Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Syracuse's production of the short Tennessee Williams play Summer and Smoke rounds out the list of plays presented. Syracuse merits the distinction of bringing the festival's best actress, a young lady named Francesca Trantum...
...Heaven. Over the years, the Teamsters' Boss Beck has labored mightily to achieve a standing of eminent respectability. Unlike his goon-squad lieutenants, he does not smoke, drink, play cards, shoot pool, follow the horses or bestow nylons indiscreetly. Beck and his Teamsters spend lavishly for civic and political purposes, e.g., a cool $1,000,000 pledged to the City of Hope Medical Center near Los Angeles, and (according to McClellan committee testimony) about $500,000 to defeat a right-to-work referendum in Washington State last year. With the notable exception of Washington's ex-Republican Governor...
...Cigarette smoking is indeed a major cause of lung cancer. The risk increases with the amount smoked, averages five to 15 times greater (on half a pack a day or more) than among nonsmokers, is 27 times greater for those who smoke two packs...
...smoking of tobacco, particularly in the form of cigarettes, is an important health hazard," the seven experts conclude. "The evidence of a cause-effect relationship [with lung cancer] is adequate for considering the initiation of public-health measures." But the group suggests no such measures. Instead, it urges more research to find the cancer-causing substance in smoke, and a simultaneous effort to remove it even before it is chemically identified. Possible answers to the problem: selection of tobacco strains, extracting the offending substance from the leaves or filtering it out of the smoke. Most of today's filters...
...Monday, Sam Smith envelopes himself in a cloud of cigar smoke and makes pertinent comments concerning the latest releases on JAZZ...