Word: camels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...move covers the same legal ground that the states' attorneys general used in suing Big Tobacco to recover Medicare costs. In recent months Clinton's even evoked that old quadruped, Joe Camel, in attacking gun ads that promote crime-friendly features like fingerprint-proof handles. But the White House isn't necessarily after gun manufacturers' wallets. "While a big money settlement like the one with tobacco would be nice," notes TIME senior political writer Adam Cohen, "I think the President really wants behavioral control." That includes manufacturing safer guns, such as "smart guns," which can only be fired by their...
...sought so hungrily, and then his wild-eyed one-man assault on the money changers and lamb-and-dove merchants. Physically speaking, he'd done enough damage to last five minutes; but in terms of challenging the Temple mob, he'd laid the last straw on a big camel's back...
...roughly of the '70s, from Kent State through Watergate to the imperial rise of Reaganomics, reflected the seismic social shifts of the times. And what that churned up is seen in the show's kaleidoscope of imagery, ranging from a full-size mannequin of a rather worn-looking camel by Nancy Graves through documentary photos of Chris Burden after a self-inflicted gun wound to a film of Robert Smithson running along the rocky ground of his massive and most famous earthwork, Spiral Jetty (1970), which juts into Utah's Great Salt Lake...
...links between the tobacco parent companies and a lot of seemingly unrelated industries. The site has a number of get-involved resources for smokers and nonsmokers alike, as well as snippets of the internal industry memos that suggested targeting minors through give-aways and cartoon characters like Joe Camel was a way to ensure the industry's future...
...this susceptible segment of the population at the same time as the tobacco industry is homing in on them. Antismoking rhetoric is often aimed at young children and their parents, while cigarette makers, warned off their youngest consumers and such severely critized campaigns as the cartoonish Joe Camel, are now doubling their attempts to seduce the next age segment, young adults. A suggestion: Perhaps antismoking campaigns should be retooled to address kids in high school or just heading off to college. Otherwise it could be one heck of a deadly generation...