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While evolution and food safety can't entirely account for the increased interest in smoke, the grilling industry credits the extended economic downturn as a proximate cause for its popularity.
WSJ: Move Over Bacon: Foodies Just Want the Smoke
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Is there a proximate cause?
NPR: Tensions on the Rise in Horn of Africa
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In its settlement last year with the US Department of Justice of the criminal charges against it, BP admitted that negligence on the part of its employees -- along with other companies -- was a "proximate cause" of the accident.
CNN: BP claims it now leads the way on safety
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While inflation may fundamentally result from too great a creation of money, the proximate or immediate cause of its actual development is much more a function of expectations of what will happen next.
FORBES: What's The Trigger That Will Cause The Fed To Act?
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The AMR example is cute, but is it possible that a tremendous drop in oil prices (always a boon to airline shares) might have been the proximate cause of the rally, the positive social sentiments merely coinciding with that?
FORBES: Monetizing the Moaning
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But if they do, the Cochran ruling is available as a well-reasoned precedent and a model for how judges must respect basic tort law principles as proximate cause and the need for an actual injury.
FORBES: Effort Fails To Strip Actual Injury Requirement From 'Failure To Warn' Drug Liability
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The proximate cause of this week's scare lies in Italian politics, and a row in which Silvio Berlusconi, the prime minister, hurled playground insults at Giulio Tremonti, the finance minister, over a new austerity budget.
ECONOMIST: Italy and the euro