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Offshoring Lung Cancer? 

With continuing strong demand for cigarettes around the world, especially in poor countries, the W.H.O., in conjunction with Michael Bloomberg's personal foundation, is proposing a huge global anti-smoking project. The W.H.O.'s report on the subject calls for "raising cigarette taxes, banning smoking in public places, enforcing laws against giving or advertising tobacco to children, monitoring tobacco use, warning people about the dangers and offering free or inexpensive help to smokers trying to quit."

Bloomberg's foundation contributed $2 million to the report. While a great deal has been made of Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton spending their own money on political campaigns, I have heard little talk (and none of it negative) about Bloomberg's use of personal money for such causes. It is hard to argue against anti-smoking measures, of course -- unless you are Philip Morris.

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