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(University of California - Riverside) Tobacco-related disease kills more people worldwide than any other single factor.

To help address this problem, the University of California, Riverside has received six grants, totaling more than $850,000, from the University of California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program.

The grants will fund research on topics ranging from thirdhand smoke to the effect of cigarette smoke on reproduction.

(University of Maryland Medical Center) A study conducted at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore provides the first direct evidence that cigarette smoke exposure prior to a heart transplant in either the donor, recipient, or both, accelerates the death of a transplanted heart.

This has to be the most bizarre excuse for voiding a warranty ever, but according to The Consumerist at least two Mac owners have been told their Applecare warranties are no good because they smoke.

In both cases, we are told, the Mac owner concerned took the matter up with the Apple supremo, Steve Jobs, or at least with his office.

And in both cases they lost that appeal.