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US plan to cut smoking with non-addictive cigarettes has flaws

US plan to cut smoking with non-addictive cigarettes has flaws

31 July 2017

A bold proposal in the US to cut cigarette nicotine to sub-addictive levels is interesting, but there are big challenges to making it work, says Linda Bauld
Obamacare

US healthcare repeal law struck down at the eleventh hour

28 July 2017

A bill that could have led to 43 million uninsured people has failed to make it through the US Senate, failing by just one vote in the middle of the night

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