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Tax fossil fuel addiction the same way we treated tobacco addiction
2014-03-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Star-Ledger: Back when Fred Flintstone was puffing away on Winston cigarettes in the 1960s, it was hard to imagine the day would ever come when we would see the end of smoking in the U.S. But, much to the relief of our overburdened healthcare system, some officials now dare to predict that the adult smoking rate will drop to 5 percent or lower by mid-century. So, how is America breaking its addiction to tobacco, and what lessons can we apply to a similarly dangerous addiction - burning fossil fuels? For...
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