Word: milligrams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...itself was divided 3 to 2 on whether to make the butt 23 mm. or 30 mm., which would generally lower the levels but make for more uniform testing because most filter and non-filter types could then be smoke-tested to the same length. Since a milligram is only 1/28,000 of an ounce, the varying butt lengths could affect rankings. So, rebutting his own commission's findings, FTC chairman Paul Rand Dixon argued that the tests were of "doubtful" comparative value...
Nicotine demonstrably places dangerous strain upon the heart muscles. E. Cuyler Hammond, vice president of the American Cancer Society, told the subcommittee: "Milligram for milligram, nicotine is one of the most powerful and fastest acting of all known poisons." He added unhappily: "I doubt that habitual heavy smokers would be satisfied with cigarettes which contain little or no nicotine...
...side effect most commonly complained of is weight gain-up to 20 lbs., say some women. Yet most gynecologists believe this was caused only by early, high-dosage forms, and that today's one-milligram pills rarely provoke a gain of more than five pounds. The sequentials usually cause less weight gain than the combinations. The next most frequent complaints are nausea ("like being four months pregnant"), breast tenderness and breakthrough bleeding. These usually disappear within three months...
...specks resembling the light blue of his car, a few matching the light brown of the jimmied door. But there was no sure proof that Woodward used the tire iron to jimmy the door. The specks were so tiny (as small as one one-hundredth of a milligram) that conventional chemical or spectroscopic analysis was useless. So the police turned to a radiochemical research team headed by Dr. Vincent P. Guinn of General Dynamics Corp.'s General Atomic Division in San Diego...
Karlson dipped into his tiny supply of pure ecdysone and sent a five-milligram test sample to Ulrich Clever, a young biochemist at the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen. Clever had been investigating the appearance of puffy swellings on microscopic, DNA-carrying chromosomes in the salivary glands of fly larvae. The puffs appear just before the larvae mature and change into pupae, and the tiny swelling seems to cause the metamorphosis. Karlson wondered how ecdysone would affect that transformation...