Word: packs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...desire. Not long after taking up the habit, smokers become tolerant of nicotine's effects; as with heroin and cocaine, dependence quickly follows. Tobacco only seems safer because it is not immediately dangerous. Nicotine is not likely, for example, to fatally overstimulate a healthy heart, cause disorienting hallucinations or pack anywhere near the same euphoric punch as many other drugs. "People die with crack immediately," explains Alexander Glassman, a psychopharmacologist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in Manhattan. "With cigarettes the problems occur 20 years down the line. Nobody lights up their first cigarette and dies...
...which is open until 11 p.m. every night except Sunday, sells three-packs of Trojans for $1.99 and boxes of three dozen for $9.66. The store also offers a pack of three Fourex lambskin condoms...
...Friday nights, and home-video rentals are booming. Some consumers are even finding bargains as businesses compete for scarce dollars by offering bonuses. One fast-food chain offers a double-size barrel of fried chicken for the price of a single, served up in what it calls the "crisis pack...
...take it and pack it all in his regulation-sized duffle bag. A duffle bag marked up with Syracuse destination stickers and the NCAA Quarterfinals...
...then freshman Mickey Cavuoti, still limping from a hard check thrown at him in the third quarter, flicked in a long-range shot which somehow beat the Big Green's dense-pack formation...