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Fascinated by their response, Alsop asked Science Writer Edward Brecher, author of Licit and Illicit Drugs (Consumers Union, 1972), if doctors had studied this problem. Brecher, whose book describes tobacco as "one of the most physiologically damaging substances used by man," cited serious psychiatric and metabolic reports on the subject. For many smokers, psychological needs combine with nicotine addiction to produce a powerful dependency. Beyond that, he could empathize with Alsop. Brecher gave up cigarettes for 14 months, but started smoking again when he found that he simply could not work without them...
Bonnie Wheeler, a slender, long-haired blonde of 28, does not like flying, so she always takes an aisle seat and avoids looking out the window. "I'm a Chaucerian, and I don't quite believe that planes are licit," she says. She recalls that Geoffrey Chaucer, in The House of Fame, described his own feeling of panic when a great golden eagle carried him off into the skies. "The eagle flies Geoffrey around on his back, and tries to show him all the marvelous things there are in the world. All Geoffrey says to each new sight...
...nothing at all. Their recent successful campaign to ban smoking commercials from television and radio, though never labelled with the ugly word, was a measure of censorship more nearly political than anything I am advocating in this space, since it involved not art but the right of a licit interest group to freely present its case. Liberals have also been known to advocate selective censorship of pornographic movies, as the anti-censorship New York Times did when things got a little polluted in Times Square. They called it "cleaning up Midtown," I believe...
These statements, both by experts deeply concerned about epidemic drug abuse, typify the growing controversy over methadone as a substitute for heroin. Last week, in a book that may help to resolve the controversy, Consumers Union came out strongly on the Dole side of the argument. Licit and Illicit Drugs, a five-year study by Medical Writer Edward Brecher and the editors of Consumer Reports (Little, Brown; $12.50), advocates legalizing marijuana, supplying heroin, opium and morphine to some addicts on an experimental basis, and providing methadone maintenance-legal administration of methadone to heroin users-for every drug abuser who asks...
...does not find public drunkenness in China-an everyday sight in the Soviet Union. It seems strange to a visitor that the one vice that thrives in a spartan socialist land devoted to physical fitness is addiction to tobacco. Chain-smoking cigarettes seems to be one of the few licit tokens of individual prosperity in China. Stores feature Panda pipe tobacco and three kinds of cigars; the Great Wall brand is favored by Chairman...