Cancer is Mostly Just Bad Luck

Cancer is Mostly Just Bad Luck

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 539 , Segment 3

Episode: French Election, Cancer is Mostly Bad Luck, The People's Piano

  • Apr 25, 2017 11:00 pm
  • 13:41 mins

Guest: Cristian Tomasetti, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Exercise, eat leafy greens, don’t smoke . . . all great advice for preventing cancer, but not enough to prevent all cancers. New research out of Johns Hopkins University, suggests two-thirds of gene mutations that cause cancer are completely out of our control. They’re just bad luck.

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The Fight Against California's Tampon Tax

11 MINS

Guest: Cristina Garcia, Assemblymember, California’s 58th Assembly District In many states across the country, tampons, pads, and even diapers are taxed as luxury items. That “luxury” designation might seem surprising, but the truth is that actually, only a handful of states give a sales tax exemption to these kind of products.  Last year, California lawmakers pushed for legislation—dubbed the tampon tax--to eliminate sales tax on feminine hygiene products. The bill was vetoed by Gov. Jerry Brown, who claimed the state could not afford the loss in revenue. But California Assemblymember Cristina Garcia is not giving up—she’s back, with a bill called the Common Cents Tax Reform, which would lift the sales tax on feminine hygiene products and diapers in CA, while imposing an increase in sales tax on hard liquor.

Guest: Cristina Garcia, Assemblymember, California’s 58th Assembly District In many states across the country, tampons, pads, and even diapers are taxed as luxury items. That “luxury” designation might seem surprising, but the truth is that actually, only a handful of states give a sales tax exemption to these kind of products.  Last year, California lawmakers pushed for legislation—dubbed the tampon tax--to eliminate sales tax on feminine hygiene products. The bill was vetoed by Gov. Jerry Brown, who claimed the state could not afford the loss in revenue. But California Assemblymember Cristina Garcia is not giving up—she’s back, with a bill called the Common Cents Tax Reform, which would lift the sales tax on feminine hygiene products and diapers in CA, while imposing an increase in sales tax on hard liquor.