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Clueless and gullible women in America? I can only conclude that Clinton’s female supporters admire liars (the bigger the lies the better) and sexual predator enablers; love paying higher taxes, and totally approve of the ongoing collusion/corruption between Wall Street, Big Banking, Big Media and Big Government. They couldn’t care less about their personal safety (“Let anybody and everybody into the country—sure, why not?”), and blithely dismiss America’s malignant massive debt and dismal economic condition as much ado about nothing. They are, in a word, idiots. The fact that Clinton’s supporters (most notably the media) think that she won the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tobacco companies designed cigarettes to appeal to women's desires to be thin and healthy in ways that went "far beyond marketing and advertising," health researchers said on Monday. They said internal documents released by tobacco companies under a 1998 court settlement show the companies created cigarettes, including "slim" and so-called "light" brands, in part to attract women. "These internal documents reveal that the tobacco industry's targeting of women goes far beyond marketing and advertising," said Carrie Murray Carpenter of the Harvard School of Public Health, who led the study. Writing in the June issue of the journal...

The worldwide smoking rate among women is expected to rise 20 percent by 2025, the report says. BOSTON (May 31) - Tobacco companies did elaborate research on women to figure out how to hook them on smoking. Researchers at Harvard University's School of Public Health said they examined more than 7 million documents - some dating back to 1969, others as recent as 2000 - for new details about the industry's efforts to lure more women smokers. ''They did so much research in such a sophisticated way,'' she said. ''Women should know how far the tobacco industry went to exploit...