Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...June issue of the magazine Seat-lie offers a definition of the term hippie that conflicts with yours: "When opium smokers were getting their kicks, they used to lie down and smoke their pipes, throwing their weight on one hip. Thus, someone smoking opium was termed 'on the hip.' Years later American jazz musicians took up the word, applying it indiscriminately to anyone on drugs. In the present-day vernacular, it suggests looking beyond the camouflage of everyday reality, usually with the help of LSD and pot, but not always...
...escape the heat-only to die from asphyxiation. Some huddled in corners, while others lay flat on the floor. Two or three minutes after the fire started, the other guard returned on the run and tossed the key to Lovett. By then Lovett's cage was filled with smoke and flames. Three times he tried to get to the lock, only to be forced back. On the fourth try, he succeeded. "The door's open!" he cried. "Come out, boys, come on out!" He pulled several out himself, suffering burns on his face and back. Some staggered...
...mankind") is the fact that tar and nicotine are not the only dangerous elements in cigarettes. Just the day before Strickman's filter was announced, HEW Secretary John Gardner told Congress that one-third of all deaths among American men aged 35 to 60 are hastened by cigarette smoking. Quite apart from the cancer question, said Gardner, smoking is the most important cause of broncho-pulmonary disease, is linked to stomach ulcers and heart disease (in which the death rate is 70% higher for smokers). Many researchers argue that the carbon monoxide, aldehydes and phenols contained in cigarette smoke...
Going Along. To be sure, there were some negative votes among Columbia's 24 trustees when the university polled them to see if they favored backing the filter. But the majority seems to agree with President Kirk's view: "Since people are going to smoke anyway, we feel they should have the safest cigarette possible." This was also one of Secretary Gardner's recommendations...
According to Strickman, Columbia has now begun a new series of complex studies of the filter's effect on the gases in tobacco smoke, though not on living tissue, and the results may be announced within a few weeks. When asked why the university did not wait for such studies, Strickman replied: "You can research from now to dooms day. But you have to start some place. Do you have any other filters that can do what this one does...