My son was diagnosed with 32 % scoliosis when he was 9. He wore a corset (brace) till he was 14 and now only has 4%. He led a normal life with the brace. The kids at school though he was a hereo with his own body armour The brace wont cure it but it will reduce it. Head up there are much worse illnesses around.
Officials in central China have been told to smoke nearly a quarter million packs of locally made cigarettes annually or risk being fined, state media reported.
.The Gong'an county government in Hubei province has ordered its staff to puff their way through 230,000 packs of Hubei-produced cigarette brands a year, the Global Times said.
Departments that fail to meet their targets will be fined, according to the report.
"The regulation will boost the local economy via the cigarette tax," said Chen Nianzu, a member of the Gong'an cigarette market supervision team, according to the paper.
The measure could also be a ploy to aid local cigarette brands such as Huanghelou, which are under severe pressure from competitors in neighbouring Hunan province, according to the paper.
its about time the smokers had some govt. support.
Hi FD, if you are bilingual E / D then where is really the problem. I am bilingual E / D and learnt dutch. I also watched many Dutch TV programmes. and have many dutch aquaintances.
Red 3 has due to some employment committments got to make an unexpected sortie into sausage land and we know the RF is a tad dicky over there (its all the sausages and beer hic hic).
So Red 3 might not be available for sorties over the helmuts side for a while.
RE: THE GOOD MORNING HOT CROISSANT THREAD REVISITED
Hi Peeps, Hi Venso what do you do, order a double big mac and fries and then a diet coke