Word: habit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With so many humans unable to kick the cigarette habit, it seems superfluous that Italian researchers have tried to duplicate this condition in rats [HEALTH, July 29]. Millions of lives could have been saved if we had heeded the observations of thoracic surgeons instead of relying on the effect of tobacco smoke on other species. BINA ROBINSON, Director Citizens for Planetary Health Swain, New York...
...meaningful, silly details of life are cleverly sprinkled here and there: the black pants that Amelia thinks left Andrew miffed (but which he can't remember); or Amelia's habit of always forgetting to dry clean clothes she's borrowed, no matter how many times Laura reminds...
...snorting cocaine? Not a great deal, or so most people like to believe. In fact, for weeks Bob Dole has been playing into the conventional wisdom--and the hands of his supporters in the tobacco industry--by saying on campaign stops across the country that though nicotine may be habit forming, that doesn't necessarily make it addictive. Scientists, however, say otherwise. And last week, in an article published by the journal Nature, a team of Italian researchers provided perhaps the most compelling reason yet to classify nicotine as an addictive drug...
...this important? A virtually identical pattern of biochemical activity, Di Chiara's group had earlier established, accompanies injections of cocaine, amphetamines and morphine. The brain, in other words, appears to make no distinction between addictive drugs and what smokers prefer to think of as just a bad habit...
Jennifer Belle is an exceptionally funny writer, but it's hard to get past the fact that she never gives us a believable reason for Bennington's particular work-study program. Belle herself supported her writing habit by working in real estate. That will be the subject of her next, and surely more realistic, novel...