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Who Owns Your Genes?; Death Sentences Survived; Smokeless Cigarettes

Smokeless Cigarettes Morley Safer with Lori Andrews, professor of law who insists your genes are yours alone. Another lawyer who happens to be a molecular biologist insists that biotech gene patents are just beginning. Big companies profiting from the genetics of others? That's just one layer of 'wrong' explored in this story along with reasons why this might be the future in a good way. In our next story, Ugandan's given death sentences due to rampant HIV and AIDS in a country where the vast majority of people couldn't afford or gain access to necessary medications are now finding hope. Bob Simon reports on the American program helping to alter tragic outcomes. Also tonight, Leslie Stahl in a hard look at how tobacco companies are trying to stay afloat as more and more people wise up and quit while fewer start smoking to begin with. Are the new smokeless products safer alternatives or just another way to deliver new addicts to the companies that count on new customers replacing those lost to death and disease.
Aired: Apr 04, 2010 Genre: NewsCreated By: Don HewittDuration: 44m Rating: 0 Country: United States of America Production: CBS News Productions
Episodes
01: McChrystal/The Liquidator/A Living for the Dead02: The Swindler/130 Million Tons of Waste/The Great Migration03: Golf Company/A Blow to the Brain/The Birdmen04: H1N1/The Kanzius Machine/Drew Barrymore05: 60 Billion Dollar Fraud/Fight for a Cure/Tyler Perry06: H1N1 Vaccine/Yakuza/The Movie Pirates07: Cyber War/Andre Agassi08: The Deadliest Weapon/B-Rex/Resurrecting Eden09: The Cost of Dying / Witness / Cameron's Avatar10: Congo's Gold War / Robert Ballard11: The Zone/Personal Foul12: President Obama/Growing Body Parts/Ricky Gervais14: California Water Drought/Oust al Qaeda/The Birdmen15: A Crack In The Swiss Vault/Delay, Deny And Hope That I Die/The Secret Language Of Elephants16: Watching The Border/Revelations From The Campaign/Resurrecting The Extinct17: Haiti/Football Island/Penelope Cruz18: The Quiet Professionals/White Hot/Beyonce19: Made In America/Davos/Pigeon Fever20: Blackwater 61/Bloom Box/Ground Zero21: Stealing America's Secrets/Battle Over History/Kathryn Bigelow22: Inside The Collapse/Derek24: The Case Against Nada Prouty/The Russian Is Coming/The Sharkman25: Who Owns Your Genes?; Death Sentences Survived; Smokeless Cigarettes26: Gotti Family Member; Meet the New Missing Link27: Con men who promise cures to dying victims; actor Al Pacino discusses his career and upcoming roles.31: Conan O'Brien, The All American Canal,, Chef Jose Andres32: Homegrown terror, Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, people walking out on their mortgages33: Deepwater Horizon disaster, Conductor Gustavo Dudamel34: Are They Safe?/The Seed School/Marty's Big Idea35: The Deadliest Weapon/Resurrecting the Extinct/Vogue, Anna Wintour36: The Swindler/The Case Against Nada Prouty/The Sharkman37: Sabotaging the System/The Great Explorer38: Assault on Pelindaba/The Liquidator/A Living for the Dead39: Blackwater 61/Fight for a Cure/Cameron's Avatar40: Into the Wild: The Great Migration/The Secret Language of Elephants/B-Rex41: The Lost Children of Haiti/Kathryn Bigelow/White Hot42: Golf Company/Penelope Cruz/Guiding Light43: The Narrative, Growing body parts, Tyler Perry44: Out of the Shadows/Discovery/Derek45: The Cost of Dying/The Patriarch/Chef Jose Andres46: A Crack in the Swiss Vault/130 Million Tons of Waste/Pacino47: The Blowout/The Russian Is Coming48: Stealing America's Secrets/The Bloom Box/The Birdmen49: 60 Billion Dollar Fraud/The Seed School/Doubles50: 21st Century Snake Oil/Beyonce51: The Swindler/White House Diary: Jimmy Carter/Football Island