Word: smokerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lindsay's involvement in local Republican politics from district primaries to the gubernatorial election has been kept very hush-hush. In Queens, where Al Ungar played a big part in the Rockefeller campaign, he worked under a pseudonym. Ungar is an inveterate cigar smoker, so during the campaign, he was to be known as Mr. Ragic. The identity of Mr. Ragic became the great mystery of the Queens storefronts. Orders were issued over the phone - by Mr. Ragic. Ragic rented a car and driver to take him from one store-front to the next. The driver would park...
...Tareyton K K 41.5 41.1 1.97 2.45 Pall Mall KF 41.6 2.20 Raleigh K 43.4 2.64 Filtered brands, which made up only 3% of total cigarette sales in 1953, now account for 68%. But, said Dr. Moore, "although some filter cigarettes are delivering less tar and nicotine to the smoker than regular cigarettes, most are not adequately protecting him from a medical point of view. We believe that improved filters would help stop premature loss of life from lung cancer, emphysema, heart-artery disease, and other diseases associated with heavy smoking...
...over to bigger McCann-Erickson, Inc. as a vice president. Even in a peripatetic business, Foote moved around more than most. He left McCann not once but twice, the first time over "policy differences," the second because of what he describes as a crisis of conscience. A reformed chain smoker who worried increasingly about cancer, Foote finally decided not to work for any agency that had a cigarette client. After 1964, he spent much of his time with the National Interagency Council on Smoking and Health. An ad that he wrote for the cancer society is one of his personal...
Assistant Surgeon General Prindle points out that a heavy cigarette smoker carries a 3% to 4% concentration of carbon monoxide in his bloodstream. Thus it is not surprising, he says, that habitual smokers are the first to turn up at hospitals during periods of extreme air pollution; carbon monoxide concentrations in their bloodstream reach a toxic 25%-30% level before those of nonsmokers...
Even though some filters are working more effectively than others, said Dr. Moore, none is really successful in protecting the smoker against lung cancer, emphysema, and cardiovascular disabilities. "Many filters are just not doing the job," he said...