We know from Van Goghs letters to his brother Theo that he was looking at Holbein and thinking about him at the time he painted the smoking skull. The exhibition suggests that peoples preoccupations are pretty similar wherever you go and throughout time we all have an appointment with the ultimate gothic scene-stealer, death, after all but there are winsome local variations
Story highlights NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg signs law raising tobacco-purchasing age from 18 to 21 The law takes effect in 60 days New York City becomes the largest city to have an age limit as high as 21 New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed legislation Tuesday raising the tobacco-purchasing age from 18 to 21
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The Federal Trade Commission is likely to take a hard look at the latest proposed transaction, said David Balto, a Washington attorney and former policy director for the FTC who litigated BATs merger with Reynolds in 2004
Hoover [President of the United States] Says There is no agency in the world that is so seriously affecting the health, efficiency, education, and character of boys and girls as the cigarette habit
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