Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctor, is purely psychological, closely connected with the desire to be grown-up or sophisticated. This psychological "infection" is then spread by other smokers. "Every smoker is, in fact, whether he wills it or not, a living advertisement for tobacco, and there are so many smokers today, and they smoke and speak encouragement to smoke so often, that the persuasive pressure on non-smokers to commence or recommence smoking is powerful indeed. To this must be added the lavish scientific advertising of the tobacco combines...
...smoker who wants to reform, says Dr. Johnston, should be frightened by threats of lung cancer. He must understand that "tobacco smoke contains various poisons, notably nicotine, pyridine bases, carbon monoxide and arsenic...
When Franklin W. Johnson became president of Colby in 1929, the old grey college campus was down in the center of town, hemmed in by railroad tracks and factories, choked by smoke. With hardly an extra penny in the bank, Johnson persuaded the trustees that the only way to keep the college up to par was to pull up stakes and move...
...dark Thursday in October 1929, the hottest bull market in U.S. history caught fire, and in a matter of weeks $30 billion in paper stock values went up in smoke. As brokers jumped from their penthouses and amateur stock gamblers went to the wall, the U.S. began the calamitous descent into the Great Depression, the nation's most all-embracing crisis since the Civil War. For the world-famed economist, engineer and humanitarian who had confidently forecast the abolition of poverty before assuming the presidency seven months earlier, it was a blow scarcely to be endured...
Once inside the theater, the customer should find it "a place of amusement and relaxation." Smoking? "It is ridiculous that we can smoke in most of the motion-picture theaters and in all of the nightclubs, but one is treated as a pyromaniac when he lights a cigarette in a theater...