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Thursday, 20 October 2016

Other news on 20 October 2016: Cigarettes in Egypt, Tramadol in emerging markets, Airbnb in NYC

Other national and international stories worth noting this morning:

  • Mind-altering substances are “easier to get in Egypt now than to find your preferred choice of cigarette,” Ahram Online quotes a shopkeeper as saying in its look at the state of the cigarette market in Egypt.
  • Egypt has a bit part to play in “Tramadol: The Opioid Crisis for the Rest of the World” from the Wall Street Journal (paywall), an outstanding piece of journalism that gets to the root of why Tramadol is so thoroughly abused around the world: A quirk in the global regulatory system has left physicians afraid that if it were designated as restricted, the global poor would lose access to the only painkiller still available to them.
  • Forget about booking an Airbnb in NYC if New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo signs a bill that would slap a USD 7,750 fine on anyone found to have advertised a vacancy on the service. The Financial Times (paywall) and Quartz have more, as does the New York Times.

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