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...What about the man behind the placard? During his studies in Cambridge, JFK nearly drowned in the ivy sea, fumbling through campus politics and athletics. A member of the Hasty Pudding and the Freshman Smoker Committee, he managed to pull gentleman's Cs. Ronald Ferry, then head of Winthrop House, characterized JFK as "reasonably inconspicuous," and an old friend recalls his amorous reputation: "Jack never even went steady until late in his senior year." Author and Crimson editor Cleveland Amory '39, described him as "a pleasant, interesting guy. But the legend that we considered him destined for the presidency...
...though his female customers are mostly European women.) Macdonald sees it as a rite of passage, one that is often quickly discarded due to the amount of patience and work one must put into his or her pipe. It's amusingly easy, after all, to spot a novice pipe-smoker from their frustration in keeping the durn thing lit. For neophytes frustrated by packing, cleaning and storing their pipes, Leavitt and Pearce publishes a how-to pamphlet...
...smokers, one day a year isn't so bad to have to confront the truth: cigarettes kill. "Probably the group with the least amount of people wanting to stop smoking are the teenage and young adult smokers, and that is disturbing for all of us," says Jim R. Giebfried, director of cessation programs in Massachusetts for the American Cancer Society and the Smoker's Quit Line (1-800-TRY-TO-STOP). "Very often college students are in a location where they may be affected by other smokers, like at parties," said Giebfried, a graduate of the Harvard School of Public...
...China, which accounts for just under a third of the world's smokers, presents an almost untapped market to U.S. cigarette manufacturers stung by a drop-off in smoking in America and Europe. "Some in Asia charge that because U.S. companies are being frozen out of American markets, they're turning to the Third World to keep the business going," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. But China's smoking problem may have a lot less to do with the allure of Western cigarette advertising than with prevailing social conditions. "If you're an ordinary worker in a Chinese industrial city...
...appeal. In a little more than a year, Florida appellate courts have thrown out a $1 million verdict and a $750,000 verdict in tobacco cases. The industry took heart last Friday when a Louisiana jury absolved two tobacco companies of responsibility in the cancer death of an individual smoker...