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The Jakarta Post : Thousands of scientists, activists and disease survivors Saturday wrap up a global conference on lung health dominated by the announcement of several breakthroughs in the battle against tuberculosis.

FlipScience: It is silent, deadly, and wide-reaching; it targets millions indiscriminately, but with brutal precision and efficiency. Affecting a staggering 90% of the global population, air pollution remains the leading environmental cause of death and disease.

Agence France Presse: From a revolutionary way of testing children for tuberculosis to a cure for a previously untreatable strain, scientists from across the globe launched a fresh broadside Thursday against the world's deadliest infectious disease.

CampaignUK: On 1 July 2007, the smoking ban came into effect, two years after a ban on tobacco advertising was enforced. This itself was 40 years after cigarette advertising was banned on television, thereby ending a fug of muddled prevarication over what was and wasn’t permissible.