistics