| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Doctors: Raise smoking age | | Most people who smoke started in their teens. While the number of kids trying tobacco for the first time has declined since the 1970s, there are still new smokers every year and kids' doctors want to do something about it.
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| So, what can we eat? | | You may have just learned that processed meat such as bacon, sausage and ham may cause cancer and unprocessed meat may be "probably carcinogenic to humans," according to a new World Health Organization report. Or that cheese and sugar can be as addictive as a drug. Or that even veggie hot dogs may not be completely meat-free (or even human tissue-free), we recently learned.
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| 24 last-minute Halloween costumes for kids | | October 31 seems to creep up on us every single year. Still set on treating Junior to that one-of-a-kind disguise? Frightened by the idea of making your own costume from scratch?
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| Can Yelp help track food poisoning? | | When a Shigella outbreak at a seafood restaurant sickened dozens of people, Yelp reviewers were on the case -- right alongside public health officials.
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