Word: piped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leading universities. None had ever taken a public stand on the controversy. Three, like Terry himself, smoked cigarettes: Minnesota's Dr. Leonard M. Schuman, Harvard's William G. Cochran and Dr. Louis F. Fieser. One smoked cigars: Michigan's Dr. Maurice H. Seevers. One smoked a pipe: Texas' Dr. Charles A. LeMaistre. Five were nonsmokers: the Army's (formerly Cornell's) Dr. Stanhope Bayne-Jones, Pittsburgh's Dr. Emmanuel Farber, Utah's Dr. Walter J. Burdette, Columbia's Dr. Jacob Furth, Indiana's Dr. lohn B. Hickam. (Halfway through...
...women smokers the death rate from lung cancer appears to be increasing along the same lines as that for men. > There is not yet enough evidence to show whether filter cigarettes are really safer than "straights." > Quitting smoking definitely helps. >Pipe smoking is almost harmless. One risk: a slight increase in the incidence of cancer of the lip. > Cigar smoking, up to five cigars a day, is apparently safe; for men who smoke more than five cigars a day, the death rate is only slightly higher than for nonsmokers. > "Possible benefits" from the use of tobacco took only...
Everyone knows what happens when a would-be suicide closes the garage door, runs a hose into his car from the tail pipe, and sits inside the car with the engine running. Carbon monoxide, in such heavy doses, is one of the deadliest of gases. It gets into the blood and starves the brain of vital oxygen. The victim turns red and usually dies. But doctors have been arguing for decades about the effects of small doses of monoxide poison over long periods. Only recently have they begun to collect evidence that such small doses may do permanent damage...
There is reason to believe, Radford said, that the polonium content of pipe and cigar tobacco is about the same as in cigarettes, but that the cancer rate is lower for pipe and cigar smokers since they do not inhale as much. However, he added that cancer of the mouth and esophagus is about as frequent in all smokers...
Leavitt and Pierce and the Coop reported a slight drop in cigarette sales and a considerable rise in pipe and tobacco purchases. But the saleswoman in the Coop was skeptical. "Cigarettes will keep going down for a white--then sales will shoot right back up," she said. "That's what happened on the New York Stock Exchange...