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...says to you: "Why can't you be more like Sam Shepard?" She buys you denim jackets, refuses to wash your bluejeans, pickles your tongue with shots of tequila. "Why don't you buy a lasso?" she suggests. "Buck broncos, for Christ's sake. Dip snuff, do chaw, go smokeless, anything...
Marsee's horrible death is still an unusual occurrence, but his fondness for "smokeless tobacco" has become alarmingly widespread among American youth. Once associated with lumberjacks, laborers and juice-spitting hayseeds, smokeless tobacco includes both the rough-cut chewing variety (Red Man, Mail < Pouch and other brands, which are held in the cheek and occasionally munched) and finely ground moist snuff (Copenhagen, Skoal and the like, which are usually packed in between the lower lip and gum). In many states, it is illegal to sell tobacco of any sort to minors, but the laws are difficult to enforce. Teenage boys...
Teens seem to view smokeless tobacco as a healthier alternative to smoking. "It can't hurt you athletically like cigarettes can," Al Lawrence, 18, of Taunton, Mass., reasons. "Baseball players use it all the time." But doctors say the facts are very different. Dipping causes visible damage "in as little as three to four months," says Arden Christen, chairman of the preventive-dentistry department at Indiana University. The gums may recede, the teeth loosen, biting surfaces are abraded, and tough, white patches called leukoplakia may appear on the gums and cheeks. After several years the mouth can be devastated...
...place this size," said Joan M. Bartley of Bartley's Burger Palace, a 60-seat restaurant on Mass. Ave, where a narrow aisle separates the smoking and non-smoking sections. "I can't see how, if you're sitting in a non-smoking section, you'll be smokeless...
...James Hilton might recognize, hidden behind the highest Himalayas. There Scrooge settles happily until a tin cap from a bottle of his nerve medicine is converted into a piece of coveted currency. Scrooge brings corruption to Utopia, just as, in another story, he almost brings industrial pollution to "the smokeless northern wilds." The miser skips out of Duckburg to escape the smog his own heavy industries have created, but the first glimpse of placid lakes and tall timber sets him to thinking about natural gas and paper mills...