Vitamin B6 May Help Block Cancer

American Voices

July 12, 2010 | ISSUE 46•28

A new study found that smokers with higher levels of vitamin B6 in their system were less likely to contract lung cancer. What do you think?

But that would require eating, which is exactly what I was trying to avoid by taking up smoking."

Beth Jorden
Systems Analyst
B6, B6, let's check the ol' pack here… How about low tar? That's probably good, right?"

Alex Hicks
Embalmer
That’s old news. It’s why I smoke Pall Mall Banana 100s."

Dave Bishop
Toll Booth Operator

U.S. Cuts Aid To Pakistan

05.25.12 |

The Senate Appropriations Committee voted 30-0 to cut aid to Pakistan by $33 million after the country’s government arrested and sentenced a doctor who tipped off the United States to Osama bin Laden's location.
'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Series Reaches 10 Million Sales

05.25.12 | ISSUE 48•22

Publishing house Vintage has sold 10 million copies of the erotica trilogy Fifty Shades Of Grey in multiple formats in an astonishing six weeks.
Suspect Arrested In Etan Patz Case

05.24.12 | ISSUE 48•22

A suspect in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, the first missing child to be put on a milk carton, was taken into custody.
U.S. Census Overcounted By 36,000

05.24.12 | ISSUE 48•21

A survey revealed that the 2010 census counted an extra 36,000 people, or 0.01 percent, because of duplicate forms and deaths, which is down from the 0.49 percent overcount in the 2000 census.
Egypt Holds First Presidential Elections

05.23.12 | ISSUE 48•21

Fifteen months after Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak was deposed, Egyptians voted in their first-ever free presidential elections.