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Tobacco smoking is the practice of burning tobacco and ingesting the resulting smoke. The smoke may be inhaled, as is done with cigarettes, or simply released...

Smoking bans, or smoke-free laws, are public policies, including criminal laws and occupational safety and health regulations, that prohibit tobacco smoking...

A truck driver (commonly referred to as a trucker, teamster or driver in the United States and Canada; a truckie in Australia and New Zealand; an HGV driver...

Ernst Friedrich Schumacher CBE (16 August 1911 – 4 September 1977) was a British statistician and economist who is best known for his proposals for human-scale...

Sister Cities International (SCI) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) with the goal of facilitating partnerships between communities within the United...

Therm-a-Rest is an American outdoor product company specializing in camping mattresses, sleeping bags, camp chairs, cots, and pillows. Therm-a-Rest began...

Heap leaching is an industrial mining process used to extract precious metals, copper, uranium, and other compounds from ore using a series of chemical...

A human billboard is someone who applies an advertisement on their person. Most commonly, this means holding or wearing a sign of some sort, but also may...

The Great Depression in the Netherlands (Dutch: De Grote Depressie, also called the crisis years: de Crisisjaren, de Crisistijd) occurred between 1933...

Julian Marc Dunkerton (born March 1965) is a British businessman, and the co-founder of the fashion label Superdry. Dunkerton's father Ivor and stepmother...

Fiama Di Wills is an Indian personal care brand that offers shampoos, conditioner, bathing bars and shower gels. It is owned by ITC Limited, an Indian...

Hope and Homes for Children (HHC) is a British registered charity operating and working with children, their families and communities in several countries...

SEAF (Small Enterprise Assistance Funds) is an international investment management group that provides growth capital and business assistance to small...

A no-action letter is a letter written by the staff members of a government agency, requested by an entity subject to regulation by that agency, indicating...

Harvest Operations Corp. is a Canadian oil and natural gas company based in Calgary, Alberta. Unlike many oil and gas trusts, which consist only of production...

The Singer Bantam is a car which was produced by Singer from 1936 to 1939. It was the first model from Singer to have an all-steel body, by Pressed Steel...

The Library House Ltd (Library House) was a business information and consulting company based in London, England, founded in 2002 by Doug Richard and John...

Robin Michael Faccenda OBE (born 21 June 1937) is a businessman in the poultry industry. According to the 2005 Sunday Times Rich List, he was the 654th...

Panagiotis "Takis" Roumeliotis (Greek: Παναγιώτης Ρουμελιώτης, born August 19, 1947), is a Greek economist, academic, banker and politician. A friend and...

Market development funds or MDF are used in an indirect sales channel where funds are made available by a manufacturer or brand to help affiliates, channel...