Word: clove
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...child like nickname "Ralph Rotten" in the course of his years behind the counter. Ralph, who often wears his nickname proudly emblazoned across a stretched and sweaty T-shirt, occasionally carries the code--no combing or booze, no feet off the floor, no combing your hair, no profanity, no clove cigarettes--to it's illogical extreme. As he works over the grill, slicing and frying, he radiates certain anger--feeling each new order is an unwarranted imposition. On occasion he explodes, and leaps over the counter to confront the felon--in this case an unsuspecting clove cigarette smoker...
...Cislaw of Costa Mesa, Calif., seemed to have it all: suntanned good looks, natural athletic and artistic talent, and popularity. One night last March, while recovering from the flu, he took a few drags on a kretek, or clove cigarette, an Indonesian concoction of tobacco and cloves that has become popular with teen-agers across the nation. Soon he was gasping for breath, and by the next day he was in an intensive-care unit suffering from what appeared to be an unusually severe type of pneumonia. "He had cysts the size of golf balls in his lungs," says Thoracic...
...clove craze began on the West Coast around 1980. Now, says Beatrice Schwalbe, 19, a former two-pack-a-day kretek smoker from Costa Mesa, "anywhere you find a bunch of teen-agers, you'll find clove cigarettes." New York City Importer George Georgopulo reports that sales of the two leading brands--Jakarta and Djarum--have jumped 40% in the past year alone...
...fighting cells, allowing viruses and bacteria already present in the lungs to run amuck. The other possibilities, he says, are that eugenol or another ingredient has a direct toxic effect or that it triggers an acute allergic reaction. Last month the American Lung Association issued a preliminary warning about clove cigarettes, and the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta plan to look for further evidence of kretek-induced illness...
Schechter thinks the CDC will find a rash of cases. Since the Los Angeles Times carried a story about Cislaw, Schechter's office has been flooded with hundreds of calls from clove smokers complaining of shortness of breath, nosebleeds, nausea, lung infections and asthma. "About 30% to 35% said they were coughing up blood," he says. "Emergency rooms haven't seen a symptom like that since TB was in style...