deaths involving legal highs increased from six in 2010 to 28 in 2013 . The European Commission has said that between 2011 and 2014 , Ireland experienced Europe ’s second largest increase in legal high use among 15- to 24-year - olds . One Irish user told the BBC that after the ban closed head shops : “ People started selling it on every street .
Trump brought this renewed scrutiny on himself by harping on the idea that his 68-year - old opponent , Hillary Clinton , is not physically or mentally fit to be president . He and his surrogates have sought to make health a big issue lately , claiming the Democratic nominee lacks " stamina " and looks " sick . " Trump ally Matt Drudge seems obsessed with Clinton 's medical condition these days , and others in the conservative media have made wild diagnoses ranging from Parkinson 's disease to radiation poisoningconflict.attack.biologicalchemicalpoisonattack. It was inevitable then that journalists would return to questions about Trump 's own constitution . [ A guide to Hillary Clinton 's many ' illnesses , ' as diagnosed in the conservative media ]
Video of Clinton 's departure seemed to show her buckling and stumbling as she got into her van . ( Thomas Johnson / The Washington Post ) Putin , as The Washington Post reported , was implicated by a British inquiry in January in the poisoningconflict.attack.biologicalchemicalpoisonattackdeath of Alexander Litvinenko , a former KGB operative , in London in 2006 . The Post ’s Griff Witte and Michael Birnbaum wrote at the time : Although the inquiry stops short of conclusively blaming Putin — noting the opaque nature of Kremlin politics — it finds that there is “ strong circumstantial evidence that the Russian State was responsible for Mr. Litvinenko ’s death . ” And citing the high - stakes nature of an operation to assassinate a former KGB officer on British soil , it finds that the operation would probably not have gone ahead without Putin ’s direct approval .
The interview abruptly stops . It ’s 5.16pm . Hyatt dials the long telephone number , reaches “ Martin ” , and tells him that Litvinenko is gravely ill in hospital , the victim of an apparent poisoningconflict.attack.biologicalchemicalpoisonattackby two mysterious Russians . Facebook Twitter Pinterest Police investigate Litvinenko ’s poisoning at the Millennium hotel in central London . Photograph : Alessia Pierdomenico / Reuters
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Apart from one important detail . Litvinenko never visits the hotel bathroom . He is not the source of the polonium ; it is his Russian companions - turned - executioners who bring it with them to London , in this , their second poisoningconflict.attack.biologicalchemicalpoisonattackattempt . * * * The Soviet Union had a long tradition of bumping off its enemies .