Word: smokerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Background exposure to radiation is about five rem for a non-smoker, and for the heavy smoker about 36 rem. Even this estimate "is probably conservative, and the dose could be 100 rem or more," when the additional radioactive effect of lead 210 and bismuth 210 absorption is included, the report says...
...surprise was the importance of the age at which a smoker picks up the habit. In the 40-69 age bracket, the death rate of men who started smoking after 25 was 1.42 times that of nonsmokers; among those who had begun as striplings under 15, it was 2.29 times as high. The higher death rate can be traced, said Dr. Hammond, to three underlying factors: 1) precocious smokers tend to inhale more deeply, 2) they smoke more cigarettes a day, and 3) by the time they reach middle age, they have been smoking for many more years...
...second venture into politics was more successful. Kennedy was elected chairman of the Freshman Smoker committee that brought sexy Gertrude Neissen to sing in Memorial Hall...
Aiming its ads at young people, the Cancer Society supplies them free to national teen-age magazines that will promise to run them (ten have so far signed up). "We want to change the image of the cigarette smoker for youngsters," says a spokesman for the society. "If we can just get them before they start...
...tobacco campaign is far less circumspect. The British Ministry of Health has put up more than a million posters. One says: "Why be another sheep? Before you smoke, THINK. Cigarettes cause lung cancer." Another shows a half-open coffin, with the legend: "The big Flip-Top Box for the Smoker." In Italy, all tobacco advertising was made illegal...