Numbers

10% Average increase in a cigarette's nicotine yield--the amount of the chemical inhaled by a smoker--between 1998 and 2004

3.2 mg Nicotine yield of one Newport 100 menthol cigarette--the highest of any brand and up 10% from what it was in 1998

31 Number of states in which the obesity rate rose over the past year

2/3 Proportion of Americans who are overweight or obese

29.5% Percentage of Mississippians who are obese--the highest level of any state

103 in. Screen size of Panasonic's newest plasma TV, which will be the largest television on the market when it makes its planned debut at Christmas

8.2 hr. Average time spent watching TV each day in the American household in 2005--up more than an hour a day since '95

$55 Price of a marriage license in Clark County, Nev., which decided last week to close its Las Vegas licensing office from midnight to 8 a.m. as a cost-cutting move, ending the long tradition of impromptu late-night marriages

122,259 Number of marriage licenses the county issued in 2005

Sources: Massachusetts Department of Health (2); Trust for America's Health (3); Panasonic; Nielsen Media Research; Reuters (2)