Word: habitability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tobacco companies insist that nicotine, which is contained in varying amounts in all cigarettes, does not create a habit so powerful that it impairs a person's ability to quit. But the overwhelming consensus in the scientific community is that nicotine is an addictive substance. A Surgeon General's report has concluded it is as addictive as heroin or cocaine...
...cinemas, hospitals and schools are in effect -- and widely ineffective -- throughout Asia and Europe. On the theory that impressionable youths learn by example, Singapore's military personnel are not permitted to smoke in public, and teachers in the United Arab Emirates are hounded by health officials to quit the habit outright. In India, which has the world's highest incidence of oral cancer (largely due to tobacco chewing and the popularity of smoking beedis, a rolled leaf filled with tobacco), the smoking characters in Hindi films and soap operas are almost always bad guys. Cigarette ads have been banned from...
...everyone suddenly jumping on the antismoking bandwagon? After all, critics have been proclaiming the dangers of smoking for hundreds of years. King James I of England in 1604 branded the habit "loathsome." Even Adolf Hitler was a fanatical opponent of tobacco; signs declaring DEUTSCHE WEIBER RAUCHEN NICHT (German women do not smoke) were posted throughout the Third Reich during World...
...Sean M. Thornton '94 says that for some students, smoking is part of living in the house. He says students would refuse to kick the habit no matter what rules the administration imposes...
...last thing researchers want their finding to do is provoke a backlash against fruit juices. Certainly, older children can still indulge their habit. All that is required is common sense. "Do everything in moderation," Lifshitz advises. "Even the most healthful, prudent act, done in excess, can be harmful...