Word: smokerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...called a halt to the tobacco industry's health-prompted "tar derby" back in 1960 on grounds that no standard testing methods existed, reversed itself last year at Magnuson's behest. With the new rankings, which will be revised periodically, Magnuson hopes that now "the American smoker will choose his poison" and force the industry into another derby...
Every member of the Palfry Street Community carries a careful protective air about with him. There is something unique in the light corridors and among the open doors. And the fear of losing that something is very evident. And division among its members, be it between student and faculty, smoker and non-smoker, tenth and eleventh grade, poses a threat to the atmosphere that pervades the school...
...research studies made in the past three years, the report repeats that cigarette tars can cause lung cancer; it depressingly documents further evidence that the weed can bring on peptic ulcers, aortic aneurysm, cancer of the larynx, mouth, pharynx, esophagus and bladder. A two-pack-a-day smoker aged 55 to 64, says the report, has 34 times more chance of dying of lung cancer than a nonsmoker. But an equally grave danger may be coronary heart disease caused by the massive doses of nicotine and carbon monoxide in cigarettes...
Smoking Dyspeptic. One habitual smoker who was dissatisfied with al most everything he heard before the subcommittee was Kentucky's Thruston Morton, a Senator with his tobacco-farming constituents' interests at heart. Throughout, he sat with a dyspeptic scowl for the medical experts and a curiously unsympathetic attitude toward the Strickman filter, which, if proved effective, could prove a Golconda for his planters. "O.K.," snapped Morton, "we'll all stop smoking, and you'll upset the economy...
...Depression, and never earned a degree. Still, he carved himself a chemist's career, now holds pending patents on twelve inventions, and is president of Allied Testing and Research Laboratories in Hillsdale, NJ. Strickman began his search for an effective filter after his father, a heavy cigarette smoker, died of lung cancer. He first offered his discovery to several cigarette companies, but "I never got beyond the front door," probably because the companies are already overstocked with filter suggestions. He then turned to Columbia "because its medical school was the best in the world and I knew many people...