Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Historian Samuel Eliot Morison ('08) discourses on Leavitt & Peirce cigarettes: "There were no cheap brands except Home Runs, Sweet Caps, and Richmond Straight Cut, which young gentlemen did not smoke. Egyptian Deities, which cost 25 cents for 10, were fashionable; but, owing to a rumor that Shevlin, the Yale football captain, collected a royalty on every package we boycotted them." Acceptable smokes of the day were Turkish Delight, Egyptian Prettiest, Pharaoh's Daughter (Sweet Caporal still survives...
...western may be only wish-fulfillment and Saturday night projection. But hope sends up some of that smoke. There are cobwebs in the kitchen and stones in the stomach, and are we men or not? Down with Togetherness and remember the Alamo. A man, they say, can get lost in Texas...
...smoke two packs of cigarettes or more a day have the biggest death rate in the age groups covered (30-to-80, but largely concentrated on 50-to-70). The rate: twice that for nonsmokers...
...Those who smoke cigars or pipes as well as cigarettes have a lower death rate in proportion to the smaller number of cigarettes smoked...
...lung cancer and air pollution, reporting on a study of more than 2,000 men who died of lung cancer in smoggy Merseyside areas (centered at Liverpool) and clear-aired North Wales. Among nonsmokers the hazard of smoggy air was clear: 2.3 times as much lung cancer in smoke-palled belts as in cleaner areas. But to the identity of the cancer-causing substance in polluted air, Dr. Stocks had no clue. In smoggy areas, the death rates were almost identical for light smokers (less than a pack a day) and nonsmokers. But among men who smoked more than...