Shanghai is also reportedly rushing into effect new smoking regulations aimed at bringing this tobacco-friendly city into line with increasingly widespread global standards requiring smoke-free zones in restaurants, shopping centers and other public places.
For three decades, state and local officials had periodically tried to persuade Philip Morris, a unit of the New York-based Altoia Group, to move its headquarters to this tobacco-friendly city, but this time the pitch that Mr. Schewel set in motion in the summer of 2002 succeeded.
Speaking to a crowd estimated by officials at 200,000 in this tobacco-growing province west of Havana, Mr. Castro noted that if Mr. Bush was elected, he would be the 10th president to hold office since the Cuban leader took power.
The presence of a high-affinity pathway in the Clara cell for activation of NNK may contribute to the potent carcinogenicity observed following low-dose exposure to this tobacco-specific carcinogen.
Recent advances in the development of transient expression systems have placed Nicotiana benthamiana in a particularly favorable position since this tobacco-related plant species is well suited for the large-scale production of therapeutic proteins.
