Word: quit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only recently that cigarette has smoking been widely perceived as dangerous and unhealthy. People who begin smoking today are aware of the potentially devastating consequences of their choice, but someone who began smoking 20 or 30 years ago did so thinking that he could quit any time and that even if he didn't quit his health wouldn't suffer...
Waldorf estimated that 80 percent of the smokers she encounters want to quit, but have trouble finding the initiative. "People are afraid of gaining weight when they quit smoking," said Waldorf, so students in dining halls yesterday counseled smokers to fight the urge to smoke by substituting cinnamon sticks, chewing gum and low-calorie snacks like pumpkin seeds...
...this is designed to be a learning year for Caron, who quit the Crimson squad in his sophomore year only to come back to the team the following fall...
...college student is found in a canyon, burned and shot to death. Los Angeles Police Department Detective Sidney Blackpool bridles at taking a case far from his own turf, but he cannot resist the six-figure job promised by the boy's millionaire father, which would allow him to quit the force. As usual, ex-Policeman Joseph Wambaugh keeps the uniforms blue and the humor black. Blackpool has also lost a son, and the key witness is another graying officer, Harry Bright, who now lies in an apparently irreversible coma. Also hampering the investigation are a midget who hopes...
...notorious waste dump in California, where Aerojet General, along with many other companies, had dumped tons of caustics, cyanides and heavy metals over the years. Burford was also charged with contempt of Congress for refusing to give it some internal EPA documents; the charge was dropped after she quit in March...