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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What is it about young adulthood that turns people on to smoking? The intoxicating freedom? The feeling of invincibility? The looming prospect of lung cancer? It may be none of the above, but according to a study released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control, something is turning '90s college-age adults into smokers at a higher rate than their '80s counterparts. Despite success in some population groups, adult smoking rates in the 1990s have remained essentially static, thanks to large numbers of 18-to-24-year-olds who are picking up the habit. Between 1965 and 1990, the percentage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just When You Thought We Were Smoking Less... | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...layoff after being stabbed by a deranged Graf fan in Hamburg. The perpetrator was never convicted. And right after she recovered and the light at the end of the tunnel seemed within her grasp, her father (and coach, confidante, best friend) passed away after a prolonged bout with stomach cancer...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Exclusive Interview: Monica Seles, A Shining Star | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...particular, the rate of cancer on the island in the 1980s was 27 percent higher than that of Puerto Rico as a whole, according to the Puerto Rican government commission...

Author: By David C. Newman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professors Urge Clinton to Remove Navy From Vieques | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

Jeffries said that "no scientific study exists" that links the Navy's presence to cancer rates...

Author: By David C. Newman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professors Urge Clinton to Remove Navy From Vieques | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

...After cancer, you said games wouldn't seem so important. Has that been true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Winning and Winning Again | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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