Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after the 707 saw the horrifying scene. "It happened as if something reached up from the earth, grabbed its nose and pulled it down," said Businessman Joseph F. Farano. The jet exploded, sending a geyser of water 200 feet into the air, followed by a plume of funereally black smoke. A minute after the crash, it lay like a giant, shattered fish just beneath the transparent waters of the bay, with scattered debris and flakes of aluminum skin glinting on the tufts of marshland. The only signs of life were clouds of wheeling sea gulls, roused from a nearby bird...
Tampa cigarmen are predicting that when their own six-month to one-year stockpile of Havana leaf runs out, their $50 million-per-year business will go up in smoke. "I don't know what these people are going to do." said Pedro López, a cigar union official. Looking around a large, pungent room full of hand cigar makers, he added: "Their average age is between 45 and 60; they're not entitled to a pension, and they're too old to find jobs. I think that if they're going to let tobacco...
...NATION). While news of State's reversal came too late to prevent the Indonesian tantrum, it was in plenty of time to infuriate the Dutch. "I don't understand this," fumed Prime Minister Jan de Quay. Said Amsterdam's Algemeen Handelsblad: "Another illusion went up in smoke. Reality is facing us more and more clearly. The fairy tale of American good will toward The Netherlands' standpoint cannot be sold any more, not even to the most gullible soul...
...percentage of students who smoke cigarettes, Drs. Salber and MacMahon report in the American Journal of Public Health, rises among boys from 32.7% in the highest social class* to 43.6% in the lowest, and among girls from 36.4% to 47.6%. More striking still is the distribution of heavy smokers. Among boys in the top social class, only 7.4% smoke five packs or more a week, and among girls only 3.3%; but in the lower group, the figures are 12.1% for boys and 8.9% for girls...
...Newton survey showed that fathers in upper-class families smoke less than those in the lower classes. While this confirmed earlier surveys of parental influence on youngsters' smoking habits, the Newton researchers concluded that social class was a more powerful influence. As to why smoking is not entirely U, the doctors...