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...that nicotine levels were significantly higher after they smoked the bidis than after ordinary cigarettes. In some cases, the levels of exhaled carbon monoxide were higher too. "Kids think they're not smoking real cigarettes. Some even think they've stopped smoking if they use these alternatives," says Wallace Pickworth, a pharmacologist with NIDA and lead investigator of the study. "But these cigarettes are delivering highly toxic compounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweet as Candy, Deadly as Cigarettes | 12/16/2002 | See Source »

...occurs to you for two hours. Do this several times and show the results to your parents. Very likely they will be able to corroborate many a thought as reflecting something that happened to you at a very early age, 6 mos. even. The explanation, according to Psychologist E. Pickworth Farrow, is that the mind tends to slough off recent memories, going back to earlier and earlier ones, following expressions of the egotistic or self-preservative group of instincts. He offered the experiment as proof and correction of certain Freudian doctrines. Huxley. Professor Julian Sorell Huxley, King's College...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Advancers | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

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