Word: cigaretes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least in many individuals, habitual smoking does not result in the development of an immunity to the toxins of cigaret smoke. It would seem that experience teaches one, often subconsciously, to control one's smoking so that the effects are kept at a submanifest point. To be concrete, one does not take a puff from a cigaret if certain effects of the one preceding are manifest. Similarly, a second cigaret is not smoked until the effects of the preceding one have worn off. . . . The length of time for these effects to wear off varies greatly in different individuals...
According to Researchers Wright & Moffat, the desire for "another smoke" is due to: "1) the wish for the soothing, quieting effect of the smoke, which increases with the cessation of the effects of the previous cigaret, and 2) the nervous desire to do something with one's hands...
...Although not definitely proved, the evidence seems to indicate that nicotine is at least one of the toxic factors [in cigaret smoking] and that carbon monoxide and the products of the cigaret papers may be eliminated as offending mediums." Other suspect factors: "Ammonia, pyridine and pyridine derivative, cyanides and sulpho-cyanides, arsenic...
...last week's breakfast "Dr." Smith, a slick-scalped man who wears gold-rimmed glasses and winged collars, caressed the skull of his deceased patient, placed a cigaret between its spring-hung jaws, clacked its bare hands upon the table. In final flourish the nine naprapaths signed a scroll listing themselves as members of a Post-Mortem Club and willing their bones thereto. A notary public authenticated the- document for what it was worth...
...coach and ending by being driven in his own car, last autumn Author Priestley fetched a wide circuit through industrial England, busily noting what he saw and felt. At Southampton the great liners made him proud but a talk with a steward made him wonder. The Wills Gold Flake (cigaret) factory at Bristol pleased him. But the suburbs of Birmingham he found "beastly," and the benevolent despotism of Cadbury's cocoa factory at Bournville depressed him. Cutting through the Cotswold Hills he came on Chipping Campden, medieval wool trade centre, now a carefully preserved Arcadia, and Broadway, whose fame...