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...introduced the long-running CBS Western Gunsmoke, "cigarette" was replaced in their slogan by the sound of two gunshots. For tobacco companies, it was the Golden Age: cigarette ads featured endorsements from dentists, doctors, babies and even Yankees slugger Mickey Mantle. Growing evidence of a link between smoking and lung cancer eventually led manufacturers to introduce cigarette filters - and while it was eventually revealed that filtered cigarettes were no safer than their regular counterparts, that didn't stop them from being advertised as lower in tar and nicotine. (Watch TIME's video "Au Revoir Cigarettes...
...there's another key reason Philip Morris lobbied hard for FDA regulation, aligning itself with strange bedfellows like the Campaign for Smoke-Free Kids, the American Lung Association and longtime antismoking crusaders Senator Ted Kennedy and Representative Henry Waxman. "Philip Morris wants the public-health community to join them in finding the holy grail: the safe cigarette," says Gregory Connolly, a tobacco expert and professor at the Harvard School of Public Health. Simply put, figuring out how to produce a less harmful tobacco product and getting an FDA seal of approval could open up a whole new, potentially huge consumer...
...time Pulitzer Prize winner John H. Updike ’54, who showed early signs of his writing prowess while walking the halls of Harvard’s English department, died in late January of lung cancer at the age of 76. Updike authored more than 50 books over the course of his decades-long career and won two Pulitzers for his works “Rabbit is Rich” and “Rabbit at Rest...
...city of 7 million people that is uncomfortably hot most of the year, the appeal of spending one's lunch hour in a private, air-conditioned room is undeniable. Lunchtime lung workouts also make sense in a culture that prizes the family dinner. Chu attributes K Lunch's popularity to its affordability and Hong Kong's cramped living spaces. While in other countries, homes are large enough to accommodate friends, "in Hong Kong, a family of four lives in a 700-sq.-ft. apartment. People like to have their own private area for their amusement...
...After childhood polio paralyzed her from the neck down, North Carolina native Martha Mason, 71, spent more than 60 years living in a 7-ft., 880-lb. iron lung that allowed her to breathe without tubes. Despite her condition, Mason graduated with honors from Wake Forest College (now a university) and published a book...