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Store 24 presently has an edge because most shoppers already know it's there. "I got in the habit of coming here when I was at Harvard Summer School, [and] I keep coming back," explains Store 24 patron Joel H. Friedman, an MIT undergraduate...
...type of treatment they receive, recovering addicts need follow-up care and counseling, sometimes for as long as five years, to make sure they stay clean. A major treatment problem is to convince an addict that one resumption of drug use does not mean he will never shake his habit. Many recovering addicts do not stay in touch with follow-up programs, so no one knows whether or how long they stay off drugs. Thus the success of treatment programs is hard to measure. Though some claim success rates as high as 80%, Dr. Sidney Cohen, professor of psychiatry...
...incentive to the crime of rape by the Negroes in the South and other sections of the country." Southern sheriffs believed cocaine even rendered blacks impervious to .32-cal. bullets (as a result many police departments switched to .38-cal.). Chinese immigrants were blamed for importing the opium-smoking habit to the U.S. "If the Chinaman cannot get along without his dope," concluded the blue-ribbon citizens' panel, the Committee on the Acquirement of the Drug Habit, in 1903, "we can get along without him." Despite the opposition of U.S. drug companies, the government began to crack down. Many states...
...territory -- small towns and horizon-piercing interstates, luckless marriages and faithless love, dumb faith and poor prospects -- and blows all the cobwebs away because his eye is fresh and because he appears to be the very guy he's singing about, a Lone Star Everyman with a "two-pack habit and a motel tan." An old-fashioned engine, maybe, but built for speed and just the thing to get country music back on the track...
...military personnel if these discounts were eliminated. Clinton said that inexpensive tobacco products are important for morale and retention. Despite the continuing sales, he said the Department of Defense has implemented an "intense campaign" to limit smoking in military life and provide programs for those trying to quit the habit...