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SYDNEY Russell Shepard Jersey , Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Leading Australian experts have called on the country's governments to hold tobacco companies accountable for damage done to people's health by taking them to court.


In an article published in the Medical Journal of Australia, public health experts from Macquarie University and Curtin University called on state and federal governments to seek remuneration from tobacco companies for the burden put on the public health system by smoking-related illnesses.


The authors, led by Macquarie University Health Studies lecturer Ross Mackenzie, said that Australia could use Canada Michael Palardy Jersey , where the province of British Columbia's right to sue the tobacco industry was upheld by the Supreme Court, as a precedent.


"An estimated 2.6 million adult Australians were smokers in 2014, and smoking remains the country's leading preventable cause of death and disease," they wrote.


"It causes 15 Matt Kalil Jersey , 000 deaths annually and is likely to kill two-thirds of current users. Annual health, social and economic costs of smoking were estimated at more than $31.5 billion in 2008, and are now considered to be substantially greater."


Mackenzie and colleagues said there were lessons to be learnt from the Canadian experience.


"A major recovery in Australian litigation could potentially push an Australian subsidiary of a global cigarette manufacturer into bankruptcy, depriving plaintiffs of the opportunity to recover full damages... (It is) imperative that the parent (tobacco) companies remain as defendants in legal actions in order to satisfy the large damage awards necessary to provide just financial compensation Mike Adams Jersey ," they said.


"Beyond the potential to recover billions of dollars spent on treatment of diseases caused by smoking, publicity around legal action would also emphasize the health and social impacts of tobacco industry corporate behaviour, furthering the denormalization of smoking in Australia and generating public and political support for further public health measures."



Visitors to Christie's wait outside in a line to view Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi", Tuesday Devin Funchess Jersey , Nov. 14, 2017, in New York.

A rare painting by Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci of Christ holding a crystal orb has sold for a record $450 million (380 million euros) at a New York auction.


The painting, "Salvator Mundi Shaq Thompson Jersey ," Italian for "Savior of the World," was sold Wednesday by Christie's auction house.

　　Visitors to Christie's wait outside in a line to view Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi", Tuesday, Nov. 14 Daryl Worley Jersey , 2017, in New York.

The highest price paid for a work of art at auction had been $179.4 million (152 million euros), for Picasso's "Women of Algiers (Version O)" in May 2015, also at Christie's in New York.


The highest known sale price for any artwork had been $300 million (253 million euros) for Willem de Kooning's "Interchange" in September 2015 James Bradberry Jersey , which was sold privately.


Scholars believe the Leonardo painting is one of few works by Leonardo to survive the centuries since his death and the only one in private hands.




A painting thought by scholars to be one of only a few by Leonardo da Vinci to have survived the half-millennia since the artist's death is set to be auctioned Wednesday in New York


The 500-year-old oil painting depicting Christ holding a crystal orb is called "Salvator Mundi" or "Savior of the World."


It has been guaranteed by a backer to sell for at least $100 million (85 million euros).


Christie's is the auction house conducting the sale. It says it is the only painting by the Renaissance master in private hands.


Christie's has exhibited the painting in Hong Kong, San Francisco, London and New York in the weeks prior to Wednesday's sale. (Agencies)

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ATLANTA， the United States， Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- Two giant panda cubs were named Ya Lun and Xi Lun as the Atlanta Zoo celebrated their 100-day birthday on Monday.


The ceremony was organized to celebrate their survival from infancy and reveal their names that was the result of a vote participated by 23，000 panda fans.


""As we wish Ya Lun and Xi Lun well today， we celebrate the future of their species together，"" Atlanta Zoo President Raymond King said.


In Chinese， Ya means elegant while Xi means happy. They inherited Lun from their mother Lun Lun.


Xie Fei， the Culture Counselor from China's Houston Consulate， lauded the zoo for their ""superb job in raising these healthy baby pandas and facilitating the panda mom's remarkable reproductive achievements， giving altogether five births with seven cubs.""


The cubs were born on Sep. 3， and was the sixth and seventh cubs their parents have given birth to since arriving at Atlanta in 1999. They are now both 19 years old， which is middle age for giant pandas.


The cubs didn't appear in the event because of their young age. The zoo expected them to make their debut later this month or in early January.


China's Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding， which cooperates with foreign institutions to send the Chinese-native animal to live abroad， supplied seven pairs of names to be chosen from， and the zoo said about half of the voters chose Ya Lun and Xi Lun.


Lara Traguboff， a panda fan who attended the event， said she followed the zoo's website for their latest panda updates， ""My 75-year-old mother who lives in California is even a bigger panda fan than I am， and she would have the panda cam on and constantly checking up on the cubs.""


There are currently four U.S. zoos that hosts the endangered species， the other three are the Memphis Zoo， the National Zoo in Washington D.C. and the San Diego Zoo.

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