The public health community has an important role to play in demonstrating the magnitude of tobacco's threat to public health and calling on governments to strip away the trademark protections, rights to sue and opportunities to lobby that big tobacco uses to bully public representatives.
A leading academic study concludes there is "equivocal evidence regarding its magnitude".
According to the report: "The size of the benefit to families with children from the new child-care package is, in any case, much smaller in magnitude than the cuts proposed in the 2014‐15 budget which will still clearly leave families at the bottom end of the income spectrum significantly worse off in absolute and percentage terms.
In the event of a no vote the magnitude of the chaos across Europe would be far greater than when Ireland first rejected the Lisbon treaty.
The problem with taking your 10-month-old baby on holiday to a luxury, five-star boutique hotel is that the magnitude of this fact leaves them cold.
The institute's chief executive, Ian Tudor, told Guardian Australia the confidentiality of student records was of "paramount importance to the institute, and given the magnitude of the breach of confidentiality we were obliged to report it to the police".
And as we start connecting everything we touch to networks, the risks will rise by orders of magnitude – especially as criminals and governments infect and alter everyday devices.
Ecocide (wilful damage to the environment, ecosystems, biodiversity) should be internationally recognised as a crime of the greatest magnitude.
"The magnitude of the immune responses observed in the vaccine recipients were less than those observed in monkeys that were protected from experimental Ebola virus infection, but we don't fully understand what degree of immunity humans require in order to protect them from infection.
But there is no better way of understanding it – the written word – which is why I believe that literature is vital if we want to continue appreciating the magnitude of such an historical event.
Even by the end of this century, on current trends we risk changes of a magnitude that are unprecedented in the last 10,000 years.
