Word: cancer
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...long-running CBS Western Gunsmoke, "cigarette" was replaced in their slogan by the sound of two gunshots. For tobacco companies, it was the Golden Age: cigarette ads featured endorsements from dentists, doctors, babies and even Yankees slugger Mickey Mantle. Growing evidence of a link between smoking and lung cancer eventually led manufacturers to introduce cigarette filters - and while it was eventually revealed that filtered cigarettes were no safer than their regular counterparts, that didn't stop them from being advertised as lower in tar and nicotine. (Watch TIME's video "Au Revoir Cigarettes...
...Increasing public scrutiny of the tobacco industry finally came to a head in 1964 when the U.S. Surgeon General, Luther Terry, released his Advisory Committee Report on Smoking and Health. The staggeringly comprehensive report was based on more than 7,000 scientific studies linking smoking with lung cancer, emphysema and other diseases. The report led a surge in restrictive legislation, including mandatory warning labels on packages and a ban on advertising on radio or television. Tobacco companies in return simply changed strategy, advertising to younger markets with candy cigarettes and mascots like Joe Camel - whom a 1991 study found...
...Bongo's subjects are facing up to the reality that he sacrificed the country's future to fund his own fantastically opulent lifestyle. The government has made no effort to build alternative industries that might replace oil when it runs out. Yet at the time of his death from cancer, in a clinic in Barcelona, Bongo was facing French allegations of embezzling hundreds of millions of dollars in public funds. (See pictures of Africa...
...whom doctors delivered five weeks early to spare him an additional round of chemotherapy, is now in fifth grade and is "just a regular boy" who plays football and in-line hockey and has a yen for adventure novels, says his mom, who just celebrated her 10th year cancer-free...
...tell them to back off.' DANIEL HAUSER, a 13-year-old cancer patient from Minnesota, on critics who say he is too young to determine his course of treatment. Hauser briefly fled the state with his mother to avoid court-ordered chemotherapy, which violates his religious beliefs...