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• Is Food Addictive?

  Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 11:18 AM By William Saletan
  
  The war on junk food is forging ahead . New York, Philadelphia, and Boston have banned trans fats . New York is forcing restaurants to post calorie counts . Britain has outlawed junk-food ads during kids' TV shows. South Korea's capital has banned soda Read More...
  Filed under: addiction, appetite, chocolate, cocaine, drugs, food, ghrelin, junk food, tobacco

• The Smoking-Drinking Problem

  Posted Friday, April 04, 2008 8:24 AM By William Saletan
  
  There's one more contrarian study I want to pick up on this morning: a paper in the Journal of Public Economics that links smoking bans to drunk-driving accidents. The authors, Scott Adams and Chad Cotti, report : "Using geographic variation in local Read More...
  Filed under: alcohol, contrarianism, drinking, dwi, smoking, tobacco

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